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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Emerson, Thomas E., 1945- Cahokia and the archaeology of power. Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, ©1997 (DLC) 97013085 (OCoLC)36676062 |
Material Type: | Document, Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Thomas E Emerson |
ISBN: | 0585184127 9780585184128 9780817308889 0817308881 9780817383657 0817383654 |
OCLC Number: | 44956190 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 317 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Responsibility: | Thomas E. Emerson. |
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"In this striking integration of iconographic analysis with settlement pattern studies, Emerson produces a new reading of power relations in the area dominated by Cahokia chiefs. Unlike some other researchers, he sees evidence of strong, direct, administrative control over the rural population by functionaries appointed by the Cahokia paramount chief, a control legitimized by the elite appropriation of a centuries-old, popular fertility cult. This view, and the analytic approach from which it emerges, will be embraced by some and received quizzically by others, but it is food for thought that anyone studying nonstate, hierarchical societies should attempt to digest."Paul D. Welch, Queens College "An important contribution to the literature of Cahokia and the ongoing debates over chiefly societies in general. It joins a group of major studies that offer contrasting perspectives on the organizational character of Mississippian societies and how one defines them archaeologically." American Antiquity Read more...


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- Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park (Ill.)
- Indians of North America -- Illinois -- American Bottom -- Antiquities.
- Mississippian culture -- Illinois -- American Bottom.
- Social archaeology -- Illinois -- American Bottom.
- American Bottom (Ill.) -- Antiquities.
- HISTORY -- State & Local.
- HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
- Antiquities.
- Indians of North America -- Antiquities.
- Mississippian culture.
- Social archaeology.
- Illinois -- American Bottom.
- Illinois -- Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park.
- Indianen.
- Archeologie.
- Illinois.