Religion in the prehispanic Southwest
By: edited by Christine S. Vanpool, Todd L. Vanpool, and David A. Phillips.
Contributors: VanPool, Christine S., 1969-; VanPool, Todd L., 1968-; Phillips, David A.
Series: Archaeology of religion
Publisher: Altamira Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Lanham [Md.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Southwest, New -- Religion; Religion, Prehistoric -- Southwest, New; Indians of North America -- Southwest, New -- Rites and ceremonies; Indians of North America -- Southwest, New -- Antiquities; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Southwest, New; Southwest, New -- Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The horned serpent tradition in the North American Southwest / by David A. Phillips, jr., Christine S. Vanpool, and Todd L. Vanpool; title: Religious behavior in the post-Chaco years / by John Kantner; title: New perspectives on an ancient religion: katsina ritual and the archaeological record / by E. Charles Adams and Vincent M. Lamotta; title: Icons and ethnicity : Hopi painted pottery and murals / by Kelley Hays-Gilpin; title: Gathering spaces and bounded places : the religious significance of plaza-oriented communities in the Northern Rio Grande, New Mexico / by Samantha M. Ruscavage-Barz and Elizabeth A. Bagwell; title: Iikááh : Chaco sacred schematics / by J. S. Williams, T. J. Blackhorse, J. R. Stein, and R. Friedman; title: Guanacos, symbolism, and religion during the Hohokam pre-classic / by Mark L. Chenault and John M. Lindly; title: Elevated spaces : exploring the symbolic at Cerros de Trincheras / by Bridget M. Zavala; title: Toloatzin and shamanic journeys : exploring the ritual role  of sacred datura in the prehistoric Southwest / by Lisa W. Huckell and Christine S. Vanpool; title: Precolumbian Venus : celestial twin and icon of duality / by Marc Thompson; title: Religion and the Mesoamerican ballgame in the Casas Grandes region of Northern Mexico / by Marcel J. Harmon; title: Emergent complexity, ritual practices, and mortuary behavior at Paquim, Chihuahua, Mexico / by Gordon F. M. Rakita; title: The Salado and Casas Grandes phenomena: evidence for a religious schism in the greater Southwest / by Todd L. Vanpool, Christine S. Vanpool, and David A. Phillips, jr.