Native American Adoption, Captivity, and Slavery in Changing Contexts
Radically rethinks the theoretical parameters through which we interpret both current and past ideas of captivity, adoption, and slavery among Native American societies in an interdisciplinary perspective. Highlights the importance of the interaction between perceptions, representations and lived experience associated with the facts of slavery.
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- Full title :Native American Adoption, Captivity, and Slavery in Changing Contexts / edited by M. Carocci, S. Pratt.
Summary
Radically rethinks the theoretical parameters through which we interpret both current and past ideas of captivity, adoption, and slavery among Native American societies in an interdisciplinary perspective. Highlights the importance of the interaction between perceptions, representations and lived experience associated with the facts of slavery.
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- Publication Date:2012.
- Edition:1st ed. 2012
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, Palgrave Macmillan US
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012.
Notes
"Papers presented at the conference Adoption, Captivity and Slavery: Changing Meanings in Colonial North America that took place at the British Museum, in London on Feb 17th and 18th, 2008."
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (279 p.).
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1283440415, 9781283440417, 9786613440419, 6613440418, 1137010525, 9781137010520
- DOI:10.1057/9781137010520
- oclc:on1328303067
- LC Classification:HM545
- Dewey Decimal:973.04
Table of Contents
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Introduction: Contextualizing Native American Adoption, Captivity, and Slavery; Chapter 1 Ripe for Colonial Exploitation: Ancient Traditions of Violence and Enmity as Preludes to the Indian Slave Trade; Chapter 2 The Emergence of the Colonial South: Colonial Indian Slaving, the Fall of the Precontact Mississippian World, and the Emergence of a New Social Geography in the American South, 1540-1730; Chapter 3 Southeastern Indian Polities of the Seventeenth Century: Suggestions toward an Analytical Vocabulary
Chapter 4 From Captives to Kin: Indian Slavery and Changing Social Identities on the Louisiana Colonial FrontierChapter 5 Capturing Captivity: Visual Imaginings of the English and Powhatan Encounter Accompanying the Virginia Narratives of John Smith and Ralph Hamor, 1612-1634; Chapter 6 Strategies of (Un)belonging: The Captivities of John Smith, Olaudah Equiano, and John Marrant; Chapter 7 Captive or Captivated: Rethinking Encounters in arly Colonial America; Chapter 8 Christian Disposition: Religious Identity in the eeker Captivity Narrative
Chapter 9 isual Representation as a Method of Discourse on Captivity,…
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