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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 ex...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Carocci, Max
Otros Autores: Pratt, Stephanie
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.