CULTURES IN CONTACT

By William W. Fitzhugh

Subjects: Premiers contacts avec les Occidentaux, Indians of north america, cultural assimilation, First contact with Europeans, Kultur, Influence étrangère, Geschichte (1000-1800), Colonial period, Premier contact avec la civilisation occidentale, First contact with Occidental civilization, Indians of north america, culture, Histoire, Foreign influences, Indiens, Geschichte, Alimentation, Akkulturation, Indians of North America, Indians of north america, first contact with europeans, Indians of north america, history, Acculturation, Cultural assimilation, History, Geschichte 1000-1800

Description: Collection of papers under the headings: The arctic sector - Inuit responses to explorers, whalers, traders and missionaries; New England - the move inland: land, politics, and disease; The Chesapeake: two views - anthropology and history; The South - labor, tribute, and social policy: the Spanish legacy documenting Native American adaptations to early European contact from Greenland to the Carribean.