Mississippian Mortuary Practices: Beyond Hierarchy and the Representationist Perspective
Mississippian Mortuary Practices: Beyond Hierarchy and the Representationist Perspective
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Abstract
The residents of Mississippian towns principally located in the southeastern and midwestern United States from 900 to 1500 A.D. made many beautiful objects, which included elaborate and well-crafted copper and shell ornaments, pottery vessels, and stonework. Some of these objects were socially valued goods and often were placed in a ritual context, such as graves. The funerary context of these artifacts has sparked considerable study and debate among archaeologists, raising questions about the place in society of the individuals interred with such items, as well as the nature of the societies in which these people lived. By focusing on how mortuary practices serve as symbols of beliefs and values for the living, this book explores how burial of the dead reflects and reinforces the cosmology of specific cultures, the status of living participants in the burial ceremony, ongoing kin relationships, and other aspects of social organization.
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Front Matter
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Mississippian Mortuary Practices and the Quest for Interpretation
Lynne P. Sullivan andLynne P. Mainfqrt Jr.
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The Missing Persons in Mississippian Mortuaries
Timothy R. Paüketat
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Cosmological Layouts of Secondary Burials as Political Instruments
James A. Brown
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Multiple Groups, Overlapping Symbols, and the Creation of a Sacred Space at Etowah’s Mound C
Adam King
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Social and Spatial Dimensions of Moundville Mortuary Practices
Gregory D. Wilson and others
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Aztalan Mortuary Practices Revisited
Lynne G. Goldstein
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Mississippian Dimensions of a Fort Ancient Mortuary Program: The Development of Authority and Spatial Grammar at Sun Watch Village
Robert A. Cook
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Temporal Changes in Mortuary Behavior: Evidence from the Middle and Upper Nodena Sites, Arkansas
Robert C. Mainfqrt Jr. andRita Fisher-Carroll
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The Materialization of Status and Social Structure at Koger’s Island Cemetery, Alabama
Jon Bernard Marcqux
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Pecan Point as the “Capital” of Pacaha: A Mortuary Perspective
Rita Fisher-Carroll andRobert C. Mainfort Jr.
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Mound Construction and Community Changes within the Mississippian Town at Town Creek
Edmqnd A. Bqudreaux III
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Mortuary Practices and Cultural Identity at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century in Eastern Tennessee
Lynne P. Sullivan andMichaelyn S. Harle
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The Mortuary Assemblage from the Holliston Mills Site, a Mississippian Town in Upper East Tennessee
Jay D. Franklin and others
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Caves as Mortuary Contexts in the Southeast
Jan F. Simek andAlan Cressler
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