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Journal Article
Biographies of brilliance: Pearls, transformations of matter and being, c. AD 1492
1999
Overview
Indigenous peoples of the Americas regarded the positive spiritual and creative power of light to be manifested in many brilliant objects - from iridescent feathers to shiny minerals and metals. By contrast, Europeans valued only a few glittering objects - pearls, emeralds, gold and silver - from a commercial standpoint. By adopting a biographical approach to one of these items - pearls - it is possible to explore the ways in which these earliest of traded objects embodied, bridged and transformed the material, social and imagined worlds of Amerindians and Europeans from AD 1492 onwards.
