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Southeastern Ceremonial Complex
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Author : Adam King
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2007-08-26
Southeastern Ceremonial Complex written by Adam King and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-26 with History categories.
How certain Southern indigenous viewed themselves from prehistory to decimation by Europeans was already a significant subject of study fifty years ago, but more recent scholarship has proven that what was once considered a single cult was actually a complex of cults, with myriad adaptations of myths and artifacts. This collection of 12 articles details archeological findings and analysis of how this warrior-based set of precepts and practices developed and grew into elaborate ceremonial places and burial grounds. Topics include the implications of recent analysis of sites, early evidence of the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (SECC) and its contexts, the role of time in development of the SECC, material and iconographic evidence of the SECC in Erowah culture, evidence from Moundville potsherds, SECC ritual regalia in the southern Appalachians and other regions, the role of sex in SECC, and future directions of research.
The Southeastern Ceremonial Complex
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Author : Patricia Kay Galloway
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
The Southeastern Ceremonial Complex written by Patricia Kay Galloway and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with History categories.
The Southeastern Ceremonial Complex And Its Interpretation
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Author : James Henri Howard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
The Southeastern Ceremonial Complex And Its Interpretation written by James Henri Howard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Social Science categories.
A study on Mississippian culture derived from the author's visits to archaeological sites and collections in Oklahoma, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Illinois, Missouri, and Texas.
Southeastern Ceremonial Complex
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Author : Adam King
language : en
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Release Date : 2007-08-26
Southeastern Ceremonial Complex written by Adam King and has been published by University Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-26 with History categories.
How certain Southern indigenous viewed themselves from prehistory to decimation by Europeans was already a significant subject of study fifty years ago, but more recent scholarship has proven that what was once considered a single cult was actually a complex of cults, with myriad adaptations of myths and artifacts. This collection of 12 articles details archeological findings and analysis of how this warrior-based set of precepts and practices developed and grew into elaborate ceremonial places and burial grounds. Topics include the implications of recent analysis of sites, early evidence of the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (SECC) and its contexts, the role of time in development of the SECC, material and iconographic evidence of the SECC in Erowah culture, evidence from Moundville potsherds, SECC ritual regalia in the southern Appalachians and other regions, the role of sex in SECC, and future directions of research.
Landscapes Of Ritual Performance In Eastern North America
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Author : Cheryl Claassen
language : en
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Release Date : 2023-02-23
Landscapes Of Ritual Performance In Eastern North America written by Cheryl Claassen and has been published by Oxbow Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-23 with Social Science categories.
In the long history of documenting the material culture of the archaeological record, meaning and actions of makers and users of these items is often overlooked. The authors in this book focus on rituals exploring the natural and made landscape stages, the ritual directors, including their progression from shaman to priesthood, and meaning of the rites. They also provide comments on the end or failure of rites and cults from Paleoindian into post-DeSoto years. Chapters examine the archaeological records of Cahokia, the lower Ohio Valley, Aztalan Wisconsin, Vermont, Florida, and Georgia, and others scan the Eastern US, investigating tobacco/datura, color symbolism, deer symbolism, mound stratigraphy, flintknapping, stone caching, cults and their organization, and red ochre. These authors collectively query the beliefs that can be gleaned from mortuary practices and their variation, from mound construction, from imagery, from the choice of landscape setting. While some rituals were short-lived, others can be shown to span millennia as the ritual specialists modified their interpretations and introduced innovations.
Elements Of Southeastern Indian Religion
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Author : Charles M. Hudson
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 1984
Elements Of Southeastern Indian Religion written by Charles M. Hudson and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Religion categories.
Ancient Objects And Sacred Realms
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Author : F. Kent Reilly
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2010-01-01
Ancient Objects And Sacred Realms written by F. Kent Reilly and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-01 with Social Science categories.
Between AD 900-1600, the native peoples of the Mississippi River Valley and other areas of the Eastern Woodlands of the United States conceived and executed one of the greatest artistic traditions of the Precolumbian Americas. Created in the media of copper, shell, stone, clay, and wood, and incised or carved with a complex set of symbols and motifs, this seven-hundred-year-old artistic tradition functioned within a multiethnic landscape centered on communities dominated by earthen mounds and plazas. Previous researchers have referred to this material as the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (SECC). This groundbreaking volume brings together ten essays by leading anthropologists, archaeologists, and art historians, who analyze the iconography of Mississippian art in order to reconstruct the ritual activities, cosmological vision, and ideology of these ancient precursors to several groups of contemporary Native Americans. Significantly, the authors correlate archaeological, ethnographic, and art historical data that illustrate the stylistic differences within Mississippian art as well as the numerous changes that occur through time. The research also demonstrates the inadequacy of the SECC label, since Mississippian art is not limited to the Southeast and reflects stylistic changes over time among several linked but distinct religious traditions. The term Mississippian Iconographic Interaction Sphere (MIIS) more adequately describes the corpus of this Mississippian art. Most important, the authors illustrate the overarching nature of the ancient Native American religious system, as a creation unique to the native American cultures of the eastern United States.
Elements Of Southeastern Indian Religion
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Author : Hudson
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-09-20
Elements Of Southeastern Indian Religion written by Hudson and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-20 with Architecture categories.
Mississippian Culture Heroes Ritual Regalia And Sacred Bundles
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Author : David H. Dye
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2021-07-13
Mississippian Culture Heroes Ritual Regalia And Sacred Bundles written by David H. Dye and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-13 with Social Science categories.
In Mississippian Culture Heroes, Ritual Regalia, and Sacred Bundles, archaeologists analyze evidence of the religious beliefs and ritual practices of Mississippian people through the lens of indigenous ontologies and material culture. Employing archaeological, ethnographic, and ethnohistoric evidence, the contributors explore the recent emphasis on iconography as an important component for interpreting eastern North America’s ancient past. The research in this volume emphasizes the animistic nature of animals and objects, erasing the false divide between people and other-than-human beings. Drawing on an array of empirical approaches, the contributors demonstrate the importance of understanding beliefs and ritual and the significance of investigating how people in the past practiced religion and ritual by crafting, circulating, using, and ultimately decommissioning material items and spaces, including ceramic effigies, rock art, sacred bundles, shell gorgets, stone figurines, and symbolic weaponry.
Early Art Of The Southeastern Indians
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Author : Susan C. Power
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2004
Early Art Of The Southeastern Indians written by Susan C. Power and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Art categories.
Early Art of the Southeastern Indians is a visual journey through time, highlighting some of the most skillfully created art in native North America. The remarkable objects described and pictured here, many in full color, reveal the hands of master artists who developed lapidary and weaving traditions, established centers for production of shell and copper objects, and created the first ceramics in North America. Presenting artifacts originating in the Archaic through the Mississippian periods--from thousands of years ago through A.D. 1600--Susan C. Power introduces us to an extraordinary assortment of ceremonial and functional objects, including pipes, vessels, figurines, and much more. Drawn from every corner of the Southeast--from Louisiana to the Ohio River valley, from Florida to Oklahoma--the pieces chronicle the emergence of new media and the mastery of new techniques as they offer clues to their creators’ widening awareness of their physical and spiritual worlds. The most complex works, writes Power, were linked to male (and sometimes female) leaders. Wearing bold ensembles consisting of symbolic colors, sacred media, and richly complex designs, the leaders controlled large ceremonial centers that were noteworthy in regional art history, such as Etowah, Georgia; Spiro, Oklahoma; Cahokia, Illinois; and Moundville, Alabama. Many objects were used locally; others circulated to distant locales. Power comments on the widening of artists’ subjects, starting with animals and insects, moving to humans, then culminating in supernatural combinations of both, and she discusses how a piece’s artistic “language” could function as a visual shorthand in local style and expression, yet embody an iconography of regional proportions. The remarkable achievements of these southeastern artists delight the senses and engage the mind while giving a brief glimpse into the rich, symbolic world of feathered serpents and winged beings.