Authority, Autonomy, and the Archaeology of a Mississippian Community
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Indians of North America
Mississippi Delta
Mississippi Delta Region
Mississippian
Mound Building
Native American Communities
native american studies
Parchman Place
prehistoric North America
Southeastern archaeology
world renewal ceremonialism
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- ISBN 9781683401124
- Weight: 440g
- Dimensions: 151 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 03 Dec 2019
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book is the first detailed investigation of the important archaeological site of Parchman Place in the Yazoo Basin, a defining area for understanding the Mississippian culture that spanned much of what is now the United States Southeast and Midwest before the mid-sixteenth century. Refining the widely accepted theory that this society was strongly hierarchical, Erin Nelson provides data that suggest communities navigated tensions between authority and autonomy in their placemaking and in their daily lives. Drawing on archaeological evidence from foodways, monumental and domestic architecture, and the organization of communal space at the site, Nelson argues that Mississippian people negotiated contradictory ideas about what it meant to belong to a community. For example, although they clearly had powerful leaders, communities built mounds and other structures in ways that re-created their views of the cosmos, expressing values of wholeness and balance. Nelson's findings shed light on the inner workings of Mississippian communities and other hierarchical societies of the period.A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series
Erin S. Nelson is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of South Alabama.
