Light on the path : the anthropology and history of the southeastern Indians / edited by Thomas J. Pluckhahn and Robbie Ethridge.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hudson, Charles M.

Pluckhahn, Thomas J. (Thomas John), 1966-

Ethridge, Robbie Franklyn, 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mississippian culture--Southern States.

Mississippian culture.

Chiefdoms--Southern States.

Chiefdoms.

Indians of North America--Southern States--History.

Indians of North America.

Southern States.

History.

Indians of North America--Southern States--Antiquities.

Antiquities.

Southern States--History.

Southern States--Antiquities.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xi, 283 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2006]

Summary:

The past 20 years have witnessed a change in the study of the prehistory and history of the native peoples of the American South. This paradigm shift is the bridging of prehistory and history to fashion a seamless social history that includes not only the 16th-century Late Mississippian period and the 18th-century colonial period but also the largely forgotten-and critically important-century in between. The shift is in part methodological, for it involves combining methods from anthropology, history, and archaeology. It is also conceptual and theoretical, employing historical and archaeological data to reconstruct broad patterns of history-not just political history with Native Americans as a backdrop, nor simply an archaeology with added historical specificity, but a true social history of the Southeastern Indians, spanning their entire existence in the American South.

Contents:

Introduction / Thomas J. Pluckhahn ... [et al.]

The nature of Mississippian regional systems / David J. Hally

Lithics, shellfish, and beavers / Mark Williams and Scott Jones

The Cussita migration legend : history, ideology, and the politics of mythmaking / Steven C. Hahn

Coalescent societies / Stephen A. Kowalewski

"A bold and warlike people" : the basis of Westo power / Eric Bowne

New light on the Tsali affair / William Martin Jurgelski

"A sprightly lover is the most prevailing missionary" : intermarriage between Europeans and Indians in the eighteenth-century South / Theda Perdue

The historic period transformation of Mississippian societies / Adam King

Bridging prehistory and history in the southeast : evaluating the utility of the acculturation concept / John E. Worth

Creating the shatter zone : Indian slave traders and the collapse of the southeastern chiefdoms / Robbie Ethridge.

Notes:

"Contains much of the proceedings of a day-long symposium honoring Charles Hudson on the occasion of his retirement from the University of Georgia."--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-269) and index.

ISBN:

0817315004

0817352872

OCLC:

60856107

Publisher Number:

9780817315009

9780817352875