Colonial Mediascapes: Sensory Worlds of the Early Americas

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Colonial Mediascapes Colonial Mediascapes Sensory Worlds of the Early Americas Edited and with an introduction by Matt Cohen and Jeffrey Glover Foreword by Paul Chaat Smith University of Nebraska Press Lincoln and London © 2014 by the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska Parts of chapter 4 were previously published in Birgit Brander Rasmussen’s “Writing in the Conflict Zone: Don Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala’s El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno,” in Queequeg’s Coffin: Indigenous Literacies and Early American Literature, 79–110 (Durham: Duke University Press, 2012). Copyright © 2012 by Duke University Press, all rights reserved. Republished by permission of the copyright holder (www.dukepress.edu). An expanded version of chapter 7 originally appeared in Peter Charles Hoffer’s Sensory Worlds in Early America, 22–76 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005). Reprinted courtesy of Johns Hopkins University Press. Chapter 8 was previously published in Jon T. Coleman’s Vicious: Wolves and Men in America, 19–36 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004). Reprinted courtesy of Yale University Press. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. Publication of this volume was assisted by the Virginia Faulkner Fund, established in memory of Virginia Faulkner, editor in chief of the University of Nebraska Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Colonial mediascapes: sensory worlds of the early Americas / edited and with an introduction by Matt Cohen and Jeffrey Glover; foreword by Paul Chaat Smith. pages cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-8032-3239-6 (cloth: alk. paper)—isbn 978-0-8032-4999-8 (pbk.: alk. paper)—isbn 978-0-8032-5441-1 (epub)—isbn 978-0-8032-5442-8 (mobi) 1. Indians of North America—Communication. 2. Indians of Mexico— Communication. 3. Indians of South America—Communication. 4. First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners—America—History—17th century. 5. Communication—America—History—17th century. 6. Literacy—America— History—17th century. 7. Books and reading—America—History—17th century. 8. Oral tradition—America—History—17th century. 9. United States— History—Colonial period, ca. 1600–1775. 10. Great Britain—Colonies—America. 11. Spain—Colonies—America. I. Cohen, Matt, 1970– e98.c73c65 2014 973.3—dc23 2013035773 Set in Adobe Caslon by Laura Wellington. Designed by J. Vadnais. ...