Abstract
Archaeologists have not readily applied collective action and institutional approaches to the study of hunter-gatherers. This is especially true of the American Southeast. Here, I use a review of the recent literature to illustrate the value of such approaches to understanding long-term histories. This review of hunter-gatherer archaeology spans the entire temporal range of Native American history in the Southeast. I argue that the term “hunter-gatherers” itself is constraining. In its place, I suggest that a focus on institutional change and collective action provides a way to better connect histories across temporal units, which then allows for a greater understanding of how such traditions developed, were maintained (or abandoned), and reinvented over the course of history. At the end of the review, I pose five key research areas that archaeologists should focus on that speak to institutions, the nature of public and private goods, common pool resources, and collective action regarding large-scale labor projects.
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Previous drafts of the paper were greatly improved by comments from and conversations with tribal partners, and colleagues Steve Kowalewski, Tom Pluckhahn, Neill Wallis, Bram Tucker, Amanda Roberts Thompson, Jennifer Birch, Gary Feinman, Linda Nicholas, William Parkinson, Carey Garland, Jake Holland-Lulewicz, as well as the five anonymous reviewers who commented on this manuscript. Special thanks to Carey Garland, Tom Pluckhahn, T. R. Kidder, and Nate Lawres for providing help, advice, and direction on some of the figures used herein.
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Thompson, V.D. Considering Ideas of Collective Action, Institutions, and “Hunter-Gatherers” in the American Southeast. J Archaeol Res 31, 503–560 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10814-022-09179-3
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