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Contracting Colonialism : Translation and Christian Conversion in Tagalog Society Under Early Spanish Rule /

In an innovative mix of history, anthropology, and post-colonial theory, Vicente L. Rafael examines the role of language in the religious conversion of the Tagalogs to Catholicism and their subsequent colonization during the early period (1580-1705) of Spanish rule in the Philippines. By tracing thi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Rafael, Vicente L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham [North Carolina] : Duke University Press, 1993.
Edición:First paperback edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Fishing Out the Past
  • 1. The Politics of Translation
  • 2. Tomas Pinpin and the Shock of Castilian
  • 3. Conversion and the Demands of Confession
  • 4. Untranslatability and the Terms of Reciprocity
  • 5. Translating Submission
  • 6. Paradise and the Reinvention of Death
  • Afterword: Translation and the Colonial Legacy