Agent of Change

The Deposition and Manipulation of Ash in the Past

Barbara Roth, E. Charles Adams (Herausgeber)

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256 Seiten

2025
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-755-7 (ISBN)

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Ash is an important and yet understudied aspect of ritual deposition in the archaeological record of North America. Ash has been found in a wide variety of contexts across many regions and often it is associated with rare or unusual objects or in contexts that suggest its use in the transition or transformation of houses and ritual features. Drawn from across the U.S. and Mesoamerica, the chapters in this volume explore the use, meanings, and cross-cultural patterns present in the use of ash. and highlight the importance of ash in ritual closure, social memory, and cultural transformation.

Barbara Roth is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her recent research has focused on changes in household and community organization that occur as groups become more sedentary and dependent on agriculture and move from pithouses to pueblos in the Mimbres Mogollon region of southwestern New Mexico.

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Introduction: The Deposition and Manipulation of Ash in the Past

E. Charles Adams and Barbara J. Roth

Part I: Ash as a Transformative Agent

Chapter 1. The Ritual Closing of Domestic Structures in the Mimbres Mogollon Region

Barbara J. Roth

Chapter 2. Complex Closure Practices Involving Ash at a Small Pueblo in Northeastern Arizona

E. Charles Adams

Chapter 3. Sequencing Termination Events: Preparing Hearths for the Ritual Decommissioning of Ancestral Pueblo Pit Structures in the Northern U.S. Southwest

Susan C. Ryan

Chapter 4. Symbolic Associations: Assessing the Co-occurrence of Turquoise and Ash in the Ancient U.S. Southwest

Samantha G. Fladd, Saul L. Hedquist, E. Charles Adams, and Stewart B. Koyiyumptewa

Chapter 5. Fire, Ash and Sanctuary: Pyrotechnology as Protection in the Pre-Colonial Northern Rio Grande

Michael A. Adler

Chapter 6. Burned Roofs and Cultural Traditions: Renewing and Closing Houses in the Ancient Villages of the Middle Fraser Canyon, British Columbia

Anna Marie Prentiss, Alysha Edwards, Ashley Hampton, Ethan Ryan, Kathryn Bobolinski, and Emma Vance

Chapter 7. Agentive Ash and Dispersed Power in the Cahokia Mississippian World

Melissa R. Baltus and Sarah E. Baires

Chapter 8. Townhouses, Hearths, Fire, Smoke, Ash, and Cherokee Towns in Western North Carolina

Christopher B. Rodning

Chapter 9. Ash as an Agent of Transformation in Iroquoian Society

William Fox

Part II: Ash and Ritual

Chapter 10. Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust in Caddoan Mortuary Ritual

Marvin Kay

Chapter 11. Ashes for Fertility

Cheryl Claassen

Chapter 12. Ashes, Arrows, and Sorcerers

William H. Walker and Judy Berryman

Chapter 13. Divine Food and Fiery Covenants: The Significance of Ash in Ancient Maya Religion

James L. Fitzsimmons

Afterword

Tammy Stone

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.2.2025
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80539-755-9 / 1805397559
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-755-7 / 9781805397557
Zustand	Neuware