The ascent of chiefs : Cahokia and Mississippian politics in Native North America / Timothy R. Pauketat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pauketat, Timothy R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mississippian culture.

Chiefdoms.

Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park (Ill.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 p.)

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This ambitious book provides a theoretical explanation of how prehistoric Cahokia became a stratified society, and ultimately the pinnacle of Native American cultural achievement north of Mexico. Considering Cahokia in terms of class struggle, Pauketat claims that the political consolidation in this region of the Mississippi Valley happened quite suddenly, around A.D. 1000, after which the lords of Cahokia innovated strategies to preserve their power and ultimately emerged as divine chiefs. The new ideas and new data in this volume will invigorate the debate surrounding one of the mo

Contents:

Contents; Figures; Tables; Preface; 1. Introduction: A Mississippian Leviathan; 2. Chiefdoms in Theory and Practice; 3. The Sociohistorical Context of the American Bottom Region; 4. Central and Rural Mississippian Patterns; 5. Diachronic Community and Architectural Evidence; 6. Diachronic Artifactual Evidence; 7. The Generation of the Cahokian Leviathan; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8418-9

0-585-19354-1

OCLC:

817893377