Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction. The Layered Legibilities of Intercultural Encounter 1
4. Chapter 1. Through the Medium of the Land: Serpent Mound Within and Without Ohio 14
5. CHAPTER 2 Writing-on- Stone and Book History: Recording the Life-World of the Great Plains 23
6. CHAPTER 3 Reading and Misreading an Eighth-Century Maya Stela 32
7. CHAPTER 4 The Birth and Life of the Tlaquimilolli (Sacred Bundle) 42
8. CHAPTER 5 Indigenous Fabrics of Empire in the Sixteenth-Century Northern Andes 51
9. CHAPTER 6 Alonso de Molina’s Grammar Book in Sixteenth-Century Tenochtitlan 57
10. CHAPTER 7 Writing and Resistance in the Conquest of Mexico’s Wake 65
11. CHAPTER 8 Intercultural Encounters and the Codex Mexicanus 73
12. CHAPTER 9 Bookmaking in Tlatelolco After the Apocalypse 82
13. CHAPTER 10 Chihoatenhwa’s Prayer: A Wendat-Jesuit Print Encounter from Seventeenth-Century New France 90
14. CHAPTER 11 A Timucua Epistle from Seventeenth-Century Florida 100
15. CHAPTER 12 A Contested Pennacook Object in a Seventeenth-Century Puritan Mission 109
16. CHAPTER 13 Daniel Gookin’s “Doings and Sufferings” and the Contradictions of the New England Mission 117
17. CHAPTER 14 And Their Words Were Reduced to Writing: The Materiality of Torture Transcripts in Early Eighteenth- Century Audiencia de Quito (Ecuador) 124
18. CHAPTER 15 Christoph Saur’s House: Toward an Anticolonial History of the Settlement of Germantown 133
19. CHAPTER 16 Slaveholding, Seasoning, and the Circulation of Culinary Knowledge in the Frankland Family Receipt Book 142
20. CHAPTER 17 A Jewish Gravestone in Eighteenth-Century Charleston 151
21. CHAPTER 18 The Uses and Reuses of Ephemeral Colonial Print in Black Households 160
22. CHAPTER 19 A Guatemalan Rulebook and the Discipling of Catholic Singing in the Spanish Colonial World 168
23. CHAPTER 20 An Eighteenth-Century Quaker Poem and Transatlantic Abolitionism 176
24. CHAPTER 21 Ephemeral Texts in a Semiliterate Society A Subversive Pasquinade in 1790 Caracas 184
25. CHAPTER 22 Disparate Sources of an 1800 Settlement Negotiation in Freetown, Sierra Leone 191
26. CHAPTER 23 Texas Mexican Women and the War of Independence from Spain Memory, Writing, Forgetting 198
27. CHAPTER 24 Refuting Procolonial Discourse in Postcolonial Haitian Pamphlets 206
28. CHAPTER 25 Muhammad Kabā Saghanughu’s 1838 Arabic Address in Jamaica 214
29. CHAPTER 26 Monk on Fire: Imag(in)ing Buddhism in the Americas 223
30. CHAPTER 27 Afong Moy’s Ephemera and the Ephemerality of the Early Asian American Archive 231
31. CHAPTER 28 Coloring Outside the Lines: The Comic Valentine as a Queer and Gender-Variant Object 240
32. CHAPTER 29 Lady Historian, Cuban Exile, and German Hatter: An Immigrant Story of Emma Willard’s Compendio de la Historia de los Estados Unidos as Translated by Miguel T. Tolón 249
33. CHAPTER 30 Chinese Print in Early California 257
34. CHAPTER 31 A Letter from Nineteenth-Century Afro-Brazil 266
35. CHAPTER 32 Three Ways of Reading Protestant Missionary Marginalia 274
36. CHAPTER 33 Framing Colonization for Mormon Youth in the Juvenile Instructor (1866) 282
37. CHAPTER 34 Improvising Indigenous Geographies in the First Atlas of Argentina, ca. 1870 290
38. CHAPTER 35 Proud Raven: Contesting the “Lincoln Pole” 299
39. CHAPTER 36 Hides, Hymns, Quills, Crosses: An Embellished Nineteenth-Century Dakota-Language Hymnal 307
40. CHAPTER 37 Yun Ch’i-ho’s Diary and Asian-American Encounters in the American South, 1888–1893 315
41. CHAPTER 38 Multiple Literacies in Hawaiian Sheet Music 325
42. CHAPTER 39 Dime Novels and the Creation of the Italian Immigrant Criminal 333
43. CHAPTER 40 Chauncey Yellow Robe’s Resistance in the Early Twentieth-Century United States 342
44. CHAPTER 41 Cataloging Mexican History in the Age of Pan-Americanism 352
45. CHAPTER 42 Scouting for the Victor Talking Machine Company: 1917 Traveling Recording Ledgers from Latin America 361
46. CHAPTER 43 Making Books at the Penitentiary: César Vallejo’s Trilce 369
47. CHAPTER 44 1930s U.S. Encounters with Sierra Leonean Dance Dramas 380
48. CHAPTER 45 Interwar Black Internationalism and the Creation of Unwritten History of Slavery (1945) 387
49. CHAPTER 46 Inscribing Black Atlantic Religions An Afro-Cuban Libreta from Havana 394
50. CHAPTER 47 The Circulations of a 1968 Haitian Compas LP 402
51. CHAPTER 48 Rebecca Rubin: American Girl and American Jewish Heritage 410
52. List of Contributors 419
53. Index 423
54. Acknowledgments 437