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Cahokia and the archaeology of power / / Thomas E. Emerson



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Autore: Emerson Thomas E. <1945-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Cahokia and the archaeology of power / / Thomas E. Emerson Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa, AL, : University of Alabama Press, c1997
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (337 p.)
Disciplina: 977.3/89
Soggetto topico: Indians of North America - Illinois - American Bottom - Antiquities
Mississippian culture - Illinois - American Bottom
Social archaeology - Illinois - American Bottom
Soggetto geografico: Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park (Ill.)
American Bottom (Ill.) Antiquities
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
Titolo autorizzato: Cahokia and the archaeology of power  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8173-8365-4
0-585-18412-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910827280903321
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