Reconsidering Mississippian Communities and Households

Author:   Elizabeth Watts Malouchos ,  Alleen Betzenhauser ,  Gregory D. Wilson ,  Keith Ashley
Publisher:   The University of Alabama Press
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9780817320881


Pages:   336
Publication Date:   30 April 2021
Format:   Hardback
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Explores the archaeology of Mississippian communities and households using new data and advances in method and theory   First published in 1995, Mississippian Communities and Households, edited by J. Daniel Rogers and Bruce D. Smith, was a foundational text that advanced southeastern archaeology in significant ways and brought household-level archaeology to the forefront of the field. The impressive breadth of case studies presented allowed archaeologists to grapple with the complexities of Mississippian social organization across the region.   Reconsidering Mississippian Communitiesand Households revisits and builds on what has been learned in the years since the Rogers and Smith volume. Edited by Elizabeth Watts Malouchos and Alleen Betzenhauser, this new volume advances the field further with the diverse perspectives of current social theory and methods and big data as applied to communities in Native America from the AD 900s to 1700s and from northeast Florida to southwest Arkansas. The book is divided into four parts with overarching themes: articulating communities and households; coalescing and conflicting communities; community and cosmos; and movement, memory, and histories.   Watts Malouchos and Betzenhauser bring together scholars researching diverse Mississippian Southeast and Midwest sites to investigate aspects of community and household construction, maintenance, and dissolution. By tacking back and forth between daily domestic practices and wider communal landscapes, contributors engage with communities and households as locations of daily social, political, economic, and religious negotiations. Thirteen original case studies prove that community can be enacted and expressed in various ways, including in feasting, pottery styles, war and conflict, and mortuary treatments.

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Author:   Elizabeth Watts Malouchos ,  Alleen Betzenhauser ,  Gregory D. Wilson ,  Keith Ashley
Publisher:   The University of Alabama Press
Imprint:   The University of Alabama Press
Weight:   0.620kg
ISBN:  

9780817320881


ISBN 10:   0817320881
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   30 April 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Foreword by Gregory D. Wilson Acknowledgments Introduction by Elizabeth Watts Malouchos and Alleen Betzenhauser Part I. Articulating Communities and Households Chapter 1. Reconsidering Mississippian Communities and Households in Context by Elizabeth Watts Malouchos Chapter 2. Making Mounds, Making Mississippian Communities in Southern Illinois by Tamira K. Brennan Chapter 3. The Battle Mound Community: Interaction along the Red River and throughout the Caddo Homeland by Duncan P. McKinnon Chapter 4. Negotiating Community at Parchman Place, a Mississippian Town in the Northern Yazoo Basin by Erin S. Nelson Chapter 5. Mississippian Communities and Households from a Bird's-Eye View by Benjamin A. Steere Part II. Coalescing and Conflicting Communities Chapter 6. Variability within a Mississippian Community: Houses, Cemeteries, and Corporate Groups at the Town Creek Site in the North Carolina Piedmont by Edmond A. Boudreaux III, Paige A. Ford, and Heidi A. de Gregory Chapter 7. Mississippian Communities of Conflict by Meghan E. Buchanan and Melissa R. Baltus Part III. Community and Cosmos Chapter 8. Households, Communities, and the Early History of Etowah by Adam King Chapter 9. Unpacking Storage: Implications for Community-Making during Cahokia's Mississippian Transition by Elizabeth Watts Malouchos and Alleen Betzenhauser Chapter 10. The Social Lives and Symbolism of Cherokee Houses and Townhouses by Christopher B. Rodning and Amber R. Thorpe Part IV. Movement, Memory, and Histories Chapter 11. Moving to Where the River Meets the Sea: Origins of the Mill Cove Complex by Keith Ashley Chapter 12. Resilience in Late Moundville's Economy by Jera R. Davis Chapter 13. Multiscalar Community Histories in the Lower Chattahoochee River Valley: Migration and Aggregation at Singer-Moye by Stefan Brannan and Jennifer Birch Commentary. The Archaeology of Mississippian Communities and Households: Looking Back, Looking Forward by Jason Yaeger References Cited List of Contributors Index

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Reconsidering Mississippian Communities and Households successfully updates its namesake, Rogers and Smith's 1995 Mississippian Communities and Households. It will certainly find a wide readership among those interested in social archaeology by bringing together established scholars and up-and-comers in a democratizing publication. --Ramie A. Gougeon, coeditor of Archaeological Perspectives on the Southern Appalachians: A Multiscalar Approach


Reconsidering Mississippian Communities and Households successfully updates its namesake, Rogers and Smith's 1995 Mississippian Communities and Households. It will certainly find a wide readership among those interested in social archaeology by bringing together established scholars and up-and-comers in a democratizing publication. - Ramie A. Gougeon, coeditor of Archaeological Perspectives on the Southern Appalachians: A Multiscalar Approach


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Elizabeth Watts Malouchos is a research archaeologist at the Illinois State Archaeological Survey's American Bottom Field Station, part of the Prairie Research Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Alleen Betzenhauser is coordinator of the Illinois State Archaeological Survey's American Bottom Field Station, part of the Prairie Research Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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