Tracing the relational : the archaeology of worlds, spirits, and temporalities /

Tracing the relational : the archaeology of worlds, spirits, and temporalities / edited by Meghan E. Buchanan and B. Jacob Skousen.

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"Tracing the Relational examines the recent emergence of relational ontologies in archaeological interpretation and explores how using this perspective can help archaeologists better understand the past. Traditional representational approaches reflect modern or Western perspectives, which focus...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Authors: Buchanan, Meghan E., 1981- (Author, Editor), Skousen, B. Jacob, 1981- (Author, Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2015]
Series:Foundations of archaeological inquiry.
Subjects:
Indians > Antiquities.
Material culture > America.
Human ecology > America.
Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric > America.
Social archaeology > America.
Sacred space > America.
Indian mythology > America.
Human ecology
Indian mythology
Indians > Antiquities
Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric
Material culture
Sacred space
Social archaeology
America
Table of Contents:
  • Advancing an archaeology of movements and relationships / B. Jacob Skousen and Meghan E. Buchanan
  • SECTION I. WORLDS. Settlement survey, landscape transformations, and the meaning of unoccupied land in postclassic Nejapa, Oaxaca, Mexico / Stacie M. King
  • Moonbeams, water, and smoke : tracing otherworldly relationships at the Emerald Site / B. Jacob Skousen
  • Adena-Hopewell Earthworks and the Milky Way Path of Souls / William F. Romain
  • SECTION II. SPIRITS AND FORCES. War-scapes, lingering spirits, and the Mississippian Vacant Quarter / Meghan E. Buchanan
  • Weaving together evil airs, sacred mountaintops, and war / Margaret Brown Vega
  • Maya religion and gods : relevance and relatedness in the animic cosmos / Eleanor Harrison-Buck
  • SECTION III. TEMPORALITIES. Entanglements of the Blackfoot : relationships with the spiritual and material worlds / Gerald A. Oetelaar
  • Unraveling entanglements : reverberations of Cahokia's Big Bang / Melissa R. Baltus.

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