Table of contents : Cover Half Title Title Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction PART 1: SIGNS OF THE TIMES 1. “Acquainted by Some Signes”: Communication, Knowledge, and Sign Language in Native America 2. “Civil in any Country, if They Are So in the Fashion of France”: Nonverbal Communication, Civility, and the Language of Signs in Early Modern France PART 2: SIGNS OF CHANGE 3. “Many Friendly Signs”: French-Indian Communication during Sixteenth-Century Encounters 4. “The Most Thorough Traitors and Deceivers”: Embodiments of Trust and Deception in the Seventeenth-Century French Atlantic PART 3: SPEAKING OF SIGNS 5. “A Thousand Gesticulations and Affectations”: Embodied Multilingualism and the Question of Culture Change in Seventeenth-Century America 6. “The Greatest Speech-Makers on Earth”: Oratory and the Symbolic Language of Diplomacy in the Mature French Atlantic Conclusion Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y