Animals and animality in eastern woodland societies edited by Jessica A. Jenkins and Neill J. Wallis

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jenkins, Jessica A., editor.

Wallis, Neill J., editor.

Series:

Ripley P. Bullen series http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/5fa265ef-ec19-7641-2777-0ae1227e4b18

Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Southern States--Antiquities.

Indians of North America.

Human-animal relationships--Southern States--History.

Human-animal relationships.

Animals and civilization--Southern States--History.

Animals and civilization.

Animal behavior--Southern States.

Animal behavior.

Animals (Philosophy)--Southern States.

Animals (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

University Press of Florida, 2026.

Gainesville University of Florida Press 2026

Summary:

"Drawing on archaeological, ethnohistorical, and ethnographic sources, this book highlights the significance of animals in what is now the US Southeast across thousands of years, exploring how humans and animals interacted to shape social, ritual, and cosmological worlds"-- Provided by publisher

"Exploring how humans and animals in the US Southeast interacted to shape social, ritual, and cosmological worlds across thousands of years. Archaeologists often approach the study of animals mainly as evidence of human diet or ecology, but this volume highlights the broader significance of animals across what is now the US Southeast from the Woodland period through the post-contact era. Drawing on archaeological, ethnohistorical, and ethnographic sources, contributors examine how animals shaped human identities, rituals, and social structures as seen in art, oral traditions, daily practices, and ceremonial roles.In this volume, case studies reveal diverse expressions of human-animal relationships-in Mississippian ceramics, shell reef symbolism, deer antlers used in Powhatan rituals, the protective burial of chickens by enslaved communities, and more. These examples challenge rigid boundaries between human and nonhuman and move beyond traditional Western binaries that position animals as less than humans. This volume engages with non-Western and Indigenous-informed perspectives that recognize animals as cosmologically, politically, and socially significant beings. It explores animality as a dynamic, relational category and contributes to wider debates on materiality, agency, and ontology in archaeology"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Defining Animality in Eastern Woodland Contexts / Jessica A. Jenkins and Neill J. Wallis

I. Animals in Eastern Woodland Art and Iconography

Birds of a Feather? Animals and Early Villages of the Woodland Period (1000 BCE?1050 CE) on the Gulf Coast of Florida / Thomas J. Pluckhahn

Human and Animal Intersubjectivity in Woodland Period Art of Florida and the Deep South / Neill J. Wallis

Middle Woodland Communities? Classification of Animals: A Perspective Based on Hopewell Effigy Platform Pipes / Bretton T. Giles

II. Shells and Shellfish Beyond Subsistence

Shells and Their Death/New Life Symbolism in Eastern North American Cultures / Cheryl Claassen

The Worlds Are Your Oyster / Jessica A. Jenkins

III. Animality, Ritual Specialists, and Embodiment

The Spirit of Becoming and the Power to Change: Deer Antlers in the Native Chesapeake / Martin Gallivan and John Henshaw

Examining the Roles of Ritual Specialists in the Lower Mississippi Valley During the Late Woodland Period Through Animal and Plant Remains / Ashley Peles, Megan C. Kassabaum, and Vincas P. Steponaitis

IV. Animals and Enslavement in Historical Contexts

When Animals Speak: Evidence of Animality from the Prospect Hill Plantation in Jefferson County, Mississippi / Shawn P. Lambert

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description based on print version record

Other Format:

Print version Animals and animality in eastern woodland societies

Print version:

ISBN:

9781683405870

1683405870

9781683406006

1683406001

OCLC:

1611476649

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