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Ethnographies and exchanges : Native Americans, Moravians, and Catholics in early North America / edited by A.G. Roeber

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Author:
Roeber, A. G (Anthony Gregg) 1949-  Search this
Max Kade German-American Research Institute  Search this
Subject:
Jesuits Missions  Search this
Jesuits Historiography  Search this
Physical description:
xxiv, 216 p. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
New France
North America
Date:
2008
C2008
17th century
Contents:
"This much admired man": Isaac Glikhikan, Moravian Delaware / David Edmunds -- Moravians and the development of the genre of ethnography / Christian F. Feest -- The succession of head chiefs and the Delaware culture of consent: the Delaware Nation, David Zeisberger, and modern ethnography / Hermann Wellenreuther -- Zeisberger's Diaries as a source for studying Delaware sociopolitical organization / Robert S. Grumet -- The impossible acculturation: French missionaries and cultural exchanges in the seventeenth century / Dominique Deslandres -- The Holy See and the conversion of aboriginal peoples in North America, 1760-1830 / Luca Codignola -- Policing Wabanaki missions in the seventeenth century / Christopher J. Bilodeau -- The Moravian missionaries of Bethlehem and Salem / Rowena McClinton -- "Incline your second ear this way": song as a cultural mediator in Moravian mission towns / Walter W. Woodward -- Munsee social networking and political encounters with the Moravian Church / Siegrun Kaiser -- The gender frontier revisited: Native American women in the age of revolution / Jane T. Merritt -- Debating missionary presence at Buffalo Creek: Haudenosaunee perspectives on land cessions, government relations, and Christianity / Alyssa Mt. Pleasant -- Translation as a prism: broadening the spectrum of eighteenth-century identity / Julie Tomberlin Weber
Topic:
Missions  Search this
Cultural assimilation  Search this
Historiography  Search this
Moravians--Missions  Search this
Moravians--Historiography  Search this
History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
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