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Forging Southeastern Identities : Social Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and Folklore of the Mississippian to Early Historic South by Gregory A. Waselkov; Dr. Marvin T. Smith; Robin A. Beck; Ian W. Brown; Penelope Ballard Drooker; Robbie Ethridge; Kandace D. Hollenbach; Adam King; George E. Lankford; Christopher B. Rodning; David G. Moore; Rebecca Saunders; Johann A. Sawyer; Vincas P. Steponaitis; John E. Worth is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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Forging Southeastern Identities: Social Archaeology and Ethnohistory of the Mississippian to Early Historic South, a groundbreaking collection of ten essays, 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.   Archaeologists, anthropologists, and folklorists working in the Southeast have always recognized the region's social diversity; indeed, the central purpose of these disciplines is to study peoples overlooked by the mainstream. Yet the ability to define and trace the origins of a collective social identity--the means by which individuals or groups align themselves, always 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 cont

Author

Gregory A. Waselkov; Dr. Marvin T. Smith; Robin A. Beck; Ian W. Brown; Penelope Ballard Drooker; Robbie Ethridge; Kandace D. Hollenbach; Adam King; George E. Lankford; Christopher B. Rodning; David G. Moore; Rebecca Saunders; Johann A. Sawyer; Vincas P. Steponaitis; John E. Worth

Publisher

The University of Alabama Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780817319410

Subjects

Anthropology, Science, History