Colonial Mediascapes: Sensory Worlds of the Early Americas

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