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I think the section from Roger Williams is extremely interesting because the words he choose to document tells a lot of English society and what was imporant to the English in marriage and relationships. For example: the english seemed to be concerned about the amount of wives the natives had because he mentions the words for 1,2,3,4...wifes. This makes sense since the english believed that it was proper to only take one wife as stated in the Bible. Also, in that same section Williams lists the characteristics of a traditionally proper and English wife, loving, proper, sober and chast, ect. This seems to point out that in attempting to make sense of the native lifestyle, williams was looking for similarities between the natives and the english through the use of language. As, this type of rudementary dictionary could have been used as a means of converting the natives by explaining how they were expected to act. Maybe, but more likely it was used as a way to simply try and understand the natvies and their culture in terms that the englsih were familiar with. --Katelynn V. | I think the section from Roger Williams is extremely interesting because the words he choose to document tells a lot of English society and what was imporant to the English in marriage and relationships. For example: the english seemed to be concerned about the amount of wives the natives had because he mentions the words for 1,2,3,4...wifes. This makes sense since the english believed that it was proper to only take one wife as stated in the Bible. Also, in that same section Williams lists the characteristics of a traditionally proper and English wife, loving, proper, sober and chast, ect. This seems to point out that in attempting to make sense of the native lifestyle, williams was looking for similarities between the natives and the english through the use of language. As, this type of rudementary dictionary could have been used as a means of converting the natives by explaining how they were expected to act. Maybe, but more likely it was used as a way to simply try and understand the natvies and their culture in terms that the englsih were familiar with. --Katelynn V. | ||
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| + | As a general theme for the readings in Woloch, I see an interest in the Europeans settlers to explore the gender roles of the Native American tribes, but not to understand them. It seems that all observation were commonly related to their own society. With a few exceptions, there was a vivid interest in learning about these people, but only as their gender roles were to be seen as inferior. It is interesting that European women would also agree with this, as it makes me wonder how they felt about their own position and what they wished for it to be. --Robert Kopp | ||
