Grave undertakings
Subtitle: an archaeology of Roger Williams and Narragansett Indians
By: Patricia E. Rubertone.
Contributors: Williams, Roger, 1604?-1683
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Washington [D.C.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Williams, Roger, -- 1604?-1683; Narragansett Indians
Description: "Grave Undertakings focuses on seventeenth-century Narragansett Indians, whose languages and lifeways were described by Roger Williams in A Key Into the Language of America (1643), long considered an objective, thorough, and authoritative account. By weaving textual and archaeological evidence with community memory, Patricia Rubertone challenges the canonical status of A Key, imagining a more complicated and dynamic history of Native cultural survival and persistence in New England."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.