The deadly politics of giving : exchange and violence at Ajacan, Roanoke, and Jamestown / Seth Mallios.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mallios, Seth, 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Algonquian Indians--First contact with other peoples--South Atlantic States.

Algonquian Indians.

Algonquian Indians--First contact with other peoples.

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

Indians of North America.

History.

Algonquian Indians--Wars--South Atlantic States.

Ceremonial exchange--South Atlantic States.

Ceremonial exchange.

War.

Spain--Colonies--America.

Spain.

Colonies.

America.

Great Britain--Colonies--America.

Great Britain.

South Atlantic States--History.

South Atlantic States.

Physical Description:

xii, 150 pages : maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2006]

Summary:

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. Seth Mallios is Associate Professor of Anthropology at San Diego State University and Director of the South Coastal Information Center, California Office of Historic Preservation, in San Diego. Author of many journal articles and chapters in edited volumes, this is his first book.

Contents:

Introduction

Gifts and commodities

Ajacan

Roanoke

Jamestown

Conclusion.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

0817315160

0817353364

OCLC:

62342136

Publisher Number:

9780817315160

9780817353360