ISBN:
9781800730373
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (256 p.)
Keywords:
Antiquities, Prehistoric
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Manipulation
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Manners and customs
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
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ancestors
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ancient cultures
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anthropology
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antiquities archaeology
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archaeological record
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archaeology
;
catastrophe
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caves and caverns
;
cross cultural patterns
;
cultural patterns
;
cultural transformation
;
engaging
;
fire
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indigenous studies
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mesoamerica
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native americans
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north america
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page turner
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phenomenon
;
realistic
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religion
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religious rituals
;
ritual deposition
;
scientists
;
social memory
;
social science
;
unusual objects
Abstract:
Ash is an important and yet understudied aspect of ritual deposition in the archaeological record of North America. Ash has been found in a wide variety of contexts across many regions and often it is associated with rare or unusual objects or in contexts that suggest its use in the transition or transformation of houses and ritual features. Drawn from across the U.S. and Mesoamerica, the chapters in this volume explore the use, meanings, and cross-cultural patterns present in the use of ash. and highlight the importance of ash in ritual closure, social memory, and cultural transformation
Note:
Frontmatter
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Contents
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Illustrations
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Introduction: The Deposition and Manipulation of Ash in the Past
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PART I ASH AS A TRANSFORMATIVE AGENT
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CHAPTER 1 Ash Matters: The Ritual Closing of Domestic Structures in the Mimbres Mogollon Region
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CHAPTER 2 Complex Closure Practices Involving Ash at a Small Pueblo in Northeastern Arizona
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CHAPTER 3 Sequencing Termination Events: Preparing Hearths for the Ritual Decommissioning of Ancestral Pueblo Pit Structures in the Northern U.S. Southwest
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CHAPTER 4 Symbolic Associations: Assessing the Co-occurrence of Turquoise and Ash in the Ancient U.S. Southwest
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CHAPTER 5 Fire, Ash, and Sanctuary: Pyrotechnology as Protection in the Precolonial Northern Rio Grande
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CHAPTER 6 Burned Roofs and Cultural Traditions: Renewing and Closing Houses in the Ancient Villages of the Middle Fraser Canyon, British Columbia
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CHAPTER 7 Agentive Ash and Dispersed Power in the Cahokia Mississippian World
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CHAPTER 8 Townhouses, Hearths, Fire, Smoke, Ash, and Cherokee Towns in Western North Carolina
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CHAPTER 9 Ash as an Agent of Transformation in Iroquoian Society
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PART II ASH AND RITUAL
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CHAPTER 10 Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust in Caddoan Mortuary Ritual
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CHAPTER 11 Ashes for Fertility
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CHAPTER 12 Ashes, Arrows, and Sorcerers
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CHAPTER 13 Divine Food and Fiery Covenants: The Significance of Ash in Ancient Maya Religion
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Afterword
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Index
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In English
DOI:
10.1515/9781800730373
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