Relational Engagements of the Indigenous Americas

Alterity, Ontology, and Shifting Paradigms
Herausgeber: Baires, Sarah E.; Baltus, Melissa R.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Melissa R. Baltus and Sarah E. Bairescritically examines our current understanding of relational theory and the ontological turn in archaeological studies of the pre-contact Americas.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781498555357
• ISBN-10: 1498555357
• Artikelnr.: 49010867

Autorenporträt

Edited by Melissa R. Baltus and Sarah E. Baires - Contributions by Christopher Carr; Matthew Colvin; Christina T. Halperin; Erica Hill; Peter Whitridge; Melissa R. Baltus; Sarah E. Baires; Brianna Rafidi; Heather Smyth and Victor D. Thompson

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: A Relational Geography of Humans and Animals on the Arctic Coast
of Alaska by Erica Hill Chapter 2: The government of dogs: Archaeological
(zo)ontologies by Peter Whitridge Chapter 3: A Procession of Faces:
Considering the Materiality of Relational Ontologies in Southern Florida by
Matthew Colvin and Victor D. Thompson Chapter 4: Vessels of Change:
Everyday relationality in the rise and fall of Cahokia by Melissa R. Baltus
Chapter 5: How Animistic Entities Make History: Maya Materialities and
Spiritualities over the Longue Durée by Christina Halperin Chapter 6:
Getting to the Soul of Personhood: A Survey of Historic Woodland and Plains
Indian Ontologies and a Critique of the Notion of a Hopewellian "Religion"
by Christopher Carr, Heather Smyth, and Brianna Rafidi