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Light on the path : the anthropology and history of the southeastern Indians / edited by Thomas J. Pluckhahn and Robbie Ethridge.
- Format:
- Book
- 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.
- Indians of North America--Southern States--Antiquities.
- Southern States--History.
- Southern States.
- Southern States--Antiquities.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (298 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A seamless social history of the native peoples of the American South, bridging prehistory and history. 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 com
- 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 and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8419-7
- OCLC:
- 772459648
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