Exploring Ontologies of the Precontact Americas : From Individual Bodies to Bodies of Social Theory / edited by Gordon F. M. Rakita and María Cecilia Lozada.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rakita, Gordon F. M., 1971- editor.

Lozada, Mari´a Cecilia, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians--Antiquities.

Indians.

Indigenous people--Antiquities.

Indians--Funeral customs and rites.

America--Antiquities.

America.

Local Subjects:

Indigenous people--Antiquities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville, FL : University of Florida Press, [2024]

Summary:

This volume engages with social theory and considers diverse, non-Western worldviews to explore concepts of life and death in past societies of the Indigenous Americas.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of Illustrations

1. Bodies of Evidence: An Introduction

2. Necrontology: Housing the Dead in Precontact Labrador and Greenland

3. Ontology, Time Travel, and Transformation in the Lower Illinois Valley

4. Body Ontologies and Social Complexities in Precontact Florida

5. Ontological Insecurity and Social Transformation: Ritualized Violence and Corporeality-Pueblo Case Study

6. Body Parts and Partible Bodies: Indications of Non-Western Ontologies at Paquimé, Chihuahua

7. Eating Death: Maya Rationales for Mortality during the Classic Period

8. Bodies, Bones, and the Dead: Representations and Cross-Category Connections in Classic Maya Iconography

9. Isotopes and the Body Politic: Residential Origins and Relocations in the Inka Imperial Heartland

10. The Materiality of Bodies in the Mouth of the Amazon: Life and Death in the Indigenous Site of Curiaú Mirim I

Epilogue

List of Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781683404248

1683404246

9781683404156

1683404157