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Title:

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

Publisher:

Pennsylvania State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

xxiv, 216 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Indians of North America--Missions.
Indians of North America--Cultural assimilation.
Indians of North America--Historiography.
Moravians--Missions--North America.
Moravians--North America--Historiography.
Jesuits--Missions--New France.
Jesuits--New France--Historiography.
North America--History--17th century.
North America--Historiography.--17th century--Historiography.

Other Authors:

Roeber, A. G. (Anthony Gregg), 1949-
Max Kade German-American Research Institute.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Translation as a prism: broadening the spectrum of eighteenth-century identity / Julie Tomberlin Weber. 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.

Series:

Max Kade German-American Research Institute series

ISBN:

0271033460 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780271033464 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2007042096

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

N2AX314 -- Divine Word College - Matthew Jacoby Library (Epworth)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)