TY  - GEN
T1  - Eloquence embodied nonverbal communication among French & indigenous peoples in the Americas
A1  - Carayon, Céline
LA  - English
PP  - Williamsburg, Virginia
PB  - Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
YR  - 2019
UL  - https://ds.mainlib.upd.edu.ph/Record/UP-1685594773862486053
AB  - "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. Céline Carayon's close examination of their accounts enables her to recover these sophisticated native practices of embodied expressions"--Provided by publishe
OP  - 473
CN  - ML-ebook
SN  - 9781469652641 (ebook)
KW  - Nonverbal communicatio.
KW  - Indians of North America : Communicatio.
KW  - Indians of South America : Communicatio.
KW  - French : Communicatio.
KW  - Nonverbal communication : History : 17th centur : America.
KW  - France : Colonies : Social life and custom : America.
ER  -