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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781562203321

Autore

Parmenter Jon

Titolo

The edge of the woods [[electronic resource] ] : Iroquoia, 1534-1701 / / Jon Parmenter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, c2010

ISBN

1-60917-214-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (525 p.)

Disciplina

970.01

Soggetti

Iroquois Indians - Social life and customs

Iroquois Indians - Social conditions

Social structure - North America - History

Social mobility - North America - History

Spatial behavior - North America - History

Power (Social sciences) - North America - History

Community life - North America - History

Human geography - North America - History

North America Social life and customs

North America Social conditions

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

On the journey, 1534-1634 -- The edge of the woods, 1635-1649 -- Requickening, 1650-1666 -- Six songs, 1667-1684 -- Over the forest, part I, 1685-1693 -- Over the forest, part II, 1694-1701 -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: Iroquois settlements, 1600-1701 -- Appendix 2: postepidemic Iroquois demography, 1634-1701.

Sommario/riassunto

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 soc