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Mississippian mortuary practices : beyond hierarchy and the representationist perspective / edited by Lynne P. Sullivan and Robert C. Mainfort Jr.

Penn Museum Library E99.M6815 M56 2010
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Sullivan, Lynne P.
Mainfort, Robert C., 1948-
George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
Series:
Ripley P. Bullen series
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Mississippian culture--Southern States.
Mississippian culture.
Mississippian culture--Middle West.
Claflin-Emerson Expedition (1927-1931).
Claflin-Emerson Expedition.
Indians of North America--Funeral customs and rites--Southern States--History.
Indians of North America.
Indians of North America--Funeral customs and rites--Middle West--History.
Social archaeology--Southern States.
Social archaeology.
Social archaeology--Middle West.
Indians of North America--Southern States--Antiquities.
Antiquities.
Indians of North America--Funeral customs and rites.
History.
Southern States.
Indians of North America--Middle West--Antiquities.
Southern States--Antiquities.
Middle West--Antiquities.
Middle West.
Physical Description:
xiv, 348 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Place of Publication:
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2010]
Contents:
Mississippian mortuary practices and the quest for interpretation / Lynne P. Sullivan and Robert C. Mainfort Jr.
The missing persons in Mississippian mortuaries / Timothy R. Pauketat
Cosmological layouts of secondary burials as political instruments / James A. Brown
Multiple groups, overlapping symbols, and the creation of a sacred space at Etowah's Mound C / Adam King
Social and spatial dimensions of Moundville mortuary practices / Gregory D. Wilson, Vincas P. Steponaitis, and Keith Jacobi
Aztalan mortuary practices revisited / Lynne G. Goldstein
Mississippian dimensions of a Fort Ancient mortuary program : the development of authority and spatial grammar at SunWatch Village / Robert A. Cook
Temporal changes in mortuary behavior : evidence from the Middle and Upper Nodena sites, Arkansas / Robert C. Mainfort Jr. and Rita Fisher-Carroll
The materialization of status and social structure at Koger's Island Cemetery, Alabama / Jon Bernard Marcoux
Pecan Point as the "capital" of Pacaha : a mortuary perspective / Rita Fisher-Carroll and Robert C. Mainfort Jr.
Mound construction and community changes within the Mississippian community at Town Creek / Edmond A. Boudreaux III
Mortuary practices and cultural identity at the turn of the sixteenth century in eastern Tennessee / Lynne P. Sullivan and Michaelyn S. Harle
The mortuary assemblage from the Holliston Mills Site, a Mississippian town in upper East Tennessee / Jay D. Franklin, Elizabeth K. Price, and Lucinda M. Langston
Caves as mortuary contexts in the Southeast / Jan F. Simek and Alan Cressler.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-340) and index.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
ISBN:
9780813034263
0813034264
OCLC:
437299357
Publisher Number:
99937330566

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