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1 online resource (xiv, 364 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-343) and index. |
| Summary |
Spanning the globe and the centuries, Frances Karttunen tells the stories of sixteen men and women who served as interpreters and guides to conquerors, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, and anthropologists. These interpreters acted as uncomfortable bridges between two worlds; their own marginality, the fact that they belonged to neither world, suggests the complexity and tension between cultures meeting for the first time. Some of the guides were literally dragged into their roles; others volunteered. The most famous ones were especially skilled at living in two worlds and surviving to recount their experiences. Among outsiders, the interpreters found protection. sustenance, recognition, intellectual companionship, and employment, yet most of the interpreters ultimately suffered tragic fates. Between Worlds addresses the broadest issues of cross-cultural encounters, imperialism, and capitalism and gives them a human face. |
| Contents |
1. Three guides: To the Valley of Mexico : Doña Marina, "La malinche" (ca. 1500-1527) -- Over the Continental Divide : Sacajawea (ca. 1790-1812 or 1884) -- From the Great Basin to the halls of Congress : Sarah Winnemucca (1844-1891) -- These three women -- 2. Three civil servants: For bishops and reigning monarch : Gaspar Antonio Chi (ca. 1532-1610) -- Between prince and king : Guaman Poma de Ayala (ca. 1535?-after 1615) -- From deep woods to Dartmouth : Charles Eastman (1858-1939) -- These three professionals -- 3. Three native informants: Verses out of serfdom : Larin Paraske (ca. 1834-1904) -- Images in paint, pictures in words : Doña Luz Jiménez (ca. 1895-1965) -- Mushroom visions, mushroom voices : María Sabina (ca. 1900-1985) -- These three wordsmiths -- 4. More lives, familiar stories: Africans and Dutch at the Cape of Good Hope : Eva (ca. 1642-1674) -- Two survivalists : Dersu Uzala (ca. 1850-1908) and Ishi (ca. 1860-1916) -- Two Australians : Chloe Grant (ca. 1903-1974) and George Watson (ca. 1899-1991) -- From the Azores Islands to Pembroke College : Laurinda Andrade (1899-1980) -- Rain forest woman : Dayuma (ca. 1932- ) -- 5. What was won and what it cost -- Epilogue : their children -- Don Martín Cortés and Doña María Jaramillo -- The hispanicization of Gaspar Antonio Chi's lineage -- The inconstant Don Francisco de Ayala -- Eva's namesake -- Jean Baptiste Carbonneau -- Charles Eastman's children -- Nadeschda, Tatjana, and Vasle -- Concha and her children -- Catarino and Aurelio, Apolonia and Viviana -- Ernie and Phyllis -- Sam Padilla amd Dayuma's second family -- Surrogate children. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Translators -- Biography.
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Translators -- Biography. |
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Translators. |
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Linguistic informants -- Biography.
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Linguistic informants. |
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Biographies.
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Intercultural communication.
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Intercultural communication. |
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Karttunen, Frances E. Between worlds. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©1994 0813520304 (DLC) 93008366 (OCoLC)28150669 |
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0585071195 (electronic book) |
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9780585071190 (electronic book) |
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0813520304 (Cloth) |
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0813520312 (paperback) |
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