New methods and theories for analyzing Mississippian imagery /edited by Bretton T. Giles and Shawn P. Lambert.
- 1 online resource (x, 265 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Florida Museum of Natural History : Ripley P. Bullen series .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: New Methods and Theories for Analyzing Mississippian Imagery / Part I. Variation in Design and Style -- Tracking Design Variation within Late Mississippian Complicated Stamped Pottery Assemblages from the Georgia Coast / The McAdams Style Revisited: Matching Spider Iconography with Material Culture / A Preliminary Stylistic Assessment of the Ceramic Imagery of the Late Prehistoric Peoples of Choctawhatchee Bay, Florida, and Its Implications / Part II. Interpreting Mississippian Iconography -- Local Eyes: Recognizing Cosmological Motifs / Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble: Mississippian Witchcraft Agency, Animism, and Materiality / Part III. Situating and Historicizing Mississippian Symbols -- Mnemonic Parallelism and the Cosmologies Materialized in Late Mississippian Pecan Point Headpots / From Enwrapped Worlds: A Peircean Semiotic Approach to Early Caddo Ceramics / Imagery in Motion: Object Itineraries of Spiro Engraved Vessels / Part IV. Concluding Remarks -- Merging Art Historical and Anthropological Approaches in Pre-Columbian Iconography / Bretton T. Giles and Shawn P. Lambert -- Anna M. Semon -- J. Grant Stauffer -- John F. Scarry -- George E. Lankford -- David H. Dye -- Bretton T. Giles -- Jesse C. Nowak -- Shawn P. Lambert -- Vernon James Knight
"Exploring various methodological and theoretical approaches to pre-Columbian visual culture, the essays in this volume reconstruct dynamic accounts of Native American history across the U.S. Southeast"--
9781683402466
2021021917
Mississippian culture--History.--Southern States Indians of North America--Antiquities.--Southern States