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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465554803321

Autore

Marcoux Jon Bernard

Titolo

Pox, empire, shackles, and hides [[electronic resource] ] : the Townsend site, 1670-1715 / / Jon Bernard Marcoux

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2010

ISBN

0-8173-8483-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Disciplina

975.004/97557

Soggetti

Cherokee Indians - Tennessee - Townsend - History

Cherokee Indians - Antiquities

Cherokee Indians - Dwellings - Tennessee - Townsend

Households - Tennessee - Townsend - History

Excavations (Archaeology) - Tennessee - Townsend

Electronic books.

Townsend (Tenn.) Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Pox, empire, shackles, and hides : defining the English contact period in the Southeast, 1670-1715 -- The Townsend site : the archaeological embodiment of a shatter zone community -- Potting traditions and household identities at Townsend -- Space and time in the daily lives of Townsend households -- Appendix A. Statistical methodology -- Appendix B. Architectural data for Cherokee and Mississippian structures.

Sommario/riassunto

The late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries were an extremely turbulent time for southeastern American Indian groups. Indeed, between the founding of the Charles Town colony along the south Atlantic coast in 1670 and the outbreak of the Yamasee War in 1715, disease, warfare, and massive population displacements dramatically altered the social, political, and economic landscape of the entire region. This volume examines issues of culture contact and social identity by exploring how this chaotic period played out in the daily lives of Cherokee households, especially those