Image - Object - Performance - Mediality and Communication in Cultural Contact Zones of Colonial Latin America and the Philippines

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Contents

Editor's Preface

Preface

Introduction

Part I: Introductory Essays

Transfer, Circulation, and Visual Systems in Latin America: The Example of Colonial Brazil

One Text Many Narratives: The Comentarios Reales of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega

Part II: The Performative Production of Meaning

Performances for the Dead: Public Rituals Involving Deceased Rulers in Late Inca and Early Colonial Peru (ca. 1450–1550)

The Baptism of Sultan Azim ud-Din of Sulu: Festivities for the Consolidation of Spanish Power in the Philippines in the Middle of the Eighteenth Century

Orality and Scripture: Sermons as a Means of Communication in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Acoustic Systems in the Cathedral of La Plata: An Approach from the Consueta

Part III: Visuality, Visual Systems, and Images of the Other

The Seeming and the Real: Problems in the Interpretation of Images on Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Silverworks from Bolivia

Depicting Netherworlds, or the Treatment of the Afterlife in a Colonial Contact Zone: The Paete Case

China, Spain, and the Philippines in the Nineteenth Century: Images and Representations

Part VI: Materiality and Material Cultures

The Cross Surmounts the Dragon - Or Does the Cross Emanate from the Dragon? A Cautious Look at Islamic Designs on Catholic Church Bells in the Philippines

Sociocultural Consequences of Aztec Imperialism in the Huaxtec Region of Mesoamerica

Putting Things in Order: Material Culture and Religious Communication in the Bolivian Altiplano (Seventeenth Century)

Contributors