The Edge of the Woods: Iroquoia, 1534-1701 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780870139857)

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.

Author: Jon Parmenter
ISBN-10: 0870139851
ISBN-13: 9780870139857
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/22/2010
Pages: 524
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.80lbs
Size: 10.25h x 7.40w x 1.50d
Award: PROSE - Honorable Mention

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2011
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2011 pg. 45