Booktitle 1
Contents 6
Editor's Preface 8
Preface 10
Introduction 12
Part I: Introductory Essays 24
Transfer, Circulation, and Visual Systems in Latin America: The Example of Colonial Brazil 24
One Text Many Narratives: The Comentarios Reales of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega 46
Part II: The Performative Production of Meaning 66
Performances for the Dead: Public Rituals Involving Deceased Rulers in Late Inca and Early Colonial Peru (ca. 1450–1550) 66
The Baptism of Sultan Azim ud-Din of Sulu: Festivities for the Consolidation of Spanish Power in the Philippines in the Middle of the Eighteenth Century 94
Orality and Scripture: Sermons as a Means of Communication in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 122
Acoustic Systems in the Cathedral of La Plata: An Approach from the Consueta 142
Part III: Visuality, Visual Systems, and Images of the Other 156
The Seeming and the Real: Problems in the Interpretation of Images on Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Silverworks from Bolivia 156
Depicting Netherworlds, or the Treatment of the Afterlife in a Colonial Contact Zone: The Paete Case 174
China, Spain, and the Philippines in the Nineteenth Century: Images and Representations 198
Part VI: Materiality and Material Cultures 216
The Cross Surmounts the Dragon - Or Does the Cross Emanate from the Dragon? A Cautious Look at Islamic Designs on Catholic Church Bells in the Philippines 216
Sociocultural Consequences of Aztec Imperialism in the Huaxtec Region of Mesoamerica 226
Putting Things in Order: Material Culture and Religious Communication in the Bolivian Altiplano (Seventeenth Century) 242
Contributors 264