A. Martin Byers

Sacred Games, Death, and Renewal in the Ancient Eastern Woodlands

The Ohio Hopewell System of Cult Sodality Heterarchies

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Produktbeschreibung

A. Martin Byers challenges the traditional views of the Ohio Hopewell embankment earthworks, providing an interpretation of them as sites of sacred games and world renewal rituals built and used by complex alliances of cult sodalities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Altamira Press
• Seitenzahl: 558
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 949g
• ISBN-13: 9780759120327
• ISBN-10: 0759120323
• Artikelnr.: 31995050

Autorenporträt

A. Martin Byers

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Ohio Hopewell as a System of Cult Sodality Heterarchies
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The Domestic/Ceremonial Dichotomy
Chapter 3. The Tripartite Alliance Model: A Critique
Chapter 4. The Nature of Ohio Hopewell Mortuary Ceremonialism
Chapter 5. The Symbolic Meaning of Material Culture
Chapter 6. The Ecclesiastic-Communal Cult Sodality Model
Chapter 7. The Hidatsa Age-Set System and the Ritual Usufruct Conveyancing
and Franchising Model
Chapter 8. The Ohio Hopewell Cult Sodality Heterarchy System: From the
Bottom-Up
Chapter 9. The Murphy Tract: The Empirical Grounding of the Cult Sodality
Cluster Model
Part II. Sacred Games, Death, and Renewal in Ohio Hopewell
Chapter 10. The Sacred Games Tournée of the Ohio Hopewell System of Cult
Sodality Heterarchies
Chapter 11. The North Fork-Paint Creek Interface Zone and the Terminal
Conveyancing of Custodial Regalia
Chapter 12. The Ohio Hopewell as Dispersed Third-Order Cult Sodality
Heterarchies
Chapter 13. The Development of the Ohio Hopewell Cult Sodality Heterarchy
System
Chapter 14. Embankment Earthwork and Way Station Facilities
Chapter 15. The Structuring of Ohio Hopewell Sites and Pathways
Chapter 16. Embankment Earthwork Site Alignments and Relations
Chapter 17. The Ohio Hopewell and Adena as Neighbors and Strangers