Prehistoric games of North American Indians : Subarctic to Mesoamerica / edited by Barbara Voorhies.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Voorhies, Barbara, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Games.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Sports.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 369 pages :) illlustrations, maps ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City, Utah : The University of Utah Press, 2017.

Summary:

Prehistoric Games of North American Indians is a collection of studies on the ancient games of indigenous peoples of North America.The authors, all archaeologists, muster evidence from artifacts, archaeological features, ethnography, ethnohistory, and to a lesser extent linguistics and folklore.

Contents:

Why waltes was a woman's game / Kevin Leonard

Playing the Apalachee ballgame in the fields of the thunder god : archaeological and ideological evidence for the game's antiquity / J. Grant Stauffer and F. Kent Reilly III

"He must die unless the whole country shall play crosse" : the role of gaming in Great Lakes indigenous societies / Ronald F. Williamson and Martin S. Cooper

Chunkey and the historic experience in the Mississippian world / Thomas J. Zych

The sacred role of dice games in eastern North America : implications for the protohistoric lower Mississippi Valley / David H. Dye

Reinventing the wheel game : prestige gambling on the plains/plateau frontier / Gabriel M. Yanicki

Gaming in Fremont society / Joel C. Janetski

Mobility, exchange, and the fluency of games : promontory in a broader sociodemographic setting / Gabriel M. Yanicki and John W. Ives

Social aspects of an Apachean stave-dice gaming feature at Three Sisters / Deni J. Seymour

Serious play in the preclassic : the Chalcatzingo figurines as guides in a game of social learning / Mark E. Harlan

Ancient Maya patolli / John Walden and Barbara Voorhies

Sport and ritual as social bonding : the communal nature of Mesoamerican ballgames / Marijke Maurine Stoll and David S. Anderson

Acrobatic dances and games of Mesoamerica as ritual-entertainment / Gerardo Guitierrez

Aztec gambling and magical thinking / Susan Toby Evans

The biggest losers : gambling and enslavement in native North America / Catherine M. Cameron and Lindsay D. Johansson

Post-game remarks / Warren R. Deboer.

Notes:

Contents note from ECIP table of contents.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-60781-560-5

OCLC:

1013827015