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Written Culture in a Colonial Context: Africa and the Americas 1500-1900

Written Culture in a Colonial Context: Africa and the Americas 1500-1900

Delmas, Adrien
Penn, Nigel

Paperback

African HistoryGeneral ReferenceGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9004223894
ISBN13: 9789004223899
Publisher: Brill
Published: Jan 20 2012
Pages: 380
Weight: 1.45
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
Recent developments in the cultural history of written culture have omitted the specificity of practices relative to writing that were anchored in colonial contexts. The circulation of manuscripts and books between different continents played a key role in the process of the first globalization from the 16th century onwards. While the European colonial organization mobilised several forms of writing and tried to control the circulation and reception of this material, the very function and meaning of written culture was recreated by the introduction and appropriation of written culture into societies without alphabetical forms of writing. This book explores the extent to which the control over the materiality of writing has shaped the numerous and complex processes of cultural exchange during the early modern period.

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