Religion (Other Keyword)

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An outline of Dahomean religious belief (1933)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Melville J. (Melville Jean) Herskovits. Frances Shapiro Herskovits.

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Outside of the Reach of the Mission Bell: Tongva Ritual Practice on San Clemente Island (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elisabeth A. Rareshide.

The Mission Period in Alta California (AD 1769-1834) radically changed the lives of indigenous people such as the Tongva. Many Tongva people joined the Spanish missions, but some practiced rituals connected to the Chinigchinich religion on San Clemente Island. Patterns of consumption of native and foreign material culture may reveal new layers of meaning in persistent ritual practices. With a variety of ritual features, the Lemon Tank artifact collection from San Clemente Island provides a rich...

The owl sacred pack of the Fox Indians (1921)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Truman Michelson.

Persistence of Aztec Religious Belief Materialized in the Early Colonial Religious Architecture of the Central Mexican Highlands (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maria Stapleton.

Late Classic conceptualizations of sacred space, cosmologies, calendrical systems, and religious symbols combined to form a powerful and enduring core of indigenous religious beliefs that persisted well into the Early Colonial period in the central highlands of Mexico. Indigenous builders and artisans reconstructed their temples, now Christian, within pre-existing Aztec sacred space, often following indigenous alignments of cosmological significance. The elaborate facades of these churches were...

Potam: a Yaqui Village in Sonora (1954)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Edward H. Spicer.

Pottery and Religion at Greater Cahokia’s Emerald Acropolis (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebecca Barzilai. Susan M. Alt. Timothy R. Pauketat.

Since 2012, large-scale survey and excavations at and around the Emerald site east of Cahokia have investigated the religious foundations of the rise of that American Indian city. Emerald was a shrine complex, where religion was performed by Cahokians and pilgrims beginning around AD 1000. Excavations have revealed dense stands of non-domestic, ceremonial and public architecture alongside seemingly temporary, short-term housing. A prominent aspect of the rituality of the place was the use of...

A Pragmatic View of Marshallese Christmas Ritual (1969)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nancy J. Pollock.

Preliminary Results from "the Role of Religious Institutions in Pre-Columbian America Data Analysis Project" (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexander Martin. Felipe Sol.

The past couple of decades have seen a marked rise in behavioral and social science research from evolutionary psychologists, sociologists, and anthropologists looking to clarify what motivated the development and spread of religious institution throughout the world. These approaches tend to highlight the functional “prosocial” role that religion played in social development, citing its character as an integrative social device, as mitigator of external social stress, or as an enforcer of more...

Prispevek k rekonstrukci pravekych objektu Kultovní objekty z Plotist a Trebovetic (2005)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Milan Slezák. Et Al. Radomír Tichý.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the EXARC Bibliography, originally compiled by Roeland Paardekooper, and updated. Most of these records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us using the...

Problematizing Religious Transformation: burial evidence for the transition to Christianity (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brooke Creager.

The identification of religion through the examination of burials is faced with many problems, mainly the different avenues of interpretation. This paper will examine the conflicting evidence for religious belief used to identify religious practice in burials. The use of a few key features, or lack of features, to designate a burial of one religion or another does not take into account variation or coincidental practices, which only resemble a particular religion. Mixed burials present...

The pueblo of Sia, New Mexico (1962)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Leslie A. White.

The Queen of Heaven in Iron Age Greece: Analyzing Religious Ideology and Symbolism on Multiple Scales (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Daniels.

In this paper, I approach religion and ideology in the archaeological record through an analysis of iconographic symbols, one that centres on the dialectic between longstanding meanings of symbols as they are transmitted across space and time and the local social, political, and intellectual contexts in which they appear. I situate my analysis within recent models from cultural evolutionary psychology, which see religion, along with its attendant rituals and symbolisms, as an adaptive mechanism...

Quileute Religion and Sites of Religious Importance On the Quileute Reservation at La Push, Washington (1981)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jay V. Powell.

"Rebels" and "Idolators" in the Valley of Volcanoes: An Archaeological and Historical Inquiry of Andagua, Peru, 1000AD-1800AD (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexander Menaker.

This paper outlines developing dissertation research that integrates archaeological and historical evidence about the community of Andagua and the Ayo Valley in the Southern Peruvian Andes. Constructed as a Spanish colonial reducción, Andagua resides in a seldom-visited highland area, and today is merely considered a rural, provincial neighbor of Arequipa. Andagua, however, has a striking past evident in the substantial prehispanic remains that surround and lie buried beneath the contemporary...

A rectory divided: mediation of space in a colonial town in the southern Peruvian highlands (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bethany Whitlock. Kari Lentz.

During the 16th century Viceroy Toledo ordered a series of reforms in the Viceroyalty of Peru that involved the forced resettlement of the native population into planned nucleated settlements (reducciones). Toledo believed that these standardized built environments, in conjunction with ecclesiastical regulation, would produce idealized colonial communities. This paper presents the initial results of recent excavations in the rectory at Mawchu Llacta, a reducción in the Colca Valley. The rectory...

Regionality and Relations to the State in the Andagua Valley, Southern Peruvian Andes (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexander Menaker.

This is an abstract from the "Itinerant Bureaucrats and Empire" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the mid-18th century, spurred by recent Bourbon reforms and claiming years of unpaid tribute, Spanish colonial officials journeyed to the town of Andagua in the high Southern Peruvian Andes. Yet upon arriving they encountered firm resistance to their regional colonial authority that coalesced around the leaders of reputed ancestor cults, nearly...

Religion among the Primitives (1964)

DOCUMENT Citation Only William J. Goode.

Religion and the Rise of Mesoamerican States. In: the Transition To Statehood in the New World (1981)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael D. Coe.

Religion in daily life in the open-air museum. The example of the Hessenpark Open-Air Museum (1995)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter Janisch.

Religion In Montana: Pathways To the Present. 2 Vols (1992)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lawrence F. Small.

The Religion of the Crow Indians (1922)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert H. Lowie.

The religion of the Ifugaos (1946)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Roy Franklin Barton.

Religion, Memory and Materiality: Exploring the Origins and Legacies of Sectarianism in the North of Ireland (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Audrey J Horning.

The early seventeenth-century Plantation of Ulster, in which the English Crown sought to plant loyal British colonists in the north of Ireland, is commonly understood as overtly religious in intent and action, and is viewed as the foundation for today’s dichotomous divide between Protestant and Catholic communities in Northern Ireland. However, archaeological and documentary evidence complicates this straightforward narrative by demonstrating considerable cultural exchange and the emergence of...

Religion, Ritual, and Ideology in Epiclassic Highland Mexico (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Turner.

Studies of the visual systems of the major sites of Epiclassic Highland Mexico have tended to focus on their common writing system and similarity in art styles. There is much to be gained from these lines of inquiry, but relatively few works have investigated the shared religious content conveyed in Epiclassic artwork. This paper evaluates preexisting theories concerning Epiclassic pan-Mesoamerican cults and argues that religious and ideological beliefs concerning Flower World, a solar paradise...

Religious and Ritualized Landscapes of Iron Age Central Eurasia (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathryn MacFarland.

Culturally diverse peoples variously glossed as Scythian, Saka, and Xiongnu lived in northern central Eurasia throughout the Iron Age (ca. 1,000-100 BCE). Archaeological sites of this time period range from kurgans (burial tumuli), mortuary complexes called khirigsuur, standing stelae termed "deer stones," settlements, and metallurgical centers. There is a long-term life history within the places in which these structures and monuments were built, general patterns in their spatial distribution....