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Eloquence Embodied
Céline Carayon
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Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press 
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte
Beschreibung
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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Guiana, Indian diplomacy, René Robert Cavelier Sieur de La Salle, Colonial History to 1700, France antarctique, linguistics, indigenous modes of writing, René Goulaine de Laudonnière, Indians of North America, oratory, French discovery and colonization, Brazil, gestures, Indians first contact with Europeans, Jean Ribault, Canada, Language encounter in the Americas, Gabriel Sagard, Gaspard de Coligny, Jesuit Relations, Marc Lescarbot, Plains Indian Sign Language, French Guyane, Jacques Cartier, Indians of South America, early modern France, Cayenne, French Atlantic world, Jean de Léry, sign language, Caribbean Indians, New France, Samuel de Champlain, Nonverbal communication, civility and courtesy, Society of Jesus, Capuchins, Indian languages