Indigenous Textual Cultures

As modern European empires expanded, written language was critical to articulations of imperial authority and justifications of conquest. For imperial administrators and thinkers, the non-literacy of “native” societies demonstrated their primitiveness and inability to change. Yet as the contributors...

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Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Duke University Press 2023
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Online Access:https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/61575
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