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Title:

Mississippian mortuary practices : beyond hierarchy and the representationist perspective / edited by Lynne P. Sullivan and Robert C. Mainfort Jr.

Publisher:

University Press of Florida,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xiv, 348 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Mississippian culture--Southern States.
Mississippian culture--Middle West.
Claflin-Emerson Expedition--(1927-1931)
Indians of North America--History.--Southern States--History.
Indians of North America--History.--Middle West--History.
Social archaeology--Southern States.
Social archaeology--Middle West.
Indians of North America--Southern States--Antiquities
Indians of North America--Middle West--Antiquities.
Southern States--Antiquities
Middle West--Antiquities.

Other Authors:

Sullivan, Lynne P.
Mainfort, Robert C., 1948-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-340) and index.

Contents:

Mississippian mortuary practices and the quest for interpretation / Lynne P. Sullivan and Robert C. Mainfort Jr. -- The missing persons in Mississippian mortuaries / Timothy R. Pauketat -- Cosmological layouts of secondary burials as political instruments / James A. Brown -- Multiple groups, overlapping symbols, and the creation of a sacred space at Etowah's Mound C / Adam King -- Social and spatial dimensions of Moundville mortuary practices / Gregory D. Wilson, Vincas P. Steponaitis, and Keith Jacobi -- Aztalan mortuary practices revisited / Lynne G. Goldstein -- Mississippian dimensions of a Fort Ancient mortuary program : the development of authority and spatial grammar at SunWatch Village / Robert A. Cook -- Temporal changes in mortuary behavior : evidence from the Middle and Upper Nodena sites, Arkansas / Robert C. Mainfort Jr. and Rita Fisher-Carroll -- The materialization of status and social structure at Koger's Island Cemetery, Alabama / Jon Bernard Marcoux -- Pecan Point as the "capital" of Pacaha : a mortuary perspective / Rita Fisher-Carroll and Robert C. Mainfort Jr. -- Mound construction and community changes within the Mississippian community at Town Creek / Edmond A. Boudreaux III -- Mortuary practices and cultural identity at the turn of the sixteenth century in eastern Tennessee / Lynne P. Sullivan and Michaelyn S. Harle -- The mortuary assemblage from the Holliston Mills Site, a Mississippian town in upper East Tennessee / Jay D. Franklin, Elizabeth K. Price, and Lucinda M. Langston -- Caves as mortuary contexts in the Southeast / Jan F. Simek and Alan Cressler.

Series:

Ripley P. Bullen series

ISBN:

0813034264 (alk. paper)
9780813034263 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)437299357

LCCN:

2009038763

Locations:

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