Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-143) and index.
A clash of cultures on the North American continent. 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.
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Deadly politics of giving.
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Algonquian Indians-- First contact with Europeans-- South Atlantic States.
Algonquian Indians-- Wars-- South Atlantic States.
Ceremonial exchange-- South Atlantic States.
Indians of North America-- History-- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Algonquian Indians-- First contact with Europeans.