Visualizing the Sacred: Cosmic Visions, Regionalism, and the Art of the Mississippian World - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0292737513 ISBN 13: 9780292737518

Casa editrice: Univ of Texas Pr, 2011

Riassunto

The prehistoric native peoples of the Mississippi River Valley and other areas of the Eastern Woodlands of the United States shared a complex set of symbols and motifs that constituted one of the greatest artistic traditions of the pre-Columbian Americas. Traditionally known as the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex, these artifacts of copper, shell, stone, clay, and wood were the subject of the groundbreaking 2007 book Ancient Objects and Sacred Realms: Interpretations of Mississippian Iconography, which presented a major reconstruction of the rituals, cosmology, ideology, and political structures of the Mississippian peoples.

Visualizing the Sacred advances the study of Mississippian iconography by delving into the regional variations within what is now known as the Mississippian Iconographic Interaction Sphere (MIIS). Bringing archaeological, ethnographic, ethnohistoric, and iconographic perspectives to the analysis of Mississippian art, contributors from several disciplines discuss variations in symbols and motifs among major sites and regions across a wide span of time and also consider what visual symbols reveal about elite status in diverse political environments. These findings represent the first formal identification of style regions within the Mississippian Iconographic Interaction Sphere and call for a new understanding of the MIIS as a network of localized, yet interrelated religious systems that experienced both continuity and change over time.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of Texas Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0292737513
• ISBN 13: 9780292737518
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 357
• Redattore: Lankford George E., Reilly F. Kent III, Garber James F.
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