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Mississippian Women, Hardback Book

Mississippian Women Hardback

Edited by Rachel V. Briggs, Michaelyn S. Harle, Lynne P. Sullivan

Part of the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series series

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Highlighting the role of precontact Indigenous women in building and transforming Mississippian cultureThis volume highlights how women were powerful farmers, economic decision-makers, spiritual leaders, and agents of social integration in the diverse societies of the Mississippian world, which spanned the present-day United States South to the Midwest before the seventeenth century.

While Mississippian societies are some of the most well-researched pre-European contact societies on the continent, little attention has been dedicated specifically to Mississippian women.

These chapters offer new insights into the vital role women played within their communities, an approach directly informed by the powerful position of American Indian women within contemporary American Indian communities. Contributors examine themes such as identity, labor, grieving, cooking, craft production, spatial organization, prestige, morbidity, kinship, and fertility.

Case studies include sites throughout the Mississippian world, ranging from Illinois to Florida, including Cahokia and Moundville.

Mississippian Women is the first volume to focus solely on the political, social, and economic power of women during this period, linking their actions in building their culture before European colonialism with the work of Indigenous women in the region today. A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P.

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