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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814690303321

Titolo

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

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