Archaeologies Of Cosmoscapes In The Americas...

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Título: Archaeologies of Cosmoscapes in the Americas
Autor: J. Grant Stauffer y otros
Editorial: -----------
Colección: American Landscapes
Temática: Arqueología
Edición: 1
Año de Edición: 2022
Número de páginas: 284
Peso: 769 gramos
Ancho: 185 milímetros
Alto: 246 milímetros
Formato: Rústica
Idioma: Inglés
ISBN: 9781789258448


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This volume examines how pre-Columbian societies in the Americas envisioned their cosmos and iteratively modelled it through the creation of particular objects and places. It emphasises that American societies did this to materialize overarching models and templates for the shape and scope of the cosmos, the working definition of cosmoscape. Noting a tendency to gloss over the ways in which ancestral Americans envisioned the cosmos as intertwined and animated, the authors examine how cosmoscapes are manifested archaeologically, in the forms of objects and physically altered landscapes. This volume includes case studies of cosmoscapes that present themselves as forms of architecture, portable artifacts, and transformed aspects of the natural world. In doing so, it emphasises that the creation of cosmoscapes offered a means of reconciling peoples experiences of the world with their understandings of them.



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