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

• Pubblicazione: Lincoln, Nebraska ; ; London, England : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (748 p.)
• Disciplina: 973.3
• Soggetto topico: Indians of North America - Communication; Indians of Mexico - Communication; Indians of South America - Communication; First contact (Anthropology) - America - History - 17th century
• Soggetto geografico: United States History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Great Britain Colonies America; Spain Colonies America
• Altri autori: CohenMatt GloverJeffrey SmithPaul Chaat
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Colonial mediascapes
• ISBN: 0-8032-5441-5; 0-8032-5440-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818374203321
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