The deadly politics of giving

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.

subjects: Algonquian Indians,  Ceremonial exchange,  Colonies,  First contact with Europeans,  History,  Indians of North America,  Spain,  Wars,  Indians of north america, first contact with europeans,  Indians of north america, history,  Indians of north america, wars,  Spain, colonies, america,  Great britain, colonies, america,  Atlantic states,  First contact with other peoples

Places: America,  Great Britain,  South Atlantic States

Times: Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775