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Another's country : archaeological and historical perspectives on cultural interactions in the southern colonies / edited by J.W. Joseph and Martha Zierden ; foreword by Julia A. King.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Acculturation--Southern States--History.
- Acculturation.
- Intercultural communication--Southern States--History.
- Intercultural communication.
- Ethnology--Southern States--History.
- Ethnology.
- Ethnicity--Southern States--History.
- Ethnicity.
- Group identity--Southern States--History.
- Group identity.
- Southern States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- Southern States.
- Southern States--Ethnic relations.
- Southern States--Antiquities.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (303 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The 18th-century South was a true melting pot, bringing together colonists from England, France, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland, and other locations, in addition to African slaves-all of whom shared in the experiences of adapting to a new environment and interacting with American Indians. The shared process of immigration, adaptation, and creolization resulted in a rich and diverse historic mosaic of cultures. The cultural encounters of these groups of settlers would ultimately define the meaning of life in the 19th-century South. The much-studied plantation society of
- Contents:
- Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Foreword; 1 Cultural Diversity in the Southern Colonies; 2 The Yamasee in South Carolina: Native American Adaptation and Interaction along the Carolina Frontier; 3 Colonial African American Plantation Villages; 4 Tangible Interaction: Evidence from Stobo Plantation; 5 A Pattern of Living: A View of the African American Slave Experience in the Pine Forests of the Lower Cape Fear; 6 Guten Tag Bubba: Germans in the Colonial South; 7 An Open-Country Neighborhood in the Southern Colonial Backcountry; 8 Bethania: A Colonial Moravian Adaptation
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-266) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-1341-9
- OCLC:
- 426526581
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