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New Methods and Theories for Analyzing Mississippian Imagery

by Bretton T. Giles , Shawn P. Lambert
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781683402121
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: University of Florida Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Florida Press
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  • Pages: 282
  • Original Price: USD 90.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 545 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Indigenous

In this volume, contributors show how stylistic and iconographic analyses of Mississippian imagery provide new perspectives on the beliefs, narratives, public ceremonies, ritual regimes, and expressions of power in the communities that created the artwork. Exploring various methodological and theoretical approaches to pre-Columbian visual culture, these essays reconstruct dynamic accounts of Native American history across the U.S. Southeast.

These case studies offer innovative examples of how to use style to identify and compare artifacts, how symbols can be interpreted in the absence of writing, and how to situate and historicize Mississippian imagery. They examine designs carved into shell, copper, stone, and wood or incised into ceramic vessels, from spider iconography to owl effigies and depictions of the cosmos. They discuss how these symbols intersect with memory, myths, social hierarchies, religious traditions, and other spheres of Native American life in the past and present. The tools modeled in this volume will open new horizons for learning about the culture and worldviews of past peoples.

A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series

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