The deadly politics of giving : exchange and violence at Ajacan, Roanoke, and Jamestown / / Seth Mallios
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Mallios Seth <1971->
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| Titolo: |
The deadly politics of giving : exchange and violence at Ajacan, Roanoke, and Jamestown / / Seth Mallios
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| Pubblicazione: | Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (165 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 975/.01 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Spain Colonies America |
| Great Britain Colonies America | |
| South Atlantic States History | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The deadly politics of giving |
| ISBN: | 0-8173-8205-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910809021303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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