Mississippian mortuary practices
Subtitle: beyond hierarchy and the representationist perspective
By: Lynne P. Sullivan and Robert C. Mainfort, Jr.
Contributors: Mainfort, Robert C., 1948-
Series: Florida Museum of Natural History : Ripley P. Bullen series
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780813034263
Subjects: Mississippian culture -- Southern States; Mississippian culture -- Middle West; Claflin-Emerson Expedition -- Funeral customs and rites -- Southern States -- History; Indians of North America -- Funeral customs and rites -- 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Mississippian mortuary practices and the quest for interpretation / Lynne P. Sullivan and Robert C. Mainfort, Jr.; title: The missing persons in Mississippian mortuaries / Timothy R. Pauketat; title: Cosmological layouts of secondary burials as political instruments / James A. Brown; title: Multiple groups, overlapping symbols, and the creation of a sacred space at Etowah's Mound C / Adam King; title: Social and spatial dimensions of Moundville mortuary practices / Gregory D. Wilson, Vincas P. Steponaitis, and Keith Jacobi; title: Aztalan mortuary practices revisited / Lynne G. Goldstein; title: Mississippian dimensions of a Fort Ancient mortuary program : the development of authority and spatial grammar at SunWatch Village / Robert A. Cook; title: Temporal changes in mortuary behavior : evidence from the Middle and Upper Nodena sites, Arkansas / Robert C. Mainfort, Jr. and Rita Fisher-Carroll; title: The materialization of status and social structure at Koger's Island Cemetery, Alabama / Jon Bernard Marcoux; title: Pecan Point as the "capital" of Pacaha : a mortuary perspective / Rita Fisher-Carroll and Robert C. Mainfort, Jr.; title: Mound construction and community changes within the Mississippian community at Town Creek / Edmond A. Boudreaux III; title: Mortuary practices and cultural identity at the turn of the sixteenth Century in eastern Tennessee / Lynne P. Sullivan and Michaelyn S. Harle; title: 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; title: Caves as mortuary contexts in the Southeast / Jan F. Simek and Alan Cressler.