Mississippian Women | 5.3 MB
Title: Mississippian Women
Author: Rachel V. Briggs, Michaelyn S. Harle, Lynne P. Sullivan
Category: Nonfiction, History, Americas, Native American, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Archaeology, Anthropology
Language: English | 404 Pages | ISBN: 9781683404545
Description:
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...
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