Shaman, priest, practice, belief : materials of ritual and religion in eastern North America / edited by Stephen B. Carmody and Casey R. Barrier.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Carmody, Stephen B., 1974- editor.

Barrier, Casey R., 1979- editor.

ProQuest ebook central.

Professor Elisabeth J. Tooker Fund.

Series:

Archaeology of the American South

Archaeology of the American South: new directions and perspectives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paleo-Indians.

Antiquities.

Southern States--Antiquities.

Southern States.

Middle West--Antiquities.

Middle West.

Indians of North America--Religion.

Indians of North America.

Paleo-Indians--East (U.S.)--Antiquities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 333 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2020]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Archaeological case studies consider material evidence of religion and ritual in the pre-Columbian Eastern Woodlands Archaeologists today are interpreting Native American religion and ritual in the distant past in more sophisticated ways, considering new understandings of the ways that Native Americans themselves experienced them. Shaman, Priest, Practice, Belief: Materials of Ritual and Religion in Eastern North America broadly considers Native American religion and ritual in eastern North America and focuses on practices that altered and used a vast array of material items as well as how physical spaces were shaped by religious practices. Unbound to a single theoretical perspective of religion, contributors approach ritual and religion in diverse ways. Importantly, they focus on how people in the past practiced religion by altering and using a vast array of material items, from smoking pipes, ceremonial vessels, carved figurines, and iconographic images, to sacred bundles, hallucinogenic plants, revered animals, and ritual architecture. Contributors also show how physical spaces were shaped by religious practice, and how rock art, monuments, soils and special substances, and even land- and cityscapes were part of the active material worlds of religious agents. Case studies, arranged chronologically, cover time periods ranging from the Paleoindian period (13,000-7900 BC) to the late Mississippian and into the protohistoric/contact periods. The geographical scope is much of the greater southeastern and southern Midwestern culture areas of the Eastern Woodlands, from the Central and Lower Mississippi River Valleys to the Ohio Hopewell region, and from the greater Ohio River Valley down through the Deep South and across to the Carolinas. Contributors Sarah E. Baires / Melissa R. Baltus / Casey R. Barrier / James F. Bates / Sierra M. Bow / James A. Brown / Stephen B. Carmody / Meagan E. Dennison / Aaron Deter-Wolf / David H. Dye / Bretton T. Giles / Cameron Gokee / Kandace D. Hollenbach / Thomas A. Jennings / Megan C. Kassabaum / John E. Kelly / Ashley A. Peles / Tanya M. Peres / Charlotte D. Pevny / Connie M. Randall / Jan F. Simek / Ashley M. Smallwood / Renee B. Walker / Alice P. Wright

Contents:

Introduction: Materials of ritual and religion in eastern North America / Casey R. Barrier and Stephen B. Carmody

Early ritual in the American Southeast : evidence from the Paleoindian period / Thomas A. Jennings, Ashley M. Smallwood, and Charlotte D. Pevny

Caches and burials : ritual use of Dust Cave during the Paleoindian and Archaic periods / Renee B. Walker

Tattoo bundles as archaeological correlates for ancient body ritual in eastern North America / Aaron Deter-Wolf and Tanya M. Peres

Planting ritual : Woodland Gardens and imbued landscapes / Stephen B. Carmody and Kandace D. Hollenbach

Emergence and importance of Falconoid imagery during the Middle Woodland period / Bretton T. Giles

Ritual knowledge and composition : rethinking "Hopewellian" assemblages in the Middle Woodland Southeast / Alice P. Wright and Cameron Gokee

Bears as both family and food : tracing the changing contexts of bear ceremonialism in the Feltus Mounds / Megan C. Kassabaum and Ashley Peles

Identifying religious activity in the archaeological record : the case of the Griffin Shelter (40FR151) / Sierra M. Bow, James F. Bates, Meagan E. Dennison, Connie M. Randall, and Jan F. Simek

Psychotropic plants and sacred animals at the Washausen Mound-Town : religious ritual and the early Mississippian era / Casey R. Barrier

Religious partners : material and human actors in the creation of early Cahokia / Sarah E. Baires and Melissa R. Baltus

Allure of Cahokia as a sacred place in the eleventh century / James A. Brown and John E. Kelly

Head pots and religious sodalities in the Lower Mississippi Valley / David H. Dye.

Notes:

"A Dan Josselyn memorial publication"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-313) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Professor Elisabeth J. Tooker Fund.

ISBN:

9780817392727

0817392726

Publisher Number:

99984096602

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.