Shaman, Priest, Practice, Belief: Materials of Ritual and Religion in Eastern North America

ISBN-13: 9780817320423 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 344 str.

Stephen B. Carmody; Casey R. Barrier; Sarah E. Baires

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• List of Illustrations
• Introduction: The Materials of Ritual and Religion in Eastern North America
• Casey R. Barrier and Stephen B. Carmody
• 1. Early Ritual in the American Southeast: Evidence from the Paleoindian Period
• Thomas A. Jennings, Ashley M. Smallwood, and Charlotte D. Pevny
• 2. Caches and Burials: Ritual Use of Dust Cave during the Paleoindian and Archaic Periods
• Renee B. Walker
• 3. Tattoo Bundles as Archaeological Correlates for Ancient Body Ritual in Eastern North America
• Aaron Deter-Wolf and Tanya M. Peres
• 4. Planting Ritual: Woodland Gardens and Imbued Landscapes
• Stephen B. Carmody and Kandace D. Hollenbach
• 5. The Emergence and Importance of Falconoid Imagery during the Middle Woodland Period
• Bretton T. Giles
• 6. Ritual Knowledge and Composition: Rethinking 'Hopewellian' Assemblages in the Middle Woodland Southeast
• Alice P. Wright and Cameron Gokee
• 7. Bears as Both Family and Food: Tracing the Changing Contexts of Bear Ceremonialism at the Feltus Mounds
• Megan C. Kassabaum and Ashley Peles
• 8. Identifying Religious Activity in the Archaeological Record: The Case of the Griffin Shelter (40FR151)
• Sierra M. Bow, James F. Bates, Meagan E. Dennison, Connie M. Randall, and Jan F. Simek
• 9. Psychotropic Plants and Sacred Animals at the Washausen Mound-Town: Religious Ritual and the Early Mississippian Era
• Casey R. Barrier
• 10. Religious Partners: Material and Human Actors in the Creation of Early Cahokia
• Sarah E. Baires and Melissa R. Baltus
• 11. The Allure of Cahokia as a Sacred Place in the Eleventh Century
• James A. Brown and John E. Kelly
• 12. Head Pots and Religious Sodalities in the Lower Mississippi Valley
• David H. Dye
• Works Cited
• Contributors
• Index