Abstract
"A Meanes to Knitt Them Togeather": The Exchange of Body Parts in the Pequot War
Highlights
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Jill Lepore analyzes embedded in severed body parts for both cultures during King Philip's she emphasizes display rather than exchange
In the years following sioned with their alliance with about what exactly the exchanges sym the war, some Indians became disillu colonists, arguing that itwas built on faulty assumptions of cultural sameness and that the English were violat ing its fundamental terms. These exchanges demonstrate the peculiar character of frontier relationships at this early stage in the colonization of New England
Summary
IN the early seventeenth century, when New England was still very new, Indians and colonists exchanged many things: furs, beads, pots, cloth, scalps, hands, and heads. The first exchanges of body parts came during the 1637 Pequot War, a punitive campaign fought by English colonists and their native allies against the Pequot people. That "came almost daily." Most secondary accounts of the war only mention trophies in passing, seeing them as just another grisly aspect of this notoriously violent conflict.. That "came almost daily." Most secondary accounts of the war only mention trophies in passing, seeing them as just another grisly aspect of this notoriously violent conflict.1 Jill Lepore analyzes embedded in severed body parts for both cultures during King Philip's she emphasizes display rather than exchange. Arjun Appadurai, ed., The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective (New York, 1986), 3-63; Christopher
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