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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778941103321

Titolo

Native American Adoption, Captivity, and Slavery in Changing Contexts [[electronic resource] /] / edited by M. Carocci, S. Pratt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012

ISBN

1-283-44041-5

9786613440419

1-137-01052-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2012.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (279 p.)

Collana

Studies of the Americas

Disciplina

973.04

973.0497

Soggetti

Anthropology

World politics

Social history

America—History

Ethnicity

Political History

Social History

History of the Americas

Ethnicity Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Papers presented at the conference Adoption, Captivity and Slavery: Changing Meanings in Colonial North America that took place at the British Museum, in London on Feb 17th and 18th, 2008."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Introduction: Contextualizing Native American Adoption, Captivity, and Slavery; Chapter 1 Ripe for Colonial Exploitation: Ancient Traditions of Violence and Enmity as Preludes to the Indian Slave Trade; Chapter 2 The Emergence of the Colonial South: Colonial Indian Slaving, the Fall of the Precontact Mississippian World, and the Emergence of a New Social Geography in the American South, 1540-1730; Chapter 3 Southeastern Indian Polities of the Seventeenth Century: Suggestions toward an Analytical Vocabulary



Chapter 4 From Captives to Kin: Indian Slavery and Changing Social Identities on the Louisiana Colonial FrontierChapter 5 Capturing Captivity: Visual Imaginings of the English and Powhatan Encounter Accompanying the Virginia Narratives of John Smith and Ralph Hamor, 1612-1634; Chapter 6 Strategies of (Un)belonging: The Captivities of John Smith, Olaudah Equiano, and John Marrant; Chapter 7 Captive or Captivated: Rethinking Encounters in arly Colonial America; Chapter 8  Christian Disposition: Religious Identity in the eeker Captivity Narrative

Chapter 9 isual Representation as a Method of Discourse on Captivity, Focused on Cynthia Ann ParkerEpilogue Reflections and Refractions from the Southwest Borderlands; Notes on Contributors; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Radically rethinks the theoretical parameters through which we interpret both current and past ideas of captivity, adoption, and slavery among Native American societies in an interdisciplinary perspective. Highlights the importance of the interaction between perceptions, representations and lived experience associated with the facts of slavery.