Religion and Politics in the Ancient Americas

Sarah B. Barber is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Central Florida, USA. Arthur A. Joyce is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Colorado Boulder, USA.

• 1. New directions in the archaeology of religion and politics in the Americas by Arthur A. Joyce 2. The mobile house: religious leadership at Chacoan and Chacoan revival centers by Erina Gruner 3. The elements of Cahokian shrine complexes and basis of Mississippian religion by Susan M. Alt and Timothy R. Pauketat 4. Cherokee religion and European contact in southeastern North America by Christopher B. Rodning 5. Unsettled gods: religion and politics in the Early Formative Soconusco by Sarah B. Barber 6. Religion, urbanism, and inequality in ancient central Mexico by David M. Carballo 7. Religion in a material world by Rosemary A. Joyce 8. Political engagement in household ritual among the Maya of Yucatan by Scott R. Hutson, Céline C. Lamb, and David Medina Arona9. Ritual is power? Religion as a possible base of power for early political actors in ancient Peru by Matthew Piscitelli 10. Timing is everything: religion and the regulation of temporalities in precolumbian Peru by Edward Swenson 11. From landscape to ontology in Amazonia: the Llanos de Mojos as a middle ground by John H. Walker 12. The multivalent mollusk: spondylus, ritual, and politics in the prehispanic Andes by Jerry D. Moore 13. Power at the crossroads of politics and religion: a commentary by María Nieves Zedeño

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