Indian Giving
Subtitle: Economies of Power in Early Indian-White Exchanges (Native Americans of the Northeast)
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: August 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9781558492448
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; American studies; Cultural studies; Economic history; Indigenous peoples; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; History; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies; Ethnic Issues; Modern - 18th Century; History: American; North America; Linguistics; Native American; Northeastern States; Folklore & Mythology; Commerce; Economic conditions; First contact with Europeans; Indians of North America
First sentence: ONE OF the claims I make in this book is that close attention to gifts and the rhetoric of giving in the representations of exchange works as a key to open up some of the complications in the struggle for political and cultural as well as economic power between Indians and Europeans.