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Author:

Ehrhardt, Kathleen L., 1948-

Title:

European metals in native hands : rethinking the dynamics of technological change, 1640-1683 / Kathleen L. Ehrhardt.

Publisher:

University of Alabama Press,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

xiv, 253 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Subject:

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--To 1803.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [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.

ISBN:

9780817351465 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0817351469 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780817314408 (cloth : alk. paper)
0817314407 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)55746490

LCCN:

2004014702

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)