Light on the path : the anthropology and history of the southeastern Indians / edited by Thomas J. Pluckhahn and Robbie Ethridge.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hudson, Charles M.
Pluckhahn, Thomas J. (Thomas John), 1966-
Ethridge, Robbie Franklyn, 1955-
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2006], ©2006.
Subjects:
Mississippian culture > Southern States.
Chiefdoms > Southern States.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Southern States > History.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Southern States > Antiquities.
Southern States > History.
Southern States > Antiquities.
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Physical Description:xi, 283 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction / Thomas J. Pluckhahn ... [et al.]
  • The nature of Mississippian regional systems / David J. Hally
  • Lithics, shellfish, and beavers / Mark Williams and Scott Jones
  • The Cussita migration legend : history, ideology, and the politics of mythmaking / Steven C. Hahn
  • Coalescent societies / Stephen A. Kowalewski
  • "A bold and warlike people" : the basis of Westo power / Eric Bowne
  • New light on the Tsali affair / William Martin Jurgelski
  • "A sprightly lover is the most prevailing missionary" : intermarriage between Europeans and Indians in the eighteenth-century South / Theda Perdue
  • The historic period transformation of Mississippian societies / Adam King
  • Bridging prehistory and history in the southeast : evaluating the utility of the acculturation concept / John E. Worth
  • Creating the shatter zone : Indian slave traders and the collapse of the southeastern chiefdoms / Robbie Ethridge.