Another's country : archaeological and historical perspectives on cultural interactions in the southern colonies / / edited by J.W. Joseph and Martha Zierden ; foreword by Julia A. King

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910814690303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2002
• ISBN: 0-8173-1341-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (303 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): JosephJ. W. <1958->; ZierdenMartha A
• Disciplina: 975/.02
• Soggetti: Acculturation - Southern States - History; Intercultural communication - Southern States - History; Ethnology - Southern States - History; Ethnicity - Southern States - History; Group identity - Southern States - History; Southern States History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Southern States Ethnic relations; Southern States 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 (p. [235]-266) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Foreword; 1 Cultural Diversity in the Southern Colonies; 2 The Yamasee in South Carolina: Native American Adaptation and Interaction along the Carolina Frontier; 3 Colonial African American Plantation Villages; 4 Tangible Interaction: Evidence from Stobo Plantation; 5 A Pattern of Living: A View of the African American Slave Experience in the Pine Forests of the Lower Cape Fear; 6 Guten Tag Bubba: Germans in the Colonial South; 7 An Open-Country Neighborhood in the Southern Colonial Backcountry; 8 Bethania: A Colonial Moravian Adaptation; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The 18th-century South was a true melting pot, bringing together colonists from England, France, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland, and other locations, in addition to African slaves-all of whom shared in the ; experiences of adapting to a new environment and interacting with American Indians. The shared process of immigration, adaptation, and creolization resulted in a rich and diverse historic mosaic of cultures. The cultural encounters of these groups of settlers would ultimately define the meaning of life in the 19th-century South. The much-studied plantation society of