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Traces the craft of pottery making among the Catawba Indians of North Carolina from the late 18th century to the present  When Europeans encountered them, the Catawba Indians were living along the river and throughout the valley that carries their name near the present North Carolina-South Carolina border. Archaeologists later collected and identified categories of pottery types belonging to the historic Catawba and extrapolated an association with their protohistoric and prehistoric predecessors.  In this volume, Thomas Blumer traces the construction techniques of those documented ceramics to the lineage of their probable present-day master potters or, in other words, he traces the Catawba pottery traditions. By mining data from archives and the oral traditions of contemporary potters, Blumer reconstructs sales circuits regularly traveled by Catawba peddlers and thereby illuminates unresolved questions regarding trade routes in the protohistoric period. In addition, the author details particular techniques of the representative pottersfactors such as clay selection, tool use, decoration, and firing techniqueswhich influence their styles.

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Examines the effects of the Spanish mission system on population structure and genetic variability in indigenous communities in northern Florida and southern Georgia during the 16th and 17th centuries This book examines the effects of the Spanish mission system on population structure and genetic variability in indigenous communities living in northern Florida and southern Georgia during the 16th and 17th centuries. Data on tooth size were collected from 26 archaeological samples representing three time periods:  Late Precontact (~1200-1500), Early Mission (~1600-1650), and Late Mission (~1650-1700) and were subjected to a series of statistical tests evaluating genetic variability. Predicted changes in phenotypic population variability are related to models of group interaction, population demo-graphy, and genetic admixture as suggested by ethnohistoric and archaeological data. Results suggest considerable differences in diachronic responses to the mission environment for each cultural province. The Apalachee demonstrate a marked increase in variability while the Guale demonstrate a decline in variability. Demographic models of population collapse are therefore inconsistent with predicted changes based on population geneticsl, and the determinants of population structure seem largely local in nature. This book highlights the specificity with which indigenous communities responded to European contact and the resulting transformations in their social worlds.  

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Macrobotanical Remains and the Oliver Phase of Central Indiana, A.D. 1200-1450

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Prehistoric plant use in the Late Woodland Period of central Indiana This book explores the extent to which foodways, an important marker of group identity, can be recognized in charred macrobotanical remains from archaeological sites. From analysis of mere bits of burned plants we can discern what ancient people chose to eat, and how they cooked it, stored it, and preserved it. Leslie Bush compares archaeobotanical remains from 13 Oliver Phase sites in Indiana to other late prehistoric sites through correspondence analysis. The Oliver area is adjacent to the territories of three of the largest and best-known archaeological cultures of the regionMississippian, Fort Ancient, and Oneotaso findings about Oliver foodways have implications for studies of migration, ethnogenesis, social risk, and culture contact. Historical records of three Native American tribes (Shawnee, Miami, and Huron) are also examined for potential insights into Oliver foodways. The study determines that people who inhabited central Indiana during late prehistoric times had a distinctive signature of plant use that separates them from other archaeological groups, not just in space and time but also in ideas about appropriate uses of plants. The uniqueness of the Oliver botanical pattern is found to lie in the choice of particular crops, the intensity of growing versus gathering, and the use of a large number of wild resources.

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Rabbi Morris Newfield led Temple Emanu-El in Birmingham from 18951940 and was counted among the most influential religious and social leaders of that city. In Birminghams Rabbi, Mark Cowett chronicles Newfields astonishing career and uses it as a vehicle to trace the nature of ethnic leadership in America.  Taking a multidimensional approach, Cowett places Newfield's early life in the context of his Hungarian childhood and also relates Newfields career to those of fellow Hebrew Union College graduates and to national Reform Jewish history. The reader is made aware constantly of changing conditions in Birmingham, in Alabama, and in the south and how those changes affected Newfields congregants. Cowett illuminates Newfields efforts to help Jews maintain a sense of religious identity in a predominately Southern and Christian environment.  Based upon essential sources including interviews, newspapers, and manuscript collections in Alabama and at the American Jewish Archives in Cincinnati, Cowett shows Newfields struggle to support social welfare efforts in Alabama during the Progressive Era. He recognized the need for Jews to develop bonds with other American ethnic groups. Cowett portrays him as a mediator between not only Jew and Christian but also black and white, labor and capital, liberal and conservativein short, within the full spectrum of political and social exchange in an industrial city of the New South. 

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The Field Artillery of the Army of Tennessee

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A highly regarded resource on a critical aspect of the Civil War   This enlarged edition of Cannoneers in Gray provides new detail concerning the activities of artillery units operating in key campaigns of the western theater of the Civil Warat Stones River, Missionary Ridge, Kennesaw Mountain, Shiloh, Peachtree Creek. Larry Daniel traces the four-year history of the artillery branch of the Army of Tennessee from its organization through its demise at the war's end. He shows that Civil War cannons were of little consequence when used as offensive weapons but could be highly effective in defense.   Includes five new maps of campaigns and battles central to his discussion of larger issues, such as command and strategy on the western front.  

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A comprehensive biography of Augusta Jane Evans Wilson, one of the nineteenth-century Americas best-selling authors   A fascinating biography about Augusta Jane Evans, a nearly forgotten writer who was nevertheless one of the most popular writers of her era. She wrote nine novels about southern women, including St. Elmo, which sold a staggering one million copies within four months of its release in 1866. William Fidler traces the life of Augusta Jane Evans from her birth in 1835 in Columbus, Georgia till her death in Alabama in 1909.  

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Civil Rights and White Backlash in the Modern South

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Details the ferment in civil rights that took place across the South before the momentous Brown vs. Board of Education decision in 1954  This collection refutes the notion that the movement began with the Supreme Court decision, and suggests, rather, that the movement originated in the 1930s and earlier, spurred by the Great Depression and, later, World War IIevents that would radically shape the course of politics in the South and the nation into the next century. This work explores the growth of the movement through its various manifestationsthe activities of politicians, civil rights leaders, religious figures, labor unionists, and grass-roots activiststhroughout the 1940s and 1950s. It discusses the critical leadership roles played by women and offers a new perspective on the relationship between the NAACP and the Communist Party. Before Brown shows clearly that, as the drive toward racial equality advanced and national political attitudes shifted, the validity of white supremacy came increasingly into question. Institutionalized racism in the South had always offered white citizens material advantages by preserving their economic superiority and making them feel part of a privileged class. When these rewards were threatened by the civil rights movement, a white backlash occurred.

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Patricia Sullivan, Andrew M Manis, John White, Patricia Sullivan, John A. Salmond, Jennifer E. Brooks, Raymond Arsenault, Linda Beito, Adam Fairclough, Pamela Tyler, Glenn Feldman, Sarah Hart Brown, Glenn Feldman

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Archaeological Survey in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley, 19401947

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Documents prehistoric human occupation along the lower reaches of the Mississippi River   A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication   The Lower Mississippi Survey was initiated in 1939 as a joint undertaking of three institutions: the School of Geology at Louisiana State University, the Museum of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, and the Peabody Museum at Harvard. Fieldwork began in 1940 but was halted during the war years. When fieldwork resumed in 1946, James Ford had joined the American Museum of Natural History, which assumed co-sponsorship from LSU. The purpose of the Lower Mississippi Survey (LMS)a term used to identify both the fieldwork and the resultant volumewas to investigate the northern two-thirds of the alluvial valley of the lower Mississippi River, roughly from the mouth of the Ohio River to Vicksburg. This area covers about 350 miles and had been long regarded as one of the principal hot spots in eastern North American archaeology.   Phillips, Ford, and Griffin surveyed over 12,000 square miles, identified 382 archaeological sites, and analyzed over 350,000 potsherds in order to define ceramic typologies and establish a number of cultural periods. The commitment of these scholars to developing a coherent understanding of the archaeology of the area, as well as their mutual respect for one another, enabled the publication of what is now commonly considered the bible of southeastern archaeology. Originally published in 1951 as volume 25 of the Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, this work has been long out of print.   Because Stephen Williams served for 35 years as director of the LMS at Harvard, succeeding Phillips, and was closely associated with the authors during their lifetimes, his new introduction offers a broad overview of the works influence and value, placing it in a contemporary context.  

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Philip Phillips, James A. Ford, James B. Griffin, Albert Gordon, Paul Gebhard, Donna Dickerson, Caroline Gebhard

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Archaeology at Shiloh Indian Mounds, 1899-1999

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One hundred years of archaeological excavations at an important American landmark, the Shiloh Indian Mounds archaeological site, a National Historic Landmark  The Shiloh Indian Mounds archaeological site, a National Historic Landmark, is a late prehistoric community within the boundaries of the Shiloh National Military Park on the banks of the Tennessee River, where one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War was fought in April 1862. Dating between AD 1000 and 1450, the archaeological site includes at least eight mounds and more than 100 houses. It is unique in that the land has never been plowed, so visitors can walk around the area and find the collapsed remains of 800-year-old houses and the 900-meter-long palisade with bastions that protected the village in prehistoric times. Although its location within a National Park boundary has protected the area from the recent ravages of man, riverbank erosion began to undermine the site in the 1970s. In the mid-1990s, Paul Welch began a four-year investigation culminating in a comprehensive report to the National Park Service on the Shiloh Indian Mounds.   These published findings confirm that the Shiloh site was one of at least fourteen Mississippian mound sites located within a 50 km area and that Shiloh was abandoned in approximately AD 1450. It also establishes other parameters for the Shiloh archaeological phase. This current volume is intended to make information about the first 100 years of excavations at the Shiloh site available to the archaeological community.  

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Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Native Puerto Rico

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A comprehensive overview of recent thinking, new data, syntheses, and insights into current Puerto Rican archaeology   Ancient Borinquen is a re-examination of the archaeology of Puerto Rico, drawing data from beyond the boundaries of the island itself because in prehistoric times the waters between islands would not have been viewed as a boundary in the contemporary sense of the term. The last few decades have witnessed a growth of intense archaeological research on the island, from material culture in the form of lithics, ceramics, and rock art; to nutritional, architecture, and environmental studies; to rituals and social patterns; to the aftermath of Conquest.  It is unlikely that prehistoric occupants recognized the same boundaries and responded to the same political forces that operated in the formation of current nations, states, or cities. Yet, archaeologists traditionally have produced such volumes and they generally represent anchors for ongoing research in a specific region, in this case the island of Puerto Rico, its immediate neighbors, and the wider Caribbean basin.   Ancient Borinquen provides a comprehensive overview of recent thinking, new data, syntheses, and insights into current Puerto Rican archaeology, and it reflects and illuminates similar concerns elsewhere in the West Indies, lowland South America, and Central America.  

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Jeffrey B. Walker, Karen F. Anderson-Córdova, Susan D. deFrance, John G. Jones, Lee A. Newsom, Deborah M. Pearsall, Peter G. Roe, Peter E. Siegel, Anne V. Stokes, Joshua M. Torres, Daniel P. Wagner, Peter E. Siegel

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Experiments in New Media Aesthetics and Environmental Poetics

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Winner of the Elizabeth Agee Prize in American Literature   An audacious, interdisciplinary study that combines the burgeoning fields of digital aesthetics and eco-criticism   In Animal, Vegetable, Digital, Elizabeth Swanstrom makes a confident and spirited argument for the use of digital art in support of ameliorating human engagement with the environment and suggests a four-part framework for analyzing and discussing such applications.   Through close readings of a panoply of texts, artworks, and cultural artifacts, Swanstrom demonstrates that the division popular culture has for decades observed between nature and technology is artificial. Not only is digital technology not necessarily a brick in the road to a dystopian future of environmental disaster, but digital art forms can be a revivifying bridge that returns people to a more immediate relationship to nature as well as their own embodied selves.   To analyze and understand the intersection of digital art and nature, Animal, Vegetable, Digital explores four aesthetic techniques: coding, collapsing, corresponding, and conserving. Coding denotes the way artists use operational computer code to blur distinctions between the reader and text, and, hence, the world. Inviting a fluid conception of the boundary between human and technology, collapsing voids simplistic assumptions about the human bodys innate perimeter. The process of translation between natural and human-readable signs that enables communication is described as corresponding. Conserving is the application of digital art by artists to democratize large- and small-scale preservation efforts.   A fascinating synthesis of literary criticism, communications and journalism, science and technology, and rhetoric that draws on such disparate phenomena as simulated environments, video games, and popular culture, Animal, Vegetable, Digital posits that partnerships between digital aesthetics and environmental criticism are possible that reconnect humankind to nature and reaffirm its kinship with other living and nonliving things.  

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Archaeological Researches at Teotihuacan, Mexico

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The field data and archaeological analysis of the first controlled excavations of the vast "City of the Gods" in central Mexico   In 1932, the Ethnographical Museum of Sweden sent an archaeological expedition to Mexico under the direction of Sigvald Linne to determine the full extent of this ancient Teotihuacan occupation and to collect exhibit-quality artifacts. Of an estimated 2,000-plus residential compounds at Teotihuacan, only 20 apartment-like structures were excavated at the time. Yet Linnes work revealed residential patterns that have been confirmed later in other locations.   Some of the curated objects from the Valley of Mexico and the adjacent state of Puebla are among the most rare and unique artifacts yet found. Another important aspect of this research was that, with the aid of the Museum of Natural History in Washington, Linnes team conducted ethnographic interviews with remnant native Mexican peoples whose culture had not been entirely destroyed by the Conquest, thereby collecting and preserving valuable information for later research.  

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Sigvald Linné, Staffan Brunius, George L. Cowgill

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Establishes a theoretical context for, and to elaborate the implications of, the claim that argument is a form of interaction in which two or more people maintain what they construe to be incompatible positions  The thesis of this book is that argument is not a kind of logic but a kind of communicationconversation based on disagreement. Claims about the epistemic and political effects of argument get their authority not from logic but from their fit with the facts about how communication works. A Theory of Communication thus offers a picture of communicationdistilled from elements of symbolic interactionism, personal construct theory, constructivism, and Barbara OKeefes provocative thinking about logics of message design. The picture of argument that emerges from this tapestry is startling, for it forces revisions in thinking about knowledge, rationality, freedom, fallacies, and the structure and content of the argumentation discipline.

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Four centuries. One people. A legacy that shaped a nation. Osage traditional lands are located in mid-continental America encompassed by the present-day states of Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma. Major waterways through these lands and the defensible terrain of the Ozark range provided the tribe a distinct advantage in prehistoric and early historic times. A warlike people, the Osage long encroached on neighboring tribal lands, especially those of the Caddo to the southwest. Yet good natural boundaries and centuries of success in warfare afforded the tribe little advantage in attempts to forestall Euro-American westward expansion. Three major routes to the Westthe Missouri and Arkansas Rivers and the Continental Trailcrossed Osage land, so conflict with the newcomers was inevitable. Louis Burns draws on ancestral oral traditions and research in a broad body of literature to tell the story of the Osage people. He writes clearly and concisely, from the Osage perspective. First published in 1989 and for many years out of print, this revised edition is augmented by a new preface and maps. Because of its masterful compilation and synthesis of the known data, A History of the Osage People continues to be the best reference for information on an important American Indian people.  

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Life in Alabama's Mobile-Tensaw River Delta

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Colorful and lively personal essays about life in the wilds of Alabamas Mobile-Tensaw River Delta   Among the Swamp People is the story of author Watt Keys discovery of the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta. The swamp consists of almost 260,000 acres of wetlands located just north of Mobile Bay. There he leases a habitable outcropping of land and constructs a primitive cabin from driftwood to serve as a private getaway. His story is one that chronicles the beauties of the deltas unparalleled natural wonders, the difficulties of survival within it, and an extraordinary community of charactersby turns generous and violent, gracious and paranoid, hilarious and recklesswho live, thrive, and perish there.   There is no way into the delta except by small boat. To most it would appear a maze of rivers and creeks between stunted swamp trees and mud. Key observes that there are few places where one can step out of a boat without sinking to the knees in muck the consistency of axle grease. It is the only place I know where gloom and beauty can coexist at such extremes. And it never occurred to me that a land seemingly so bleak could hide such beauty and adventure.   It also chronicles Keys maturation as a writer, from a twenty-five-year-old computer programmer with no formal training as a writer to a highly successful, award-winning writer of fiction for a young adult audience with three acclaimed novels published to date.   In learning to make a place for himself in the wild, as in learning to write, Keys story is one of hoping someoneeven if just myselfwould find value in my creations.  

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The Problem of Administrative Compassion

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This classic study brings to bear the findings and principles of political science, sociology, psychology, and economics on various proposals for the solution of ills traditionally associated with governmental administration.

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Life in Southern Alabama During the Civil War

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Recounts how a frightened and war-weary household dealt with privations during the blockade imposed on the South by the federal navy  Parthenia Hague experienced the Civil War while employed as a schoolteacher on a plantation near Eufaula, Alabama. This book recounts how a frightened and war-weary household dealt with privations during the blockade imposed on the South by the federal navy. The memoir of Parthenia Hague is a detailed look at the ingenious industry and self-sufficiency employed by anxious citizens as the northern army closed in.

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Magic and Meaning in an Amazonian Society

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Discover the spiritual threads that bind Amazonian life and culture. Tsewas Gift is a profound exploration of the cultural and spiritual life of the indigenous peoples of the Peruvian Amazon. Anthropologist Michael F. Brown delves into the concept of tsewa, a spiritual force central to the worldview of the Aguaruna people, revealing how this belief system shapes social relationships, moral obligations, and the exchange of gifts. Through vivid ethnographic detail and thoughtful analysis, Brown examines the intersection of ritual, reciprocity, and cosmology, offering readers a nuanced understanding of how indigenous communities navigate identity, power, and meaning in a rapidly changing world. This book is an essential resource for scholars of anthropology, religion, and Latin American studies, as well as anyone seeking insight into the complexities of cultural resilience and adaptation.

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This work describes the profound changes to Yucatans society and economy following the 1982 debt crisis that prostrated Mexicos economy. The editors have assembled contributions from seasoned Yucatecologistshistorians, geographers, cultural students, and an economistto chart the accelerated change in Yucatan from a monocrop economy to a full beneficiary and victim of rampant globalization. 

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Gilbert M. Joseph, Eric N. Baklanoff, Edward H. Moseley

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The Battle for Air Superiority Over Germany, 1942-1944

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To Command the Sky is a scholarly record of the fight for domination of the skies over western Europe during World War II. It also explains the technical details of the tactics used to defeat the Luftwaffe. This book is important for serious students of World War II or military aviation.

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Stephen L. McFarland, Wesley Phillips Newton