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- Powhatan's Mantle: Indians in the Colonial Southeast, Revised and Expanded Edition
- Book
- 2006
- Published by: University of Nebraska Press
summary
Considered a classic study of southeastern Indians, Powhatan’s Mantle demonstrates how ethnohistory, demography, archaeology, anthropology, and cartography can be brought together in fresh and meaningful ways to illuminate life in the early South. In a series of provocative original essays, a dozen leading scholars show how diverse Native Americans interacted with newcomers from Europe and Africa during the three hundred years of dramatic change beginning in the early sixteenth century.
For this new and expanded edition, the original contributors have revisited their subjects to offer further insights based on years of additional scholarship. The book includes four new essays, on calumet ceremonialism, social diversity in French Louisiana, the gendered nature of Cherokee agriculture, and the ideology of race among Creek Indians. The result is a volume filled with detailed information and challenging, up-to-date reappraisals reflecting the latest interdisciplinary research, ranging from Indian mounds and map symbolism to diplomatic practices and social structure, written to interest fellow scholars and informed general readers.
Table of Contents
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- Part One: Geography and Population
- Introduction
- pp. 19-25
- American Indians in Colonial New Orleans
- pp. 163-186
- Part Two: Politics and Economics
- Introduction
- pp. 189-194
- Cherokee Women Farmers Hold Their Ground
- pp. 305-335
- Part Three: Symbols and Society
- Introduction
- pp. 339-344
- Symbolism of Mississippian Mounds
- pp. 421-434
- Indian Maps of the Colonial Southeast
- pp. 435-502
- The Contributors
- pp. 521-524
Additional Information
ISBN
9780803204546
Related ISBN(s)
9780803298613
MARC Record
OCLC
77594633
Pages
544
Launched on MUSE
2012-10-01
Language
English
Open Access
No