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

Contents 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 -- 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 512-531) and index.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Sacred games, death, and renewal in the ancient Eastern Woodlands Lanham : AltaMira Press, c2011. 9780759120327 (cloth : alk. paper)
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