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Powhatan's World and
Colonial Virginia A Conflict of Cultures
Frederic W. Gleach, Cloth: 1997,ix,243,CIP.LC
96-32723,0-8032-2166-5
Studies in the Anthropology
of North American Indians Series
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"This work sheds new light on
the meaning of war and violence for both the Virginia
Indians and the English who invaded them. And that leads
to some stimulating new interpretations of the demise
of the 1570 Spanish Mission, John Smith's captivity
(including his rescue by Pocahontas), and the great
attacks of 1622 and 1644." -Helen C. Rountree,
Old Dominion University. "This fine new study .
. . [pieces] together stories far richer and people
far more complex than the literary and celluloid stereotypes
that so dominate our views of this early encounter.
Frederic Gleach steers us expertly through the cultural
cross-currents, conflicts, and misunderstandings that
swirled around the English founding of Virginia."
-Jennifer S. H. Brown, University of Winnipeg. Drawing
on the latest anthropological studies of colonial encounters,
Frederic Gleach offers a more balanced and complete
accounting of the early years of the Jamestown colony
than has been seen before. When English colonists established
their first permanent settlement at Jamestown in 1607,
they confronted a powerful and growing native chiefdom
consisting of over thirty tribes under one paramount
chief, Powhatan. For the next half-century, a portion
of the Middle Atlantic coastal plain became a charged
and often violent meeting ground between two very different
worlds. Gleach argues that the history of Jamestown
is essentially the story of how two cultures with conflicting
world-views attempted to civilize and incorporate each
other. He examines historical events from both native
and colonial perspectives, resulting in original and
fuller interpretations of seventeenth-century Virginia
history. Frederic W. Gleach is a visiting assistant
professor in the Department of Anthropology at Cornell
University. This is his first book.
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