Language Encounter in the Americas, 1492-1800: A Collection of Essays (European Expansion and Global Interaction Series, Volume 1) Book

	Preface	vii
	Introduction	1
I.	Terms of Contact
1.	Babel of Tongues: Communicating with the Indians in Eastern North America	15
2.	The Use of Pidgins and Jargons on the East Coast of North America	61
II.	Signs and Symbols
3.	Pictures, Gestures, Hieroglyphs: "Mute Eloquence" in Sixteenth-Century Mexico	81
4.	Iconic Discourse: The Language of Images in Seventeenth-Century New France	102
5.	Mapping after the Letter: Graphology and Indigenous Cartography in New Spain	119
III.	The Literate and the Nonliterate
6.	Continuity vs. Acculturation: Aztec and Inca Cases of Alphabetic Literacy	155
7.	Native Languages as Spoken and Written: Views from Southern New England	173
8.	The Mi'kmaq Hieroglyphic Prayer Book: Writing and Christianity in Maritime Canada, 1675-1921	189
IV.	Intermediaries
9.	Interpreters Snatched from the Shore: The Successful and the Others	215
10.	Mohawk Schoolmasters and Catechists in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Iroquoia: An Experiment in Fostering Literacy and Religious Change	230
11.	The Making of Logan, the Mingo Orator	258
V.	Theory
12.	Spanish Colonization and the Indigenous Languages of America	281
13.	Descriptions of American Indian Word Forms in Colonial Missionary Grammars	293
14.	"Savage" Languages in Eighteenth-Century Theoretical History of Language	310
	Select Bibliography	327
	List of Contributors	332
	Index	334