Agent of Change
Subtitle: The Deposition and Manipulation of Ash in the Past
Contributors: Adams, E. Charles
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Published: 2021
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781800730373
Subjects: Manners and customs; Prehistoric Antiquities; Mœurs et coutumes; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: The deposition and manipulation of ash in the past  -- E. Charles Adams and Barbara J. Roth -- Part I.; title: Ash as a transformative agent -- -- 1.; title: Ash matters : the ritual closing of domestic structures in the Mimbres Mogollon Region  -- Barbara J. Roth -- 2.; title: Complex closure practices involving ash at a small pueblo in Northeastern Arizona  -- E. Charles Roth -- 3.; title: Sequencing termination events : preparing hearths for the ritual decommissioning of ancestral Pueblo pit structures in the Northern U.S. Southwest  -- Susan C. Ryan -- 4.; title: Symbolic associations : assessing the co-occurrence of turquoise and ash in the ancient U.S. Southwest  -- Samantha G. Fladd, Saul L. Hedquist, E. Charles Adams, and Stewart B. Koyiyumptewa -- 5.; title: Fire, ash, and sanctuary : pyrotechnology as protection in the precolonial northern Rio Grande  -- Michael A. Adler -- 6.; title: Burned roofs and cultural traditions : renewing and closing houses in the ancient villages of the Middle Fraser Canyon, British Columbia  -- Anna Marie Prentiss, Alysha Edwards, Ashley Hampton, Ethan Ryan, Kathryn Bobolinski, and Emma Vance -- 7.; title: Agentive ash and dispersed power in the Cahokia Mississippian world  -- Melissa R. Baltus and Sarah E. Baires -- 8.; title: Townhouses, hearths, fire, smoke, ash, and Cherokee towns in western North Carolina  -- Christopher B. Rodning -- 9.; title: Ash as an agent of transformation in Iroquoian society  -- William Fox -- Part II.; title: Ash and ritual -- -- 10.; title: Ashes to ashes, dust to dust in Caddoan mortuary ritual  -- Marvin Kay -- 11.; title: Ashes for fertility  -- Cheryl Claasen -- 12.; title: Ashes, arrows, and sorcerers  -- William H. Walker and Judy Berryman -- 13.; title: Divine food and fiery covenants : the significance of ash in ancient Maya religion -- James L. Fitzsimmons-- Afterword /-- Tammy Stone.