ISBN:
9780803232396
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080323239X
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9780803249998
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0803249993
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 438 S.
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Ill.
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23 cm
DDC:
973.3
Keywords:
Indians of North America Communcation
;
Indians of Mexico Communication
;
Indians of South America Communication
;
First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners History 17th century
;
Communication History 17th century
;
Literacy History 17th century
;
Books and reading History 17th century
;
Oral tradition History 17th century
;
United States History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
;
Great Britain Colonies
;
Spain Colonies
Abstract:
Dead metaphor or working model? : "the book" in Native America / Germaine Warkentin -- Early Americanist grammatology : definitions of writing and literacy / Andrew Newman -- Indigenous histories and archival media in early modern Great Lakes / Heidi Bohaker -- The manuscript, the quipu, and the early American book : Don Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's Nueva Corónica y Buen Gobierno / Birgit Brander Rasmussen -- Semiotics, aesthetics, and the Quecha concept of Quilca / Galen Brokaw -- "Take my scalp, please!" : colonial mimesis and the French origins of the Mississippi tall tale / Gordon M. Sayre -- Brave new worlds : the first century of Indian-English encounters / Peter Charles Hoffer -- Howls, snarls, and musket shots : saying "this is mine" in colonial New England / Jon Coleman -- Hearing wampum : the senses, mediation, and the limits of analogy / Richard Cullen Rath -- Writing as "khipu" : Titu Cusi Yupanqui's account of the conquest of Peru / Ralph Bauer -- Christian Indians at war : evangelism and military communication in the Anglo-French-Native borderlands / Jeffrey Glover -- The Algonquian word and the spirit of divine truth : John Eliot's Indian library and the Atlantic quest for a universal language / Sarah Rivett
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Dead metaphor or working model? : "the book" in Native America
,
Indigenous histories and archival media in early modern Great Lakes
,
The manuscript, the quipu, and the early American book : Don Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's Nueva Corónica y Buen Gobierno
,
Semiotics, aesthetics, and the Quecha concept of Quilca
,
"Take my scalp, please!" : colonial mimesis and the French origins of the Mississippi tall tale
,
Brave new worlds : the first century of Indian-English encounters
,
Howls, snarls, and musket shots : saying "this is mine" in colonial New England
,
Hearing wampum : the senses, mediation, and the limits of analogy
,
Writing as "khipu" : Titu Cusi Yupanqui's account of the conquest of Peru
,
Christian Indians at war : evangelism and military communication in the Anglo-French-Native borderlands
,
The Algonquian word and the spirit of divine truth : John Eliot's Indian library and the Atlantic quest for a universal language
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