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.
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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Spectacular Wealth: The Festivals of Colonial South American Mining Towns
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Spectacular Wealth: The Festivals of Colonial South American Mining Towns
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ISBN-13: | 9781477310502 |
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Publisher: | University of Texas Press |
Publication date: | 12/13/2016 |
Pages: | 237 |
Product dimensions: | 6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d) |