Reclaiming the Hopewellian ceremonial sphere : 200 B.C. to A.D. 500 /

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Author / Creator:Byers, A. Martin, 1937- author.
Imprint:Norman, OK : University of Oklahoma Press, [2015]
Description:xi, 428 pages ; 26 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10448046
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ISBN:9780806186887
0806186887
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: The Hopewellian assemblage and its social meaning
  • 2. The community polity and the complementary heterarchical community : contrasting alternatives
  • 3. The Ohio Hopewellian cult sodality heterarchy system and the Ohio Hopewellian ceremonial sphere
  • 4. The sacred bundle and the symbolic pragmatic meaning of material culture : the transfer of Hopewellian ritual
  • 5. The Hopewellian ceremonial sphere : deontic ecology and Hopewellian ritual and mortuary practices
  • 6. Migrating bones, migrating people : funerary or postmortem sacrifical paradigms?
  • 7. The Illinois-Havana Hopewellian mortuary mound clusters : current views
  • 8. The Illinois-Havana Hopewellian cult sodality heterarchy system : the dual altar crypt model
  • 9. The history-in-mounds scenario of the Elizabeth Mound cult sodality heterarchy : demonstrating the dual altar crypt model
  • 10. The floodplain and bluff-top Hopewellian sites of the lower Illinois Valley : alternative modeling of the Hopewellian ceremonial sphere of western Illinois
  • 11. The Mann phase and the Indiana (Mann) Hopewellian ceremonial sphere
  • 12. The Kolomoki Site and the Swift Creek-Weeden Island ceremonial sphere
  • 13. The dynamics of a ceremonial sphere collapse : the nature of the Middle Woodland-Late Woodland period transition.