Bridging print culture and performance; Spectacular Wealth draws on eighteenth-century festival accounts to explore how colonial residents of the silver-mining town of Potosiacute;; in the viceroyalty of Peru; and the gold-mining region of Minas Gerais; in Brazil; created rich festive cultures that refuted European allegations of barbarism and greed. In her examination of the festive participation of the townsrsquo; diverse inhabitants; including those whose forced or slave labor produced the coloniesrsquo; mineral wealth; Lisa Voigt shows how Amerindians; Afro-descendants; Europeans; and creoles displayed their social capital and cultural practices in spectacular performances.Tracing the multiple meanings and messages of civic festivals and religious feast days alike; Spectacular Wealth highlights the conflicting agendas at work in the organization; performance; and publication of festivals. Celebrants and writers in mining boomtowns presented themselves as far more than tributaries yielding mineral wealth to the Spanish and Portuguese empires; using festivals to redefine their reputations and to celebrate their cultural; spiritual; and intellectual wealth.
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