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Author Voigt, Lisa, author

Title Spectacular wealth : the festivals of colonial South American mining towns / Lisa Voigt
Edition First edition
Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2016
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Description 1 online resource (x, 225 pages)
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
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
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Subject Festivals -- Social aspects -- South America
Mining districts -- South America
ART -- Caribbean & Latin American.
Ethnicity
Festivals -- Social aspects
Manners and customs
Mining districts
SUBJECT South America -- History -- To 1806. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125531
South America -- Social life and customs
South America -- Ethnic identity
Subject South America
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781477310984
1477310983
9781477310991
1477310991