Living Symbols from a Mythic Landscape: An Exegesis of the Apalachee Ballgame Story and Placemaking in Northwest Florida

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Dancing through Iconographic Corpora: A Symposium in Honor of F. Kent Reilly III" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Dr. Kent F. Reilly and many of the scholars associated with the Mississippian Iconography Workshop have used ethnography and folklore to support interpretations about ritual and cosmology. This talk discusses how ancient landscapes can, in turn, inform folklore, ritual communication, and iconography. Expanding on previous scholarship that explored the connections between the Apalachee Ballgame myth and iconography recovered from the Lake Jackson site in Northwest Florida, I argue that the ancient landscape of the Tallahassee region was encoded in the ballgame myth and that these places participated in the creation of meaning for symbolic imagery.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• Dancing through Iconographic Corpora: A Symposium in Honor of F. Kent Reilly III

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Abstract Id(s): 32572