{"product_id":"mississippian-women-1","title":"Mississippian Women","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHighlighting the role of precontact Indigenous women in building and transforming Mississippian culture\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis volume highlights how women were powerful farmers, economic decision-makers, spiritual leaders, and agents of social integration in the diverse societies of the Mississippian world, which spanned the present-day United States South to the Midwest before the seventeenth century. While Mississippian societies are some of the most well-researched pre-European contact societies on the continent, little attention has been dedicated specifically to Mississippian women. These chapters offer new insights into the vital role women played within their communities, an approach directly informed by the powerful position of American Indian women within contemporary American Indian communities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributors examine themes such as identity, labor, grieving, cooking, craft production, spatial organization, prestige, morbidity, kinship, and fertility. Case studies include sites throughout the Mississippian world, ranging from Illinois to Florida, including Cahokia and Moundville. \u003ci\u003eMississippian Women\u003c\/i\u003e is the first volume to focus solely on the political, social, and economic power of women during this period, linking their actions in building their culture before European colonialism with the work of Indigenous women in the region today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of Florida","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56673167835480,"sku":"9781683406297","price":33.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781683406297.jpg?v=1778774431","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/mississippian-women-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}