Powhatan: Foreign Relations 1500-1722

Powhatan: Foreign Relations 1500-1722 by Rountree, Helen C.. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780813914091.

Eight contributions, with an introduction and a summary by Rountree (anthropology, Old Dominion U.) examine the Powhatans of Virginia comprising 30 Algonquian-speaking Indian tribes and their relationships with both European and Indian "foreigners." Writing from the perspectives of physical anthropology, archaeology, history, and cultural anthropology, they reconstruct the contacts of a nonliterate, but sophisticated society contacts marked by ethnocentrism on all sides, which led, of course, to the expected misunderstandings and misconstructions. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.