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New Methods and Theories for Analyzing Mississippian Imagery /

"Exploring various methodological and theoretical approaches to pre-Columbian visual culture, the essays in this volume reconstruct dynamic accounts of Native American history across the U.S. Southeast"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Lambert, Shawn P. (Editor ), Giles, Bretton T. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville, FL : University of Florida Press, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: New Methods and Theories for Analyzing Mississippian Imagery / Bretton T. Giles and Shawn P. Lambert
  • Part I. Variation in Design and Style
  • Tracking Design Variation within Late Mississippian Complicated Stamped Pottery Assemblages from the Georgia Coast / Anna M. Semon
  • The McAdams Style Revisited: Matching Spider Iconography with Material Culture / J. Grant Stauffer
  • A Preliminary Stylistic Assessment of the Ceramic Imagery of the Late Prehistoric Peoples of Choctawhatchee Bay, Florida, and Its Implications / John F. Scarry
  • Part II. Interpreting Mississippian Iconography
  • Local Eyes: Recognizing Cosmological Motifs / George E. Lankford
  • Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble: Mississippian Witchcraft Agency, Animism, and Materiality / David H. Dye
  • Part III. Situating and Historicizing Mississippian Symbols
  • Mnemonic Parallelism and the Cosmologies Materialized in Late Mississippian Pecan Point Headpots / Bretton T. Giles
  • From Enwrapped Worlds: A Peircean Semiotic Approach to Early Caddo Ceramics / Jesse C. Nowak
  • Imagery in Motion: Object Itineraries of Spiro Engraved Vessels / Shawn P. Lambert
  • Part IV. Concluding Remarks
  • Merging Art Historical and Anthropological Approaches in Pre-Columbian Iconography / Vernon James Knight