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Studies - András Tarnóc: Violence as Cultural Projection: The Sociological, Psychological, and Epistemological Implications of the Jamestown Massacre

and Althusser's theories are functional at the individual level. The Jamestown Massacre is not simply a violent act or the beginning of America's wars, but a form of a cultural projection aimed at a dual audience, the Native American community and the white settlers. In the first direction it functions as culture protection and in the second as culture elimination. Taking CoromTs notion of culture as producing the Self and the Other (qtd. in Turner 418), it is clearly an attempt at Othering the settlers and healing the injured Native American self. The Massacre either treated as a riot, collective action, or terrorist attack, in the final accounting reinforces the Native American self as the relevant explanations and theories all emphasize group cohesion singling out the colonists as hostile to the interests of the victimized Powhatan Indians. WORKS CITED Printed sources Brinkerhoff, David B. and Lynn K. White. Sociology 2nd. ed. St. Paul: West Publishing Company, 1985. Davidson, James West and Mark Hamilton Lytle. A tények nyomában: a történelmi oknyomozás művészete.

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