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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778380303321

Autore

Ehrhardt Kathleen L. <1948->

Titolo

European metals in native hands [[electronic resource] ] : rethinking the dynamics of technological change, 1640-1683 / / Kathleen L. Ehrhardt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, Ala., : University of Alabama Press, c2005

ISBN

0-8173-8086-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 p.)

Disciplina

673/.3/08997515

Soggetti

Illinois Indians - First contact with other peoples

Illinois Indians - Industries

Illinois Indians - Commerce

Imports - Mississippi River Valley - History - 17th century

Exports - Europe - History - 17th century

Indian copperwork - Mississippi River Valley

Copper implements - Europe - History

Technological innovations - Mississippi River Valley

Mississippi River Valley History To 1803

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 (p. [205]-234) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Native technologies, European contact, and the processes and meanings of material change -- Setting aside the "standard view" : revealing "style" and change in technological systems -- Recovering Illinois copper-base metalworking style : the analytical program -- Indigenous copper working in the midcontinent : situating Illinois copper-base metal use in late protohistory -- Lost sheep-- in the jaws of the wolf : the mid-seventeenth-century Illinois in ethnohistorical and archaeological perspective -- From kettle sheet to ornament : artifact forms, production, and use -- Finding "style" beneath the surface : artifact composition and manufacturing history -- Illinois metalworking style in contexts of social action and technological change.

Sommario/riassunto

The first detailed analysis of Native metalworking in the Protohistoric/Contact Period.  From the time of their earliest encounters with European explorers and missionaries, Native peoples



of eastern North America acquired metal trinkets and utilitarian items and traded them to other aboriginal communities. As Native consumption of European products increased, their material culture repertoires shifted from ones made up exclusively of items produced from their own craft industries to ones substantially reconstituted by active appropriation, manipulation, and use of f