Alex W. Barker and Timothy R. Pauketat, Editors
Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association Number 3
Contents
Locator Map
Contributors
Preface
Introduction: Social Inequality and the Native Elites of Southeastern North America
Alex W. Barker and Timothy R. Pauketat
Mississippian Elites and Solar Alignments–A Reflection of Managerial Necessity, or Levers of Social Inequality?
Bruce D. Smith
The Reign and Ruin of the Lords of Cahokia: A Dialectic of Dominance
Timothy R. Pauketat
Fort Ancient Has No Class: The Absence of an Elite Group in Mississippian Societies in the Central Ohio Valley
James B. Griffin
Powhatan’s Pursestrings: On the Meaning of Surplus in a Seventeenth Century Algonkian Chiefdom
Alex W. Barker
In the Best of Health? Disease and Trauma Among the Mississippian Elite
Mary Lucas Powell
Chiefly Behavior: Evidence from Sixteenth Century Spanish Accounts
Marvin T. Smith and David J. Hally
Communal Societies and the Emergence of Elites in the Prehistoric American Southeast
Michael S. Nassaney
Coles Creek Period Social Organization and Evolution in Northeast Louisiana
Tristram R. Kidder
Political Offices and Political Structure: Ethnohistoric and Archaeological Perspectives on the Native Lords of Apalachee
John F. Scarry
Political Lords and Political Ideology in Southeastern Chiefdoms: Comments and Observations
Mary W. Helms
Conclusions and Aporia
Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association Number 3
viii + 200 pages
ISBN 0-913167-48-7
1992
8-1/2 x 11
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