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Native tongues : colonialism and race from encounter to the reservation /

"Native Tongues explores the morally entangled territory of language and race as it relates the intellectual history of encounters between whites and Native Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Misunderstandings about the differences between European and indigenous American lan...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Harvey, Sean P., 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2015.
Series:Harvard historical studies ; v. 184.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Language encounters and the "mind of man, while in the savage state"
  • Descent and relations
  • Much more fertile than commonly supposed
  • Four clicks and two gutturals, and a nasal
  • The unchangeable character of the "Indian mind"
  • Of blood and language
  • Epilogue.