Title The edge of the woods : Iroquoia, 1534-1701 / Jon Parmenter

Published East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xlix, 474 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents On the journey, 1534-1634 -- The edge of the woods, 1635-1649 -- Requickening, 1650-1666 -- Six songs, 1667-1684 -- Over the forest, part I, 1685-1693 -- Over the forest, part II, 1694-1701 -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: Iroquois settlements, 1600-1701 -- Appendix 2: postepidemic Iroquois demography, 1634-1701 Summary Drawing on archival and published documents in several languages, archaeological data, and Iroquois oral traditions, The Edge of the Woods explores the ways in which spatial mobility represented the geographic expression of Iroquois social, political, and economic priorities. By reconstructing the late precolonial Iroquois settlement landscape and the paths of human mobility that constructed and sustained it, Jon Parmenter challenges the persistent association between Iroquois "locality" and Iroquois "culture," and more fully maps the extended terrain of physical presence and social activity that Iroquois people inhabited. Studying patterns of movement through and between the multiple localities in Iroquois space, the book offers a new understanding of Iroquois peoplehood during this period. According to Parmenter, Iroquois identities adapted, and even strengthened, as the very shape of Iroquois homelands changed dramatically during the seventeenth century. In assessing the ways the Iroquois engaged the pressures and opportunities presented by the development of European settler colonies on the periphery of their homelands, The Edge of the Woods relates the Iroquois experience to larger critical conversations about the impact of colonialism on human cultures, polities, and economies--a discourse from which Native Americans are often excluded as agents of change. Recognizing that North American settler colonialism has not only invaded and conquered territorial space but also colonized Indigenous epistemological spaces, Parmenter tells the story of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Iroquois history from the "inside out." To accomplish this, Parmenter compares multiple European accounts of the Iroquois during this period and draws on the physical evidence of the archaeological record through the lens of Iroquois oral traditions. In so doing, the book aims to render articulate some of the many silences of the Iroquois past Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Iroquois Indians -- Social life and customs. Iroquois Indians -- Social conditions Social structure -- North America -- History Social mobility -- North America -- History Spatial behavior -- North America -- History Power (Social sciences) -- North America -- History Community life -- North America -- History Human geography -- North America -- History HISTORY -- General. Community life Human geography Iroquois Indians -- Social conditions Iroquois Indians -- Social life and customs Manners and customs Power (Social sciences) Social conditions Social mobility Social structure Spatial behavior Irokesen Lebensraum Kultur Räumliche Identität Gruppenidentität SUBJECT North America -- Social life and customs North America -- Social conditions Subject North America Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 1609172140 9781609172145

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