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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 948
Book Description
Memoirs of the Society for American Archaeology
Author: Memoirs of the Society for American Archaeology
Author: Biographical Memoirs
Author: National Academy of SciencesPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309066441
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Biographic Memoirs: Volume 77 contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works. Each biographical essay was written by a member of the Academy familiar with the professional career of the deceased. For historical and bibliographical purposes, these volumes are worth returning to time and again.
Publications in Archeology
Author: Archeological Research Series
Author: Moche Art and Visual Culture in Ancient Peru
Author: Margaret Ann JacksonPublisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 0826343651
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
This multidisciplinary study analyzes the visual, linguistic, and cultural significance of the imagery used by the Moche in their ceramics and murals.
Contributions to Gran Quivira Archeology, Gran Quivira National Monument, New Mexico
Author: Alden C. HayesPublisher:
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Maya Imagery, Architecture, and Activity
Author: Maline D. Werness-RudePublisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 082635579X
Category : Maya architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Maya Imagery, Architecture, and Activity privileges art historical perspectives in addressing the ways the ancient Maya organized, manipulated, created, interacted with, and conceived of the world around them. The Maya provide a particularly strong example of the ways in which the built and imaged environment are intentionally oriented relative to political, religious, economic, and other spatial constructs. In examining space, the contributors of this volume demonstrate the core interrelationships inherent in a wide variety of places and spaces, both concrete and abstract. They explore the links between spatial order and cosmic order and the possibility that such connections have sociopolitical consequences. This book will prove useful not just to Mayanists but to art historians in other fields and scholars from a variety of disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, geography, and landscape architecture.
Thule Eskimo Culture
Author: Allen Papin McCartneyPublisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 1772820830
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Proceedings of a symposium devoted to Thule archaeology and related northern studies, held at the tenth annual meeting of the Canadian Archaeological Association in Ottawa in 1977. The thirty-one papers range from Thule chronology and culture history, prehistoric-recent continuities, adaptation and climatological relationships, site interpretations, technology and art, human biology, to the history of archaeological development.
Being Scioto Hopewell: Ritual Drama and Personhood in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Author: Christopher CarrPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030449173
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1564
Book Description
This book, in two volumes, breathes fresh air empirically, methodologically, and theoretically into understanding the rich ceremonial lives, the philosophical-religious knowledge, and the impressive material feats and labor organization that distinguish Hopewell Indians of central Ohio and neighboring regions during the first centuries CE. The first volume defines cross-culturally, for the first time, the “ritual drama” as a genre of social performance. It reconstructs and compares parts of 14 such dramas that Hopewellian and other Woodland-period peoples performed in their ceremonial centers to help the soul-like essences of their deceased make the journey to an afterlife. The second volume builds and critiques ten formal cross-cultural models of “personhood” and the “self” and infers the nature of Scioto Hopewell people’s ontology. Two facets of their ontology are found to have been instrumental in their creating the intercommunity alliances and cooperation and gathering the labor required to construct their huge, multicommunity ceremonial centers: a relational, collective concept of the self defined by the ethical quality of the relationships one has with other beings, and a concept of multiple soul-like essences that compose a human being and can be harnessed strategically to create familial-like ethical bonds of cooperation among individuals and communities. The archaeological reconstructions of Hopewellian ritual dramas and concepts of personhood and the self, and of Hopewell people’s strategic uses of these, are informed by three large surveys of historic Woodland and Plains Indians’ narratives, ideas, and rites about journeys to afterlives, the creatures who inhabit the cosmos, and the nature and functions of soul-like essences, coupled with rich contextual archaeological and bioarchaeological-taphonomic analyses. The bioarchaeological-taphonomic method of l’anthropologie de terrain, new to North American archaeology, is introduced and applied. In all, the research in this book vitalizes a vision of an anthropology committed to native logic and motivation and skeptical of the imposition of Western world views and categories onto native peoples.