Deadly Politics of Giving: Exchange and Violence at Ajacan, Roanoke, and Jamestown
University Alabama Press, August 2006. Trade Paperback. Item #396011
ISBN: 0817353364
A paperback copy in very good condition.
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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