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Archaeology in a living landscape : envisioning nonhuman persons in the Indigenous Americas / edited by Brent K. S. Woodfill and Lucia R. Henderson.
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2024]
©2024
Description
xvi, 408 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Details
Subject(s)
Indigenous peoples
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Western Hemisphere
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Ethnic identity
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Indigenous peoples of North America
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Ethnic identity
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Indigenous peoples of South America
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Ethnic identity
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Animism
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Western Hemisphere
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Indigenous Studies
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Editor
Woodfill, Brent
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Henderson, Lucia
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Summary note
"This volume focuses on how Indigenous communities of the Americas have long recognized degrees of personhood within their landscapes, and its case studies show how researchers can incorporate this worldview in archaeological investigations, community relations, and interpretations"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
"Peopling" the Americas: Animate Landscapes and the Archaeology of the Western Hemisphere / Brent K. S. Woodfill and Lucia R. Henderson
Part I. North and Central America.
The Tlingit Existencescape: Relational Principles of Engagement and Practice in an Animate Landscape / Steve J. Langdon
Human Interactions with Thunder Beings: Lightning Induced Magnetic Remanence in the Animated Landscape / David Maki, Sigrid Arnott, Joshua Feinberg, and Dianne Desrosiers
Natural Democracy in the Southeast / S. Margaret Spivey-Faulkner
Missing Persons: Animate Landscape and Non-Human Personhood in the Classic Maya Economy / Lucia R. Henderson and Brent K. S. Woodfill
Animism, Non-Human Persons, and Ritual Landscapes in Lacandon and Ancient Maya Social Life in Chiapas, Mexico / Joel W. Palka and Alice Balsanelli
Animate Landscapes and Indigenous Ontologies in North America and Mesoamerica / Eleanor Harrison-Buck and Lisa J. Lucero
Part II. South America.
Inka Cusco: Building Huacas with Huacas / Dennis E. Ogburn, Bill Sillar, and Alexei Vranich
Extractive Activities and Animate Landscapes: Apu and Resource Acquisition in the Andes / Nicola Sharratt and Patrick Ryan Williams
Animism in the Polychrome Tradition of Amazonia / A. C. Roosevelt
Myths, Topography, and Constructed Landscapes: Treng Treng in Time and Space among the Mapuche of Southern Chile / Jacob J. Sauer
Discussion: Words about words / Carolyn Dean
Seeing the Unseen and Hearing the Unheard: Speaking Unspoken/Unwritten Thoughts AnAlphabeticaly / James Waŋbdí Haŋyetu Rock.
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ISBN
9780813079196 (hardcover)
0813079195 (hardcover)
LCCN
2024014810
OCLC
1429668960
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