Tacachale: Essays on the Indians of Florida and Southeastern Georgia during the Historic Period (Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1947372106 ISBN 13: 9781947372108

Publisher: Library Press at UF, 2017

Synopsis

The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida’s long history of publishing Latin American and Caribbean studies titles that connect in and through Florida, highlighting the connections between the Sunshine State and its neighboring islands. Books in this series show how early explorers found and settled Florida and the Caribbean. They tell the tales of early pioneers, both foreign and domestic. They examine topics critical to the area such as travel, migration, economic opportunity, and tourism. They look at the growth of Florida and the Caribbean and the attendant pressures on the environment, culture, urban development, and the movement of peoples, both forced and voluntary.

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Book Description:

"Well researched and well written, and with a skillful combination of the techniques of ethnohistory and archaeology. . . . Though ten separate authors were involved in this book, one detects no unevenness in the presentations."—American Indian Quarterly

"An outstanding book.  The reader is brought up to date concerning recent research on such tribes as the Calusas, Tocobagas, Western Timucua, Guales, and early Seminoles."—Tampa Bay History

"A scholarly intertwining of history, ethnography, and archaeology."—Choice

"A splendid [volume] that reflects both scholarship and good writing."—Georgia Librarian

Tacachale—a Timucuan word that means "to light a new fire"—refers to an Indian ritual that the Timucuans used to minimize impending change and maintain their way of life.  In these essays it symbolizes the efforts of the aborigines of Florida and southeastern Georgia to deal with the destruction of their cultures during the period of European colonization.

Jerald T. Milanich is curator of archaeology and chair, Department of Anthropology, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville.  He is the author or editor of eleven books and monographs, including Archaeology of Precolumbian Florida (UPF, 1994) and (with Charles Hudson)  Hernando de Soto and the Indians of Florida (UPF, 1993).  Samuel Proctor is Distinguished Service Professor of History at the University of Florida and editor of the Bicentennial Floridiana Facsimile Series (UPF).  He is the author or editor of numerous books on the history of Florida and the Southeast, including Napoleon Bonaparte Broward:  Florida's Fighting Democrat (UPF, 1993) and Gator History: A Pictorial History of the University of Florida.   For many years he was editor of the Florida Historical Quarterly.

About this edition

• Publisher: Library Press at UF
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1947372106
• ISBN 13: 9781947372108
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 234
• Editor: Milanich Jerald T., Proctor Samuel