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

Other author Roeber, A. G. (Anthony Gregg), 1949-
Other author Max Kade German-American Research Institute.
Format Book
Publication InfoUniversity Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2008.
Descriptionxxiv, 216 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Jesuits--Missions. --New France.
Jesuits--New France. --Historiography.
Indians of North America--Missions.
Indians of North America--Cultural assimilation.
Indians of North America--Historiography.
Moravians--Missions. --North America.
Moravians--North America. --Historiography.
North America--History. --17th century.
North America--History. --17th century. --Historiography.

SeriesMax Kade German-American Research Institute series
Max Kade German-American Research Institute series. ^A595085
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2007042096
ISBN9780271033464 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0271033460 (cloth : alk. paper)

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