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Mississippian Culture Heroes, Ritual Regalia, and Sacred Bundles
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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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: An Archaeology of Mississippian Ritual Practices
- Part I: Sacred Bundles
- Chapter 1: Dressing and Caring for the Spirits: The Role of Sacred Bundles in Siouan Society
- Chapter 2: Ritual Languages of the Southeast: Sacred Bundles in the Memory Theaters of Mississippian Period Ritualism
- Chapter 3: Nested Bundles within Etowah’s Mound C
- Chapter 4: “Cradleboard Figurines” or Icons of Sacred Bundles?
- Chapter 5: Regalia and Sacred Bundles from Mound 1 at the Castalian Springs Mounds, Tennessee
- Part II: Other-Than-Human Persons and Ritual Caches
- Chapter 6: The Link Farm Cache: Invoking the Ancestors and Supplicating the Hero Twins
- Chapter 7: Earth Mother in the Middle Cumberland, Beneath World Powers, and a Portal to the Otherworld
- Chapter 8: Medicine for the Dead: Shell Gorgets as Accompaniments for Rites of Passage
- Part III: Elite Regalia
- Chapter 9: Hair, Hats, and Headdresses as Symbolic Regalia in Missouri Rock Art
- Chapter 10: Caddo Regalia in Context: Historic and Ethnographic Examples
- Chapter 11: Mississippian Regalia at Lake Jackson: Elaborate Finery, Insignia of Office, Ritual Paraphernalia, and Material Symbols of Elite Status1
- Index
- About the Editor
- About the Contributors