Reviews

Contracting Colonialism: Translation and Christian Conversion in Tagalog Society Under Early Spanish Rule by Vicente L. Rafael

literary_hazelnut's review

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.75

catherineofalx's review against another edition

The only thing I’ve ever read that makes me feel like learning semiotic lingo wasn’t a total waste of time. This is a really brilliant work of scholarship and its project of “provincializing Europe,” studying the Spanish missionary as other, is not just politically astute but SO REWARDING. I’ll be chewing on this for a long time!