In this Book
- The Edge of the Woods: Iroquoia, 1534-1701
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: Michigan State University Press
summary
Drawing on archival and published documents in several languages, archeological data, and Iroquois oral traditions, The Edge of the Woods explores the ways in which spatial mobility represented the geographic expression of Iroquois social, political, and economic priorities. By reconstructing the late precolonial Iroquois settlement landscape and the paths of human mobility that constructed and sustained it, Jon Parmenter challenges the persistent association between Iroquois 'locality' and Iroquois 'culture,' and more fully maps the extended terrain of physical presence and social activity that Iroquois people inhabited. Studying patterns of movement through and between the multiple localities in Iroquois space, the book offers a new understanding of Iroquois peoplehood during this period. According to Parmenter, Iroquois identities adapted, and even strengthened, as the very shape of Iroquois homelands changed dramatically during the seventeenth century.
Table of Contents
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- Maps & Figures
- pp. vii-viii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xvii-xx
- Abbreviations
- pp. xxi-xxvi
- Introduction
- pp. xxvii-xlix
- Ch. 1: On the Journey, 1534-1634
- pp. 3-40
- Ch. 3: Requickening, 1650-1666
- pp. 77-126
- Ch. 4: Six Songs, 1667-1684
- pp. 127-180
- Ch. 5: Over the Forest, Part 1, 1685-1693
- pp. 181-230
- Ch. 6: Over the Forest, Part 2, 1694-1701
- pp. 231-274
- Appendix 1: Iroquois Settlements 1600-1701
- pp. 281-288
- Bibliography
- pp. 395-446
Additional Information
ISBN
9781609172145
Related ISBN(s)
9780870139857, 9781611861396
MARC Record
OCLC
774285396
Pages
524
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2010