The Deadly Politics of Giving

Download or read book The Deadly Politics of Giving written by Seth Mallios and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2006-08-20 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.