Sacred games, death, and renewal in the ancient Eastern Woodlands
Subtitle: the Ohio Hopewell system of cult sodality heterarchies
By: A. Martin Byers
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 547
ISBN-13: 9780759120327; 9780759120341
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. The Ohio Hopewell as a system of cult sodality heterarchies; title: The domestic/ceremonial dichotomy; title: The tripartite alliance model : a critique; title: The nature of Ohio Hopewell mortuary ceremonialism; title: The symbolic meaning of material culture; title: The ecclesiastic-communal cult sodality model; title: The Hidatsa age-set system and the ritual usufruct conveyancing and franchising model; title: The Ohio Hopewell cult sodality heterarchy system : from the bottom-up; title: The Murphy Tract : the empirical grounding of the cult sodality cluster model; title: pt. 2. Sacred games, death, and renewal in Ohio Hopewell; title: The sacred games tournée of the Ohio Hopewell system of cult sodality heterarchies; title: The North Fork-Paint Creek interface zone and the terminal conveyancing of custodial regalia; title: The Ohio Hopewell as dispersed third-order cult sodality heterarchies; title: The development of the Ohio Hopewell cult sodality heterarchy system; title: Embankment earthwork and way station facilities; title: The structuring of Ohio Hopewell sites and pathways; title: Embankment earthwork site alignments and relations; title: The Ohio Hopewell and Adena as neighbors and strangers.