The Deadly Politics of Giving: Exchange and Violence at Ajacan, Roanoke, and Jamestown.(Book review)

From: Journal of Southern History | Date: May 1, 2008| Author: LeMaster, Michelle | Copyright information

The Deadly Politics of Giving: Exchange and Violence at Ajacan, Roanoke, and Jamestown. By Seth Mallios. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xiv], 150. Paper, $21.50, ISBN 978-0-8173-5336-0; cloth, $44.75, ISBN 978-0-8173-1516-0.)

Published in time for the four-hundredth anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, The Deadly Politics of Giving: Exchange and Violence at Ajacan, Roanoke, and Jamestown by anthropologist Seth Mallios investigates the breakd...

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