1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454757903321

Autore

Mallios Seth <1971->

Titolo

The deadly politics of giving [[electronic resource] ] : exchange and violence at Ajacan, Roanoke, and Jamestown / / Seth Mallios

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2006

ISBN

0-8173-8205-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (165 p.)

Disciplina

975/.01

Soggetti

Algonquian Indians - First contact with Europeans - South Atlantic States

Indians of North America - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

Algonquian Indians - Wars - South Atlantic States

Ceremonial exchange - South Atlantic States

Electronic books.

Spain Colonies America

Great Britain Colonies America

South Atlantic States History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [125]-143) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Gifts and commodities -- Ajacan -- Roanoke -- Jamestown -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

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 1500's and early 1600's, destroying Ajacan and Roanoke, and



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910671331803321

Titolo

Sexuality, social exclusion & human rights : vulnerability in the Caribbean context of HIV

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : Ian Randle Publishers, 2009

ISBN

976-637-701-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (369 pages)

Disciplina

362.196/9792009729

Soggetti

HIV-positive persons - Caribbean Area

Human rights - Caribbean Area

Social integration - Caribbean Area

Marginality, Social - Caribbean Area

Sex discrimination against women - Caribbean Area

Homophobia - Caribbean Area

Sex role - Caribbean Area

Sex - Caribbean Area

Health risk assessment - Caribbean Area

Risk-taking (Psychology) - Caribbean Area

Social aspects - Transmission

Government policy - Transmission

Civil rights

HIV infections - Caribbean Area

Lentivirus Infections

Behavioral Sciences

Social Control, Formal

Public Policy

Americas

Sexuality

Behavior

Sociology

Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes

Social Behavior

Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral

Geographic Locations

Social Control Policies

Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms

Behavioral Disciplines and Activities

Retroviridae Infections



Social Sciences

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Sexual Behavior

Health Care Economics and Organizations

Immune System Diseases

Reproductive Physiological Phenomena

Virus Diseases

Reproductive and Urinary Physiological Phenomena

Geographicals

Policy

Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena

Psychiatry and Psychology

RNA Virus Infections

Diseases

Health Care

Phenomena and Processes

Human Rights

Social Isolation

Health Policy

Risk-Taking

Caribbean Region

HIV Infections

Psychology

Homosexuality

Public Health

Health & Biological Sciences

Communicable Diseases

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Acronyms -- Human Rights, Citizenship and Social Exclusion -- Chapter 1: Authorized Sex Same-Sex Sexuality and Law in the Caribbean -- Chapter 2: Drugs Obscure the Human Rights Issues for Drug Users Are Demons and Jumbies Rights Holders? -- Chapter 3: Charting a Legal Response to HIV and AIDS and Work From the Perspective of Vulnerability -- Chapter 4: Social Exclusion, Citizenship and Rights -- Rethinking Communication -- Chapter 5: Speaking Sexuality -- Chapter 6: Positively Limited Gender, Sexuality and HIV and AIDS Discourses in Barbados -- Chapter 7: Communication and HIV Multi-Dimensional Frustration -- Chapter 8: Tackling the Social Complexities of HIV and AIDS Understanding the Social Roots of the Epidemic and Learning from Developments in HIV Communication -- Reconceptualizing Sex -- Chapter 9: Centering Praxis in Policies and Studies of Caribbean Sexuality -- Chapter 10: Afro-Surinamese Women's Sexual Culture and the Long Shadows of the Past -- Chapter 11: Contradictory Sexualities From Vulnerability to Empowerment for



Adolescent Girls in Barbados -- Chapter 12: How Risk and Vulnerability become 'Socially Embedded' Insights into the Resilient Gap Between Awareness and Safety in HIV -- Policy and Macro Perspectives -- Chapter 13: Risking Education: Placing Young Gay, Bisexual and Other MSM in the HIV Prevention Equation -- Chapter 14: HIV and AIDS, Vulnerability and the Governance Agenda: A Critical Perspective on Barbados -- Chapter 15: HIV and AIDS in the Caribbean - An Assessment of the Risk Environment: The Case of Trinidad and Tobago -- Contributors -- Index.