Cultures in contact
Subtitle: the impact of European contacts on native American cultural institutions, A.D. 1000-1800
By: edited & with commentary by William W. Fitzhugh.
Contributors: Fitzhugh, William W., 1943-
Series: Anthropological Society of Washington series
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Cultural assimilation.; Indians of North America -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; Indians of North America -- First contact with Europeans.; Indians of North America -- Foreign influences.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.