Religion on the Rocks : Hohokam Rock Art, Ritual Practice, and Social Transformation /

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"Intrigued by the petroglyphs and pictographs of the American Southwest, people commonly ask what these symbols mean. Religion on the Rocks redirects our attention to the equally important matter of what compelled ancient farmers to craft rock art in the first place. To answer this, Aaron Wrigh...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Wright, Aaron M. (Aaron Michael)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social change.
Social archaeology.
Sacred space.
Rock paintings.
Religion, Prehistoric.
Petroglyphs.
Manners and customs.
Hohokam culture.
Antiquities.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
ART > History > Prehistoric & Primitive.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Archaeology.
Social archaeology > Arizona > South Mountains.
Social change > Arizona > South Mountains > History > To 1500.
Religion, Prehistoric > Arizona > South Mountains.
Sacred space > Arizona > South Mountains.
Rock paintings > Arizona > South Mountains.
Petroglyphs > Arizona > South Mountains.
Hohokam culture > Arizona > South Mountains.
Arizona > South Mountains.
South Mountains (Ariz.) > Antiquities.
South Mountains (Ariz.) > Social life and customs.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"Intrigued by the petroglyphs and pictographs of the American Southwest, people commonly ask what these symbols mean. Religion on the Rocks redirects our attention to the equally important matter of what compelled ancient farmers to craft rock art in the first place. To answer this, Aaron Wright presents a case study from Arizona's South Mountains, an area once flanked by several densely populated Hohokam villages. Synthesizing results from recent archaeological surveys, he explores how the mountains' petroglyphs were woven into the broader cultural landscape and argues that the petroglyphs are relics of a bygone ritual system in which people vied for prestige and power by controlling religious knowledge. The features and strategic placement of the rock art suggest this dimension of Hohokam ritual was participatory and prominent in Hohokam life. Around AD 1100, however, petroglyph creation, along with other ritual practices began to wane, denoting a broad transformation of the Hohokam social world. Wright's examination of the South Mountains petroglyphs offers a novel narrative of how Hohokam villagers negotiated a concentration of politico-religious authority around platform mounds. Readers will come away with a fuller understanding of the Hohokam legacy and a greater appreciation for rock art's value to anthropology"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (306 pages): illustrations, maps
ISBN:9781607813651

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