Windus / Crailsheim Image - Object - Performance

Mediality and Communication in Cultural Contact Zones of Colonial Latin America and the Philippines
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-8309-7929-6
Verlag: Waxmann Verlag GmbH
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 265 Seiten

Images, objects, and performances represent essential forms of mediality, which frequently escape our traditional understanding of historical communication. This volume discusses from an interdisciplinary perspective the varying structures and media of communication and representation in transcultural spaces of Latin America and the Philippines. Based on different topics and methodological approaches of the contributors, the articles reflect on the perspectives and problems of the integration of visuality, materiality, and performance as categories of cultural analysis in historical settings between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. In that regard, both the methodological and regional comparative approaches of this volume claim to contribute-beyond the regional focus of the studies-to the general debate about cultural theories and to make general statements about the mechanisms of cross-cultural communication in cultural contact zones of the modern period.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Windus, Astrid

Crailsheim, Eberhard

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Booktitle;1
2;Contents;6
3;Editor's Preface;8
4;Preface;10
5;Introduction;12
6;Part I: Introductory Essays;24
6.1;Transfer, Circulation, and Visual Systems in Latin America: The Example of Colonial Brazil;24
6.2;One Text Many Narratives: The Comentarios Reales of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega;46
7;Part II: The Performative Production of Meaning;66
7.1;Performances for the Dead: Public Rituals Involving Deceased Rulers in Late Inca and Early Colonial Peru (ca. 1450–1550);66
7.2;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
7.3;Orality and Scripture: Sermons as a Means of Communication in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries;122
7.4;Acoustic Systems in the Cathedral of La Plata: An Approach from the Consueta;142
8;Part III: Visuality, Visual Systems, and Images of the Other;156
8.1;The Seeming and the Real: Problems in the Interpretation of Images on Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Silverworks from Bolivia;156
8.2;Depicting Netherworlds, or the Treatment of the Afterlife in a Colonial Contact Zone: The Paete Case;174
8.3;China, Spain, and the Philippines in the Nineteenth Century: Images and Representations;198
9;Part VI: Materiality and Material Cultures;216
9.1;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
9.2;Sociocultural Consequences of Aztec Imperialism in the Huaxtec Region of Mesoamerica;226
9.3;Putting Things in Order: Material Culture and Religious Communication in the Bolivian Altiplano (Seventeenth Century);242
10;Contributors;264