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Climate change is today’s news, but it isn’t a new phenomenon. Centuries-long cycles of heating and cooling are well documented for Europe and the North Atlantic. These variations in climate, including the Medieval Warm Period (MWP), AD 900 to 1300, and the early centuries of the Little Ice Age (LIA), AD 1300 to 1600, had a substantial impact on the cultural history of Europe. In this pathfinding volume, William C. Foster marshals extensive evidence that the heating and cooling of the MWP and LIA also occurred in North America and significantly affected the cultural history of Native peoples of the American Southwest, Southern Plains, and Southeast. Correlating climate change data with studies of archaeological sites across the Southwest, Southern Plains, and Southeast, Foster presents the first comprehensive overview of how Native American societies responded to climate variations over seven centuries. He describes how, as in Europe, the MWP ushered in a cultural renaissance, during which population levels surged and Native peoples substantially intensified agriculture, constructed monumental architecture, and produced sophisticated works of art. Foster follows the rise of three dominant cultural centers—Chaco Canyon in New Mexico, Cahokia on the middle Mississippi River, and Casas Grandes in northwestern Chihuahua, Mexico—that reached population levels comparable to those of London and Paris. Then he shows how the LIA reversed the gains of the MWP as population levels and agricultural production sharply declined; Chaco Canyon, Cahokia, and Casas Grandes collapsed; and dozens of smaller villages also collapsed or became fortresses.
Casas Grandes culture --- Chaco culture --- Indigenous peoples --- Mississippian culture --- Ecology --- Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park (Ill.) --- Aboriginal peoples --- Aborigines --- Adivasis --- Indigenous populations --- Native peoples --- Native races --- Ethnology --- Chaco phase --- Chacoan culture --- Chacoan phase --- Ancestral Pueblo culture --- Paquimé culture --- Cahokia Mounds (Ill.) --- Cahokia Site (East Saint Louis, Ill.) --- Illinois --- Antiquities --- Indians of Mexico
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Art, shamanism, and animism are mutable, contested terms which, when brought together, present a highly charged package. Debates around these three terms continue to generate interest and strong opinions in the first decades of the twenty-first century. The editors recognise the urgency to explore them together in an unprecedented exercise which, to date, has only been attempted with reference to selected disciplines, periods, or regions. The contributors to this collection reignite debates around the status of ‘things’ identified as ‘art’ through the lens of theories drawn from new materialism, new animism, and multi-species and relational thinking. They are concerned with how and when art-like things may exceed conventional understandings of ‘art’ and ‘representation’ to fully articulate multiple scenarios or ‘manifestations’ in which they interface with academic discourses around animism and shamanism. The authors put in sharp focus the materiality of art-things while stressing their agentive, emotive, and performative aspects, looking beyond their appearances to what they do and who they may be or become in their dealings with diverse interlocutors. The contributors are united in their recognition that things and images are deeply entangled with how different communities, human and other-than-human, experience life, shifting attention from an obsolete concept of worldview to how reality is perceived through all the senses, in all its aspects, both tangible and intangible.
Research & information: general --- animism --- totemism --- analogism --- art and architecture --- mortuary practices --- Neolithic Britain and Ireland --- ethnographic analogy --- Saami shamanism --- animals --- power animals --- ritual creativity --- Isogaisa --- Papua New Guinea --- relational ontology --- onto-praxis --- personhood --- dividuality --- gender --- Catholic charismatic Christianity --- charismatic space --- shaman --- material religion --- materiality --- image --- Korea --- ancestor veneration --- animacy --- materiality of stone --- Andes --- Quechua --- extirpation of idolatry --- funerary cult --- Ancash --- Cajatambo --- archaeology --- shamanism --- ontology --- Casas Grandes --- horned-plumed serpent --- American Puebloan Southwest --- art --- connections --- fluidity --- shapeshifting --- spirit world --- subversion --- trance --- Mesoamerica --- art and archaeology --- Indigenous ontology --- relational theory --- divination --- spirit impersonation --- material agency --- Daur shamanism --- social interface --- ritual ceremony --- embodiment of ancestral spirits --- inter-human metamorphosis --- shamanic landscape --- n/a --- museums --- Anishinaabe peoples and language --- pipes --- treaties --- rock art --- New Animisms --- dualism --- multinatural --- hunting --- taming
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Art, shamanism, and animism are mutable, contested terms which, when brought together, present a highly charged package. Debates around these three terms continue to generate interest and strong opinions in the first decades of the twenty-first century. The editors recognise the urgency to explore them together in an unprecedented exercise which, to date, has only been attempted with reference to selected disciplines, periods, or regions. The contributors to this collection reignite debates around the status of ‘things’ identified as ‘art’ through the lens of theories drawn from new materialism, new animism, and multi-species and relational thinking. They are concerned with how and when art-like things may exceed conventional understandings of ‘art’ and ‘representation’ to fully articulate multiple scenarios or ‘manifestations’ in which they interface with academic discourses around animism and shamanism. The authors put in sharp focus the materiality of art-things while stressing their agentive, emotive, and performative aspects, looking beyond their appearances to what they do and who they may be or become in their dealings with diverse interlocutors. The contributors are united in their recognition that things and images are deeply entangled with how different communities, human and other-than-human, experience life, shifting attention from an obsolete concept of worldview to how reality is perceived through all the senses, in all its aspects, both tangible and intangible.
Research & information: general --- animism --- totemism --- analogism --- art and architecture --- mortuary practices --- Neolithic Britain and Ireland --- ethnographic analogy --- Saami shamanism --- animals --- power animals --- ritual creativity --- Isogaisa --- Papua New Guinea --- relational ontology --- onto-praxis --- personhood --- dividuality --- gender --- Catholic charismatic Christianity --- charismatic space --- shaman --- material religion --- materiality --- image --- Korea --- ancestor veneration --- animacy --- materiality of stone --- Andes --- Quechua --- extirpation of idolatry --- funerary cult --- Ancash --- Cajatambo --- archaeology --- shamanism --- ontology --- Casas Grandes --- horned-plumed serpent --- American Puebloan Southwest --- art --- connections --- fluidity --- shapeshifting --- spirit world --- subversion --- trance --- Mesoamerica --- art and archaeology --- Indigenous ontology --- relational theory --- divination --- spirit impersonation --- material agency --- Daur shamanism --- social interface --- ritual ceremony --- embodiment of ancestral spirits --- inter-human metamorphosis --- shamanic landscape --- n/a --- museums --- Anishinaabe peoples and language --- pipes --- treaties --- rock art --- New Animisms --- dualism --- multinatural --- hunting --- taming
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Art, shamanism, and animism are mutable, contested terms which, when brought together, present a highly charged package. Debates around these three terms continue to generate interest and strong opinions in the first decades of the twenty-first century. The editors recognise the urgency to explore them together in an unprecedented exercise which, to date, has only been attempted with reference to selected disciplines, periods, or regions. The contributors to this collection reignite debates around the status of ‘things’ identified as ‘art’ through the lens of theories drawn from new materialism, new animism, and multi-species and relational thinking. They are concerned with how and when art-like things may exceed conventional understandings of ‘art’ and ‘representation’ to fully articulate multiple scenarios or ‘manifestations’ in which they interface with academic discourses around animism and shamanism. The authors put in sharp focus the materiality of art-things while stressing their agentive, emotive, and performative aspects, looking beyond their appearances to what they do and who they may be or become in their dealings with diverse interlocutors. The contributors are united in their recognition that things and images are deeply entangled with how different communities, human and other-than-human, experience life, shifting attention from an obsolete concept of worldview to how reality is perceived through all the senses, in all its aspects, both tangible and intangible.
animism --- totemism --- analogism --- art and architecture --- mortuary practices --- Neolithic Britain and Ireland --- ethnographic analogy --- Saami shamanism --- animals --- power animals --- ritual creativity --- Isogaisa --- Papua New Guinea --- relational ontology --- onto-praxis --- personhood --- dividuality --- gender --- Catholic charismatic Christianity --- charismatic space --- shaman --- material religion --- materiality --- image --- Korea --- ancestor veneration --- animacy --- materiality of stone --- Andes --- Quechua --- extirpation of idolatry --- funerary cult --- Ancash --- Cajatambo --- archaeology --- shamanism --- ontology --- Casas Grandes --- horned-plumed serpent --- American Puebloan Southwest --- art --- connections --- fluidity --- shapeshifting --- spirit world --- subversion --- trance --- Mesoamerica --- art and archaeology --- Indigenous ontology --- relational theory --- divination --- spirit impersonation --- material agency --- Daur shamanism --- social interface --- ritual ceremony --- embodiment of ancestral spirits --- inter-human metamorphosis --- shamanic landscape --- n/a --- museums --- Anishinaabe peoples and language --- pipes --- treaties --- rock art --- New Animisms --- dualism --- multinatural --- hunting --- taming
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