Sacred games, death, and renewal in the ancient Eastern Woodlands : the Ohio Hopewell system of cult sodality heterarchies / A. Martin Byers.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Byers, A. Martin, 1937-
Language:English
Published: Lanham : AltaMira Press, [2011], ©2011.
Subjects:
Hopewell culture > Ohio River Valley.
Ohio River Valley > Antiquities.
Earthworks (Archaeology) > Ohio River Valley.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Ohio River Valley > Rites and ceremonies.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Ohio River Valley > Social life and customs.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Games > Ohio River Valley.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Material culture > Ohio River Valley.
Cults > Ohio River Valley > History > To 1500.
Confraternities > Ohio River Valley > History > To 1500.
Social archaeology > Ohio River Valley.
Physical Description:x, 546 pages : illustrations
Format: Book
Contents:
  • pt. 1. The Ohio Hopewell as a system of cult sodality heterarchies
  • The domestic/ceremonial dichotomy
  • The tripartite alliance model : a critique
  • The nature of Ohio Hopewell mortuary ceremonialism
  • The symbolic meaning of material culture
  • The ecclesiastic-communal cult sodality model
  • The Hidatsa age-set system and the ritual usufruct conveyancing and franchising model
  • The Ohio Hopewell cult sodality heterarchy system : from the bottom-up
  • The Murphy Tract : the empirical grounding of the cult sodality cluster model
  • pt. 2. Sacred games, death, and renewal in Ohio Hopewell
  • The sacred games tournée of the Ohio Hopewell system of cult sodality heterarchies
  • The North Fork-Paint Creek interface zone and the terminal conveyancing of custodial regalia
  • The Ohio Hopewell as dispersed third-order cult sodality heterarchies
  • The development of the Ohio Hopewell cult sodality heterarchy system
  • Embankment earthwork and way station facilities
  • The structuring of Ohio Hopewell sites and pathways
  • Embankment earthwork site alignments and relations
  • The Ohio Hopewell and Adena as neighbors and strangers.