The Deadly Politics of Giving: Exchange and Violence at Ajacan, Roanoke, and Jamestown

The Deadly Politics of Giving: Exchange and Violence at Ajacan, Roanoke, and Jamestown
ISBN-10
0817353364
ISBN-13
9780817353360
Category
History
Pages
165
Language
English
Published
2006-08-20
Publisher
University of Alabama Press
Author
Seth Mallios

Description

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.

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