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Title:

The archaeology of meaningful places / edited by Brenda J. Bowser and María Nieves Zedeño.

Publisher:

University of Utah Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

x, 222 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Indians of Central America--Antiquities.
Indians of Mexico--Antiquities.
Indians of North America--Southwest, New--Antiquities.
Place (Philosophy)--Case studies.
Human ecology--Case studies.
Social archaeology--Case studies.
Ethnoarchaeology--Case studies.
Central America--Antiquities.
Mexico--Antiquities.
Southwest, New--Antiquities.

Other Authors:

Bowser, Brenda J., 1957-
Zedeño, María Nieves.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Lost cities, prairie castles / Stephen H. Lekson. Biographies of place at Quirigu, Guatemala / Wendy Ashmore -- The main plaza of Monte Albán : a life history of place / Arthur A. Joyce -- Being in place : intersections of identity and experience on the Honduran landscape / Rosemary A. Joyce, Julia A. Hendon, and Jeanne Lopiparo -- Mountains, mounds, and meaning : metaphor in the Hohokam cultural landscape / Stephanie M. Whittlesey -- Hopitutskwa and Ang Kuktota : the role of archaeological sites in defining Hopi cultural landscapes / Leigh J. Kuwanwisiwma and T.J. Ferguson -- Negotiating the imperial landscape : the geopolitics of Aztec control in the outer provinces of the empire / Christopher P. Garraty and Michael A. Ohnersorgen -- A landscape of gambles and guts : commodification of land on the Arizona frontier / Michael P. Heilen and J. Jefferson Reid -- Reconstructing an Ndee sense of place / John R. Welch -- Lost cities, prairie castles / Stephen H. Lekson.

Series:

Foundations of archaeological inquiry

ISBN:

0874808820 (alk. paper)
9780874808827 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)298778935

LCCN:

2009003563

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)