Title: Cultures in contact :
Authors: Fitzhugh, William W.,
Date: 1985
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press,
Physical description: vi, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: E
Abstract: Collection of papers under the headings: The arctic sector - Inuit responses to explorers, whalers, traders and missionaries; New England - the move inland: land, politics, and disease; The Chesapeake: two views - anthropology and history; The South - labor, tribute, and social policy: the Spanish legacy documenting Native American adaptations to early European contact from Greenland to the Carribean.
Contents: Early contacts north of Newfoundland before A.D. 1600: a review / William W. Fitzhugh -- European goods and socio-economic change in early Labrador Inuit society / Susan A. Kaplan -- Whales, whalers, and Eskimos: the impact of European whaling on the demography and economy of Eskimo society in West Greenland / Hans Christian Gulløv -- Preliminary biocultural interpretations from a seventeenth-century Narragansett Indian cemetery in Rhode Island / Paul A. Robinson, Marc A. Kelley, and Patricia E. Rubertone -- Cultural change on the southern New England frontier, 1630-1665 / Peter A. Thomas -- New York Iroquois political development / William Engelbrecht. Socio-political organization within the Powhatan chiefdom and the effects of European contact, A.D. 1607-1646 / E. Randolph Turner -- Patterns of Anglo-Indian aggression and accommodation along the mid-Atlantic coast, 1584-1634 / Frederick J. Fausz -- Spanish-Indian interaction in sixteenth-century Florida and Hispaniola / Kathleen A. Deagan.
Subject headings (LCSH): Indians of North America--Cultural assimilation.; Indians of North America--First contact with Europeans.; Indians of North America--First contact with other peoples.; Indians of North America--Foreign influences.; Indians of North America--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.