TY  - GEN
AU  - Delmas,Adrien
AU  - Penn,Nigel
TI  - Written Culture in a Colonial Context : Africa and the Americas 1500-1900
SN  - oapen_628137
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cape Town, South Africa
PB  - UCT Press
KW  - Colonialism & imperialism
KW  - bicssc
KW  - History
KW  - written culture
KW  - colonial expansion
KW  - 16th to 19th centuries
KW  - missionaries
KW  - settlers
KW  - cultural exchange
KW  - analphabetical cultures
KW  - Africa
KW  - Americas
KW  - Dutch East India Company
KW  - Khoikhoi
N1  - Open Access
N2  - There is very little in the modern literature on the history of written culture that describes the specific practices related to writing that were anchored in colonial contexts. It was not just ships, soldiers, missionaries and settlers that drove the process of European expansion from the 16th to the 19th centuries. The circulation of images, manuscripts and books between different continents played a key role too. The introduction and appropriation of writing into societies without alphabets was a major factor in changing the very function and meaning of written culture. This book explores the extent to which the types of written information that resulted during colonial expansion shaped the numerous and complex processes of cultural exchange from the 16th century onwards in Africa and the Americas
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31436/1/628137.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31436/1/628137.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/25994
ER  -