Ancestral mounds vitality and volatility of Native America /

"Ancestral Mounds deconstructs earthen mounds and myths in examining their importance in contemporary Native communities. Two centuries of academic scholarship regarding mounds have examined who, what, where, when, and how, but no serious investigations have addressed the basic question, why? D...

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Main Author: Miller, Jay, 1947-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2015.
Physical Description:
xxviii, 187 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects:
Mounds -- Oklahoma.
Indians of North America -- Oklahoma -- Antiquities.
Ethnology -- Oklahoma.
Indians of North America -- Funeral customs and rites -- Oklahoma.
Indians of North America -- Oklahoma -- Religion.
Indians of North America -- Oklahoma -- Social life and customs.
Community life -- Oklahoma.
Monuments -- Social aspects -- Oklahoma.
Oklahoma -- Antiquities.
Oklahoma -- Social life and customs.
Contents:
  • Archaeological Time Frame
  • Kinship Codes
  • Graphic Codes
  • Mounding Up
  • Breaking Ground
  • SEeing Mounds
  • Modern Mounding
  • Mounds in Full.

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