Description:
Reconsidering Mississippian Communities and Households brings together leading scholars to explore how Indigenous peoples across the Mississippian world created, sustained, and transformed communities between approximately AD 900 and 1700. Building on the groundbreaking scholarship of the influential 1995 volume, this collection employs contemporary archaeological theory, innovative methodologies, and rich case studies from across the Southeast and Midwest to reveal new insights into household life, social identity, ritual practices, conflict, mobility, and community formation. Essential for archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, and students of Native North America, this volume offers a compelling reassessment of one of the most important cultural traditions in precontact North America.
Review Quotes:
"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
"I found Reconsidering Mississippian Communities and Households to be thoughtfully written, well organized, and engaging. Most of the hard data have been summarized, making the chapters relatively short and leaving room for discussion of theoretical orientations and processual arguments."--David W. Benn, Journal of the Iowa Archaeological Society.
"Contributors to this volume successfully demonstrate the relational nature and intersecting social dimensions of households and the communities of which they were part. Chapter authors utilize multiscalar datasets with a particular focus on pottery practices and settlement organization alongside broader regional histories as clues of community making and everyday life."--American Antiquity