Mississippian mortuary practices : beyond hierarchy and the representationist perspective / edited by Lynne P. Sullivan and Robert C. Mainfort Jr.
| Other author | Sullivan, Lynne P. |
| Other author | Mainfort, Robert C., 1948- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2010. |
| Description | xiv, 348 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Ripley P. Bullen series Ripley P. Bullen series. ^A282201 |
| Contents | Mississippian mortuary practices and the quest for interpretation / Lynne P. Sullivan and Robert C. Mainfort Jr. -- The missing persons in Mississippian mortuaries / Timothy R. Pauketat -- Cosmological layouts of secondary burials as political instruments / James A. Brown -- Multiple groups, overlapping symbols, and the creation of a sacred space at Etowah's Mound C / Adam King -- Social and spatial dimensions of Moundville mortuary practices / Gregory D. Wilson, Vincas P. Steponaitis, and Keith Jacobi -- Aztalan mortuary practices revisited / Lynne G. Goldstein -- Mississippian dimensions of a Fort Ancient mortuary program : the development of authority and spatial grammar at SunWatch Village / Robert A. Cook -- Temporal changes in mortuary behavior : evidence from the Middle and Upper Nodena sites, Arkansas / Robert C. Mainfort Jr. and Rita Fisher-Carroll -- The materialization of status and social structure at Koger's Island Cemetery, Alabama / Jon Bernard Marcoux -- Pecan Point as the "capital" of Pacaha : a mortuary perspective / Rita Fisher-Carroll and Robert C. Mainfort Jr. -- Mound construction and community changes within the Mississippian community at Town Creek / Edmond A. Boudreaux III -- Mortuary practices and cultural identity at the turn of the sixteenth century in eastern Tennessee / Lynne P. Sullivan and Michaelyn S. Harle -- The mortuary assemblage from the Holliston Mills Site, a Mississippian town in upper East Tennessee / Jay D. Franklin, Elizabeth K. Price, and Lucinda M. Langston -- Caves as mortuary contexts in the Southeast / Jan F. Simek and Alan Cressler. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-340) and index. |
| LCCN | 2009038763 |
| ISBN | 9780813034263 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0813034264 (alk. paper) |