Between worlds : interpreters, guides, and survivors / Frances Karttunen.

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9780585071190

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Karttunen, Frances E.

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Karttunen, Frances E.

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1 online resource (xiv, 364 pages) : illustrations

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.

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Translators -- Biography.

Linguistic informants -- Biography.

Intercultural communication.

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Publication Date:

1994

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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, underscores the complexity and tension between cultures meeting for the first time. The interpreters include: o Do-a Marina (La Malinche), who interpreted for Cortes in the conquest of Mexicoo Sacajawea, who accompanied Lewis and Clark on their expeditiono Sarah Winnemucca, a U.S. army scout and Washington lobbyist for the Northern Paiuteso Gaspar Antonio Chi, Maya Interpreter General for Yucatano Guaman Poma de Ayala, eyewitness reporter of the destruction of Inca cultureo Charles Eastman, a Sioux physician at Wounded Kneeo Larin Paraske, an informant for Finnish ethnographerso Do-a Luz Jimenez, Diego Rivera's model and a native informant to anthropologistso Mar'a Sabina, the Mazatec mushroom shaman who became a celebrity in the drug culture of the 1960so Ishi, the last surviving Yahi Indian.