Robert A. Cook

Continuity and Change in the Native American Village

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Produktbeschreibung

Cook demonstrates that we can better allow for affiliation of archaeological sites with living descendants by more fully examining the complexity of the past.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 774g
• ISBN-13: 9781107043794
• ISBN-10: 1107043794
• Artikelnr.: 48531549

Autorenporträt

Robert A. Cook is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Ohio State University and has been actively engaged in archaeological research for twenty-five years. He is an active member of several professional organizations, including the Society for American Archaeology, the American Anthropological Association, the Midwest Archaeology Conference and the Southeast Archaeology Conference, which he has served in a variety of capacities. He received Ohio State University's Mentoring of Undergraduate Research Award, and twice received the Scholarly Accomplishment Award. He has authored dozens of journal articles and book chapters and is the author of SunWatch: Fort Ancient Development in the Mississippian World (2008). His research has also been featured in various newspapers and magazines.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Prologue: unaffiliating the past to affiliate with the present
1. The Fort Ancient 'savage slot' and its descendants
2. Deconstructing Fort Ancient culture
3. Theories of culture process and history
4. The study region: 'a most delightful country'
5. Worlds colliding: Mississippian punctuations and woodland continuities
6. Hybrid villagers: becoming people of the Earth and sky
7. Coalescence and descendance: the persistence of the village form
8. Multicultural processes and histories
Epilogue: changing our cultural landscape.