Prehistoric games of North American Indians : Subarctic to Mesoamerica
| Weitere Verfasser: |
Voorhies, Barbara
, [HerausgeberIn]
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Salt Lake City :
The University of Utah Press,
[2017].
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| Umfang/Format: |
xvi, 369 pages : illlustrations, maps ; 27 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781607815594 |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Why waltes was a woman's game / Kevin Leonard
- Playing the Apalachee ballgame in the fields of the thunder god : archaeological and ideological evidence for the game's antiquity / J. Grant Stauffer and F. Kent Reilly III
- "He must die unless the whole country shall play crosse" : the role of gaming in Great Lakes indigenous societies / Ronald F. Williamson and Martin S. Cooper
- Chunkey and the historic experience in the Mississippian world / Thomas J. Zych
- The sacred role of dice games in eastern North America : implications for the protohistoric lower Mississippi Valley / David H. Dye
- Reinventing the wheel game : prestige gambling on the plains/plateau frontier / Gabriel M. Yanicki
- Gaming in Fremont society / Joel C. Janetski
- Mobility, exchange, and the fluency of games : promontory in a broader sociodemographic setting / Gabriel M. Yanicki and John W. Ives
- Social aspects of an Apachean stave-dice gaming feature at Three Sisters / Deni J. Seymour
- Serious play in the preclassic : the Chalcatzingo figurines as guides in a game of social learning / Mark E. Harlan
- Ancient Maya patolli / John Walden and Barbara Voorhies
- Sport and ritual as social bonding : the communal nature of Mesoamerican ballgames / Marijke Maurine Stoll and David S. Anderson
- Acrobatic dances and games of Mesoamerica as ritual-entertainment / Gerardo Guitiérrez
- Aztec gambling and magical thinking / Susan Toby Evans
- The biggest losers : gambling and enslavement in native North America / Catherine M. Cameron and Lindsay D. Johansson
- Post-game remarks / Warren R. Deboer.
