Cultural Encounters In The New World
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Author | : Erik R. Seeman |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2011-09-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812206002 |
Reminders of death were everywhere in the New World, from the epidemics that devastated Indian populations and the mortality of slaves working the Caribbean sugar cane fields to the unfamiliar diseases that afflicted Europeans in the Chesapeake and West Indies. According to historian Erik R. Seeman, when Indians, Africans, and Europeans encountered one another, they could not ignore the similarities in their approaches to death. All of these groups believed in an afterlife to which the soul or spirit traveled after death. As a result all felt that corpses—the earthly vessels for the soul or spirit—should be treated with respect, and all mourned the dead with commemorative rituals. Seeman argues that deathways facilitated communication among peoples otherwise divided by language and custom. They observed, asked questions about, and sometimes even participated in their counterparts' rituals. At the same time, insofar as New World interactions were largely exploitative, the communication facilitated by parallel deathways was often used to influence or gain advantage over one's rivals. In Virginia, for example, John Smith used his knowledge of Powhatan deathways to impress the local Indians with his abilities as a healer as part of his campaign to demonstrate the superiority of English culture. Likewise, in the 1610-1614 war between Indians and English, the Powhatans mutilated English corpses because they knew this act would horrify their enemies. Told in a series of engrossing narratives, Death in the New World is a landmark study that offers a fresh perspective on the dynamics of cross-cultural encounters and their larger ramifications in the Atlantic world.
Author | : Mary Elizabeth Perry |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2024-07-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520414284 |
More than just an expression of religious authority or an instrument of social control, the Inquisition was an arena where cultures met and clashed on both shores of the Atlantic. This pioneering volume examines how cultural identities were maintained despite oppression. Persecuted groups were able to survive the Inquisition by means of diverse strategies—whether Christianized Jews in Spain preserving their experiences in literature, or native American folk healers practicing medical care. These investigations of social resistance and cultural persistence will reinforce the cultural significance of the Inquisition. Contributors: Jaime Contreras, Anne J. Cruz, Jesús M. De Bujanda, Richard E. Greenleaf, Stephen Haliczer, Stanley M. Hordes, Richard L. Kagan, J. Jorge Klor de Alva, Moshe Lazar, Angus I. K. MacKay, Geraldine McKendrick, Roberto Moreno de los Arcos, Mary Elizabeth Perry, Noemí Quezada, María Helena Sanchez Ortega, Joseph H. Silverman This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1995.
Author | : Harald Zapf |
Publisher | : Gunter Narr Verlag |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : America |
ISBN | : 9783823360445 |
Author | : Jon Thares Davidann |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2016-09-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1315507951 |
Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern World History explores cultural contact as an agent of change. It takes an encounters approach to world history since 1500, rather than a political one, to reveal different perspectives and experiences as well as key patterns and transformations. It studies the spaces between cultures historically to help us transcend human differences today in a rapidly globalizing world. The text focuses on first encounters that suggest long-term developments and particularly significant encounters that have changed the direction of world history. Because of the complexities of these encounters, the author takes a user-friendly approach to keep the text accessible to students with varying backgrounds in history.
Author | : Mirela Altic |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 2022-07-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022679105X |
The history and concept of Jesuit mapmaking -- The possessions of the Spanish crown -- The viceroyalty of Peru -- Portuguese possessions: Brazil -- New France: searching for the Northwest Passage.
Author | : Anthony Pagden |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1993-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780300059502 |
For review see: J.W. Schulte Nordholt, in Tijdschrift voor geschiedenis, jrg. 107, nr. 4 (1994); p. 591-592.
Author | : Associate Professor of History and American Studies Jill Lepore |
Publisher | : Turtleback |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780613573566 |
Jill Lepore, winner of the distinguished Bancroft Prize for history, brings to life in exciting, first-person detail some of the earliest events in American history. Pages From History.
Author | : Jerry H. Bentley |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780195076400 |
This innovative book examines cross-cultural encounters before 1492, focusing in particular on the major cross-cultural influences that transformed Asia and Europe during this period: the ancient silk roads that linked China with the Roman Empire, the spread of the world religions, and theMongol Empire of the thirteenth century. The author's goal throughout the work is to examine the conditions--political, social, economic, or cultural--that enable one culture to influence, mix with, or suppress another. On the basis of its global analysis, the book identifies several distinctivepattern of conversion, conflict, and compromise that emerged from cross-cultural encounters. In doing so, it elucidates that larger historical context of encounters between Europeans and other peoples in modern times. _Old World Encounters_ is ideal for students of world geography, religion, andcivilizations.
Author | : Gilbert Michael Joseph |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 604 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780822320999 |
Essays that suggest new ways of understanding the role that US actors and agencies have played in Latin America." - publisher.
Author | : Melani McAlister |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2005-07-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520244993 |
Examines how popular culture has shaped the ways Americans define their "interests" in the Middle East. Author McAlister argues that U.S. foreign policy, while grounded in material and military realities, is also developed in a cultural context. American understandings of the region are framed by narratives that draw on religious belief, news media accounts, and popular culture. This book skillfully weaves readings of film, media, and music with a rigorous analysis of U.S. foreign policy, race politics, and religious history.--From publisher description.