The edge of the woods : Iroquoia, 1534-1701 / Jon Parmenter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parmenter, Jon.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Iroquois Indians--Social life and customs.

Iroquois Indians.

Iroquois Indians--Social conditions.

Social structure--North America--History.

Social structure.

Social mobility--North America--History.

Social mobility.

Spatial behavior--North America--History.

Spatial behavior.

Power (Social sciences)--North America--History.

Power (Social sciences).

Community life--North America--History.

Community life.

Human geography--North America--History.

Human geography.

North America--Social life and customs.

North America.

North America--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (525 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Drawing on archival and published documents in several languages, archeological data, and Iroquois oral traditions, The Edge of the Woods explores the ways in which spatial mobility represented the geographic expression of Iroquois social, political, and economic priorities. By reconstructing the late precolonial Iroquois settlement landscape and the paths of human mobility that constructed and sustained it, Jon Parmenter challenges the persistent association between Iroquois 'locality' and Iroquois 'culture,' and more fully maps the extended terrain of physical presence and soc

Contents:

On the journey, 1534-1634

The edge of the woods, 1635-1649

Requickening, 1650-1666

Six songs, 1667-1684

Over the forest, part I, 1685-1693

Over the forest, part II, 1694-1701

Epilogue

Appendix 1: Iroquois settlements, 1600-1701

Appendix 2: postepidemic Iroquois demography, 1634-1701.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-60917-214-0

OCLC:

774285396