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Sacred games, death, and renewal in the ancient Eastern Woodlands : the Ohio Hopewell system of cult sodality heterarchies / A. Martin Byers.
Penn Museum Library E99.H69 B95 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Byers, A. Martin, 1937-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hopewell culture--Ohio River Valley.
- Hopewell culture.
- Social archaeology.
- Confraternities.
- History.
- Cults.
- Indians of North America--Material culture.
- Indians of North America--Games.
- Indians of North America.
- Manners and customs.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- Earthworks (Archaeology).
- Ohio River Valley--Antiquities.
- Ohio River Valley.
- Antiquities.
- Earthworks (Archaeology)--Ohio River Valley.
- Indians of North America--Ohio River Valley--Rites and ceremonies.
- Indians of North America--Ohio River Valley--Social life and customs.
- Indians of North America--Games--Ohio River Valley.
- Indians of North America--Material culture--Ohio River Valley.
- Cults--Ohio River Valley--History--To 1500.
- Confraternities--Ohio River Valley--History--To 1500.
- Social archaeology--Ohio River Valley.
- Physical Description:
- x, 547 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : AltaMira Press, [2011]
- Contents:
- Pt. 1. The Ohio Hopewell as a system of cult sodality heterarchies
- The domestic/ceremonial dichotomy
- The tripartite alliance model : a critique
- The nature of Ohio Hopewell mortuary ceremonialism
- The symbolic meaning of material culture
- The ecclesiastic-communal cult sodality model
- The Hidatsa age-set system and the ritual usufruct conveyancing and franchising model
- The Ohio Hopewell cult sodality heterarchy system : from the bottom-up
- The Murphy Tract : the empirical grounding of the cult sodality cluster model
- pt. 2. Sacred games, death, and renewal in Ohio Hopewell
- The sacred games tournée of the Ohio Hopewell system of cult sodality heterarchies
- The North Fork-Paint Creek interface zone and the terminal conveyancing of custodial regalia
- The Ohio Hopewell as dispersed third-order cult sodality heterarchies
- The development of the Ohio Hopewell cult sodality heterarchy system
- Embankment earthwork and way station facilities
- The structuring of Ohio Hopewell sites and pathways
- Embankment earthwork site alignments and relations
- The Ohio Hopewell and Adena as neighbors and strangers.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780759120327
- 0759120323
- 9780759120341
- 075912034X
- OCLC:
- 664667206
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