Description: Spectacular WealthThe Festivals of Colonial South American Mining Towns Author(s): Lisa Voigt Format: Paperback Publisher: University of Texas Press, United States Imprint: University of Texas Press ISBN-13: 9781477310977, 978-1477310977 Synopsis Bridging print culture and performance, Spectacular Wealth draws on eighteenth-century festival accounts to explore how colonial residents of the silver-mining town of Potosi, 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.
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Book Title: Spectacular Wealth
Number of Pages: 237 Pages
Publication Name: Spectacular Wealth: the Festivals of Colonial South American Mining Towns
Language: English
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Item Height: 229 mm
Subject: History
Publication Year: 2016
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 476 g
Author: Lisa Voigt
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Paperback
