American Antiquities and the Process of Ethnogenesis in the Early Republic
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Earthworks, Mound-builders, farmers, Mississippi Valley, Ethnogenesis, NationbuildingAbstract
This essay discusses some of the literary expressions dealing with the gigantic earthworks which the first European immigrants and people from the Atlantic seaboard discovered in the Mississippi Valley, thus articulating the inchoate processes of ethnogenesis and nationbuilding in the early Republican period.
I tumuli della Valle del Mississippi e il loro ruolo nel processo della costruzione della nazione americana
L’articolo tratta delle espressioni letterarie che discutevano la presenza dei tumuli giganteschi scoperti nella ‘Mississippi Valley’ dai primi emigranti europei e americani provenienti dalla costa atlantica. Ciò formulò, nel primo periodo repubblicano, importanti processi di etnogenesi e ‘nation-building’.
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