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The Language Encounter in the Americas, 1492-1800
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781571811608 |
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Publisher: | Berghahn Books |
Publication date: | 01/01/2001 |
Series: | European Expansion & Global Interaction , #1 |
Pages: | 352 |
Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.74(d) |
About the Author
Edward G. Gray is Assistant Professor of History at Florida State University.
Norman Fiering is the author of two books that were awarded the Merle Curti Prize for Intellectual History by the Organization of American Historians and of numerous. Since 1983, he has been Director of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University.
Table of Contents
Preface Norman FieringIntroduction Edward G. Gray
PART I: TERMS OF CONTRACT
Chapter 1. Babel of Tongues: Communicating with the Indians in Eastern North America James Axtell
Chapter 2. The Use of Pidgins and Jargons on the East Coast of North America Ives Goddard
PART II: SIGNS AND SYMBOLS
Chapter 3. Pictures, Gestures, Hieroglyphs: “Mute Eloquence” in Sixteenth-Century Mexico Pauline Moffitt Watts
Chapter 4. Iconic Discourse: The Language of Images in Seventeenth-Century New France Margaret J. Leahey
Chapter 5. Mapping after the Letter: Graphology and Indigenous Cartography in New Spain Dana Leibsohn
PART III: THE LITERATE AND THE NONLITERATE
Chapter 6. Continuity vs. Acculturation: Aztec and Inca Cases of Alphabetic Literacy José Antonio Mazzotti
Chapter 7. Native Languages as Spoken and Written: Views from Southern New England Kathleen J. Bragdon
Chapter 8. The Mi’kmaq Hieroglyphic Prayer Book: Writing and Christianity in Maritime Canada, 1675–1921 Bruce Greenfield
PART IV: INTERMEDIARIES
Chapter 9. Interpreters Snatched from the Shore: The Successful and the Others Frances Karttunen
Chapter 10. Mohawk Schoolmasters and Catechists in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Iroquoia: An Experiment in Fostering Literacy and Religious Change William B. Hart
Chapter 11. The Making of Logan, the Mingo Orator Edward G. Gray
PART V: THEORY
Chapter 12. Spanish Colonization and the Indigenous Languages of America Isaías Lerner
Chapter 13. Descriptions of American Indian Word Forms in Colonial Missionary Grammars Lieve Jooken
Chapter 14. “Savage” Languages in Eighteenth-Century Theoretical History of Language Rüdiger Schreyer
Select Bibliography List of Contributors Index