2022
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Hélène Roy, « Transcribe America. A New Approach Of The “Discovery” Of The New World », HAL-SHS : histoire, ID : 10.12795/Temas-Americanistas.2022.i49.21
Scientific literature has shown the important role that handwriting played in the production of an empirical knowledge which was instrumental to the expansion of the European empire in the Indies. Handwritten documents were also instrumental in the way power was exercised from the metropolis. This scientific literature indirectly challenges us to (re)think the way European representations of the New World were a “transcription of America”. The first objective of this article is to provide a critical summary and reflect on how writing practices were spread, appropriated and used among in Spanish America and Philippines from the fifteenth century to the eighteenth century. The second objective of this article is to present a wider scientific project based on a new methodology to analyze handwritten colonial archives.