The deadly politics of giving
Subtitle: exchange and violence at Ajacan, Roanoke, and Jamestown
By: Seth Mallios.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9780817315160; 9780817353360
Subjects: Algonquian Indians -- First contact with Europeans -- South Atlantic States.; Indians of North America -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; Algonquian Indians -- Wars -- South Atlantic States.; Ceremonial exchange -- South Atlantic States.; Spain -- Colonies -- America.; Great Britain -- Colonies -- America.; South Atlantic States -- History.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Gifts and commodities; title: Ajacan; title: Roanoke; title: Jamestown; title: Conclusion.