Recent Publication—Occasional Paper No. 33 Leadership and Polity in Mississippian Society The late prehistoric societies of the eastern United States that are loosely termed Mississippian are thought to have been led by chiefs. Though great variation in the scale and longevity of those societies has long been recognized, variation in the structure of leadership in them has usually been dichotomized into “simple” vs. “complex” chiefdoms. The contributors to this volume argue for a much richer view of variation in Mississippian leadership structures, including variation in gender relations, economic struc-ture, political institutions, and religious organization. Contents: 2. Persuasive Politics and Domination at Cahokia and Moundville 3. Square Pegs in Round Holes: Organizational Diversity Between Early
Moundville and Cahokia 4. Leadership Strategies and the Nature of Mississippian Chiefdoms in
Northern Georgia 5. The Foundations of Leadership in Mississippian Chiefdoms: Perspectives
from Lake Jackson and Upper Nodena 6. Walls As Symbols of Political, Economic, and Military Might 7. Platforms As Chiefs: Comparing Mound Sequences in Western Kentucky 8. Leadership at the Edge 9. Different but the Same: Social Integration of Households in Mississippian
Chiefdoms 10. Where’s the Power in Mound Building? An Eastern Woodland Perspective 12. The Ritualization of Cahokia: The Structure and Organization of Early
Cahokia Crafts 13. Gendered Contexts of Mississippian Leadership in Southern Appalachia 14. The Power of Diversity: The Roles of Migration and Hybridity in
Culture Change 15. Late Mississippian Caborn-Welborn Social and Political Relationships 16. Mississippian Migration and Emplacement in the Lower Ohio Valley 17. Southeast, Southwest, Mexico: Continental Perspectives on Mississippian
Polities 18. Ancestors or Chiefs? Comparing Social Archaeologies in Eastern North
America and 19. Afterword: Lenses on Mississippian Leadership
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