Abstract
The
chiefdoms of pre-contact Georgia were as diverse as their ecological regions
but shared kin-based subsistance-plus modes of production with patriarchal and
matrilineal family structure. Relations
with each other and with the European colonial powers differed similarly but
shared mechanisms of cooptation, brokering, and divide-and-conquer in the
process of establishing tributary modes of production on the path to capitalist
hegemony. A comparison of coastal, lower
piedmont, and mountain settlements of the Gaule, Creek, and Cherokee,
illustrate these mechanisms and this process.
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