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.
- ISBN13 9780817315160
- Publish Date 1 August 2006
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 4 July 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint The University of Alabama Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 168
- Language English