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Title:
Prehistoric games of North American Indians : Subarctic to Mesoamerica / edited by Barbara Voorhies.
Publisher:
The University of Utah Press,
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
xvi, 369 pages : illlustrations, maps ; 27 cm
Subject:
Indians of North America--Games.
Indians of North America--Sports.
Indians of North America.
Indians of North America--Sports.
Games.
Other Authors:
Voorhies, Barbara, editor.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Post-game remarks / Warren R. DeBoer. Playing the Apalachee ballgame in the fields of the thunder god : archaeological and ideological evidence for its antiquity / J. Grant Stauffer and F. Kent Reilly III -- "He must die unless the whole country shall play crosse" : the role of gaming in Great Lakes indigenous societies / Ronald F. Williamson and Martin S. Cooper -- Chunkey and the historic experience in the Mississippian world / Thomas J. Zych -- The sacred role of dice games in eastern North America : implications for the protohistoric lower Mississippi Valley / David H. Dye -- Reinventing the wheel game : prestige gambling on the Plains/Plateau frontier / Gabriel M. Yanicki -- Gaming in Fremont society / Joel C. Janetski -- Mobility, exchange, and the fluency of games : promontory in a broader sociodemographic setting / Gabriel M. Yanicki and John W. Ives -- Social aspects of an Apachean stave-dice gaming feature at Three Sisters / Deni J. Seymour -- Serious play in the preclassic : the Chalcatzingo figurines as guides in a game of social learning / Mark E. Harlan -- Ancient Maya patolli / John Walden and Barbara Voorhies -- Sport and ritual as social bonding : the communal nature of Mesoamerican ballgames / Marijke Maurine Stoll and David S. Anderson -- Acrobatic dances and games of Mesoamerica as ritual-entertainment / Gerardo GuitieĢrrez -- Aztec gambling and magical thinking / Susan T. Evans -- The biggest losers : gambling and enslavement in Native North America / Catherine M. Cameron and Lindsay D. Johansson -- Post-game remarks / Warren R. DeBoer.
ISBN:
1607815591
9781607815594
OCLC:
(OCoLC)969852643
LCCN:
2017021791
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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