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

von: Astrid Windus, Eberhard Crailsheim

Waxmann Verlag GmbH, 2013

ISBN: 9783830979296 , 265 Seiten

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


 

Booktitle

1

Contents

6

Editor's Preface

8

Preface

10

Introduction

12

Part I: Introductory Essays

24

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

24

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

46

Part II: The Performative Production of Meaning

66

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

66

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

94

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

122

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

142

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

156

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

156

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

174

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

198

Part VI: Materiality and Material Cultures

216

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

216

Sociocultural Consequences of Aztec Imperialism in the Huaxtec Region of Mesoamerica

226

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

242

Contributors

264