Archaeology in a living landscape : envisioning nonhuman persons in the Indigenous Americas / edited by Brent K. S. Woodfill and Lucia R. Henderson.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2024]
  • ©2024
Description
xvi, 408 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

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"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.
ISBN
  • 9780813079196 (hardcover)
  • 0813079195 (hardcover)
LCCN
2024014810
OCLC
1429668960
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