Indian Giving
Economies of Power in Early Indian-White Exchanges (Native Americans of the Northeast)
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"In this book, David Murray explores a range of early exchanges between Europeans and Indians, showing how they operated within a set of interlocking economies - linguistic, religious, as well as material.".
"To illustrate the complexities of these cross-cultural transactions, the author looks closely at the work of linguist, trader, and missionary Roger Williams, whose A Key into the Language of America at once serves the purposes of translation, conversion, and trade.
Murray also examines the changing meaning and representation of wampum, the quintessential medium of exchange in the early colonial period, as well as the multiple processes of conversion taking place as Christian ideas were incorporated into Indian cultures."--BOOK JACKET.
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Commerce, Economic conditions, Barter, Indians of North America, Ceremonial exchange, First contact with Europeans, History, Indians of north america, first contact with europeans, Indians of north america, commerce, Indians of north america, economic conditions, Northeastern states, Indiens d'Amérique, Conditions économiques, Histoire, Indiens, Premiers contacts avec les Européens, Premiers contacts avec les Occidentaux, Échange cérémoniel, First contact with other peoplesShowing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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Indian Giving : Economies of Power in Early Indian-White Exchanges (Native Americans of the Northeast)
July 2000, University of Massachusetts Press
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Indian Giving: Economies of Power in Early Indian-White Exchanges (Native Americans of the Northeast)
August 2000, University of Massachusetts Press
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"ONE OF the claims I make in this book is that close attention to gifts and the rhetoric of giving in the representations of exchange works as a key to open up some of the complications in the struggle for political and cultural as well as economic power between Indians and Europeans."
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