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

• Autore: Parmenter Jon
• Pubblicazione: East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (525 p.)
• Disciplina: 970.01
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: North America Social life and customs; North America Social conditions
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The edge of the woods
• ISBN: 1-60917-214-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781562203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II