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Sacred games, death, and renewal in the ancient Eastern Woodlands : the Ohio Hopewell system of cult sodality heterarchies
- Title
- Sacred games, death, and renewal in the ancient Eastern Woodlands : the Ohio Hopewell system of cult sodality heterarchies / A. Martin Byers.
- Author
- Byers, A. Martin, 1937-
- Publication
- Lanham : AltaMira Press, c2011.
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Details
- Description
- x, 547 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Indians of North America > Material culture > Ohio River Valley
- Confraternities > Ohio River Valley > History > To 1500
- Ohio River Valley > Antiquities
- Hopewell culture > Ohio River Valley
- Social archaeology > Ohio River Valley
- Indians of North America > Games > Ohio River Valley
- Earthworks (Archaeology) > Ohio River Valley
- Cults > Ohio River Valley > History > To 1500
- Indians of North America > Ohio River Valley > Rites and ceremonies
- Indians of North America > Ohio River Valley > Social life and customs
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- pt. 1. The Ohio Hopewell as a system of cult sodality heterarchies -- 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 -- pt. 2. Sacred games, death, and renewal in Ohio Hopewell -- 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.
- Call Number
- JGE 11-81
- ISBN
- 9780759120327 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0759120323 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780759120341 (electronic)
- 075912034X (electronic)
- LCCN
- 2010037667
- OCLC
- YBP 2010037667
- Author
- Byers, A. Martin, 1937-
- Title
- Sacred games, death, and renewal in the ancient Eastern Woodlands : the Ohio Hopewell system of cult sodality heterarchies / A. Martin Byers.
- Imprint
- Lanham : AltaMira Press, c2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JGE 11-81