Tracing the relational : the archaeology of worlds, spirits, and temporalities /

Tracing the Relational examines the recent emergence of relational ontologies in archaeological interpretation and how this perspective can help archaeologists better understand the past. Traditional representational approaches reflect modern or Western perspectives, which focus on the individual an...

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Other Authors: Buchanan, Meghan E., 1981- (Editor), Skousen, B. Jacob, 1981- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, [2015]
Series:Foundations of archaeological inquiry.
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505 0 |a Advancing an archaeology of movements and relationships / B. Jacob Skousen and Meghan E. Buchanan -- SECTION I. WORLDS. Settlement survey, landscape transformations, and the meaning of unoccupied land in postclassic Nejapa, Oaxaca, Mexico / Stacie M. King -- Moonbeams, water, and smoke : tracing otherworldly relationships at the Emerald Site / B. Jacob Skousen -- Adena-Hopewell Earthworks and the Milky Way Path of Souls / William F. Romain -- SECTION II. SPIRITS AND FORCES. War-scapes, lingering spirits, and the Mississippian Vacant Quarter / Meghan E. Buchanan -- Weaving together evil airs, sacred mountaintops, and war / Margaret Brown Vega -- Maya religion and gods : relevance and relatedness in the animic cosmos / Eleanor Harrison-Buck -- SECTION III. TEMPORALITIES. Entanglements of the Blackfoot : relationships with the spiritual and material worlds / Gerald A. Oetelaar -- Unraveling entanglements : reverberations of Cahokia's Big Bang / Melissa R. Baltus. 
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