The Apalachee Indians and Mission San Luis (Native Peoples, Cultures and Places of the Southeastern United States serieS)

Rating:
Summary: Culture Under Glass; But Good Photographs
Review: A history of mission efforts to the Apalachee of northwest Florida in a photograph-heavy volume. Covers 1500's-1700's. Told from a stereotypically anthropological viewpoint which gives the impression of a "culture under glass," this is valuable mostly for its gorgeous illustrations.

Rating:
Summary: Culture Under Glass; But Good Photographs
Review: A history of mission efforts to the Apalachee of northwest Florida in a photograph-heavy volume. Covers 1500's-1700's. Told from a stereotypically anthropological viewpoint which gives the impression of a "culture under glass," this is valuable mostly for its gorgeous illustrations.

Rating:
Summary: A books that brings a lost culture and capital to life
Review: The Apalachee Indians and Mission San Luis is one of the most physically attractive books ever produced by an academic press. Its hundreds of photographs, drawings, and panoramic paintings bring to life a long buried Indian town and Spanish colonial regional capital. The authors help establish the importance of the overlooked yet once great chiefdoms of the Southeast and of the abortive but still influential efforts of the Spanish to make those chiefdoms part of their empire. At the same time, the authors vividly reconstruct the daily life of the Indians and Europeans who lived and died at San Luis. Hann and McEwan show commendable sensitivity to the native Apalachee inhabitants in the process. This is a book that can satisfy readers of history, Native American studies, or archeology at several levels.

Rating:
Summary: A books that brings a lost culture and capital to life
Review: The Apalachee Indians and Mission San Luis is one of the most physically attractive books ever produced by an academic press. Its hundreds of photographs, drawings, and panoramic paintings bring to life a long buried Indian town and Spanish colonial regional capital. The authors help establish the importance of the overlooked yet once great chiefdoms of the Southeast and of the abortive but still influential efforts of the Spanish to make those chiefdoms part of their empire. At the same time, the authors vividly reconstruct the daily life of the Indians and Europeans who lived and died at San Luis. Hann and McEwan show commendable sensitivity to the native Apalachee inhabitants in the process. This is a book that can satisfy readers of history, Native American studies, or archeology at several levels.