ISBN:
9780387273273
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XXI, 807 p. With CD-ROM, digital)
Series Statement:
Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Buchausg. u.d.T. Gathering Hopewell
Keywords:
Anthropology
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Archaeology
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Social Sciences, general
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Archaeology
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Anthropology
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Hopewell culture Ohio
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Indians of North America Ohio
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Rites and ceremonies
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Indians of North America Material culture
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Ohio
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Indians of North America Funeral customs and rites
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Ohio
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Scioto River Valley (Ohio) Antiquities
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Hopewellkultur
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Vor- und Frühgeschichte
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Hopewellkultur
Abstract:
Among the most socially and personally vocal archaeological remains on the North American continent are the massive and often complexly designed earthen architecture of Hopewellian peoples of two thousand years ago, their elaborately embellished works of art made of glistening metals and stones from faraway places, and their highly formalized mortuaries. In this book, twenty-one researchers in interwoven efforts immerse themselves and the reader in this vibrant archaeological record in order to richly reconstruct the societies, rituals, and ritual interactions of Hopewellian peoples.By finding the faces, actions, and motivations of Hopewellian peoples as individuals who constructed knowable social roles, the authors explore, in a personalized and locally contextualized manner, the details of Hopewellian life: leadership, its sacred and secular power bases, recruitment, and formalization over time, systems of social ranking and prestige, animal-totemic clan organization, kinship structures, and sodalities, gender roles, prestige, work load, and health, community organization in its tri-scalar residential, symbolic, and demographic forms, intercommunity alliances and changes in their strategies and expanses over time, and interregional travels for power questing, pilgrimage, healing, tutelage, and acquiring ritual knowledge. These and other aspects of Hopewellian life are revealed through the assembly of comprehensive data bases of unprecedented scale, most of which are fully reported in CD form for the benefit of other researchers.This book is useful to scholars, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates interested in the workings and development of social complexity at local and interregional scales, recent theoretical developments in the anthropology of the topics listed above, the prehistory of eastern North America, its history of intellectual development, and Native American ritual, symbolism, and belief.
Description / Table of Contents:
The Gathering of Hopewell; Historical Insight into the Directions and Limitations of Recent Research on Hopewell; Salient Issues in the Social and Political Organizations of Northern Hopewellian Peoples; Community Organizations in the Scioto, Mann, and Havana Hopewellian Regions; The Nature of Leadership in Ohio Hopewellian Societies; The Question of Ranking in Havana Hopewellian Societies; The Tripartite Ceremonial Alliance among Scioto Hopewellian Communities and the Question of Social Ranking; Animal-Totemic Clans of Ohio Hopewellian Peoples
Description / Table of Contents:
Gender, Status, and Ethnicity in the Scioto, Miami, and Northeastern Ohio Hopewellian Regions, as Evidenced by Mortuary PracticesGender and Social Differentiation within the Turner Population, Ohio, as Evidenced by Activity-Induced Musculoskeletal Stress Markers; Gender, Role, Prestige, and Ritual Interaction across the Ohio, Mann, and Havana Hopewellian Regions, as Evidenced by Ceramic Figurines; Scioto Hopewell Ritual Gatherings; Estimating the Sizes and Social Compositions of Mortuary-Related Gatherings at Scioto Hopewell Earthwork-Mound Sites
Description / Table of Contents:
Smoking Pipe Compositions and Styles as Evidence of the Social Affiliations of Mortuary Ritual Participants at the Tremper Site, OhioCeramic Vessel Compositions and Styles as Evidence of the Local and Nonlocal Social Affiliations of Ritual Participants at the Mann Site, Indiana; Rethinking Interregional Hopewellian "Interaction"; Hopewellian Copper Celts from Eastern North America; Hopewellian Panpipes from Eastern North America; Hopewellian Copper Earspools from Eastern North America; Hopewellian Silver and Silver Artifacts from Eastern North America
Description / Table of Contents:
Dedication to Stuart Struever / Christopher CarrThe gathering of Hopewell / Christopher Carr and D. Troy Case -- Historical insight into the directions and limitations of recent research on Hopewell / Christopher Carr -- Salient issues in the social and political organizations of northern Hopewellian peoples : contextualizing, personalizing, and generating Hopewell / Christopher Carr ; with an appendix by William F. Romain -- Community organizations in the Scioto, Mann, and Havana Hopewellian regions : a comparative perspective / Bret J. Ruby, Christopher Carr and Douglas K. Charles -- The nature of leadership in Ohio Hopewellian societies : role segregation and the transformation from shamanism / Christopher Carr and D. Troy Case -- The question of ranking in Havana Hopewellian societies : a retrospective in light of multi-cemetery ceremonial organization / Christopher Carr -- The tripartite ceremonial alliance among Scioto Hopewellian communities and the question of social ranking / Christopher Carr -- Animal-totemic clans of Ohio Hopewellian peoples / Chad R. Thomas, Christopher Carr and Cynthia Keller -- Gender, status, and ethnicity in the Scioto, Miami, and northeastern Ohio Hopewellian regions, as evidenced by mortuary practices / Stephanie Field, Anne J. Goldberg and Tina Lee -- Gender and social differentiation within the Turner population, Ohio, as evidenced by activity-induced musculoskeletal stress markers / Teresa Rodrigues -- Gender, role, prestige, and ritual interaction across the Ohio, Mann, and Havana Hopewellian regions, as evidenced by ceramic figurines / Cynthia Keller and Christopher Carr -- Scioto Hopewell ritual gatherings : a review and discussion of previous interpretations and data / Christopher Carr -- Estimating the sizes and social compositions of mortuary-related gatherings at Scioto Hopewell earthwork-mound sites / Christopher Carr, Beau J. Goldstein and Jaimin Weets -- Smoking pipe compositions and styles as evidence of the social affiliations of mortuary ritual participants at the Tremper Site, Ohio / Jaimin Weets ... [et al.] -- Ceramic vessel compositions and styles as evidence of the local and nonlocal social affiliations of ritual participants at the Mann Site, Indiana / Bret J. Ruby and Christine M. Shriner -- Rethinking interregional Hopewellian "interaction" / Christopher Carr -- Hopewellian copper celts from eastern North America : their social and symbolic significance / Wesley Bernadini and Christopher Carr -- Hopewellian panpipes from eastern North America : their social, ritual, and symbolic significance / Gina Turff and Christopher Carr -- Hopewellian copper earspools from eastern North America : the social, ritual, and symbolic significance of their contexts and distribution / Katharine C. Ruhl -- Hopewellian silver and silver artifacts from eastern North America : their sources, procurement, distribution, and meanings / Michael W. Spence and Brian J. Fryer.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 735-778) and index
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