TY  - BOOK
AU  - Adams,E.Charles
AU  - Adler,Michael A.
AU  - Baires,Sarah E.
AU  - Baltus,Melissa R.
AU  - Berryman,Judy
AU  - Bobolinski,Kathryn
AU  - Claassen,Cheryl
AU  - Edwards,Alysha
AU  - Fitzsimmons,James L.
AU  - Fladd,Samantha G.
AU  - Fox,William
AU  - Hampton,Ashley
AU  - Hedquist,Saul L.
AU  - Kay,Marvin
AU  - Koyiyumptewa,Stewart B.
AU  - Prentiss,Anna Marie
AU  - Rodning,Christopher B.
AU  - Roth,Barbara
AU  - Roth,Barbara J.
AU  - Ryan,Ethan
AU  - Ryan,Susan C.
AU  - Stone,Tammy
AU  - Vance,Emma
AU  - Walker,William H.
TI  - Agent of Change: The Deposition and Manipulation of Ash in the Past 
SN  - 9781800730366
AV  - GN416 .A34 2021
U1  - 569.9 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Antiquities, Prehistoric
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - ancestors
KW  - ancient cultures
KW  - anthropology
KW  - antiquities archaeology
KW  - archaeological record
KW  - archaeology
KW  - catastrophe
KW  - caves and caverns
KW  - cross cultural patterns
KW  - cultural patterns
KW  - cultural transformation
KW  - engaging
KW  - fire
KW  - indigenous studies
KW  - mesoamerica
KW  - native americans
KW  - north america
KW  - page turner
KW  - phenomenon
KW  - realistic
KW  - religion
KW  - religious rituals
KW  - ritual deposition
KW  - scientists
KW  - social memory
KW  - social science
KW  - unusual objects
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Introduction: The Deposition and Manipulation of Ash in the Past --; PART I ASH AS A TRANSFORMATIVE AGENT --; CHAPTER 1 Ash Matters: The Ritual Closing of Domestic Structures in the Mimbres Mogollon Region --; CHAPTER 2 Complex Closure Practices Involving Ash at a Small Pueblo in Northeastern Arizona --; CHAPTER 3 Sequencing Termination Events: Preparing Hearths for the Ritual Decommissioning of Ancestral Pueblo Pit Structures in the Northern U.S. Southwest --; CHAPTER 4 Symbolic Associations: Assessing the Co-occurrence of Turquoise and Ash in the Ancient U.S. Southwest --; CHAPTER 5 Fire, Ash, and Sanctuary: Pyrotechnology as Protection in the Precolonial Northern Rio Grande --; CHAPTER 6 Burned Roofs and Cultural Traditions: Renewing and Closing Houses in the Ancient Villages of the Middle Fraser Canyon, British Columbia --; CHAPTER 7 Agentive Ash and Dispersed Power in the Cahokia Mississippian World --; CHAPTER 8 Townhouses, Hearths, Fire, Smoke, Ash, and Cherokee Towns in Western North Carolina --; CHAPTER 9 Ash as an Agent of Transformation in Iroquoian Society --; PART II ASH AND RITUAL --; CHAPTER 10 Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust in Caddoan Mortuary Ritual --; CHAPTER 11 Ashes for Fertility --; CHAPTER 12 Ashes, Arrows, and Sorcerers --; CHAPTER 13 Divine Food and Fiery Covenants: The Significance of Ash in Ancient Maya Religion --; Afterword --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Ash is an important and yet understudied aspect of ritual deposition in the archaeological record of North America. Ash has been found in a wide variety of contexts across many regions and often it is associated with rare or unusual objects or in contexts that suggest its use in the transition or transformation of houses and ritual features. Drawn from across the U.S. and Mesoamerica, the chapters in this volume explore the use, meanings, and cross-cultural patterns present in the use of ash. and highlight the importance of ash in ritual closure, social memory, and cultural transformation
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781800730373?locatt=mode:legacy
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ER  -