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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
- 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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