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Colonial Mediascapes : Sensory Worlds of the Early Americas /

"In colonial North and South America, print was only one way of communicating. Information in various forms flowed across the boundaries between indigenous groups and early imperial settlements. Natives and newcomers made speeches, exchanged gifts, invented gestures, and inscribed their intenti...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Glover, Jeffrey (Autor, Editor ), Cohen, Matt, 1970- (Autor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.