The Seneca Restoration, 1715-1754 (eBook)

An Iroquois Local Political Economy

Kurt A. Jordan (Autor)

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2008
448 Seiten
University Press of Florida (Verlag)
978-0-8130-5947-1 (ISBN)

Infos

The Iroquois confederacy, one of the most influential Native American groups encountered by early European settlers, is commonly perceived as having plunged into steep decline in the late seventeenth century due to colonial encroachment into the Great Lakes region. Kurt Jordan challenges long-standing interpretations that depict the Iroquois as defeated, colonized peoples by demonstrating that an important nation of that confederacy, the Senecas, maintained an impressive political and economic autonomy and resisted colonialism with a high degree of success.

By combining archaeological data grounded in the material culture of the Seneca Townley-Read site with historical documents, Jordan answers larger questions about the Seneca's cultural sustainability and durability in an era of intense colonial pressures. He offers a detailed reconstruction of daily life in the Seneca community and demonstrates that they were extremely selective about which aspects of European material culture, plant and animal species, and lifeways they allowed into their territory.

Autor

Kurt A. Jordan is assistant professor of anthropology and American Indian Studies at Cornell University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.9.2008
• Reihe/Serie: Co-published with The Society for Historical Archaeology
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• ISBN-10: 0-8130-5947-X / 081305947X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8130-5947-1 / 9780813059471