Religion and politics in the ancient Americas

Weitere Verfasser: Barber, Sarah B. , [HerausgeberIn]
Joyce, Arthur A. , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: London ; New York : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
Umfang/Format: xvi, 307 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Routledge archaeology of the ancient Americas
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • 1. New directions in the archaeology of religion and politics in the Americas / Arthur A. Joyce
  • 2. The mobile house : religious leadership at Chacoan and Chacoan revival centers / Erina Gruner
  • 3. The elements of Cahokian shrine complexes and basis of Mississippian religion / Susan M. Alt and Timothy R. Pauketat
  • 4. Cherokee religion and European contact in southeastern North America / Christopher B. Rodning
  • 5. Unsettled gods : religion and politics in the Early Formative Soconusco / Sarah B. Barber
  • 6. Religion, urbanism, and inequality in ancient central Mexico / David M. Carballo
  • 7. Religion in a material world / Rosemary A. Joyce
  • 8. Political engagement in household ritual among the Maya of Yucatan / Scott R. Hutson, Céline C. Lamb, and David Medina Arona
  • 9. Ritual is power? : Religion as a possible base of power for early political actors in ancient Peru / Matthew Piscitelli
  • 10. Timing is everything : religion and the regulation of temporalities in precolumbian Peru / Edward Swenson
  • 11. From landscape to ontology in Amazonia : the Llanos de Mojos as a middle ground / John H. Walker
  • 12. The multivalent mollusk : Spondylus, ritual, and politics in the prehispanic Andes / Jerry D. Moore
  • 13. Power at the crossroads of politics and religion : a commentary / María Nieves Zedeño.