CULTURE IS INDIVISIBLE FROM PLACE. SOME BELIEFS, CUSTOMS, AND practices can be transplanted from one location to another and come through more or less intact. Others are significantly altered by the alien conditions they encounter in their new surroundings. The four-hundredth anniversary of the founding of Jamestown has renewed scholars' interest in the transfer of cultures from the Old World and their reception and transformation in the New. Those whose starting points are Africa, the Mediterranean, northern Europe, and the British Isles tend to emphasize how geopolitical realignments and social and economic upheavals in places where migrations began set in motion events that ...