The Making of Mississippian Tradition

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina M. Friberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Economic ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
River Valley ◽  
Illinois River ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mississippian Tradition ◽  
Mississippian Culture ◽  
Diverse Groups ◽  
Ways Of Life

In this volume, Christina Friberg investigates the influence of Cahokia, the largest city of North America’s Mississippian culture between AD 1050 and 1350, on smaller communities throughout the midcontinent. Using evidence from recent excavations at the Audrey-North site in the Lower Illinois River Valley, Friberg examines the cultural give-and-take Audrey inhabitants experienced between new Cahokian customs and old Woodland ways of life. Comparing the architecture, pottery, and lithics uncovered here with data from thirty-five other sites across five different regions, Friberg reveals how the social, economic, and political influence of Cahokia shaped the ways Audrey inhabitants negotiated identities and made new traditions. Friberg’s broad interregional analysis also provides evidence that these diverse groups of people were engaged in a network of interaction and exchange outside Cahokia’s control. The Making of Mississippian Tradition offers a fascinating glimpse into the dynamics of cultural exchange in precolonial settlements, and its detailed reconstruction of Audrey society offers a new, more nuanced interpretation of how and why Mississippian lifeways developed.

scholarly journals An experience with the Council of International Fellowship

2010 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-73
Author(s):  
Cathie Withington
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Economic Situation ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
The Social ◽  
International Fellowship ◽  
Exchange Programme

It was an article in an ANZASW publication that first told me about Council of International Fellowship (CIF) programmes. The CIF is a private, voluntary, non-profit organisation founded in Germany in 1960. CIF consists of National Branches in many countries including New Zealand. A typical exchange programme includes orientation, providing a theoretical framework to the social, economic and cultural trends in the country. Participants, who come from many different countries, make presentations about their work, as well as the socio-economic situation and cultural trends of their own country. This facilitates cultural exchange and sharing of ideas and skills.

Evaluating Cahokian Contact and Mississippian Identity Politics in the Late Prehistoric Central Illinois River Valley

2014 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dana N. Bardolph
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Culture Contact ◽  
River Valley ◽  
Illinois River ◽  
Recent Analysis ◽  
Mississippian Period ◽  
Illinois River Valley ◽  
Mississippian Culture ◽  
Central Illinois

AbstractThis paper employs a practice-based framework for investigating early Mississippian period culture contact and identity negotiation in the Central Illinois River Valley (CIRV) through the lens offoodways. The Evelandphase (A.D. 1100–1200) was a setting of significant cultural change as a result of the movement of Cahokian people, objects, and ideas into the region. Recent analysis of excavated materials from the Lamb site in the southern portion of the CIRV affords a closer look at this historical process. Using ceramic and pit feature data, I assess Cahokian influence on traditional Late Woodlandera culinary practices. I conclude that although local residents were actively adopting some aspects of Mississippian culture (including Cahokia potting traditions), they retained traditional Late Woodland organizational practices of cooking, serving, and storing food. By placing the organization offoodways at the center of this study, this paper illuminates another dimension of Cahokian contact in the region.

Cahokia in Context

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mississippi River ◽  
River Valley ◽  
Illinois River ◽  
Ohio River ◽  
Ohio River Valley ◽  
Monumental Architecture ◽  
Trade Center ◽  
Mississippian Culture ◽  
New Research ◽  
Religious Iconography

At its height between AD 1050 and 1275, the city of Cahokia was the largest settlement of the Mississippian culture, acting as an important trade center and pilgrimage site. While the influence of Cahokian culture on the development of monumental architecture, maize-based subsistence practices, and economic complexity throughout North America is undisputed, new research in this volume reveals a landscape of influence in the regions that had and may not have had a relationship with Cahokia. Contributors find evidence for Cahokia’s hegemony—its social, cultural, ideological, and economic influence—in artifacts, burial practices, and religious iconography uncovered at far-flung sites across the Eastern Woodlands. Case studies include Kincaid in the Ohio River Valley, Schild in the Illinois River Valley, Shiloh in Tennessee, and Aztalan in Wisconsin. These essays also show how, with Cahokia’s abandonment, the diaspora continued via the Mississippi River and extended the culture’s impact southward.

scholarly journals An Associational Study of Illinois Sand Prairie

1913 ◽  
Vol 10 (1-8) ◽  
pp. 1-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur Vestal
Keyword(s):  
Physical Environment ◽  
River Valley ◽  
Illinois River ◽  
Common Environment ◽  
Physical Conditions ◽  
Illinois River Valley ◽  
The Social

The present study is restricted to the grassland associations of sand in the Illinois River valley, and the emphasis is placed upon the animals of the region. The unit of study is here the association, or community of organisms: the social aggregateof plants and animals, which, living in a common environment, come into various relations one with another. In the sand prairie of the river valley several types of areas may be distinguished, eachcharacterized by a definite set of physical conditions, by a particular association of plants, and by a particular assemblage of animals. Inthis report the plant and animal assemblages are considered together, and inquiry is made into the relations which obtain between them, and between them and the physical environment.

scholarly journals Migration Patterns, Occupational Strategies, and Work Experiences in a Large Textile Town: The Case of Ivanovo-Vozensensk

1999 ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Susan M. Vorderer
Keyword(s):  
Social Economic ◽  
Work Experiences ◽  
Migration Patterns ◽  
Imperial Russia ◽  
Real People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Making Choices ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The City ◽  
Ways Of Life

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, industrialization and urbanization were transforming certain areas or Imperial Russia, undermining traditional ways of life and creating severe strains, dislocations, and tensions. In the city of Ivanovo-Voznesensk, located in Shuia uezd (district) of Vladimir Province about one hundred fifty miles northeast of Moscow, the powerful, interconnected forces of urbanization and industrialization were carving out an environment based on the factory rather than the farm. Yet within the context of these seemingly inexorable forces changing the social, economic, and eventually, political fabric of the country, there were real people making choices and decisions. They significantly affected their environment and, moreover, created mechanisms and strategies to cope with the impersonal forces that altered the possibilities and oppmtunities for work and survival. This essay examines peasantworkers' responses to the dislocations and opportunities created by accelerated economic and social transfonnations.

Multiple-source Record Linkage in a Rural Industrial Community, 1680–1820

1994 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 133-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve King
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
Multiple Source ◽  
Demographic Analysis ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Industrial Community ◽  
The Social ◽  
Broad Outline

Re-creating the social, economic and demographic life-cycles of ordinary people is one way in which historians might engage with the complex continuities and changes which underlay the development of early modern communities. Little, however, has been written on the ways in which historians might deploy computers, rather than card indexes, to the task of identifying such life cycles from the jumble of the sources generated by local and national administration. This article suggests that multiple-source linkage is central to historical and demographic analysis, and reviews, in broad outline, some of the procedures adopted in a study which aims at large scale life cycle reconstruction.

ON THE REGIME OF COVID-19 EPIDEMIC IN RUSSIA AND ITS IMPACT UPON THE FUEL AND ENERGY COMPLEX, INCLUDING IN EDUCATIONAL AND SCIENTIFIC SPHERES

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svetlana Punanova ◽  
Mikhail Rodkin
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Data ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Research Education ◽  
Energy Complex ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Modernization ◽  
Mode Of Development ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Regions Of Russia

The mode of development of the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia and the impact of the epidemic on the areas of scientific research, education and functioning of the fuel and energy complex are discussed. The official statistics revealed evidence both of effectivity of the taken anti-epidemic measures in Moscow and of possible cases of incorrectness of statistical data. The social situation and the mode of development of the epidemic in Moscow and in the regions of Russia are essentially different, that reduces the effectiveness of anti-epidemic measures introduced uniformly throughout the whole country. The conditions of the pandemic and quarantine are difficult for everyone, but organizations and persons with a more modern informational character of production adapt to them more easily. In general, it can be suggested that the epidemic besides the very essential losses gives an important impulse for social-economic and political modernization of the society.

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