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Communication and the Social History of Contact in the Spanish Atlantic, 1341-1602.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Communication and the Social History of Contact in the Spanish Atlantic, 1341-1602./
Author:	Cave, Scott.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2018,
Description:	275 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-10, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International80-10A.
Subject:	Latin American history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=13871801
ISBN:	9781392038949

Communication and the Social History of Contact in the Spanish Atlantic, 1341-1602.
Cave, Scott.

Communication and the Social History of Contact in the Spanish Atlantic, 1341-1602. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 275 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-10, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Pennsylvania State University, 2018.

When Columbus landed in the Bahamas in 1492, he brought local people aboard and "spoke" with them-or so he claims. Many of the Europeans who followed in his wake similarly claim to have "spoken" with the indigenous people they met. The questions that immediately occur to modern readers are all variations of "How?" How did the people of Guanahani speak to Columbus? How did the conquistadors of Puerto Rico learn the "secrets of the land" they were about to conquer? How did the Calusa of south Florida know to reject Spanish visitors before those visitors had even arrived? How did information flow in the absence of a shared language? In this dissertation, I answer those basic questions, and describe how the struggle to communicate and gather information shaped the social landscapes of European and indigenous people in the Spanish Atlantic through the long sixteenth century. I argue that efforts to communicate, whether in the Canary Islands or Kansas, fell into broad, nearly universal patterns, centered around material exchange, gesture, performance, and kidnapping. In telling this story, I also argue for a new kind of history of the early Americas, rooted in the story of a collective intellectual labor across the Spanish and indigenous Atlantic. By focusing on this common struggle, I make Curacao, the Colorado River, and Tenochtitlan different stages for the performance of a common, connected drama. Rather than clashing civilizations, I tell the stories of individuals. I tell the history of the complex and contested Atlantic world that was, without undue deference to the colonial world that would be. I am as concerned with the "useless islands" of the Bahamas as the Zocalo of Mexico City, as devoted to the "doomed" Taino as the enduring Zapotecs of Oaxaca. The first chapter tells the story of contact in the Canary Islands, and demonstrates how indigenous islanders and visiting Europeans stumbled upon ways to communicate in the first contact frontier of the early modern Atlantic that would be repeated in the Americas. It also introduces the idea of the Long Contact, the decades of indigenous adaptation and reaction to repeated European visits that defined the experience of contact. The second chapter tells the stories of three Long Contacts in places that were never conquered by Spaniards, and how indigenous information networks responded to European presence. The following chapter examines the role of material exchange, hand signals, and body language as a surprisingly effective form of early contact communication. The next chapter examines the role of the indigenous slave trade in creating a corps of bilingual indigenous people who could be used as the first generation of translators. Finally, I turn to the trade in musical instruments and the use of music and nonverbal sound in contact situations.

ISBN: 9781392038949Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122902
Latin American history.

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