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Archaeology of Everyday Life at Early Moundville by Gregory D. Wilson (2008, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of Alabama Press

ISBN-100817354441

ISBN-139780817354442

eBay Product ID (ePID)60526375

Product Key Features

Number of Pages208 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameArchaeology of Everyday Life at Early Moundville

SubjectArchaeology, Pottery & Ceramics

Publication Year2008

TypeTextbook

AuthorGregory D. Wilson

Subject AreaSocial Science, Crafts & Hobbies

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight11 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Edition Number2

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2007-026077

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"This work is interesting and will undoubtedly be of great value to archaeologists working on Mississippian sites in the Southeast and Mississippi Valley." --Jeffrey M. Mitchem, Associate Archeologist, Arkansas Archeological Survey, "This work is interesting and will undoubtedly be of great value to archaeologists working on Mississippian sites in the Southeast and Mississippi Valley." -Jeffrey M. Mitchem, Associate Archeologist, Arkansas Archeological Survey

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal976.1/43

SynopsisThis title defines household composition and social relationships at Moundville. Complex Mississippian polities were neither developed nor sustained in a vacuum. A broad range of small-scale social groups played a variety of roles in the emergence of regionally organized political hierarchies that governed large-scale ceremonial centers. Recent research has revealed the extent to which interactions among corporately organized clans led to the development, success, and collapse of Moundville. These insights into Moundville's social complexity are based primarily on the study of monumental architecture and mortuary ceremonialism. Less is known about how everyday domestic practices produced and were produced by broader networks of power and inequality in the region.Wilson's research addresses this gap in our understanding by analyzing and interpreting large-scale architectural and ceramic data sets from domestic contexts. This study has revealed that the early Mississippian Moundville community consisted of numerous spatially discrete multi-household groups, similar to ethnohistorically described kin groups from the southeastern United States. Hosting feasts, funerals, and other ceremonial events were important strategies by which elite groups created social debts and legitimized their positions of authority. Non-elite groups, on the other hand, maintained considerable economic and ritual autonomy through diversified production activities, risk sharing, and household ceremonialism. Organizational changes in Moundville's residential occupation highlight the different ways kin groups defined and redefined their corporate status and identities over the long term., A fascinating examination of family life and social relationships at this powerful prehistoric community, which at its peak was the largest city north of Mexico Complex Mississippian polities were neither developed nor sustained in a vacuum. A broad range of small-scale social groups played a variety of roles in the emergence of regionally organized political hierarchies that governed large-scale ceremonial centers. Recent research has revealed the extent to which interactions among corporately organized clans led to the development, success, and collapse of Moundville. These insights into Moundville's social complexity are based primarily on the study of monumental architecture and mortuary ceremonialism. Less is known about how everyday domestic practices produced and were produced by broader networks of power and inequality in the region. Wilson's research addresses this gap in our understanding by analyzing and interpreting large-scale architectural and ceramic data sets from domestic contexts. This study has revealed that the early Mississippian Moundville community consisted of numerous spatially discrete multi-household groups, similar to ethnohistorically described kin groups from the southeastern United States. Hosting feasts, dances, and other ceremonial events were important strategies by which elite groups created social debts and legitimized their positions of authority. Non-elite groups, on the other hand, maintained considerable economic and ritual autonomy through diversified production activities, risk sharing, and household ceremonialism. Organizational changes in Moundville's residential occupation highlight the different ways kin groups defined and redefined their corporate status and identities over the long term., D efines household composition and social relationships at Moundville Complex Mississippian polities were neither developed nor sustained in a vacuum. A broad range of small-scale social groups played a variety of roles in the emergence of regionally organized political hierarchies that governed large-scale ceremonial centers. Recent research has revealed the extent to which interactions among corporately organized clans led to the development, success, and collapse of Moundville. These insights into Moundville's social complexity are based primarily on the study of monumental architecture and mortuary ceremonialism. Less is known about how everyday domestic practices produced and were produced by broader networks of power and inequality in the region. Wilson's research addresses this gap in our understanding by analyzing and interpreting large-scale architectural and ceramic data sets from domestic contexts. This study has revealed that the early Mississippian Moundville community consisted of numerous spatially discrete multi-household groups, similar to ethnohistorically described kin groups from the southeastern United States. Hosting feasts, dances, and other ceremonial events were important strategies by which elite groups created social debts and legitimized their positions of authority. Non-elite groups, on the other hand, maintained considerable economic and ritual autonomy through diversified production activities, risk sharing, and household ceremonialism. Organizational changes in Moundville's residential occupation highlight the different ways kin groups defined and redefined their corporate status and identities over the long term.

LC Classification NumberE99.M6815W55 2008