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Autore: |
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 |
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