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New methods and theories for analyzing Mississippian imagery

Title
New methods and theories for analyzing Mississippian imagery / edited by Bretton T. Giles and Shawn P. Lambert.
Publication
Gainesville, FL : University of Florida Press, [2021]

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Additional Authors
  • Giles, Bretton T.
  • Lambert, Shawn P.
Description
x, 265 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white); 24 cm.
Summary
"Exploring various methodological and theoretical approaches to pre-Columbian visual culture, the essays in this volume reconstruct dynamic accounts of Native American history across the U.S. Southeast"--
Series Statement
Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen series
Uniform Title
Ripley P. Bullen series.
Subject
  • Mississippian culture > Southern States > History
  • Indians of North America > Southern States > Antiquities
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
  • ART / History / Prehistoric
  • Indians of North America > Antiquities
  • Mississippian culture
  • Southern States > History
  • Southern States
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: New Methods and Theories for Analyzing Mississippian Imagery / Bretton T. Giles and Shawn P. Lambert -- Part I. Variation in Design and Style -- Tracking Design Variation within Late Mississippian Complicated Stamped Pottery Assemblages from the Georgia Coast / Anna M. Semon -- The McAdams Style Revisited: Matching Spider Iconography with Material Culture / J. Grant Stauffer -- A Preliminary Stylistic Assessment of the Ceramic Imagery of the Late Prehistoric Peoples of Choctawhatchee Bay, Florida, and Its Implications / John F. Scarry -- Part II. Interpreting Mississippian Iconography -- Local Eyes: Recognizing Cosmological Motifs / George E. Lankford -- Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble: Mississippian Witchcraft Agency, Animism, and Materiality / David H. Dye -- Part III. Situating and Historicizing Mississippian Symbols -- Mnemonic Parallelism and the Cosmologies Materialized in Late Mississippian Pecan Point Headpots / Bretton T. Giles -- From Enwrapped Worlds: A Peircean Semiotic Approach to Early Caddo Ceramics / Jesse C. Nowak -- Imagery in Motion: Object Itineraries of Spiro Engraved Vessels / Shawn P. Lambert -- Part IV. Concluding Remarks -- Merging Art Historical and Anthropological Approaches in Pre-Columbian Iconography / Vernon James Knight
Call Number
JFE 21-8985
ISBN
  • 9781683402121
  • 168340212X
LCCN
  • 2021021916
  • 40030768516
OCLC
1245656343
Title
New methods and theories for analyzing Mississippian imagery / edited by Bretton T. Giles and Shawn P. Lambert.
Publisher
Gainesville, FL : University of Florida Press, [2021]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen series
Ripley P. Bullen series.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Giles, Bretton T., editor.
Lambert, Shawn P., editor.
Other Form:
Online version: New methods and theories for analyzing Mississippian imagery Gainesville : University of Florida Press, [2021] 9781683402466 (DLC) 2021021917
Other Standard Identifier
40030768516
Research Call Number
JFE 21-8985
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