| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 253 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-234) and index. |
| Contents |
Native technologies, European contact, and the processes and meanings of material change -- Setting aside the "standard view" : revealing "style" and change in technological systems -- Recovering Illinois copper-base metalworking style : the analytical program -- Indigenous copper working in the midcontinent : situating Illinois copper-base metal use in late protohistory -- Lost sheep-- in the jaws of the wolf : the mid-seventeenth-century Illinois in ethnohistorical and archaeological perspective -- From kettle sheet to ornament : artifact forms, production, and use -- Finding "style" beneath the surface : artifact composition and manufacturing history -- Illinois metalworking style in contexts of social action and technological change. |
| Summary |
Kathleen Ehrhardt's research addresses the early technological responses of the Late Protohistoric Illinois Indians, to European-introduced metal objects. In revealing actual Native practice, from material selection and procurement to ultimate discard, the author challenges technocentric explanations for Native material and cultural change. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Illinois Indians -- First contact with Europeans.
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Illinois Indians. |
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Illinois Indians -- Industries.
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Industries. |
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Illinois Indians -- Commerce.
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Commerce. |
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Indian copperwork -- Mississippi River Valley.
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Indian copperwork. |
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Mississippi River Valley. |
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Copper implements -- Europe -- History.
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Copper implements. |
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Europe. |
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History. |
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Technological innovations -- Mississippi River Valley.
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Technological innovations. |
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Mississippi River Valley -- History -- To 1803.
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| Chronological Term |
To 1803 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ehrhardt, Kathleen L., 1948- European metals in native hands. Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, ©2005 0817314407 9780817314408 (DLC) 2004014702 (OCoLC)55746490 |
| ISBN |
9780817380861 (electronic book) |
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0817380868 (electronic book) |
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0817314407 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780817314408 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0817351469 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780817351465 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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