Liberal Arts Faculty Books
Contact, Colonialism, and Native Communities in the Southeastern United States
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Description
The years AD 1500–1700 were a time of dramatic change for the indigenous inhabitants of southeastern North America, yet Native histories during this era have been difficult to reconstruct due to a scarcity of written records before the eighteenth century. Using archaeology to enhance our knowledge of the period, Contact, Colonialism, and Native Communities in the Southeastern United States presents new research on the ways Native societies responded to early contact with Europeans. Featuring sites from Kentucky to Mississippi to Florida, these case studies investigate how indigenous groups were affected by the expeditions of explorers such as Hernando de Soto, Pánfilo de Narváez, and Juan Pardo. Contributors re-create the social geography of the Southeast during this time, trace the ways Native institutions changed as a result of colonial encounters, and emphasize the agency of indigenous populations in situations of contact. They demonstrate the importance of understanding the economic, political, and social variability that existed between Native and European groups. Bridging the gap between historical records and material artifacts, this volume answers many questions and opens up further avenues for exploring these transformative centuries, pushing the field of early contact studies in new theoretical and methodological directions.
Publication Date
2-25-2020
Relational Format
book
Department
Sociology and Anthropology
Disciplines
Archaeological Anthropology
Recommended Citation
Boudreaux, Edmond A. III; Meyers, Maureen; and Johnson, Jay K., "Contact, Colonialism, and Native Communities in the Southeastern United States" (2020). Liberal Arts Faculty Books. 220.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/libarts_book/220