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First edition. |
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1 online resource (x, 225 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Summary |
Bridging print culture and performance, Spectacular Wealth draws on eighteenth-century festival accounts to explore how colonial residents of the silver-mining town of Potosí, in the viceroyalty of Peru, and the gold-mining region of Minas Gerais, in Brazil, created rich festive cultures that refuted European allegations of barbarism and greed. In her examination of the festive participation of the towns'diverse inhabitants, including those whose forced or slave labor produced the colonies'mineral wealth, Lisa Voigt shows how Amerindians, Afro-descendants, Europeans, and creoles displayed their social capital and cultural practices in spectacular performances. Tracing the multiple meanings and messages of civic festivals and religious feast days alike, Spectacular Wealth highlights the conflicting agendas at work in the organization, performance, and publication of festivals. Celebrants and writers in mining boomtowns presented themselves as far more than tributaries yielding mineral wealth to the Spanish and Portuguese empires, using festivals to redefine their reputations and to celebrate their cultural, spiritual, and intellectual wealth. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
In praise of follies : Creole patriotism in the festivals of Arzáns's historia de la villa imperial de Potosí -- Celebrating Minas Gerais in Triunfo Eucarístico and Aureo throno episcopal -- Festive natives in Potosí, from audience to performance -- "Nos pretos como no prelo" : Afro-Brazilians in festivals, from performance to print -- Conclusion : spectacular tributes. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Festivals -- Social aspects -- South America.
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Festivals -- Social aspects. |
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South America. |
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Festivals. |
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South America -- History -- To 1806.
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1806 |
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South America -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
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South America -- Ethnic identity.
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Ethnicity. |
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Mining districts -- South America.
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Mining districts. |
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ART -- Caribbean & Latin American. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Voigt, Lisa. Spectacular wealth. First edition. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2016 9781477310502 (DLC) 2015050872 (OCoLC)934705730 |
| ISBN |
9781477310984 (electronic book) |
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1477310983 (electronic book) |
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9781477310991 (non-library e-book) |
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1477310991 (non-library e-book) |
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9781477310502 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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1477310509 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9781477310977 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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1477310975 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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