European metals in native hands
Subtitle: rethinking the dynamics of technological change, 1640-1683
By: Kathleen L. Ehrhardt
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
Subjects: Illinois Indians -- First contact with Europeans; Illinois Indians -- Industries; Illinois Indians -- Commerce; Imports -- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 17th century; Exports -- Europe -- History -- 17th century; Indian copperwork -- Mississippi River Valley; Copper implements -- Europe -- History; Technological innovations -- Mississippi River Valley; Mississippi river Valley -- History -- 17th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-234) and index
Table of contents: title: Native technologies, European contact, and the processes and meanings of material change; title: Setting aside the "standard view" : revealing "style" and change in technological systems; title: Recovering Illinois copper-base metalworking style : the analytical program; title: Indigenous copper working in the midcontinent : situating Illinois copper-base metal use in late protohistory; title: "Lost sheep; title: in the jaws of the wolf" : the mid-seventeenth-century Illinois in ethnohistorical and archaeological perspective; title: From kettle sheet to ornament : artifact forms, production, and use; title: Finding "style" beneath the surface : artifact composition and manufacturing history; title: Illinois metalworking style in contexts of social action and technological change