Titlebook: Being Scioto Hopewell: Ritual Drama and Personhood in Cross-Cultural Perspective; Christopher Carr Book 2021 The Editor(s) (if applicable)

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Christopher CarrIs the first study to reconstruct and compare the ritual dramas of ancient Native North American societies.Is the first exploration of concepts of personhood held by ancient Hopewell Indians.Introduce

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45152-2ions to blend or mingle together the souls of their deceased in order to create a spiritual-social alliance among the communities. They also staged ritual dramas that enacted, step-by-step, the souls’ journey to an afterlife, in order to instruct the souls on how to make the trip, to ensure their sa

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43320-8ples and the descriptions of them attempted in this book. Three matters are addressed. First is the particular philosophy of cultural analysis that has inspired the studies presented in this work. Second are the topics that we value, emphasize, and find essential to anthropology if it is to attain i

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43320-8rld view, language, cultural metaphors, values, and knowledge—demands that the researcher reflect on the terms and analytical categories s/he uses to describe those people. For a researcher to not question the biases implicit in her or his descriptive terms and conceptual categories makes the resear