Eloquence Embodied (inbunden)
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Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
472
Utgivningsdatum
2019-11-30
Förlag
The University of North Carolina Press
Illustrationer
22 halftones, 2 maps
Dimensioner
240 x 166 x 35 mm
Vikt
772 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9781469652627

Eloquence Embodied

Nonverbal Communication among French and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas

av Celine Carayon
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2019-11-30
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Taking a fresh look at the first two centuries of French colonialism in the Americas, this book answers the long-standing question of how and how well Indigenous Americans and the Europeans who arrived on their shores communicated with each other. French explorers and colonists in the sixteenth century noticed that Indigenous peoples from Brazil to Canada used signs to communicate. The French, in response, quickly embraced the nonverbal as a means to overcome cultural and language barriers. Celine Carayon's close examination of their accounts enables her to recover these sophisticated Native practices of embodied expressions. In a colonial world where communication and trust were essential but complicated by a multitude of languages, intimate and sensory expressions ensured that French colonists and Indigenous peoples understood each other well. Understanding, in turn, bred both genuine personal bonds and violent antagonisms. As Carayon demonstrates, nonverbal communication shaped Indigenous responses and resistance to colonial pressures across the Americas just as it fueled the imperial French imagination. Challenging the notion of colonial America as a site of misunderstandings and insurmountable cultural clashes, Carayon shows that Natives and newcomers used nonverbal means to build relationships before the rise of linguistic fluency--and, crucially, well afterward.
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Celine Carayon is associate professor of history at Salisbury University.

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