2008 Gathering Hopewell: Society, Ritual, and Ritual Interaction, by Christopher Carr and D. Troy Case. Springer, New York, NY.
2008 Compact Disk of Appendices, ISBN 978-0-306-48478-0. C Carr, D. T. Case, et al. In Gathering Hopewell: Society, Ritual, and Ritual Interaction, by Christopher Carr and D. Troy Case. Springer, New York, NY. https://extras.springer.com/2005/
2008 Compact Disk of Appendices, ISBN 978-0-306-48478-0. C Carr, D. T. Case, et al. In Gathering Hopewell: Society, Ritual, and Ritual Interaction, by Christopher Carr and D. Troy Case. Springer, New York, NY. https://extras.springer.com/2005/
Summary
Among the most socially and personally vocal archaeological remains on the North American continent are the massive and often complexly designed earthen architecture of Hopewellian peoples of two thousand years ago, their elaborately embellished works of art made of glistening metals and stones from faraway places, and their highly formalized mortuaries. In this book, twenty-one researchers in interwoven efforts immerse themselves and the reader in this vibrant archaeological record in order to richly reconstruct the societies, rituals, and ritual interactions of Hopewellian peoples.
By finding the faces, actions, and motivations of Hopewellian peoples as individuals who constructed knowable social roles, the authors explore, in a personalized and locally contextualized manner, the details of Hopewellian life: leadership, its sacred and secular power bases, recruitment, and formalization over time; systems of social ranking and prestige; animal-totemic clan organization, kinship structures, and sodalities; gender roles, prestige, work load, and health; community organization in its tri-scalar residential, symbolic, and demographic forms; intercommunity alliances and changes in their strategies and expanses over time; and interregional travels for power questing, pilgrimage, healing, tutelage, and acquiring ritual knowledge.
This book is useful to scholars, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates interested in the workings and development of social complexity at local and interregional scales, recent theoretical developments in the anthropology of the topics listed above, the prehistory of eastern North America, its history of intellectual development, and Native American ritual, symbolism, and belief.
By finding the faces, actions, and motivations of Hopewellian peoples as individuals who constructed knowable social roles, the authors explore, in a personalized and locally contextualized manner, the details of Hopewellian life: leadership, its sacred and secular power bases, recruitment, and formalization over time; systems of social ranking and prestige; animal-totemic clan organization, kinship structures, and sodalities; gender roles, prestige, work load, and health; community organization in its tri-scalar residential, symbolic, and demographic forms; intercommunity alliances and changes in their strategies and expanses over time; and interregional travels for power questing, pilgrimage, healing, tutelage, and acquiring ritual knowledge.
This book is useful to scholars, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates interested in the workings and development of social complexity at local and interregional scales, recent theoretical developments in the anthropology of the topics listed above, the prehistory of eastern North America, its history of intellectual development, and Native American ritual, symbolism, and belief.
Reviews
Review of Gathering Hopewell, Cambridge Archaeological Journal 2008, 18(3), pp. 437-439. Andrew Martin.
Review of Gathering Hopewell, Southeastern Archaeology 2006, 25(1), pp. 147-148. Michael Nassaney.
Review of Gathering Hopewell, Southeastern Archaeology 2006, 25(1), pp. 147-148. Michael Nassaney.
Table of Contents
Dedication to Stuart Struever. Christopher Carr
Part I. General Introduction
|
Chapter 1.
|
The Gathering of Hopewell. Christopher Carr and D. Troy Case
|
|
Chapter 2.
|
Historical Insight into the Directions and Limitations of Recent Research on Hopewell. Christopher Carr
|
Part II. Social and Political Organizations of Northern Hopewellian People
|
Chapter 3.
|
Salient Issues in the Social and Political Organizations of Northern Hopewellian Peoples: Contextualizing, Personalizing, and Generating Hopewell. Christopher Carr
|
|
Chapter 4.
|
Community Organizations in the Scioto, Mann, and Havana Hopewellian Regions: A Comparative Perspective. Bret J. Ruby, Christopher Carr, and Douglas K. Charles
|
|
Chapter 5.
|
The Nature of Leadership in Ohio Hopewellian Societies: Role Segregation and the Transformation from Shamanism. Christopher Carr and D. Troy Case
|
|
Chapter 6.
|
The Question of Ranking in Havana Hopewellian Societies: A Retrospective in Light of Multi-Cemetery Ceremonial Organization. Christopher Carr
|
|
Chapter 7.
|
The Tripartite Ceremonial Alliance among Scioto Hopewellian Communities and the Question of Social Ranking. Christopher Carr
|
|
Chapter 8.
|
Animal-Totemic Clans of Ohio Hopewellian Peoples. Chad R. Thomas, Christopher Carr, and Cynthia Keller
|
|
Chapter 9.
|
Gender, Status, and Ethnicity in the Scioto, Miami, and Northeastern Ohio Hopewellian Regions, as Evidenced by Mortuary Practices. Stephanie Field, Anne Goldberg, and Tina Lee
|
|
Chapter 10.
|
Gender and Social Differentiation within the Turner Population, Ohio, as Evidenced by Activity-Induced Musculoskeletal Stress Markers. Teresa Rodrigues
|
|
Chapter 11.
|
Gender, Role, Prestige, and Ritual Interaction across the Ohio, Mann, and Havana Hopewellian Regions, as Evidenced by Ceramic Figurines. Cynthia Keller and Christopher Carr
|
Part III. Ritual Gatherings of Northern Hopewellian Peoples
|
Chapter 12.
|
Scioto Hopewell Ritual Gatherings: A Review and Discussion of Previous Interpretations and Data. Christopher Carr
|
|
Chapter 13.
|
Estimating the Sizes and Social Compositions of Mortuary-Related Gatherings at Scioto Hopewell Earthwork–Mound Sites. Christopher Carr, Beau J. Goldstein, and Jaimin Weets
|
|
Chapter 14.
|
Smoking Pipe Compositions and Styles as Evidence of the Social Affiliations of Mortuary Ritual Participants at the Tremper Site, Ohio. Jaimin Weets, Christopher Carr, David Penney, and Gary Carriveau
|
|
Chapter 15.
|
Ceramic Vessel Compositions and Styles as Evidence of the Local and Nonlocal Social Affiliations of Ritual Participants at the Mann Site, Indiana. Bret J. Ruby and Christine M. Shriner
|
Part IV. Hopewellian Ritual Connections Across Eastern North America
|
Chapter 16.
|
Rethinking Interregional Hopewellian “Interaction”. Christopher Carr
|
|
Chapter 17.
|
Hopewellian Copper Celts from Eastern North America: Their Social and Symbolic Significance. Wesley Bernadini and Christopher Carr
|
|
Chapter 18.
|
Hopewellian Panpipes from Eastern North America: Their Social, Ritual, and Symbolic Significance. Gina Turff and Christopher Carr
|
|
Chapter 19.
|
Hopewellian Copper Earspools from Eastern North America: The Social, Ritual, and Symbolic Significance of Their Contexts and Distribution. Katharine C. Ruhl
|
|
Chapter 20.
|
Hopewellian Silver and Silver Artifacts from Eastern North America: Their Sources, Procurement, Distribution, and Meanings. Michael W. Spence and Brian J. Fryer
|