Spectacular Wealth : : The Festivals of Colonial South American Mining Towns / / Lisa Voigt.
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 refute...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of 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