Ethnographies and exchanges

Titel: Ethnographies and exchanges : Native Americans, Moravians, and Catholics in early North America / ed. by A. G. Roeber
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Veröffentlicht: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008
Umfang: XXIV, 216 Seiten
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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mehrbändiges Werk:
Max Kade German-American Research Institute series
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ISBN: 9780271033464
  • Preface
  • p. ix
  • "This Much Admired Man": Isaac Glikhikan, Moravian Delaware
  • p. 1
  • I
  • Texts and Interpretive Perspectives
  • Moravians and the Development of the Genre of Ethnography
  • p. 19
  • The Succession of Head Chiefs and the Delaware Culture of Consent: The Delaware Nation, David Zeisberger, and Modern Ethnography
  • p. 31
  • Zeisberger's Diaries as a Source for Studying Delaware Sociopolitical Organization
  • p. 49
  • II
  • Missions and Exchanges
  • The Impossible Acculturation: French Missionaries and Cultural Exchanges in the Seventeenth Century
  • p. 67
  • The Holy See and the Conversion of Aboriginal Peoples in North America, 1760-1830
  • p. 77
  • Policing Wabanaki Missions in the Seventeenth Century
  • p. 97
  • The Moravian Missionaries of Bethlehem and Salem
  • p. 115
  • "Incline Your Second Ear This Way": Song as a Cultural Mediator in Moravian Mission Towns
  • p. 125
  • III
  • Indigenous Perspectives
  • Munsee Social Networking and Political Encounters with the Moravian Church
  • p. 145
  • The Gender Frontier Revisited: Native American Women in the Age of Revolution
  • p. 165
  • Debating Missionary Presence at Buffalo Creek: Haudenosaunee Perspectives on Land Cessions, Government Relations, and Christianity
  • p. 175
  • IV
  • Conclusion
  • Translation as a Prism: Broadening the Spectrum of Eighteenth-Century Identity
  • p. 195
  • Index
  • p. 208