Research Catalog

Title

Our hidden landscapes : indigenous stone ceremonial sites in eastern North America / edited by Lucianne Lavin and Elaine Thomas.

Publication

• Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2023.
• ©2023

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lavin, Lucianne
• Thomas, Elaine, 1947-

Description

xii, 370 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"The aim of this book is to introduces readers to the historic Indigenous ceremonial stone landscapes that dot the woodlands of Eastern North America, that they may be able to identify these ritual landscapes and thus help protect and preserve them for future generations"--

Series Statement

Native peoples of the Americas

Uniform Title

Native peoples of the Americas.

Subject

• Indians of North America > East (U.S.) > Religion
• Sacred space > East (U.S.)
• Stone > East (U.S.) > Religious aspects
• Antiquities
• Indians of North America > Religion
• Sacred space
• Stone > Religious aspects
• East (U.S.) > Antiquities
• East United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword by / Laurie Weinstein -- Introduction / Lucianne Lavin and Elaine Thomas -- Part I. Indigenous Perspectives on the Meaning and Significance of Ceremonial Stone Landscapes. When the Landscape Speaks for Itself, What Do We Learn? / Doug Harris ; Markings of Ancestral Pathways : A Native Perspective / Elaine Thomas ; Unseen Borders and Ways of Knowing: Northeastern Algonquian Sacred Lands / Nohham Rolf Cachat-Schilling - Part II. Academic Perspectives on Understanding, Protecting, and Preserving Indigenous Ceremonial Stone Landscapes. Obligations of Place: Engaging with Tribal Historic Preservation Offices in New England to Preserve and Protect Ceremonial Stone Landscapes / Paul A. Robinson ; "So You Believe in Aliens, Too?" An Anthropologist Looks at Stone Features in the North American Northeast and the Archaeologists Who Do and Do Not Study Them / Laurie W. Rush ; Introduction to Stone Removal and Disposal Practices in Agriculture and Farming / James E. Gage ; Ceremonial Landscapes in the Chesapeake / Julia A. King and Scott M. Strickland ; Stones and Their Places : An Application of Landscape Theory to Ceremonial Stone Landscapes of West Virginia / Matthew Victor Weiss and Charity Moore Norton ; Piled Stone Features of Jackson County, Georgia / Johannes H. N. Loubser -- Part III. Case Studies of Ceremonial Stone Landscapes. A Sacred Space on a Hilltop in Harwinton, Connecticut / Robert DeFosses ; Interpreting Row-Linked Boulder Sites from Georgia to New England / Norman Muller ; Historic Ceremonial Structures / Mary Gage ; A Theoretical Model of the Moon and the Milky Way at Ancient Meeting Places / Frederick W. Martin ; Mythologies of Light and Cast Shadow Within Northeastern Stone Chambers / Kathleen Patricia Thrane.

Call Number

JFE 24-769

ISBN

• 9780816550876
• 0816550875
• 9780816550883 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2022058185

OCLC

1356967168

Title

Our hidden landscapes : indigenous stone ceremonial sites in eastern North America / edited by Lucianne Lavin and Elaine Thomas.

Publisher

Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2023.

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Native peoples of the Americas

Native peoples of the Americas.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Lavin, Lucianne, editor.

Thomas, Elaine, 1947- editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Our hidden landscapes Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2023 9780816550883 (DLC) 2022058186

Research Call Number

JFE 24-769