
Shaman, Priest, Practice, Belief
Materials of Ritual and Religion in Eastern North America
By: Stephen B. Carmody (Editor), Casey R. Barrier (Editor, Contribution by), Sarah E. Baires (Contribution by), Melissa R. Baltus (Contribution by)
Hardcover | 30 January 2020
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Archaeologists today are interpreting Native American religion and ritual in the distant past in more sophisticated ways, considering new understandings of the ways that Native Americans themselves experienced them. Shaman, Priest, Practice, Belief: Materials of Ritual and Religion in Eastern North America broadly considers Native American religion and ritual in the eastern North America and focuses on practices that altered and used a vast array of material items as well as how physical spaces were shaped by religious practices.
Unbound to a single theoretical perspective of religion, contributors approach ritual and religion in diverse ways. Importantly, they focus on how people in the past practiced religion by altering and using a vast array of material items, from smoking pipes, ceremonial vessels, carved figurines, and iconographic images, to sacred bundles, hallucinogenic plants, revered animals, and ritual architecture. Contributors also show how physical spaces were shaped by religious practice, and how rock art, monuments, soils and special substances, and even land- and cityscapes were part of the active material worlds of religious agents.
Case studies, arranged chronologically, cover time periods ranging from the Paleoindian period (13,000-7900 BC) to the late Mississippian and into the protohistoric/contact periods. The geographical scope is much of the greater southeastern and southern Midwestern culture areas of the Eastern Woodlands, from the Central and Lower Mississippi River Valleys to the Ohio Hopewell region, and from the greater Ohio River Valley down through the Deep South and across to the Carolinas.
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"The study of ritual and religion in archaeology is at a major turning point following the 'ontological turn' and materiality/New Materialisms. What used to be considered a realm of paleo-psychological epiphenomena that was archaeologically unknowable is now commonly viewed as structuring the archaeological record in significant ways. This book is the first to assemble an array of archaeological studies in the American Southeast that gives primacy to 'religion' as ongoing material practice." - Neill J. Wallis, coeditor of New Histories of Pre-Columbian Florida
ISBN: 9780817320423
ISBN-10: 0817320423
Series: Archaeology of the American South: New Directions and Perspectives
Published: 30th January 2020
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 344
Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 23.1 x 15.4 x 3.0
Weight (kg): 0.64
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