Written Culture in a Colonial Context -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword: Writing at Sea -- Contributors -- Introduction: The written word and the world -- Part I -- 1. Rock art, scripts and proto-scripts in Africa: The Libyco-Berber example -- 2. From pictures to letters: The early steps in the Mexican tlahcuilo's alphabetisation process during the 16th century -- 3. Edmond R. Smith's writing lesson: Archive and representation in 19th-century Araucanía -- Part II -- 4. Missionary knowledge in context: Geographical knowledge of Ethiopia in dialogue during the 16th and 17th centuries -- 5. From travelling to history: An outline of the VOC writing system during the 17th century -- 6. Towards an archaeology of globalisation: Readings and writings of tommaso campanella on a theological-political empire between the old and the new worlds (16th-17th centuries) -- Part III -- 7. Charlevoix and the American savage: The 18th-century traveller as moralist -- 8. Written culture and the cape khoikhoi: From travel writing to kolb's 'Full Description' -- 9. Nothing new under the sun: Anatomy of a literary-historical polemic in colonial Cape Town circa 1880-1910 -- Part IV -- 10. Mapuche-Tehuelche Spanish writing and Argentinian-Chilean expansion during the 19th century -- 11. To My Dear Minister: Official letters of African Wesleyan Evangelists in the Late 19th-century Transvaal -- 12. Literacy and land at the Bay of Natal: Documents and practices across spaces and social economies -- Part V -- 13. The 'Painting' of black history: The Afro-Cuban codex of José Antonio Aponte (Havana, Cuba, 1812) -- 14. On Not Spreading the Word: Ministers of religion and written culture at the Cape of Good Hope in the 18th century -- 15. Occurrences and eclipses of the myth of Ulysses in Latin American culture -- Index.