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Author Byers, A. Martin, 1937-

Title Sacred games, death, and renewal in the ancient Eastern Woodlands : the Ohio Hopewell system of cult sodality heterarchies / A. Martin Byers
Published Lanham : AltaMira Press, c2011

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Description 1 online resource (x, 547 p.)
Contents The domestic/ceremonial dichotomy -- The tripartite alliance model : a critique -- The nature of Ohio Hopewell mortuary ceremonialism -- The symbolic meaning of material culture -- The ecclesiastic-communal cult sodality model -- The Hidatsa age-set system and the ritual usufruct conveyancing and franchising model -- The Ohio Hopewell cult sodality heterarchy system : from the bottom up -- The Murphy Tract : the empirical grounding of the cult sodality cluster model -- The sacred games tournée of the Ohio Hopewell system of cult sodality heterarchies -- The North Fork-Paint Creek interface zone and the terminal conveyancing of custodial regalia -- The Ohio Hopewell as dispersed third-order cult sodality heterarchies -- The development of the Ohio Hopewell cult sodality heterarchy system -- Embankment earthwork and way station facilities -- The structuring of Ohio Hopewell sites and pathways -- Embankment earthwork site alignments and relations -- The Ohio Hopewell and Adena as neighbors and strangers
Summary The book presents an account of the Ohio Middle Woodland period embankment earthworks, ca 100 B.C. to A.D. 400, that is radically different from the prevailing theory. Byers critically addresses all the arguments and characterizations that make up the current treatment of the embankment earthworks and then presents an alternative interpretation. This unconventional view hinges on two basic social characterizations: the complementary heterarchical community model and the cult sodality heterarchy model. Byers posits that these two models interact to characterize the Ohio Middle Woodland period
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 512-531) and index
Notes English
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Subject Hopewell culture -- Ohio River Valley
Earthworks (Archaeology) -- Ohio River Valley
Indians of North America -- Ohio River Valley -- Rites and ceremonies
Indians of North America -- Ohio River Valley -- Social life and customs
Indians of North America -- Games -- Ohio River Valley
Indians of North America -- Material culture -- Ohio River Valley
Cults -- Ohio River Valley -- History -- To 1500
Confraternities -- Ohio River Valley -- History -- To 1500
Social archaeology -- Ohio River Valley
HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
Antiquities
Confraternities
Cults
Earthworks (Archaeology)
Hopewell culture
Indians of North America -- Games
Indians of North America -- Material culture
Indians of North America -- Rites and ceremonies
Indians of North America -- Social life and customs
Social archaeology
SUBJECT Ohio River Valley -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87001201
Subject Ohio River Valley
Genre/Form History
dissertations.
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020740159
ISBN 9780759120341
075912034X
1282922149
9781282922143
9786612922145
6612922141