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Spectacular Wealth : The Festivals of Colonial South American Mining Towns / Lisa Voigt.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781477310984
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 394.2698 V533 21
LOC classification:
  • GT4830 .V65 2016
  • GT4830 .V65 2016
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part one. Texts -- Chapter one. In Praise of Follies: Creole Patriotism in the Festivals of Arzáns’s Historia de la Villa Imperial de Potosí -- Chapter two. Celebrating Minas Gerais in Triunfo Eucharistico and Aureo Throno Episcopal -- Part two. Celebrants -- Chapter three. Festive Natives in Potosí, from Audience to Performance -- Chapter four. “Nos Pretos como no Prelo”: Afro-Brazilians in Festivals, from Performance to Print -- Conclusion. Spectacular Tributes -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
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.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part one. Texts -- Chapter one. In Praise of Follies: Creole Patriotism in the Festivals of Arzáns’s Historia de la Villa Imperial de Potosí -- Chapter two. Celebrating Minas Gerais in Triunfo Eucharistico and Aureo Throno Episcopal -- Part two. Celebrants -- Chapter three. Festive Natives in Potosí, from Audience to Performance -- Chapter four. “Nos Pretos como no Prelo”: Afro-Brazilians in Festivals, from Performance to Print -- Conclusion. Spectacular Tributes -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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