Cahokia and the archaeology of power / Thomas E. Emerson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Emerson, Thomas E., 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Illinois--American Bottom--Antiquities.

Indians of North America.

Mississippian culture--Illinois--American Bottom.

Mississippian culture.

Social archaeology--Illinois--American Bottom.

Social archaeology.

Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park (Ill.).

American Bottom (Ill.)--Antiquities.

American Bottom (Ill.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, AL : University of Alabama Press, c1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This dramatic and controversial new interpretation of Cahokian leadership strategies examines the authority a ruling elite exercised over the surrounding countryside through a complex of social, political, and religious symbolism. This study uses the theoretical concepts of agency, power, and ideology to explore the development of cultural complexity within the hierarchically organized Cahokia Middle Mississippian society of the American Bottom from the 11th to the 13th centuries. By scrutinizing the available archaeological settlement and symbolic evidence, Em

Contents:

Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. The Conceptual Parameters; 3. The Cultural-Historical Contexts; 4. Mississippian Rural Settlement; 5. Cahokian Rural Nodes: The Archaeological Evidence; 6. Interpreting Cahokian Rural Settlements; 7. The Cahokian Symbolic World; 8. Cahokian Rural Cults; 9. Conclusions; References Cited; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-306) and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8365-4

0-585-18412-7

OCLC:

648711530