Light on the path the anthropology and history of the southeastern Indians (University of Alabama Press, 2006)
"Contains much of the proceedings of a day-long symposium honoring Charles Hudson on the occasion of his retirement from the University of Georgia."--Preface. - Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-269) and index
Introduction / Thomas J. Pluckhahn [and others] -- The nature of Mississippian regional systems / David J. Hally -- Lithics, shellfish, and beavers / Mark Williams and Scott Jones -- The Cussita migration legend : history, ideology, and the politics of mythmaking / Steven C. Hahn -- Coalescent societies / Stephen A. Kowalewski -- "A bold and warlike people" : the basis of Westo power / Eric Bowne -- New light on the Tsali affair / William Martin Jurgelski -- "A sprightly lover is the most prevailing missionary" : intermarriage between Europeans and Indians in the eighteenth-century South / Theda Perdue -- The historic period transformation of Mississippian societies / Adam King -- Bridging prehistory and history in the southeast : evaluating the utility of the acculturation concept / John E. Worth -- Creating the shatter zone : Indian slave traders and the collapse of the southeastern chiefdoms / Robbie Ethridge
A seamless social history of the native peoples of the American South, bridging prehistory and history. ¡ The past 20 years have witnessed a change in the study of the prehistory and history of the native peoples of the American South. This paradigm shift is the bridging of prehistory and history to fashion a seamless social history that includes not only the 16th-century Late Mississippian period and the 18th-century colonial period but also the largely forgotten--and critically important--century in between.¡ The shift is in part methodological, for it involves combining methods from anthrop