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Title Light on the path : the anthropology and history of the southeastern Indians / edited by Thomas J. Pluckhahn and Robbie Ethridge
Published Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 283 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Introduction / Thomas J. Pluckhahn [and others] -- 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
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 combining methods from anthrop
Analysis Hudson
Southeastern indians
Archaeological
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."--Preface
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-269) and index
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Subject Mississippian culture -- Southern States
Chiefdoms -- Southern States
Indians of North America -- Southern States -- History
Indians of North America -- Southern States -- Antiquities.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Antiquities
Chiefdoms
Indians of North America
Indians of North America -- Antiquities
Mississippian culture
Mississippikultur
Anthropologie
Ethnohistorie.
Mississippikultur.
Culture du Mississippi -- États-Unis (sud)
Chefferie (anthropologie) -- États-Unis (sud)
Indiens d'Amérique -- Amérique du Nord -- États-Unis (sud) -- Histoire.
Indiens d'Amérique -- Amérique du Nord -- États-Unis (sud) -- Antiquités.
SUBJECT Southern States -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125643
Southern States -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125634
Subject Southern States
USA -- Südoststaaten
Indianer.
Südoststaaten (USA)
USA.
États-Unis (sud) -- Antiquités.
Indianer.
Chattanooga <Tenn., 2001>
Genre/Form Festschriften
History
Festschriften.
Form Electronic book
Author Hudson, Charles M
Pluckhahn, Thomas J. (Thomas John), 1966-
Ethridge, Robbie Franklyn, 1955-
ISBN 9780817384197
0817384197