Ethnographies and Exchanges: Native Americans, Moravians, and Catholics in Early North America (Max Kade Research Institute: Germans Beyond Europe) - Softcover

Roeber, A. G.

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ISBN 10: 0271033479 ISBN 13: 9780271033471

Verlag: Penn State University Press, 2008

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"Overall, this is a useful collection, with much to interest scholars specializing in either ethnohistory or religious history. The questions the volume raises about how we read early modern ethnographic sources make an important contribution to the field."-Michelle LeMaster, Journal of American Ethnic History "Taken as a whole, this collection brings needed scholarly attention to important epistemological and historical questions for mission and native history."-Katherine Carte Engel, Church History "Ethnographies and Exchanges will appeal to scholars of Native Americans and early modern religion, as it demonstrates the virtues of interdisciplinary studies. Although the essays vary in length and tone, they are uniformly well written and researched, and they engage questions of great importance."-Andrew K. Frank, History "This volume's greatest accomplishment well may be its attempt to elevate David Zeisberger to the status of reliable ethnographer as well as Christian missionary."-David P. Dewar, Canadian Journal of History "The anthology succeeds in recovering Native as well as missionary voices, carefully building context to make those voices understandable to contemporary readers and reintroducing these important texts in exciting ways that will stimulate further study."-R. A. Bucko, Choice

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Early Europeans settling in America would never have survived without the help of Native American groups. Though histories of early America acknowledge this today, that has not always been the case, and even today much work needs to be done to appreciate more fully the nature of the interactions between the settlers and the "First Peoples" and to hear the impressions of, and exchanges between, these two groups. We also have much to learn about Native Americans as people-their cultures, their languages, their views of the world, and their religious beliefs-and about their impressions of the early settlers. One avenue to recovering the history of these relations examines early records that sought to understand the First Peoples scientifically. Missionaries were among those who chronicled the exchange between early settlers and Native Americans. The diaries, letters, and journals of these early ethnographers are among the most valuable resources for recovering the languages, religions, cultures, and political makeup of the First Peoples. This volume explores the interactions of two seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European settlement peoples with Native Americans: German-speaking Moravian Protestants and French-speaking Roman Catholics. These two European groups have provided some of the richest records of the exchange between early settlers and Native Americans. Editor A. G. Roeber introduces the volume, whose chapters-by an international cast of contributors-are grouped in three parts: Texts and Interpretive Perspectives, Missions and Exchanges, and Indigenous Perspectives.

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• Verlag: Penn State University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0271033479
• ISBN 13: 9780271033471
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240