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Forging Southeastern Identities: Social Archaeology and Ethnohistory of the Mississippian to Early Historic South, a groundbreaking choice of ten essays, covers a broad expanse of time—from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries—and specializes in a common theme of identity. These essays represent the more than a few methods used by esteemed scholars as of late to study how Native Americans within the distant past created new social identities when old ideas of the self were challenged by changes in circumstance or by historical contingencies.
Archaeologists, anthropologists, and folklorists working within the Southeast have all the time recognized the region’s social diversity; indeed, the central purpose of these disciplines is to study peoples overpassed by the mainstream. Yet the ability to define and trace the origins of a collective social identity—the means through which individuals or groups align themselves, all the time in contrast to others—has proven to be an elusive goal. Here, editors Gregory A. Waselkov and Marvin T. Smith champion the relational identification and categorical identification processes, taken from sociological theory, as effective analytical tools.
Taking up the challenge, the contributors have deployed an eclectic range of approaches to establish and inform an overarching theme of identity. Some investigate shell gorgets, textiles, shell trade, infrastructure, specific sites, or plant usage. Others center of attention at the edges of the Mississippian world or examine colonial encounters between Europeans and native peoples. A final chapter considers the adaptive malleability of historical legend within the telling and hearing of slave narratives.
Archaeologists, anthropologists, and folklorists working within the Southeast have all the time recognized the region’s social diversity; indeed, the central purpose of these disciplines is to study peoples overpassed by the mainstream. Yet the ability to define and trace the origins of a collective social identity—the means through which individuals or groups align themselves, all the time in contrast to others—has proven to be an elusive goal. Here, editors Gregory A. Waselkov and Marvin T. Smith champion the relational identification and categorical identification processes, taken from sociological theory, as effective analytical tools.
Taking up the challenge, the contributors have deployed an eclectic range of approaches to establish and inform an overarching theme of identity. Some investigate shell gorgets, textiles, shell trade, infrastructure, specific sites, or plant usage. Others center of attention at the edges of the Mississippian world or examine colonial encounters between Europeans and native peoples. A final chapter considers the adaptive malleability of historical legend within the telling and hearing of slave narratives.
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