| The Deadly Politics of Giving: Exchange and Violence at Ajacan, Roanoke, and Jamestown First Edition, Edition Contributor(s): Mallios, Seth (Author) |
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ISBN: 0817353364 ISBN-13: 9780817353360 Publisher: University Alabama Press OUR PRICE: $21.80 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2006 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775) - History | Native American - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) |
| Dewey: 975.01 |
| LCCN: 2005034160 |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6.06" W x 8.98" (0.62 lbs) 168 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 17th Century - Ethnic Orientation - Native American - Cultural Region - South Atlantic |
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| Publisher 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. |