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Death, society, and ideology in a Hohokam community / by Randall H. McGuire.

Title: Death, society, and ideology in a Hohokam community / by Randall H. McGuire.
Author: McGuire, Randall H.
Publication: Boulder : Westview Press, 1992.

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Description

x, 209 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Investigations in American archaeology

Uniform Title

Investigations in American archaeology.

Subject

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Contents

1. Introduction -- The Hohokam -- The Site of La Ciudad -- Theoretical Considerations -- Organization of the Book -- 2. Previous Analyses of Hohokam Burials -- The Hemenway Expedition -- Excavations in the 1930s: The Grewe Site and Snaketown -- Excavations in the 1950s and 1960s -- The Second Excavation of Snaketown, 1964-65 -- Excavations in the 1970s and 1980s; CRM and the New Archaeology -- 3. Ethnographic Examples of Cremations -- Cremation Practices of the Riverine Yumans -- Variations in the California Cremation Complex -- Social Organization and Cremation -- The Ethnographic Model and Hohokam Cremation -- 4. Burial Features at La Ciudad / Kathleen Henderson and Randall H. McGuire -- Excavation Procedures -- Dating -- Cemeteries and Associated Features -- Primary Cremations -- Secondary Cremations -- Inhumations -- Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Inhumations -- Animal Burials -- Notes -- 5. Colonial and Sedentary Period Hohokam Cremation Practices -- The Method of Cremation -- Treatment of Bone After Incineration -- Treatment of Grave Goods -- Treatment After Burial -- Notes -- 6. Analysis of Grave Lots -- Limitations of the Ciudad Analysis -- Evidence for Specialized Burial Goods -- Associations Between Artifacts and Other Burial Characteristics -- The Clustering of Artifacts -- Inequality in La Ciudad Grave Lots -- Notes -- 7. Summary and Conclusion -- Summary of Results -- Social Organization -- The Sedentary to Classic Period Transition -- Notes -- Appendix: Descriptive Data for Burials.

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0813383501 :

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^^^91018732^

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Harvard Library