Visualizing the Sacred: Cosmic Visions, Regionalism, and the Art of the Mississippian World - Couverture souple

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9780292737518: Visualizing the Sacred: Cosmic Visions, Regionalism, and the Art of the Mississippian World
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ISBN 10 : 0292737513 ISBN 13 : 9780292737518
Editeur : University of Texas Press, 2011

Synopsis

The prehistoric native peoples of the Mississippi River Valley and other areas of the Eastern Woodlands of the United States shared a complex set of symbols and motifs that constituted one of the greatest artistic traditions of the pre-Columbian Americas. Traditionally known as the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex, these artifacts of copper, shell, stone, clay, and wood were the subject of the groundbreaking 2007 book Ancient Objects and Sacred Realms: Interpretations of Mississippian Iconography, which presented a major reconstruction of the rituals, cosmology, ideology, and political structures of the Mississippian peoples.

Visualizing the Sacred advances the study of Mississippian iconography by delving into the regional variations within what is now known as the Mississippian Iconographic Interaction Sphere (MIIS). Bringing archaeological, ethnographic, ethnohistoric, and iconographic perspectives to the analysis of Mississippian art, contributors from several disciplines discuss variations in symbols and motifs among major sites and regions across a wide span of time and also consider what visual symbols reveal about elite status in diverse political environments. These findings represent the first formal identification of style regions within the Mississippian Iconographic Interaction Sphere and call for a new understanding of the MIIS as a network of localized, yet interrelated religious systems that experienced both continuity and change over time.

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À propos de l'auteur

GEORGE E. LANKFORD is an emeritus professor of folklore at Lyon College. His books include Looking for Lost Lore: Studies in Folklore, Ethnology, and Iconography and Reachable Stars: Patterns in the Ethnoastronomy of Eastern North America.

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Éditeur
University of Texas Press
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0292737513
ISBN 13 
9780292737518
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
375
Éditeur
Lankford George E., Reilly III F. Kent, Garber James F.
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ISBN 10 :  0292723083 ISBN 13 :  9780292723085
Editeur : University of Texas Press, 2011
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