Continuity and Change in the Native American Village : Multicultural Origins and Descendants of the Fort Ancient Culture (Hardcover)

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.