An archaeological perspective on ritual, religion, and ideology from American antiquity and Latin American antiquity
By: compiled by Gordon F.M. Rakita and Jane Buikstra
Publisher: SAA Press, Society for American Archaeology
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780932839350
Subjects: Antiquities; Indians; Religion; Excavations (Archaeology); Archaeology and religion
Other titles: American antiquity.; Latin American antiquity.
Notes: Prev. published articles from the periodicals American antiquity and Latin American antiquity.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Feather waving or the numinous?: archaeological perspectives on ritual, religion and ideology  -- Gordon F.M. Rakita, Jane E. Buikstra; title: Ancient Maya and contemporary Tzotzil cosmology: a comment on some methodological problems  -- Evon Z. Vogt; title: The shaft tombs of western Mexico: problems in the interpretation of religious function in nonhistoric archaeological contexts  -- R.E. Taylor; title: Mortuary practices: their study and their potential  -- Lewis R. Binford; title: The dimensions of status in burials at Spiro  -- James A. Brown; title: An Anthropocentric perspective for eastern United States prehistory  -- Robert L. Hall; title: The institutional organization of Mississippian religion  -- Vernon James Knight; title: Site-planning principles and concepts of directionality among the ancient Maya  -- Wendy Ashmore; title: The structural paradox: Moche culture as political ideology  -- Garth Bawden; title: Shamanic journeys into the otherworld of the archaic Chichimec  -- Carolyn E. Boyd; title: Gender and ritual space during the pithouse to pueblo transition; subterranean mealing rooms in the North American Southwest  -- Jeannette L. Mobley-Tanaka; title: Contested places and places of contest: the evolution of social power and ceremonial space in prehistoric Puerto Rico  -- Peter E. Siegel; title: The shaman-priests of the Casa Grandes region, Chihuahua, Mexico  -- Christine S. VanPool; title: The go along singing: reconstructing the Hopi past from ritual metaphors in song and image -- Emory Sekaquaptewa, Dorothy Washburn.