Sacred games, death, and renewal in the ancient Eastern Woodlands : the Ohio Hopewell system of cult sodality heterarchies /

The book presents an account of the Ohio Middle Woodland period embankment earthworks, ca 100 B.C. to A.D. 400, that is radically different from the prevailing theory. Byers critically addresses all the arguments and characterizations that make up the current treatment of the embankment earthworks a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Byers, A. Martin, 1937-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lanham : AltaMira Press, c2011.
Subjects:
To 1500
Hopewell culture > Ohio River Valley.
Earthworks (Archaeology) > Ohio River Valley.
Indians of North America > Ohio River Valley > Rites and ceremonies.
Indians of North America > Ohio River Valley > Social life and customs.
Indians of North America > Games > Ohio River Valley.
Indians of North America > Material culture > Ohio River Valley.
Cults > Ohio River Valley > History > To 1500.
Confraternities > Ohio River Valley > History > To 1500.
Social archaeology > Ohio River Valley.
Culture Hopewell > Ohio, Vallée de l'.
Terrassements (Archéologie) > Ohio, Vallée de l'.
Archéologie sociale > Ohio, Vallée de l'.
HISTORY > State & Local > General.
Antiquities
Confraternities
Cults
Earthworks (Archaeology)
Hopewell culture
Indians of North America > Games
Indians of North America > Material culture
Indians of North America > Rites and ceremonies
Indians of North America > Social life and customs
Social archaeology
Ohio River Valley > Antiquities.
Ohio, Vallée de l' > Antiquités.
Ohio River Valley
History
dissertations.
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The domestic/ceremonial dichotomy
  • The tripartite alliance model : a critique
  • The nature of Ohio Hopewell mortuary ceremonialism
  • The symbolic meaning of material culture
  • The ecclesiastic-communal cult sodality model
  • The Hidatsa age-set system and the ritual usufruct conveyancing and franchising model
  • The Ohio Hopewell cult sodality heterarchy system : from the bottom up
  • The Murphy Tract : the empirical grounding of the cult sodality cluster model
  • The sacred games tournée of the Ohio Hopewell system of cult sodality heterarchies
  • The North Fork-Paint Creek interface zone and the terminal conveyancing of custodial regalia
  • The Ohio Hopewell as dispersed third-order cult sodality heterarchies
  • The development of the Ohio Hopewell cult sodality heterarchy system
  • Embankment earthwork and way station facilities
  • The structuring of Ohio Hopewell sites and pathways
  • Embankment earthwork site alignments and relations
  • The Ohio Hopewell and Adena as neighbors and strangers.

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