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Ancient Objects and Sacred Realms: Interpretations of Mississippian Iconography

Editat de F. Kent Reilly, III, James F. Garber Introducere de Vincas P. Steponaitis
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 ian 2007
Between AD 900-1600, the native peoples of the Mississippi River Valley and other areas of the Eastern Woodlands of the United States conceived and executed one of the greatest artistic traditions of the Precolumbian Americas. Created in the media of copper, shell, stone, clay, and wood, and incised or carved with a complex set of symbols and motifs, this seven-hundred-year-old artistic tradition functioned within a multiethnic landscape centered on communities dominated by earthen mounds and plazas. Previous researchers have referred to this material as the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (SECC).
This groundbreaking volume brings together ten essays by leading anthropologists, archaeologists, and art historians, who analyze the iconography of Mississippian art in order to reconstruct the ritual activities, cosmological vision, and ideology of these ancient precursors to several groups of contemporary Native Americans. Significantly, the authors correlate archaeological, ethnographic, and art historical data that illustrate the stylistic differences within Mississippian art as well as the numerous changes that occur through time. The research also demonstrates the inadequacy of the SECC label, since Mississippian art is not limited to the Southeast and reflects stylistic changes over time among several linked but distinct religious traditions. The term Mississippian Iconographic Interaction Sphere (MIIS) more adequately describes the corpus of this Mississippian art. Most important, the authors illustrate the overarching nature of the ancient Native American religious system, as a creation unique to the native American cultures of the eastern United States.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780292721388
ISBN-10: 0292721382
Pagini: 312
Ilustrații: 15 b&w photographs, 66 line drawings
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press

Notă biografică

F. Kent Reilly III is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for the Arts and Symbolism of Ancient America at Texas State University in San Marcos.
James F. Garber is Professor of Anthropology at Texas State University in San Marcos.

Cuprins

  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction (F. Kent Reilly III and James F. Garber)
  • 2. Some Cosmological Motifs in the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (George E. Lankford)
  • 3. The Petaloid Motif: A Celestial Symbolic Locative in the Shell Art of Spiro (F. Kent Reilly III)
  • 4. On the Identity of the Birdman within Mississippian Period Art and Iconography (James Brown)
  • 5. The Great Serpent in Eastern North America (George E. Lankford)
  • 6. Identification of a Moth/Butterfly Supernatural in Mississippian Art (Vernon James Knight and Judith A. Franke)
  • 7. Ritual, Medicine, and the War Trophy Iconographic Theme in the Mississippian Southeast (David H. Dye)
  • 8. The "Path of Souls": Some Death Imagery in the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (George E. Lankford)
  • 9. Sequencing the Braden Style within Mississippian Period Art and Iconography (James Brown)
  • 10. Osage Texts and Cahokia Data (Alice Beck Kehoe)
  • References
  • Index

Descriere

A major reconstruction of the rituals, cosmology, ideology, and political structures of the prehistoric native peoples of the Mississippi River Valley and Southeastern United States.