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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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2018.
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| Series: | Routledge archaeology of the ancient Americas.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.