Death in the New World: Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1492-1800 9780812221947

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Автор: Seeman Erik R.
Название: Death in the New World: Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1492-1800
ISBN: 9780812221947
Издательство: Wiley EDC
Классификация:

История Америк

Социология: обычаи и традиции

Социология: смерть и дряхление

ISBN-10: 081222194X
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 384
Вес: 0.64 кг.
Дата издания: 01.11.2011
Серия: Early american studies
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 28 b/w
Размер: 212 x 148 x 23
Читательская аудитория: Tertiary education (us: college)
Подзаголовок: Cross-cultural encounters, 1492-18
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Поставляется из: Англии
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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 ones 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.

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List of Illustrations
Introduction: Ways of Dying, Ways of Living
Chapter 1. Old Worlds of Death
Chapter 2. First Encounters
Chapter 3. Burial and Disinterment in the Chesapeake
Chapter 4. Holy Bones and Beautiful Deaths in New

Death in the New World: Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1492-1800, Seeman Erik R.