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Land of Water, City of the Dead: Religion and Cahokia's Emergence

Land of Water, City of the Dead: Religion and Cahokia's Emergence

Baires, Sarah E.

Paperback

Series: Archaeology of the American South: New Directions and Perspe

Native American HistoryAnthropologyArchaeology

ISBN10: 0817360735
ISBN13: 9780817360733
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: Oct 18 2022
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.91 Depth: 8.98
Language: English

Explores the embodiment of religion in the Cahokia land and how places create, make meaningful, and transform practices and beliefs

Cahokia, the largest city of the Mississippian mound cultures, lies outside present-day East St. Louis. Land of Water, City of the Dead reconceptualizes Cahokia's emergence and expansion (ca. 1050-1200), focusing on understanding a newly imagined religion and complexity through a non-Western lens. Sarah E. Baires argues that this system of beliefs was a dynamic, lived component, based on a broader ontology, with roots in other mound societies. This religion was realized through novel mortuary practices and burial mounds as well as through the careful planning and development of this early city's urban landscape.

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