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- catalog abstract "This dramatic and controversial new interpretation of Cahokian leadership strategies examines the authority a ruling elite exercised over the surrounding countryside through a complex of social, political, and religious forms. Using the theoretical concepts of agency, power, and ideology, this study explores the development of cultural complexity within the hierarchically organized Cahokia Middle Mississippian society of the American Bottom from the 11th to the 13th centuries. By scrutinizing the available archaeological settlement and symbolic evidence, Thomas E. Emerson demonstrates that many sites previously identified as farmsteads were actually nodal centers with specialized political, religious, and economic functions that were integrated into a centralized Cahokian administrative organization. These centers are accompanied by such "artifacts of power" as figurines, ritual vessels, and sacred plants. The consolidation of this symbolism into a rural cult marks the expropriation of the cosmos as part of the increasing power of the Cahokian rulers.".
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- catalog contributor b11056106.
- catalog coverage "American Bottom (Ill.) Antiquities.".
- catalog coverage "Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park (Ill.)".
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "Emerson demonstrates that many sites previously identified as farmsteads were actually nodal centers with specialized political, religious, and economic functions that were integrated into a centralized Cahokian administrative organization. These centers are accompanied by such "artifacts of power" as figurines, ritual vessels, and sacred plants. The consolidation of this symbolism into a rural cult marks the expropriation of the cosmos as part of the increasing power of the Cahokian rulers.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-306) and index.".
- catalog description "The conceptual parameters -- The cultural-historical contexts -- Mississippian rural settlement -- Cahokian rural nodes : the archaeological evidence -- Interpreting Cahokian rural settlements -- The Cahokian symbolic world -- Cahokian rural cults.".
- catalog description "This dramatic and controversial new interpretation of Cahokian leadership strategies examines the authority a ruling elite exercised over the surrounding countryside through a complex of social, political, and religious forms. Using the theoretical concepts of agency, power, and ideology, this study explores the development of cultural complexity within the hierarchically organized Cahokia Middle Mississippian society of the American Bottom from the 11th to the 13th centuries. By scrutinizing the available archaeological settlement and symbolic evidence, Thomas E.".
- catalog extent "xv, 317 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0817308881 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press,".
- catalog spatial "American Bottom (Ill.) Antiquities.".
- catalog spatial "Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park (Ill.)".
- catalog spatial "Illinois American Bottom".
- catalog spatial "Illinois American Bottom.".
- catalog subject "977.3/89 21".
- catalog subject "E78.I3 E45 1997".
- catalog subject "Indians of North America Illinois American Bottom Antiquities.".
- catalog subject "Mississippian culture Illinois American Bottom.".
- catalog subject "Social archaeology Illinois American Bottom.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The conceptual parameters -- The cultural-historical contexts -- Mississippian rural settlement -- Cahokian rural nodes : the archaeological evidence -- Interpreting Cahokian rural settlements -- The Cahokian symbolic world -- Cahokian rural cults.".
- catalog title "Cahokia and the archaeology of power / Thomas E. Emerson.".
- catalog type "text".