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• W2953208546 abstract "Reviewed by: Spectacular Wealth: The Festivals of Colonial South American Mining Towns by Lisa Voigt Mariselle Meléndez Voigt, Lisa. Spectacular Wealth: The Festivals of Colonial South American Mining Towns. U of Texas P, 2016. 225 pp. Lisa Voigt's most recent book, Spectacular Wealth: The Festivals of Colonial South American Mining Towns, represents an important contribution to the discussion of race, religion, and wealth in colonial Latin America seen through festive cultural celebrations. This comparative study focuses on the racially diverse towns of Potosí and Minas Gerais and their respective festival accounts to understand the contradictory messages of power and prestige invested in the authors' agendas. Voigt looks at the participants' agendas and how they use these public celebrations to defend their reputations and to represent themselves and their cultural practices in favorable ways (15). In this book, festivals are understood as performative venues of imperial self-promotion and as visual and written vehicles to capture, display and celebrate the vast wealth of these two colonial regions. When it came to the indigenous and black inhabitants who contributed with their labor to produce the wealth of these towns, religious and civic festivals constituted an opportunity to incorporate their own cultural beliefs while searching for cultural recognition. Voigt also underlines the power that writing has in its capacity to shape the description of these performances, especially when it came to issues of racial diversity and social disorder. The book is divided into two parts that are themselves subdivided by themes and critical approach. Part I is devoted to how individuals of European descent in these mining towns viewed their privileged position in society. Chapter one examines the case of festivals in Potosí as depicted in Bartolomé Arzáns de Orsúa y Vela's Historia de la Villa Imperial del Potosí (1737). Arzáns de Orsúa's recounts of three specific festivals which took place in 1608 (Corpus Christi), 1622 (commemoration of the death of Philip III), and 1716 (solemn entry of Archbishop-Viceroy Diego Morcillo Rubio y Auñón), call attention to a sense of creole patriotism anchored in a criticism of Spanish's appropriation of Potosí's wealth while also praising the noble and generous character of the Creole residents of this mining town. Chapter two centers on the city of Minas Gerais and two eighteenth-century [End Page 424] accounts that offer an imperial view of the city as a result of the gold rush. Triunfo Eucharistico (1734) and Aureo Throno Episcopal (1749) were both published in Lisbon as a result of the lack of a printing press in Brazil at the time. The first account, by Simão Ferreira Machado, describes the celebrations surrounding the transfer of the Eucharist to a new parish, while the anonymous Aureo Throno Episcopal captures the entry of the bishop to the newly established diocese of Minas Gerais. In both accounts, the festivals are viewed as symbols of transatlantic modes of production and reception that aimed to capture the magnificence of the mining town so endowed with material and symbolic wealth. What connects these two accounts to Arzáns de Orsúa's is that their respective praise of the mining towns as producers of material and religious wealth was also accompanied by a strong denunciation of the immorality and lawlessness that, according to the authors, was so rampant in both Potosí and Minas Gerais. The second part of the book switches the focus to the Amerindian and Afro-descendant participants for whom the festivities represented a venue to preserve their own cultural practices while challenging imperial power. Chapter three studies the indigenous participation in Potosí's religious festivities to illustrate how authors such as Diego Mexía de Fernangil and Bartolomé Arzáns de Orsúa y Vela emphasized that, despite the indigenous people's expressions of religious devotion in these festivals, Amerindians still represented a constant threat to colonial authorities due to the idolatrous beliefs mainly exemplified through their dancing. Even if authorities envisioned the inclusion of Amerindians in the Corpus Christi celebration as a tool to control their pagan attitudes, the celebrations turned instead into opportunities for indigenous people to preserve their own native religious beliefs. What..." @default.
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• W2953208546 title "Spectacular Wealth: The Festivals of Colonial South American Mining Towns by Lisa Voigt" @default.
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