Religion and politics in the ancient Americas /

This exciting collection explores the interplay of religion and politics in the precolumbian Americas. Each thought-provoking contribution positions religion as a primary factor influencing political innovations in this period, reinterpreting major changes through an examination of how religion both...

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Other Authors: Barber, Sarah B. (Editor), Joyce, Arthur A. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2018.
Series:Routledge archaeology of the ancient Americas.
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505 0 |a 1. New directions in the archaeology of religion and politics in the Americas / Arthur A. Joyce -- 2. The mobile house : religious leadership at Chacoan and Chacoan revival centers / Erina Gruner -- 3. The elements of Cahokian shrine complexes and basis of Mississippian religion / Susan M. Alt and Timothy R. Pauketat -- 4. Cherokee religion and European contact in southeastern North America / Christopher B. Rodning -- 5. Unsettled gods : religion and politics in the Early Formative Soconusco / Sarah B. Barber -- 6. Religion, urbanism, and inequality in ancient central Mexico / David M. Carballo -- 7. Religion in a material world / Rosemary A. Joyce -- 8. Political engagement in household ritual among the Maya of Yucatan / Scott R. Hutson, Céline C. Lamb, and David Medina Arona -- 9. Ritual is power? : Religion as a possible base of power for early political actors in ancient Peru / Matthew Piscitelli -- 10. Timing is everything : religion and the regulation of temporalities in precolumbian Peru / Edward Swenson -- 11. From landscape to ontology in Amazonia : the Llanos de Mojos as a middle ground / John H. Walker -- 12. The multivalent mollusk : Spondylus, ritual, and politics in the prehispanic Andes / Jerry D. Moore -- 13. Power at the crossroads of politics and religion : a commentary / María Nieves Zedeño. 
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