Elements of ancient power in the Cahokian world
Elements of ancient power in the Cahokian world
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卡霍基世界的古代力量元素
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2012
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Sarah E. Baires
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Melissa R. Baltus;Sarah E. Baires
古代北美东部的权力不能先验地分为政治、社会和宗教层面。相反，它是人类/非人类社会领域的一种普遍分散的属性，可以被转移、聚集、体现或安置。因此，政治权力至少部分地是通过涉及祖先、元素和超凡力量的社会宗教实践来实现的。解构宗教和政治的二分法，我们专注于材料操作，燃烧和埋葬的做法和周围的11-和12世纪复杂的卡霍基亚沿着密西西比河。具体来说，我们详细介绍了一些寺庙建筑，人类遗骸和物体被转化的情况，特别是通过燃烧，因此它们的力量被转化。人被建造，权力的地方被建造，政治代理人被定义，敌人被通过火和土消灭。
Power in ancient eastern North America cannot be segregated a priori into political, social, and religious dimensions. Rather, it was a commonly dispersed attribute of human/non-human social fields that might be transferred, gathered, embodied, or emplaced. Thus, political power was realized, at least in part, through socio-religious practices involving ancestors, elements, and otherworldly forces. Deconstructing the dichotomy of religion and politics, we focus on practices of material manipulation, burning, and burial at and around the eleventh- and twelfth-century complex of Cahokia along the Mississippi River. Specifically, we detail a number of contexts where temple buildings, human remains, and objects were transubstantiated, especially through burning, and hence their power transformed. Persons were constructed, places of power were built, political agents were defined, and enemies were eliminated through fire and earth.