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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]



Descript 1 online resource (xiv, 438 pages) : illustrations, map
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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 Corónica 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.
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ISBN 9780803254404 (electronic bk.)
0803254407 (electronic bk.)
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Subject Indians of North America -- Communication.
Indians of Mexico -- Communication.
Indians of South America -- Communication.
First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners -- America -- History -- 17th century.
Communication -- America -- History -- 17th century.
Literacy -- America -- History -- 17th century.
Books and reading -- America -- History -- 17th century.
Oral tradition -- America -- History -- 17th century.
United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Great Britain -- Colonies -- America.
Spain -- Colonies -- America.
Alt author Cohen, Matt, 1970- editor.
Glover, Jeffrey, editor.
Descript 1 online resource (xiv, 438 pages) : illustrations, map
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
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 Corónica 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.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 9780803254404 (electronic bk.)
0803254407 (electronic bk.)
Subject Indians of North America -- Communication.
Indians of Mexico -- Communication.
Indians of South America -- Communication.
First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners -- America -- History -- 17th century.
Communication -- America -- History -- 17th century.
Literacy -- America -- History -- 17th century.
Books and reading -- America -- History -- 17th century.
Oral tradition -- America -- History -- 17th century.
United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Great Britain -- Colonies -- America.
Spain -- Colonies -- America.
Alt author Cohen, Matt, 1970- editor.
Glover, Jeffrey, editor.

Subject Indians of North America -- Communication.
Indians of Mexico -- Communication.
Indians of South America -- Communication.
First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners -- America -- History -- 17th century.
Communication -- America -- History -- 17th century.
Literacy -- America -- History -- 17th century.
Books and reading -- America -- History -- 17th century.
Oral tradition -- America -- History -- 17th century.
United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Great Britain -- Colonies -- America.
Spain -- Colonies -- America.
Descript 1 online resource (xiv, 438 pages) : illustrations, map
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
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 Corónica 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.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
Alt author Cohen, Matt, 1970- editor.
Glover, Jeffrey, editor.
ISBN 9780803254404 (electronic bk.)
0803254407 (electronic bk.)

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