Among the most socially and personally vocal archaeological remains
on the North American continent are the massive and often complexly
designed earthen architecture of Hopewellian peoples of two
thousand years ago, their elaborately embellished works of art made
of glistening metals and stones from faraway places, and their
highly formalized mortuaries. In this book, twenty-one researchers
in interwoven efforts immerse themselves and the reader in this
vibrant archaeological record in order to richly reconstruct the
societies, rituals, and ritual interactions of Hopewellian peoples.
By finding the faces, actions, and motivations of Hopewellian
peoples as individuals who constructed knowable social roles, the
authors explore, in a personalized and locally contextualized
manner, the details of Hopewellian life: leadership, its sacred and
secular power bases, recruitment, and formalization over time;
systems of social ranking and prestige; animal-totemic clan
organization, kinship structures, and sodalities; gender roles,
prestige, work load, and health; community organization in its
tri-scalar residential, symbolic, and demographic forms;
intercommunity alliances and changes in their strategies and
expanses over time; and interregional travels for power questing,
pilgrimage, healing, tutelage, and acquiring ritual knowledge.
These and other aspects of Hopewellian life are revealed through
the assembly of comprehensive data bases of unprecedented scale,
most of which are fully reported in CD form for the benefit of
other researchers.
This book is useful to scholars, graduate students, and advanced
undergraduates interested in the workings and development of social
complexity atlocal and interregional scales, recent theoretical
developments in the anthropology of the topics listed above, the
prehistory of eastern North America, its history of intellectual
development, and Native American ritual, symbolism, and belief.
General
| Imprint: |
Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology |
| Release date: |
November 2005 |
| First published: |
2005 |
| Editors: |
Christopher Carr
• D. Troy Case
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| Dimensions: |
254 x 178 x 40mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
807 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-306-48479-7 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
History >
General
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| LSN: |
0-306-48479-X |
| Barcode: |
9780306484797 |
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