TY  - GEN
T1  - Archaeologies of cosmoscapes in the Americas
T2  - American Landscapes (Series)
LA  - English
PP  - Oxford
PB  - Oxbow Books
YR  - 2022
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1336953370
AB  - This volume examines how pre-Columbian societies in the Americas envisioned their cosmos and iteratively modeled it through the creation of particular objects and places. It emphasizes 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 book's chapters, therefore, offer case studies of cosmoscapes that present themselves as forms of architecture, portable artifacts, and transformed aspects of the natural world. In doing so, it emphasizes that the creation of cosmoscapes offered a means of reconciling peoples experiences of the world with their understandings of them.
OP  - 265
CN  - E98.C79
SN  - 9781789258455
SN  - 1789258456
SN  - 9781789258462
SN  - 1789258464
SN  - 1789258448
SN  - 9781789258448
KW  - Reilly, F. Kent, : III, : 1945-2024.
KW  - Indian cosmology.
KW  - Indians : Antiquities.
KW  - Cosmologie des Peuples autochtones.
KW  - Peuples autochtones : Antiquités.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
KW  - Indian cosmology
KW  - Indians : Antiquities
KW  - America.
ER  -