Reconsidering Mississippian Communities and Households (Archaeology of the American South: New Directions and Perspectives)

Malouchos, Elizabeth Watts (EDT)/ Betzenhauser, Alleen (EDT)/ Wilson, Gregory D. (FRW)

The University of Alabama Press（2021/04発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 336 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780817320881
• DDC分類 975.01

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Explores the archaeology of Mississippian communities and households using new data and advances in method and theory
 
First published in 1995, Mississippian Communities and Households, edited by J. Daniel Rogers and Bruce D. Smith, was a foundational text that advanced southeastern archaeology in significant ways and brought household-level archaeology to the forefront of the field. The impressive breadth of case studies presented allowed archaeologists to grapple with the complexities of Mississippian social organization across the region.
 
Reconsidering Mississippian Communitiesand Households revisits and builds on what has been learned in the years since the Rogers and Smith volume. Edited by Elizabeth Watts Malouchos and Alleen Betzenhauser, this new volume advances the field further with the diverse perspectives of current social theory and methods and big data as applied to communities in Native America from the AD 900s to 1700s and from northeast Florida to southwest Arkansas. The book is divided into four parts with overarching themes: articulating communities and households; coalescing and conflicting communities; community and cosmos; and movement, memory, and histories.
 
Watts Malouchos and Betzenhauser bring together scholars researching diverse Mississippian Southeast and Midwest sites to investigate aspects of community and household construction, maintenance, and dissolution. By tacking back and forth between daily domestic practices and wider communal landscapes, contributors engage with communities and households as locations of daily social, political, economic, and religious negotiations. Thirteen original case studies prove that community can be enacted and expressed in various ways, including in feasting, pottery styles, war and conflict, and mortuary treatments.

Contents

List of Illustrations
Foreword by Gregory D. Wilson
Acknowledgments
Introduction by Elizabeth Watts Malouchos and Alleen Betzenhauser
Part I. Articulating Communities and Households
Chapter 1. Reconsidering Mississippian Communities and Households in Context by Elizabeth Watts Malouchos
Chapter 2. Making Mounds, Making Mississippian Communities in Southern Illinois by Tamira K. Brennan
Chapter 3. The Battle Mound Community: Interaction along the Red River and throughout the Caddo Homeland by Duncan P. McKinnon
Chapter 4. Negotiating Community at Parchman Place, a Mississippian Town in the Northern Yazoo Basin by Erin S. Nelson
Chapter 5. Mississippian Communities and Households from a Bird's-Eye View by Benjamin A. Steere
Part II. Coalescing and Conflicting Communities
Chapter 6. Variability within a Mississippian Community: Houses, Cemeteries, and Corporate Groups at the Town Creek Site in the North Carolina Piedmont by Edmond A. Boudreaux III, Paige A. Ford, and Heidi A. de Gregory
Chapter 7. Mississippian Communities of Conflict by Meghan E. Buchanan and Melissa R. Baltus
Part III. Community and Cosmos
Chapter 8. Households, Communities, and the Early History of Etowah by Adam King
Chapter 9. Unpacking Storage: Implications for Community-Making during Cahokia's Mississippian Transition by Elizabeth Watts Malouchos and Alleen Betzenhauser
Chapter 10. The Social Lives and Symbolism of Cherokee Houses and Townhouses by Christopher B. Rodning and Amber R. Thorpe
Part IV. Movement, Memory, and Histories
Chapter 11. Moving to Where the River Meets the Sea: Origins of the Mill Cove Complex by Keith Ashley
Chapter 12. Resilience in Late Moundville's Economy by Jera R. Davis
Chapter 13. Multiscalar Community Histories in the Lower Chattahoochee River Valley: Migration and Aggregation at Singer-Moye by Stefan Brannan and Jennifer Birch
Commentary. The Archaeology of Mississippian Communities and Households: Looking Back, Looking Forward by Jason Yaeger
References Cited
List of Contributors
Index