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Cahokia : a world renewal cult heterarchy / A. Martin Byers.
Penn Museum Library E88.M6815 B84 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Byers, A. Martin, 1937-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- Cults.
- Mississippian culture.
- Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park (Ill.).
- Mississippian culture--Illinois--Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park.
- Cults--Illinois--Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park.
- Indians of North America--Illinois--Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park--Rites and ceremonies.
- Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park (Ill.)--Antiquities.
- Illinois--Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 599 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Gainsville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2006]
- Contents:
- 2 The Deontic Ecological Perspective 31
- 3 Cultural Traditions and Prehistoric Archaeology 60
- 4 Deontic Ecology, Cultural Traditions, and Social Systems 85
- 5 Mortuary Practices, Cults, and Social Systems 105
- 6 The Sacred Maize Model and the Sponemann Site 137
- 7 The Early Terminal Late Woodland Period Sponemann Community Development 163
- 8 The Development of Terminal Late Woodland Period American Bottom Settlement: The Range Site 178
- 9 Cahokia as a World Renewal Cult Heterarchy 223
- 10 Cahokia as a Hierarchical Monistic Modular Polity: A Critical View 240
- 11 The "Rural" Settlement Pattern 261
- 12 Cahokian Mortuary Practices: The Media of World Renewal Ritual 296
- 13 Mound 72: Funerary Monument or World Renewal Icon? 325
- 14 Integrating the Floodplain and Upland Mortuary Records 373
- 15 The Terminal Late Woodland-Mississippian Transition: Alternative Accounts 403
- 16 The Organizational Principles of Multiple-Mound Locales 449
- 17 The Layout of Cahokia: The Material Media and Outcome of Factionalism 473
- 18 The History and Outcome of Factional Competition in Cahokia 505
- Appendix A Sponemann Site, Sponemann Phase, Sitewide Ubiquity, and Exclusivity Indices 529
- Appendix B Sponemann Site, Sponemann Phase, Community 3 Ubiquity, and Exclusivity Indices 539.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [573]-586) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0813029589
- OCLC:
- 63680060
- Publisher Number:
- 9780813029580
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