Colonial Mediascapes: Sensory Worlds of the Early Americas

Contents

Contents List of Illustrations ix Foreword xi Paul Chaat Smith Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Matt Cohen and Jeffrey Glover Part I. Beyond Textual Media 1. Dead Metaphor or Working Model? “The Book” in Native America 47 Germaine Warkentin 2. Early Americanist Grammatology: Definitions of Writing and Literacy 76 Andrew Newman 3. Indigenous Histories and Archival Media in the Early Modern Great Lakes 99 Heidi Bohaker Part II. Multimedia Texts 4.The Manuscript, the Quipu, and the Early American Book: Don Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala’s Nueva Corónica y Buen Gobierno 141 Birgit Brander Rasmussen 5. Semiotics, Aesthetics, and the Quechua Concept of Quilca 166 Galen Brokaw 6. “Take My Scalp, Please!”: Colonial Mimesis and the French Origins of the Mississippi Tall Tale 203 Gordon M. Sayre Part III. Sensory New Worlds 7. Brave New Worlds: The First Century of Indian-English Encounters 233 Peter Charles Hoffer 8. Howls, Snarls, and Musket Shots: Saying “This Is Mine” in Colonial New England 266 Jon Coleman 9. Hearing Wampum: The Senses, Mediation, and the Limits of Analogy 290 Richard Cullen Rath Part IV: Transatlantic Mediascapes 10. Writing as “Khipu”: Titu Cusi Yupanqui’s Account of the Conquest of Peru 325 Ralph Bauer 11. Christian Indians at War: Evangelism and Military Communication in the Anglo-French-Native Borderlands 357 Jeffrey Glover 12.The Algonquian Word and the Spirit of Divine Truth: John Eliot’s Indian Library and the Atlantic Quest for a Universal Language 376 Sarah Rivett Contributors 409 Index 413 ...