CRI 550 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Symbolic Link, Promissory Note, Bourgeoisie
25 May 2016
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French were coming into contact with aboriginals. Iroquois related oral stories with a numerical system. Each knot indicated a different event in history, a reminder in storytelling. They could tell extremely complicated stories through the walpole. Not a written language, but allowed for detailed communication between scholarly elite in native nations. Written word at the heart of their progress. Large resources on a national scale to achieve these goals. Materials and physical uncertainties and written reports. Clear to the french that they needed printing presses needed asap. Hindered the development of a colonial literature. Monarchy controls by the production of documents related to the colony. Every form had to be handwritten, astounding. A lack of money in the colonies. Money in france was a promissory note for gold/silver. Even then, the french didn"t have the money. You want to pay somebody for something but can"t. Trading debt to the colonies on the back of playing cards.
