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Colonial mediascapes : sensory worlds of the early Americas
- Title
- Colonial mediascapes : sensory worlds of the early Americas / edited and with an introduction by Matt Cohen and Jeffrey Glover ; foreword by Paul Chaat Smith.
- Publication
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2014]
- ©2014
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Cohen, Matt, 1970-
- Description
- xiv, 438 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Great Britain > Colonies > America
- Spain > Colonies > America
- Indians of South America > Communication
- United States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
- Literacy > America x History > 17th century
- Communication > America > History > 17th century
- Indians of Mexico > Communication
- Oral tradition > America x History > 17th century
- First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners > America x History > 17th century
- Indians of North America > Communcation
- Books and reading > America x History > 17th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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 corâonica 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 14-3561
- ISBN
- 9780803232396 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 080323239X (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780803249998 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0803249993 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780803254411 (epub) (canceled/invalid)
- 9780803254428 (mobi) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2013035773
- OCLC
- 858159428
- Title
- Colonial mediascapes : sensory worlds of the early Americas / edited and with an introduction by Matt Cohen and Jeffrey Glover ; foreword by Paul Chaat Smith.
- Publisher
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2014]
- Copyright Date
- ©2014
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Cohen, Matt, 1970-
- Research Call Number
- JFE 14-3561