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The Eliot Indian Bible and Early Colonial Language Encounters

144 Louis A. Simpson Building

In 1663, the Cambridge press in the Massachusetts Bay Colony completed Mamusse wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblium God, a Wôpanâak translation of the Old and New Testaments. Commonly referred to as the Eliot Indian Bible, the publication was the first Bible printed in the New World and the first complete Bible translated into a non-western language for missionary purposes.  […]

The Waltz, the Cotillon, and the Hazards of Choice

010 East Pyne 010 East Pyne, Princeton

Having and making choices has come to stand for freedom in the modern world.  How has this happened?  This talk will consider the 19th-century ballroom, and especially two French dances particular to it, the waltz and the cotillon, to understand how European men and women learned to navigate one area of growing choice: sexual partnerships […]

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