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