Landscapes of ritual performance in eastern North America

Weitere Verfasser: Claassen, Cheryl 1953-
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Oxford, United Kingdom ; Havertown, PA : Oxbow Books, 2023.
Umfang/Format: vi, 249 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Schriftenreihe: American Landscapes (Series) ; v. 8.
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Cultic ritual complexes / Cheryl Claassen
  • Part 1: Cults and rituals. The old Fire-deer spirits cult in the Archaic period of eastern North America / Cheryl Claassen
  • Priestesses and priests, temples, and goddesses : structuring and recentering ritual in early Cahokian religious landscapes / Thomas E. Emerson
  • Continuity, resilience, and transformation in Choctaw ritual practice / David H. Dye
  • Places of stone and skill : an exploration of Paleoindian and Early Archaic rituals and ritual practitioners in Northeastern North America / Francis "Jess" Robinson
  • Watchfires above the wetwoods : late Middle Archaic mortuary ritual and landscape in the Falls of the Ohio region / Anne Tobbe Bader
  • Persons of the Directions : ontology and ethics meet cosmology in understanding the world views and rituals of Adena, Hopewell, and post-contact Eastern Woodland Indian societies / Christopher Carr
  • Set, setting, and sacra : Eastern North America's tobacco shamans and the New World narcotic complex / Bobi Deere
  • Figured practices : the material heritage of ritual in the Great Lakes region / William Fox and Neal Ferris
  • Part 2: Landscape, shrines, and pilgrimage. Portals through the spirit world : pre-contact ceremonial cave use in the American Southeast / Jan F. Simek, Beau Duke Carroll, and Alan Cressler
  • Rituals of stone : Native American use of stone in the Southeastern US / James R. Wettstaed and Johannes H.N. Loubser
  • Revisiting Aztalan : looking at ritual from several perspectives / Lynne Goldstein, Sissel Schroeder, Donald Gaff, and Jake Pfaffenroth
  • Sacred journeys in the greater Cahokia region / B. Jacob Skousen
  • Paths of the lightning arrow : the Apalachee ballgame and the persistence of landscapes / Jesse C. Nowak and Charles T. Rainville.