TY - BOOK AU - Mallios,Seth TI - The deadly politics of giving: exchange and violence at Ajacan, Roanoke, and Jamestown SN - 9780817382056 AV - E99.A35 M35 2006eb U1 - 975.01 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Tuscaloosa PB - University of Alabama Press KW - Algonquian Indians KW - First contact with other peoples KW - South Atlantic States KW - Indians of North America KW - History KW - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 KW - Wars KW - Ceremonial exchange KW - Algonquiens KW - Premiers contacts avec les Européens KW - États du Sud-Atlantique (États-Unis) KW - Indiens d'Amérique KW - États-Unis KW - Histoire KW - ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale) KW - Guerres KW - Échange cérémoniel KW - HISTORY KW - State & Local KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - British colonies KW - Colonial period KW - Spanish colonies KW - Spain KW - Colonies KW - America KW - Great Britain KW - Espagne KW - Amérique KW - Grande-Bretagne KW - United States KW - Electronic books KW - gtlm N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-143) and index; Introduction --; Gifts and commodities --; Ajacan --; Roanoke --; Jamestown --; Conclusion; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010 N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=279784 ER -