Free shipping on orders over $99
Religion on the Rocks

Religion on the Rocks

Hohokam Rock Art, Ritual Practice, and Social Transformation

by Aaron M. Wright
Hardback
Publication Date: 15/09/2014

Share This Book:

RRP  $116.00

RRP means 'Recommended Retail Price' and is the price our supplier recommends to retailers that the product be offered for sale. It does not necessarily mean the product has been offered or sold at the RRP by us or anyone else.

$106.75
or 4 easy payments of $26.69 with
afterpay
    Please Note: We will source your item through a special order. Generally sent within 120 days.
This item qualifies your order for FREE DELIVERY
The petroglyphs and pictographs of the American Southwest are intriguing, but we commonly ask what they "mean". Religion on the Rocks redirects our attention to the equally important matter of what compelled ancient peoples to craft rock art in the first place. To examine this question, Aaron Wright presents a case study from Arizona's South Mountains, an area once flanked by several densely populated Hohokam villages. Synthesizing results from recent archaeological surveys, he explores how the mountains' petroglyphs were woven into the broader cultural landscape and argues that they are relics of a bygone ritual system in which people vied for prestige and power by controlling religious knowledge. The features and strategic placement of the rock art suggest this dimension of Hohokam ritual was participatory and prominent in village life. Around AD 1100, however, petroglyph creation and other ritual practices began to wane, denoting a broad transformation of the Hohokam social world. Wright's examination of the South Mountains petroglyphs offers a narrative of how Hohokam villagers negotiated a concentration of politico-religious authority around platform mounds. Readers will come away with a better understanding of the Hohokam legacy and a greater appreciation for rock art's value to anthropology.
ISBN:
9781607813644
9781607813644
Category:
Social & cultural anthropology
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
15-09-2014
Publisher:
University of Utah Press,U.S.
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
324
Dimensions (mm):
254x178x28mm
Weight:
0.8kg

Our Australian supplier has this title on order. You can place a backorder for this title now and we will ship it to you when it becomes available. 

While we are unable to provide a delivery estimate, most backorders will be delivered within 120 days. If we are informed by our supplier that the title is no longer available during this time, we will cancel and refund you for this item.  Likewise, if no delivery estimate has been provided within 120 days, we will contact our supplier for an update.  If there is still no delivery estimate we will then cancel the item and provided you with a refund.

If we are able to secure you a copy of the title, our supplier will despatch it to our Sydney warehouse.  Once received we make sure it is in perfect condition and then despatch it to you via the Australia Post eParcel service, which includes online tracking.  You will receive a shipping notice from us when this occurs.

Reviews

Be the first to review Religion on the Rocks.