Chiefdoms Collapse And Coalescence In The Early American South
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Author | : Robin Beck |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2013-06-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107355052 |
This book provides a new conceptual framework for understanding how the Indian nations of the early American South emerged from the ruins of a precolonial, Mississippian world. A broad regional synthesis that ranges over much of the Eastern Woodlands, its focus is on the Indians of the Carolina Piedmont - the Catawbas and their neighbors - from 1400 to 1725. Using an 'eventful' approach to social change, Robin Beck argues that the collapse of the Mississippian world was fundamentally a transformation of political economy, from one built on maize to one of guns, slaves and hides. The story takes us from first encounters through the rise of the Indian slave trade and the scourge of disease to the wars that shook the American South in the early 1700s. Yet the book's focus remains on the Catawbas, drawing on their experiences in a violent, unstable landscape to develop a comparative perspective on structural continuity and change.
Author | : Assistant Professor of Anthropology Robin Beck |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : HISTORY |
ISBN | : 9781107341685 |
Offers a new framework for understanding the transformation of the Native American South during the first centuries of the colonial era.
Author | : Robin Beck |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2013-06-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107022134 |
Offers a new framework for understanding the transformation of the Native American South during the first centuries of the colonial era.
Author | : Robbie Franklyn Ethridge |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 537 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0803226144 |
During the two centuries following European contact, the world of late prehistoric Mississippian chiefdoms collapsed and Native communities there fragmented, migrated, coalesced, and reorganized into new and often quite different societies. The editors of this volume, Robbie Ethridge and Sheri M. Shuck-Hall, argue that such a period and region of instability and regrouping constituted a "shatter zone."
Author | : James Adair |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 483 |
Release | : 2013-06-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108060188 |
Unique upon publication in 1775, this history provides an invaluable insight into Native American social and political culture.
Author | : Allan Greer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 469 |
Release | : 2018-01-11 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1107160642 |
Offers a new reading of the history of the colonization of North America and the dispossession of its indigenous peoples.
Author | : Robbie Ethridge |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2010-12-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 080789933X |
In this sweeping regional history, anthropologist Robbie Ethridge traces the metamorphosis of the Native South from first contact in 1540 to the dawn of the eighteenth century, when indigenous people no longer lived in a purely Indian world but rather on the edge of an expanding European empire. Using a framework that Ethridge calls the "Mississippian shatter zone" to explicate these tumultuous times, From Chicaza to Chickasaw examines the European invasion, the collapse of the precontact Mississippian world, and the restructuring of discrete chiefdoms into coalescent Native societies in a colonial world. The story of one group--the Chickasaws--is closely followed through this period.
Author | : Cameron B. Strang |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2018-06-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1469640481 |
Cameron Strang takes American scientific thought and discoveries away from the learned societies, museums, and teaching halls of the Northeast and puts the production of knowledge about the natural world in the context of competing empires and an expanding republic in the Gulf South. People often dismissed by starched northeasterners as nonintellectuals--Indian sages, African slaves, Spanish officials, Irishmen on the make, clearers of land and drivers of men--were also scientific observers, gatherers, organizers, and reporters. Skulls and stems, birds and bugs, rocks and maps, tall tales and fertile hypotheses came from them. They collected, described, and sent the objects that scientists gazed on and interpreted in polite Philadelphia. They made knowledge. Frontiers of Science offers a new framework for approaching American intellectual history, one that transcends political and cultural boundaries and reveals persistence across the colonial and national eras. The pursuit of knowledge in the United States did not cohere around democratic politics or the influence of liberty. It was, as in other empires, divided by multiple loyalties and identities, organized through contested hierarchies of ethnicity and place, and reliant on violence. By discovering the lost intellectual history of one region, Strang shows us how to recover a continent for science.
Author | : José R. Oliver |
Publisher | : University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2009-05-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0817355154 |
Takes a close look at the relationship between humans and other (non-human) beings that are imbued with cemí power, specifically within the Taíno inter-island cultural sphere encompassing Puerto Rico and Hispaniola Cemís are both portable artifacts and embodiments of persons or spirit, which the Taínos and other natives of the Greater Antilles (ca. AD 1000-1550) regarded as numinous beings with supernatural or magic powers. This volume takes a close look at the relationship between humans and other (non-human) beings that are imbued with cemí power, specifically within the Taíno inter-island cultural sphere encompassing Puerto Rico and Hispaniola. The relationships address the important questions of identity and personhood of the cemí icons and their human “owners” and the implications of cemí gift-giving and gift-taking that sustains a complex web of relationships between caciques (chiefs) of Puerto Rico and Hispaniola. Oliver provides a careful analysis of the four major forms of cemís—three-pointed stones, large stone heads, stone collars, and elbow stones—as well as face masks, which provide an interesting contrast to the stone heads. He finds evidence for his interpretation of human and cemí interactions from a critical review of 16th-century Spanish ethnohistoric documents, especially the Relación Acerca de las Antigüedades de los Indios written by Friar Ramón Pané in 1497–1498 under orders from Christopher Columbus. Buttressed by examples of native resistance and syncretism, the volume discusses the iconoclastic conflicts and the relationship between the icons and the human beings. Focusing on this and on the various contexts in which the relationships were enacted, Oliver reveals how the cemís were central to the exercise of native political power. Such cemís were considered a direct threat to the hegemony of the Spanish conquerors, as these potent objects were seen as allies in the native resistance to the onslaught of Christendom with its icons of saints and virgins.
Author | : Daniel K. Richter |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 555 |
Release | : 2013-05-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674072367 |
America began, we are often told, with the Founding Fathers, the men who waged a revolution and created a unique place called the United States. We may acknowledge the early Jamestown and Puritan colonists and mourn the dispossession of Native Americans, but we rarely grapple with the complexity of the nation's pre-revolutionary past. In this pathbreaking revision, Daniel Richter shows that the United States has a much deeper history than is apparentÑthat far from beginning with a clean slate, it is a nation with multiple pasts that stretch back as far as the Middle Ages, pasts whose legacies continue to shape the present. Exploring a vast range of original sources, Before the Revolution spans more than seven centuries and ranges across North America, Europe, and Africa. Richter recovers the lives of a stunning array of peoplesÑIndians, Spaniards, French, Dutch, Africans, EnglishÑas they struggled with one another and with their own people for control of land and resources. Their struggles occurred in a global context and built upon the remains of what came before. Gradually and unpredictably, distinctive patterns of North American culture took shape on a continent where no one yet imagined there would be nations called the United States, Canada, or Mexico. By seeing these trajectories on their own dynamic terms, rather than merely as a prelude to independence, Richter's epic vision reveals the deepest origins of American history.