1. Babel of Tongues: Communicating with the Indians in Eastern North America

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. PREFACE vii
4. INTRODUCTION 1
5. PART I TERMS OF CONTACT
6. 1. Babel of Tongues: Communicating with the Indians in Eastern North America 13
7. 2. The Use of Pidgins and Jargons on the East Coast of 61 North America 61
8. PART II SIGNS AND SYMBOLS
9. 3. Pictures, Gestures, Hieroglyphs: “Mute Eloquence” in Sixteenth-Century Mexico 79
10. 4. Iconic Discourse: The Language of Images in Seventeenth-Century New France 102
11. 5. Mapping after the Letter: Graphology and Indigenous Cartography in New Spain 119
12. PART III THE LITERATE AND THE NONLITERATE
13. 6. Continuity vs. Acculturation: Aztec and Inca Cases of Alphabetic Literacy 153
14. 7. Native Languages as Spoken and Written: Views from Southern New England 173
15. 8. The Mi’kmaq Hieroglyphic Prayer Book: Writing and Christianity in Maritime Canada, 1675–1921 189
16. PART IV INTERMEDIARIES
17. 9. Interpreters Snatched from the Shore: The Successful and the Others 213
18. 10. Mohawk Schoolmasters and Catechists in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Iroquoia: An Experiment in Fostering Literacy and Religious Change 230
19. 11. The Making of Logan, the Mingo Orator 258
20. PART V THEORY
21. 12. Spanish Colonization and the Indigenous Languages of America 279
22. 13. Descriptions of American Indian Word Forms in Colonial Missionary Grammars 293
23. 14. “Savage” Languages in Eighteenth-Century Theoretical History of Language 310
24. SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 327
25. LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 332
26. INDEX 334