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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455059403321

Autore

Emerson Thomas E. <1945->

Titolo

Cahokia and the archaeology of power [[electronic resource] /] / Thomas E. Emerson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, AL, : University of Alabama Press, c1997

ISBN

0-8173-8365-4

0-585-18412-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Disciplina

977.3/89

Soggetti

Indians of North America - Illinois - American Bottom - Antiquities

Mississippian culture - Illinois - American Bottom

Social archaeology - Illinois - American Bottom

Electronic books.

Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park (Ill.)

American Bottom (Ill.) Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-306) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. The Conceptual Parameters; 3. The Cultural-Historical Contexts; 4. Mississippian Rural Settlement; 5. Cahokian Rural Nodes: The Archaeological Evidence; 6. Interpreting Cahokian Rural Settlements; 7. The Cahokian Symbolic World; 8. Cahokian Rural Cults; 9. Conclusions; References Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This dramatic and controversial new interpretation of Cahokian leadership strategies examines the authority a ruling elite exercised over the surrounding countryside through a complex of social, political, and religious symbolism.   This study uses the theoretical concepts of agency, power, and ideology to explore the development of cultural complexity within the hierarchically organized Cahokia Middle Mississippian society of the American Bottom from the 11th to the 13th centuries. By scrutinizing the available archaeological settlement and symbolic evidence, Em