The Deadly Politics of Giving: Exchange and Violence at Ajacan, Roanoke, and Jamestown

By Seth Mallios

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817353364
• ISBN13: 9780817353360
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"