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Religion in the prehispanic Southwest / edited by Christine S. VanPool, Todd L. VanPool, and David A. Phillips, Jr.
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Archaeology of religion
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--Southwest, New--Religion.
- Indians of North America.
- Religion, Prehistoric--Southwest, New.
- Religion, Prehistoric.
- Indians of North America--Southwest, New--Rites and ceremonies.
- Indians of North America--Southwest, New--Antiquities.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Rites and ceremonies.
- Religion.
- New Southwest.
- Antiquities.
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Southwest, New.
- Southwest, New--Antiquities.
- Southwest, New.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 264 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, MD : AltaMira Press, [2006]
- Summary:
- Religion was as central in the day-to-day lives of prehistoric southwestern people just as it is in the lives of their descendants today. Examining the role of religion can help to explain architecture, pottery, agriculture, even commerce. But archaeologists have only recently developed the theoretical and methodological tools with which to study this topic. Religion in the Prehispanic Southwest marks the first book-length study of prehistoric religion in the region. Drawing on a rich array of empirical approaches, the contributors show the importance of understanding beliefs and ritual for a range of time periods and southwestern societies. For professional and avocational archaeologists, for religion scholars and students, Religion in the Prehispanic Southwest represents an important contribution.
- Contents:
- The horned serpent tradition in the North American Southwest / David A. Phillips, Jr., Christine S. Vanpool, and Todd L. Vanpool
- Religious behavior in the post-Chaco years / John Kantner
- New perspectives on an ancient religion: katsina ritual and the archaeological record / E. Charles Adams and Vincent M. Lamotta
- Icons and ethnicity : Hopi painted pottery and murals / Kelley Hays-Gilpin
- Gathering spaces and bounded places : the religious significance of plaza-oriented communities in the Northern Rio Grande, New Mexico / Samantha M. Ruscavage-Barz and Elizabeth A. Bagwell
- Iikááh : Chaco sacred schematics / J.S. Williams, T.J. Blackhorse, J.R. Stein, and R. Friedman
- Guanacos, symbolism, and religion during the Hohokam preclassic / Mark L. Chenault and John M. Lindly
- Elevated spaces : exploring the symbolic at Cerros de Trincheras / Bridget M. Zavala
- Toloatzin and shamanic journeys : exploring the ritual role of sacred datura in the prehistoric Southwest / Lisa W. Huckell and Christine S. Vanpool
- Pre-columbian Venus : celestial twin and icon of duality / Marc Thompson
- Religion and the Mesoamerican ball game in the Casas Grandes region of Northern Mexico / Marcel J. Harmon
- Ancestors and elites : emergent complexity, ritual practices, and mortuary behavior at Paquimé, Chihuahua, Mexico / Gordon F.M. Rakita
- The Casas Grandes and Salado phenomena : evidence for a religious schism in the greater Southwest / Todd L. Vanpool, Christine S. Vanpool, and David A. Phillips, Jr.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0759109664
- 9780759109667
- 0759109672
- 9780759109674
- OCLC:
- 62109920
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