Forging Southeastern Identities - Social Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and Folklore of the Mississippian

Informationen zum Autor Gregory A. Waselkov is the author of Old Mobile Archaeology and the award-winning A Conquering Spirit: Fort Mims and the Redstick War of 1813-1814 . He is a coauthor of Archéologie de l'Amérique coloniale française , which won Le Prix Lionel-Groulx. Waselkov serves as president of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference and was the former editor of the journal Southeastern Archaeology . He is a professor of anthropology and director of the Center for Archaeological Studies at the University of South Alabama. Marvin T. Smith is the author of more than seventy scholarly publications, including The Archaeology of Aboriginal Culture Change in the Interior Southeast: Depopulation during the Early Historic Period and Coosa: The Rise and Fall of a Southeastern Mississippian Chiefdom . He is a professor of anthropology at Valdosta State University in Georgia. Klappentext Covers a broad expanse of time - from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries - and focuses on a common theme of identity. These essays represent the various methods used by esteemed scholars today to study how Native Americans in the distant past created new social identities when old ideas of the self were challenged by changes in circumstance or by historical contingencies.

Product details

• Authors: Gregory A. (EDT)/ Smith Waselkov
• Assisted by: Marvin T. Smith (Editor), Gregory A. Waselkov (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2017
• EAN: 9780817319410
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-1941-0
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology