Due Date: Thursday, April 30 (by midnight)
Suggested Prompt:
"The Effigy Mound culture," argues Wilson (1998:91) in The Shamanic Trace, "... chose an economy/technology which (according to the prejudices of social evolution and 'progress') represents a step backward in human development. It took this step, apparently, because it considered this the right thing to do."
What is Wilson's intervention here? Do you agree with his argument? And to what degree might his critique of notions of evolutionary progress be extended to the greater sweep of Eastern Woodland (pre)history?
