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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818374203321

Titolo

Colonial mediascapes : sensory worlds of the early Americas / / edited and with an introduction by Matt Cohen and Jeffrey Glover ; foreword by Paul Chaat Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, Nebraska ; ; London, England : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8032-5441-5

0-8032-5440-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (748 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CohenMatt

GloverJeffrey

SmithPaul Chaat

Disciplina

973.3

Soggetti

Indians of North America - Communication

Indians of Mexico - Communication

Indians of South America - Communication

First contact (Anthropology) - America - History - 17th century

United States History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

Great Britain Colonies America

Spain Colonies America

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Beyond Textual Media; 1. Dead Metaphor or Working Model?; 2. Early Americanist Grammatology; 3. Indigenous Histories and Archival Media in the Early Modern Great Lakes; Part II: Multimedia Texts; 4. The Manuscript, the Quipu, and the Early American Book; 5. Semiotics, Aesthetics, and the Quechua Concept of Quilca; 6. "Take My Scalp, Please!"; Part III: Sensory New Worlds; 7. Brave New Worlds; 8. Howls, Snarls, and Musket Shots; 9. Hearing Wampum

Part IV: Transatlantic Mediascapes10. Writing as "Khipu"; 11. Christian Indians at War; 12. The Algonquian Word and the Spirit of Divine Truth;



Notes; Contributors; Index; About the Editors

Sommario/riassunto

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 intentions on paper, bark, skins, and many other kinds of surfaces. No one method of conveying meaning was privileged, and written texts often relied on nonwritten modes of communication. Colonial Mediascapes examines how textual and nontextual literatures interacted in colo