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Between worlds : interpreters, guides, and survivors /
Spanning the globe and the centuries, Frances Karttunen tells the stories of sixteen men and women who served as interpreters and guides to conquerors, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, and anthropologists. These interpreters acted as uncomfortable bridges between two worlds; their own marginality,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
[1994]
©1994 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Three guides: To the Valley of Mexico : Doña Marina, "La malinche" (ca. 1500-1527)
- Over the Continental Divide : Sacajawea (ca. 1790-1812 or 1884)
- From the Great Basin to the halls of Congress : Sarah Winnemucca (1844-1891)
- These three women
- 2. Three civil servants: For bishops and reigning monarch : Gaspar Antonio Chi (ca. 1532-1610)
- Between prince and king : Guaman Poma de Ayala (ca. 1535?-after 1615)
- From deep woods to Dartmouth : Charles Eastman (1858-1939)
- These three professionals
- 3. Three native informants: Verses out of serfdom : Larin Paraske (ca. 1834-1904)
- Images in paint, pictures in words : Doña Luz Jiménez (ca. 1895-1965)
- Mushroom visions, mushroom voices : María Sabina (ca. 1900-1985)
- These three wordsmiths
- 4. More lives, familiar stories: Africans and Dutch at the Cape of Good Hope : Eva (ca. 1642-1674)
- Two survivalists : Dersu Uzala (ca. 1850-1908) and Ishi (ca. 1860-1916)
- Two Australians : Chloe Grant (ca. 1903-1974) and George Watson (ca. 1899-1991)
- From the Azores Islands to Pembroke College : Laurinda Andrade (1899-1980)
- Rain forest woman : Dayuma (ca. 1932- )
- 5. What was won and what it cost
- Epilogue : their children
- Don Martín Cortés and Doña María Jaramillo
- The hispanicization of Gaspar Antonio Chi's lineage
- The inconstant Don Francisco de Ayala
- Eva's namesake
- Jean Baptiste Carbonneau
- Charles Eastman's children
- Nadeschda, Tatjana, and Vasle
- Concha and her children
- Catarino and Aurelio, Apolonia and Viviana
- Ernie and Phyllis
- Sam Padilla amd Dayuma's second family
- Surrogate children.