Native American Log Cabins in the Southeast

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Gregory A. Waselkov

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University of Tennessee Press
08 April 2019

Theory of architecture; History of architecture; General & world history; Archaeology; First Nations

Southeastern Native American forms of domestic architecture underwent multiple transitions between the mid-eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries. In Native American Log Cabins in the Southeast, Gregory A. Waselkov and ten colleagues track the origins of Native American cabins, structures that incorporated a range of features borrowed from indigenous post-in ground building traditions, Euroamerican horizontal notched-log construction, and elements introduced by Africans and African Americans. Grounded in archaeological investigation, their essays illuminate the distinctive cabin forms developed by various southeastern Native groups, including the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, and Catawba peoples.

In a rapidly changing social, economic, and political landscape at the frontiers of an expansionist United States, the log cabin, a northern European house form, proved equally adaptable to the needs of settlers, slaves, and Native peoples. Each found ways to make log cabins their own. Beneath these deceptively simple hewn facades, indigenous principles of correctness guided southeastern Indians’ uses of interior cabin space, creations of raised clay hearths, and maintenance of pits that gave occupants access to the regenerative properties of the Beneath World. The chapters in this volume make important contributions toward a better understanding of houses and households in the Native Southeast by marshalling new data, methods, and theory to address an important but understudied phenomenon.

Edited by: Gregory A. Waselkov
Imprint: University of Tennessee Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 560g
ISBN: 9781621905042
ISBN 10: 1621905047
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 08 April 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

GREGORY A. WASELKOV is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of South Alabama. His books include A Conquering Spirit: Fort Mims and the Redstick War of 1813-1814 and Forging Southeastern Identities: Social Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and Folklore of the Mississippian to Early Historic South.