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The deadly politics of giving : exchange and violence at Ajacan, Roanoke, and Jamestown / Seth Mallios.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mallios, Seth, 1971-
- Series:
- Molly Malone Mystery, 1.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Algonquian Indians--First contact with Europeans--South Atlantic States.
- Algonquian Indians.
- Indians of North America--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- Indians of North America.
- Algonquian Indians--Wars--South Atlantic States.
- Ceremonial exchange--South Atlantic States.
- Ceremonial exchange.
- Spain--Colonies--America.
- Spain.
- Great Britain--Colonies--America.
- Great Britain.
- South Atlantic States--History.
- South Atlantic States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (165 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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 1500's and early 1600's, destroying Ajacan and Roanoke, and
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Gifts and commodities
- Ajacan
- Roanoke
- Jamestown
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [125]-143) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8205-4
- OCLC:
- 426545157
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