Book
Cherokees in transition: a study of changing culture and environment prior to 1775
University of Chicago Press • (181) • Published In 1977 • Pages: x, 207
By: Goodwin, Gary C..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The author's stated intention in this document is to answer two related questions: 1) how was ecological variation in the Cherokee territory affected by cultural processes during the aboriginal and early post-contact periods? and 2) how did ecological variation affect aboriginal and post-contact Cherokee cultural ecology and the process of culture contact and acculturation? These questions are not fully answered, however. Topics receiving a detailed treatment include the geography and native flora and fauna of the Cherokee territory, aboriginal settlement pattern and subsistence strategies, the impact of European contact on Cherokee settlement pattern and subsistence strategies during the 17th and 18th centuries and the impact of changes in settlement pattern and subsistence strategies on the Cherokee environment. The author's discussion of European contact is confined mainly to the topic of trade. Some of the most useful ethnohistorical information in this document relates to the Cherokee settlement pattern: the author provides detailed maps, tables and text presenting the location, names, and characteristics of Cherokee settlements prior to and subsequent to contact with Europeans.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Historical reconstruction
- Geography
- History
- Settlement patterns
- External trade
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Diet
- Food quest
- Routes
- Ethnobotany
- Ethnozoology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Cherokee
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Woodlands
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Geographer
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Gerald Reid ; John Beierle ; 1987
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1540-1775
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- southeastern states, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Gary C. Goodwin
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-207)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 77002709
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Cherokee Indians