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Transforming the Landscape: Rock Art and the Mississippian Cosmos
Jan Simek
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Description for Transforming the Landscape: Rock Art and the Mississippian Cosmos
Paperback. .
This beautifully illustrated volume examines American Indian rock art across an expansive region of eastern North America during the Mississippian Period (post AD 900). Unlike portable cultural material, rock art provides in situ evidence of ritual activity that links ideology and place. The focus is on the widespread use of cosmograms depicted in Mississippian rock art imagery. This approach anchors broad distributional patterns of motifs and themes within a powerful framework for cultural interpretation, yielding new insights on ancient concepts of landscape, ceremonialism, and religion. It also provides a unified, comprehensive perspective on Mississippian symbolism. A selection of landscape ... Read more
This beautifully illustrated volume examines American Indian rock art across an expansive region of eastern North America during the Mississippian Period (post AD 900). Unlike portable cultural material, rock art provides in situ evidence of ritual activity that links ideology and place. The focus is on the widespread use of cosmograms depicted in Mississippian rock art imagery. This approach anchors broad distributional patterns of motifs and themes within a powerful framework for cultural interpretation, yielding new insights on ancient concepts of landscape, ceremonialism, and religion. It also provides a unified, comprehensive perspective on Mississippian symbolism. A selection of landscape ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxbow Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785706288
SKU
V9781785706288
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99-50
About Jan Simek
Carol Diaz-Granados, Ph.D., is a Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology, Washington University, St Louis, where she has taught since 1980. She earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology there in 1993. Her main research interests include American Indian art and iconography, rock art, body art/body modification across cultures, and urban archaeology. Jan F. Simek is Distinguished Professor of ... Read more
Reviews for Transforming the Landscape: Rock Art and the Mississippian Cosmos
I commend the editors for their daring vision and timely contribution to American rock art scholarship.
Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society
Organised into seven thought-provoking chapters, each accompanied by high-quality images, this book will be an important contribution into understanding regional rock-art trends in a continent that has a complex, dynamic and distinct range in its rock-art assemblages. ... Read more
Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society
Organised into seven thought-provoking chapters, each accompanied by high-quality images, this book will be an important contribution into understanding regional rock-art trends in a continent that has a complex, dynamic and distinct range in its rock-art assemblages. ... Read more