Title: The deadly politics of giving : exchange and violence at Ajacan, Roanoke, and Jamestown /
Authors: Mallios, Seth, 1971-
Publisher: University of Alabama Press,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Algonquian Indians First contact with Europeans South Atlantic States.; Indians of North America History; Algonquian Indians Wars South Atlantic States.; Ceremonial exchange South Atlantic States.; Indians of North America History; Spain Colonies America.; Great Britain Colonies America.; South Atlantic States History.
Abstract: Publisher description: 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.