Mississippian Women

By:

Sheila Bird

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Hardback

Series:

Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P.Bullen Series

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Highlighting the role of precontact Indigenous women in building and transforming Mississippian culture This 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. Contributors 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. Mississippian Women 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. A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series

Author Biography:

Rachel V. Briggs is teaching assistant professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Michaelyn S. Harle is an archaeologist at the Tennessee Valley Authority. Lynne P. Sullivan, curator emerita of archaeology at the McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture at the University of Tennessee, is coeditor of Grit-Tempered: Early Women Archaeologists in the Southeastern United States.

Release date NZ

April 12th, 2024

Author

Sheila Bird

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Contributors

Edited by Lynne P. Sullivan
Edited by Michaelyn S Harle
Edited by Rachel V Briggs

Illustrations

48 b&w illus., 2 tables

Pages

370

Series

Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P.Bullen Series

ISBN-13

9781683404149

Product ID

38236641

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