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Sending the Spirits Home The Archaeology of Hohokam Mortuary Practices / Glen E. Rice.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rice, Glen, 1946- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--Funeral customs and rites.
- Indians of North America.
- Hohokam culture.
- Antiquities.
- Indians of North America--Funeral customs and rites--Southwest, New.
- Indians of North America--Funeral customs and rites--Arizona.
- New Southwest.
- Arizona.
- Southwest, New--Antiquities.
- Southwest, New.
- Arizona--Antiquities.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 262 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
- Place of Publication:
- Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- Winner of the Don D.and Catherine S. Fowler Prize This data-rich monograph provides new and stimulating perspectives on the Hohokam people and their mortuary practices.It breaks new ground by using the knowledge of descendent peoples to generate archaeologically testable hypotheses; demonstrating the need for mortuary analyses conducted.
- Contents:
- A Hohokam sarcophagus
- Cultural analogues for the study of Hohokam mortuary practices
- The body
- Mortuary accompaniments
- Mortuary architecture
- The cemetery
- A history of Hohokam mortuary practices.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-252) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-60781-460-9
- OCLC:
- 1142314747
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