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Enduring Motives: The Archaeology of Tradition and Religion in Native America
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Paperback. Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USX-NONEX-NONEMicrosoftInternetExplorer4Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USX-NONEX-NONEMicrosoftInternetExplorer4"Enduring Motives" examines tradition and religious beliefs as they are expressed in landscape, the built environment, visual symbols, stories, and ritual. Editor(s): Sundstrom, Linea; DeBoer, Warren R. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1K; HDD; HRLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 576.
Enduring Motives examines tradition and religious beliefs as they are expressed in landscape, the built environment, visual symbols, stories, and ritual. Bringing together archaeologists and Native American experts, this volume focuses on long-lived religious traditions of the native peoples of the Americas and how religion codifies, justifies, and reinforces these traditions by placing a high value on continuity of beliefs and practice. Using clues from the archaeological record to piece together the oldest religions of the Americas, Enduring Motives is organized into four parts. Part 1 creates continuity through structure, iconography, and sacred stories that correspond to culture-specific ... Read more
Enduring Motives examines tradition and religious beliefs as they are expressed in landscape, the built environment, visual symbols, stories, and ritual. Bringing together archaeologists and Native American experts, this volume focuses on long-lived religious traditions of the native peoples of the Americas and how religion codifies, justifies, and reinforces these traditions by placing a high value on continuity of beliefs and practice. Using clues from the archaeological record to piece together the oldest religions of the Americas, Enduring Motives is organized into four parts. Part 1 creates continuity through structure, iconography, and sacred stories that correspond to culture-specific ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University Alabama Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Alabama, United States
ISBN
9780817357153
SKU
V9780817357153
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99-15
About
Linea Sundstrom is an independent researcher with the Archaeological Research Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Warren DeBoer is a professor of anthropology at CUNY Graduate Center in New York.
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