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Powhatan Lords of Life and Death
Huber, Margaret; Williamson, Margaret Holmes
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Description for Powhatan Lords of Life and Death
paperback. A portrait and revisionist study of the famous Native leader Powhatan and his realm, which encompassed the Tidewater area of Virginia from the James River to the Potomac River. This work illuminates alternative conceptions of power and cosmology that force reconsideration of important components of Powhatan society. Num Pages: 12 figures, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 3JD; HBJK; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 31. Weight in Grams: 472.
A richly textured portrait of the famous Native leader Powhatan and his realm emerges in this revisionist study. For decades the English colonists at and around Jamestown lived in the shadow of a powerful confederation of Native American communities led by Powhatan. That realm encompassed the Tidewater area of Virginia from the James River to the Potomac River. For many years Powhatan skillfully staved off threats from other Native peoples and from European colonists. Despite the prominence of Powhatan during the early colonial years, our knowledge of him and life in his realm is filtered nearly completely through the eyewitness ... Read more
A richly textured portrait of the famous Native leader Powhatan and his realm emerges in this revisionist study. For decades the English colonists at and around Jamestown lived in the shadow of a powerful confederation of Native American communities led by Powhatan. That realm encompassed the Tidewater area of Virginia from the James River to the Potomac River. For many years Powhatan skillfully staved off threats from other Native peoples and from European colonists. Despite the prominence of Powhatan during the early colonial years, our knowledge of him and life in his realm is filtered nearly completely through the eyewitness ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803260375
SKU
V9780803260375
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About Huber, Margaret; Williamson, Margaret Holmes
Margaret Holmes Williamson is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Mary Washington College.
Reviews for Powhatan Lords of Life and Death
“Powhatan Lords of Life and Death is required reading for those interested in the Powhatans or early Virginia and offers an example of careful and creative analysis of difficult sources that should provide a model for anyone interested in understanding Indian societies through European materials.”—April Lee Hatfield, Journal of Southern History “An important, insightful, and original contribution to the burgeoning ... Read more