A G Roeber: Ethnographies and Exchanges


		Ethnographies and Exchanges Native Americans, Moravians, and Catholics in Early North America Edited By A. G. Roeber 216 pages \| 6 x 9 \| 2008 ISBN 978-0-271-03346-4 \| cloth: $45.00 sh Max Kade German-American Research Institute series Our shopping cart is temporarily out of service. To order, please call our toll free number. 800-326-9180. Thank you.

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. It is among these two European groups that we have 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.

A. G. Roeber is Professor of Early Modern History and Religious Studies and Co-Director of the Max Kade German-American Research Institute at Penn State University. He is the author of Palatines, Liberty, and Property: German Lutherans and Colonial British North America (1993), which was co-winner of the American Historical Association's 1993 John H. Dunning Prize.

Contents Preface A. G. Roeber “This Much Admired Man”: Isaac Glikhikan, Moravian Delaware David Edmunds I. Texts and Interpretive Perspectives 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 II. Missions and Exchanges 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 III. Indigenous Perspectives 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 A Footing Among Them: Haudenosaunee Perspectives on Land Cessions, Government Relations, and Christianity Alyssa Mt. Pleasant IV. Conclusion Translation as a Prism: Broadening the Spectrum of Eighteenth-Century Identity Julie Tomberlin Weber Index