A clash of cultures on the North American continent. With a focus on indigenous cultural systems and agency theory, this volume analyzes Contact Period relations between North American Middle Atlantic Algonquian Indians and the Spanish Jesuits at Ajacan (1570–72) and English settlers at Roanoke Island (1584–90) and Jamestown Island (1607–12). It is an anthropological and ethnohistorical study of how European violations of Algonquian gift-exchange systems led to intercultural strife during the late 1500s and early 1600s, destroying Ajacan and Roanoke, and nearly destroying Jamestown.
1102349680
The Deadly Politics of Giving: Exchange and Violence at Ajacan, Roanoke, and Jamestown
A clash of cultures on the North American continent. With a focus on indigenous cultural systems and agency theory, this volume analyzes Contact Period relations between North American Middle Atlantic Algonquian Indians and the Spanish Jesuits at Ajacan (1570–72) and English settlers at Roanoke Island (1584–90) and Jamestown Island (1607–12). It is an anthropological and ethnohistorical study of how European violations of Algonquian gift-exchange systems led to intercultural strife during the late 1500s and early 1600s, destroying Ajacan and Roanoke, and nearly destroying Jamestown.
22.95
In Stock
5
1
The Deadly Politics of Giving: Exchange and Violence at Ajacan, Roanoke, and Jamestown
168The Deadly Politics of Giving: Exchange and Violence at Ajacan, Roanoke, and Jamestown
168Related collections and offers
22.95
In Stock
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780817382056 |
---|---|
Publisher: | University of Alabama Press |
Publication date: | 08/20/2006 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 168 |
File size: | 2 MB |
About the Author
From the B&N Reads Blog