Mississippian Mortuary Practices
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Mississippian Mortuary Practices

Beyond Hierarchy and the Representationist Perspective

  1. 365 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Mississippian Mortuary Practices

Beyond Hierarchy and the Representationist Perspective

About this book

The residents of Mississippian towns principally located in the southeastern and midwestern United States from 900 to1500 A.D. made many beautiful objects, which included elaborate and well-crafted copper and shell ornaments, pottery vessels, and stonework. Some of these objects were socially valued goods and often were placed in ritual context, such as graves.

The funerary context of these artifacts has sparked considerable study and debate among archaeologists, raising questions about the place in society of the individuals interred with such items, as well as the nature of the societies in which these people lived.

By focusing on how mortuary practices serve as symbols of beliefs and values for the living, the contributors to Mississippian Mortuary Practices explore how burial of the dead reflects and reinforces the cosmology of specific cultures, the status of living participants in the burial ceremony, ongoing kin relationships, and other aspects of social organization.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Figures
  4. List of Tables
  5. Preface
  6. 1. Mississippian Mortuary Practices and the Quest for Interpretation
  7. 2. The Missing Persons in Mississippian Mortuaries
  8. 3. Cosmological Layouts of Secondary Burials as Political Instruments
  9. 4. Multiple Groups, Overlapping Symbols, and the Creation of a Sacred Space at Etowah’s Mound C
  10. 5. Social and Spatial Dimensions of Moundville Mortuary Practices
  11. 6. Aztalan Mortuary Practices Revisited
  12. 7. Mississippian Dimensions of a Fort Ancient Mortuary Program: The Development of Authority and Spatial Grammar at SunWatch Village
  13. 8. Temporal Changes in Mortuary Behavior: Evidence from the Middle and Upper Nodena Sites, Arkansas
  14. 9. The Materialization of Status and Social Structure at Koger’s Island Cemetery, Alabama
  15. 10. Pecan Point as the “Capital” of Pacaha: A Mortuary Perspective
  16. 11. Mound Construction and Community Changes within the Mississippian Community at Town Creek
  17. 12. Mortuary Practices and Cultural Identity at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century in Eastern Tennessee
  18. 13. The Mortuary Assemblage from the Holliston Mills Site, a Mississippian Town in Upper East Tennessee
  19. 14. Caves as Mortuary Contexts in the Southeast
  20. References Cited
  21. Contributors
  22. Index