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Mississippian Women
About this book
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
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Foreword
- 1. The Current State of (Mississippian) Women: Archaeology, Gender, and Indigenous Feminism
- 2. Recognizing Women at Cahokia: Farmers; Weavers; Agents of Polity Integration
- 3. Cooks, Cooking, and Cooking Pots: A Landscape of Culinary Practice and the Origins of Moundville, AD 1070–1200
- 4. The Life Course of Women in Upper Tennessee Valley, Dallas Phase Communities
- 5. Mississippian Geographies of Fertility: A Multiscalar View from Southeast Missouri
- 6. Matrilineal Kinship Networks and Late Mississippian Politics in the Upper Tennessee Valley
- 7. Where Women Work: Taskscapes and Activity Area Analysis
- 8. Earth Mother and Her Children: The Role of Mississippian Women in Shaping Beliefs and Material Culture in the Middle Cumberland Region
- 9. Gender, Craft Production, and Emerging Power in Mississippian Hierarchical Societies
- 10. Women and Power at Joara, Cuenca, and Fort San Juan
- 11. Fort Walton Women
- 12. Learning About and From Mississippian Women
- List of Contributors
- Index
- Ripley P. Bullen Series