Ethnographies and Exchanges: Native Americans, Moravians, and Catholics in Early North America Book

Preface A. G. Roeber Roeber, A. G.

"This Much Admired Man": Isaac Glikhikan, Moravian Delaware David Edmunds Edmunds, David 1

I Texts and Interpretive Perspectives

Moravians and the Development of the Genre of Ethnography Christian P. Feest Feest, Christian P. 19

The Succession of Head Chiefs and the Delaware Culture of Consent: The Delaware Nation, David Zeisberger, and Modern Ethnography Hermann Wellenreuther Wellenreuther, Hermann 31

Zeisberger's Diaries as a Source for Studying Delaware Sociopolitical Organization Robert S. Grumet Grumet, Robert S. 49

II Missions and Exchanges

The Impossible Acculturation: French Missionaries and Cultural Exchanges in the Seventeenth Century Dominique Deslandres Deslandres, Dominique 67

The Holy See and the Conversion of Aboriginal Peoples in North America, 1760-1830 Luca Codignola Codignola, Luca 77

Policing Wabanaki Missions in the Seventeenth Century Christopher J. Bilodeau Bilodeau, Christopher J. 97

The Moravian Missionaries of Bethlehem and Salem Rowena McClinton McClinton, Rowena 115

"Incline Your Second Ear This Way": Song as a Cultural Mediator in Moravian Mission Towns Walter W. Woodward Woodward, Walter W. 125

III Indigenous Perspectives

Munsee Social Networking and Political Encounters with the Moravian Church Siegrun Kaiser Kaiser, Siegrun 145

The Gender Frontier Revisited: Native American Women in the Age of Revolution Jane T. Merritt Merritt, Jane T. 165

Debating Missionary Presence at Buffalo Creek: Haudenosaunee Perspectives on Land Cessions, Government Relations, and Christianity Alyssa Mt. Pleasant Pleasant, Alyssa Mt. 175

IV Conclusion

Translation as a Prism: Broadeningthe Spectrum of Eighteenth-Century Identity Julie Tomberlin Weber Weber, Julie Tomberlin 195

Index 208