Mississippian women / edited by Rachel V. Briggs, Michaelyn S. Harle, and Lynne P. Sullivan ; foreword by Sheila Bird.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Briggs, Rachel V., editor.

Harle, Michaelyn S., editor.

Sullivan, Lynne P., editor.

Series:

Ripley P. Bullen series

Florida Museum of Natural History. Ripley P. Bullen series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mississippian culture.

Indian women--Southern States.

Indian women--Middle West.

Physical Description:

xx, 323 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville, FL : University of Florida Press, [2024]

Contents:

The current state of (Mississippian) women : archaeology, gender, and indigenous feminism / Rachel V. Briggs and Michaelyn S. Harle

Recognizing women at Cahokia : farmers; weavers; agents of polity integration / Gayle J. Fritz

Cooks, cooking, and cooking pots : a landscape of culinary practice and the origins of Moundville, AD 1070-1200 / Rachel V. Briggs

The life course of women in Upper Tennessee Valley, Dallas Phase communities / Michaelyn S. Harle, Tracy K. Betsinger, and Lynne P. Sullivan

Mississippian geographies of fertility : a multiscalar view from Southeast Missouri / Jennifer Bengtson and Toni Alexander

Matrilineal kinship networks and late Mississippian politics in the Upper Tennessee Valley / Lynne P. Sullivan

Where women work : taskscapes and activity area analysis / Ramie A. Gougeon

Earth Mother and her children : the role of Mississippian women in shaping beliefs and material culture in the Middle Cumberland region / Robert V. Sharp

Gender, craft production, and emerging power in Mississippian hierarchical societies / Maureen S. Meyers

Women and power at Joara, Cuenca, and Fort San Juan / Christopher B. Rodning, Rachel V. Griggs, Robin A. Beck, Gayle J. Fritz, Heather A. Lapham, and David G. Moore

Fort Walton women / Nancy Marie White

Learning about and from Mississippian women / Lynne P. Sullivan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographcal references and index.

ISBN:

1683404149

9781683404149

OCLC:

1406094314