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Author Mallios, Seth, 1971-

Title The deadly politics of giving : exchange and violence at Ajacan, Roanoke, and Jamestown / Seth Mallios
Published Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 150 pages) : maps
Contents Introduction -- Gifts and commodities -- Ajacan -- Roanoke -- Jamestown -- Conclusion
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-143) and index
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Subject Algonquian Indians -- First contact with other peoples -- South Atlantic States
Indians of North America -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Algonquian Indians -- Wars -- South Atlantic States
Ceremonial exchange -- South Atlantic States
HISTORY -- State & Local.
Algonquian Indians -- First contact with other peoples
British colonies
Ceremonial exchange
Indians of North America -- Colonial period
Spanish colonies
SUBJECT Spain -- Colonies -- America
Great Britain -- Colonies -- America. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056660
South Atlantic States -- History
Subject America
United States -- South Atlantic States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780817382056
0817382054
0817315160
9780817315160