Ancient burial practices in the American Southwest
Subtitle: archaeology, physical anthropology, and Native American perspectives
By: edited by Douglas R. Mitchell, Judy L. Brunson-Hadley ; foreword by Dorothy Lippert.
Contributors: Mitchell, Douglas R.; Brunson-Hadley, Judy L., 1952-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: United States; Indians of North America -- Funeral customs and rites -- Southwest, New; Indians of North America -- Anthropometry -- Southwest, New; Indians of North America -- Material culture -- Southwest, New; Human remains (Archaeology) -- Repatriation -- Southwest, New; Cultural property -- Repatriation -- Southwest, New; Grave goods -- Government policy -- Southwest, New; Archaeologists -- Southwest, New -- Attitudes; Southwest, New -- Antiquities -- Collection and preservation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Hopi perspectives on southwestern mortuary studies / T.J. Ferguson, Kurt E. Dongoske, and Leigh J. Kuwanwisiwma; title: Ideologies of death and power in the Hohokam community of La Ciudad / Randall H. McGuire; title: An evaluation of classic period Hohokam burials and society: chiefs, priests, or acephalous complexity? / Douglas R. Mitchell and Judy L. Brunson-Hadley; title: Mortuary ritual and organizational inferences at Grasshopper Pueblo, Arizona / Stephanie M. Whittlesey and J. Jefferson Reid; title: A study of Sinagua mortuary practices and their implications / John W. Hohmann; title: Salado burial practices / Chris Loendorf; title: Foundations of political power in ancestral Zuni society / Todd L. Howell; title: Chaco Canyon mortuary practices archaeological correlates of complexity / Nancy J. Akins; title: Morbidity and mortality in a classic-period Hohokam community / Susan Guise Sheridan; title: Unequal treatment in life as in death: trauma and mortuary behavior at La Plata (A.D. 1000-1300) / Debra L. Martin and Nancy J. Akins; title: Ancient southwest mortuary practices: perspectives from outside of the southwest / Lynne Goldstein.