This session, sponsored by the Bibliographical Society of America, will explore textual artifacts that have originated or been adapted for use in one or more Latin American cultures. The interplay between cultures, including relationships between different Latin American cultures or between Latin American and other cultures, will be a particular focus. Papers that address any period up to 1914 will be prioritized. A variety of media will be considered, including painted pottery, carved stucco, coins and other metalwork, engraved stone, and manuscripts or printed materials. Examples include the use and reuse of items bearing Indigenous or European script; the reinterpretation of imagery from elsewhere to illustrate Latin American texts; the early European historiography of indigenous Latin American ideographs and pictographs. While attending to the specificity of local traditions, the session will consider the significance of these textual artifacts in intercultural and historiographic perspective. The geographical definition of “Latin America” is open.
Contact Information
Send proposals (title and 250-word maximum abstract) and your CV by 29 August 2024 to Jeanne-Marie Musto, Librarian, New York Public Library, and Bibliographical Society of America liaison to the College Art Association.
Contact Email
musto.jeannemarie@gmail.com
URL
https://caa.confex.com/caa/2025/cfp.cgi
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