Eloquence Embodied : Nonverbal Communication among French and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas /

"Taking a fresh look at the first two centuries of French colonialism in the Americas, this book answers the long-standing question of how and how well indigenous Americans and the Europeans who arrived on their shores communicated with each other. French explorers and colonists in the sixteent...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Carayon, Celine (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Nonverbal communication.
Manners and customs.
Indians of North America > Communication.
French > Communication.
French colonies.
HISTORY > United States > Colonial Period (1600-1775)
Français > Communication.
Indiens d'Amerique > Amerique du Sud > Communication.
Communication non verbale.
Nonverbal Communication
Indians of South America > Communication.
America.
France > Colonies > America > Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"Taking a fresh look at the first two centuries of French colonialism in the Americas, this book answers the long-standing question of how and how well indigenous Americans and the Europeans who arrived on their shores communicated with each other. French explorers and colonists in the sixteenth century noticed that indigenous peoples from Brazil to Canada used signs to communicate. The French, in response, quickly embraced the nonverbal as a means to overcome cultural and language barriers. Celine Carayon's close examination of their accounts enables her to recover these sophisticated native practices of embodied expressions"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (472 pages).
ISBN:9781469652641

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