The Edge of the Woods

Iroquoia, 1534-1701

• Author(s): Jon Parmenter,
• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Pages: 474
• ISBN_10: 161186139X
  ISBN_13: 9781611861396
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Indigenous Peoples in the Americas , History / North America , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Social Science / Human Geography , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American Studies , Social Science / Sociology / General , Social Science / Sociology / Social Theory , Social Science / Social Classes & Economic Disparity ,

Description:... Drawing on archival and published documents in several languages, archeological 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.