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Native American interactions : multiscalar analyses and interpretations in the eastern woodlands

Title: Native American interactions : multiscalar analyses and interpretations in the eastern woodlands / edited by Michael S. Nassaney and Kenneth E. Sassaman.
Publication: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©1995.

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xxxviii, 376 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

While the early cultural clashes between Native Americans and Europeans have long engaged scholars, far less attention has been paid to interactions among indigenous peoples themselves prior to the contact period. The essays in this volume, derived largely from the 1992 meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, mark a major step in correcting that imbalance.
Long before Europeans sailed west in search of the East, Native Americans of various ethnic groups were encountering each other and interacting socially, both amicably and otherwise. Over the course of ten thousand years - from Paleoindian to Mississippian times - these interactions had a profound effect on the historical development of these societies and their material culture, social relations, and institutions of integration. In probing such encounters, the contributors reject reductive models and instead combine a variety of theoretical orientations - including world systems theory, Marxist analysis, and ecosystems approaches - with empirical evidence from the archaeological record.

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Contents

Paleoindian interaction networks in the eastern Woodlands / David G. Anderson -- Living on the edge : Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene cultural interaction along the southeastern Woodlands-Plains border / Don G. Wycoff and Robert Bartlett -- Late middle archaic exchange and interaction in the North American midcontinent / Richard W. Jefferies -- Shifting patterns of long-distance contact during the Middle Woodland period in the northern Yazoo Basin, Mississippi / Jay K. Johnson and Fair L. Hayes -- When words are not enough : Hopewell interregionalism and the use of material symbols at the GE mound / Mark F. Seeman.
Large-scale ecology in Aboriginal eastern North America / Stephen A. Kowalewski -- Cultural diversity of interactions among Mid-holocene societies of the American southeast / Kenneth E. Sassaman -- Interaction and integration in the Late Woodland southeast / Charles R. Cobb and Michael S. Nassaney -- Balanced reciprocity and peer polity interaction in the late prehistoric southeastern United States / David A. McKivergan, Jr.
Networks of power : the Mississippian world-system / Peter N. Peregrine -- Mississippian Southeast : a world-systems perspective / Adam King and Jennifer A. Freer -- Feasting with the enemy : Mississippian warfare and prestige-goods circulation / David H. Dye -- Regional interaction in the later Southeast / Jon Muller.

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94018772

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Princeton University Library