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Prehistoric Games of North American Indians Subarctic to Mesoamerica
Title
Prehistoric Games of North American Indians [electronic resource] : Subarctic to Mesoamerica / edited by Barbara Voorhies.
ISBN
1607815605
9781607815600
1607815591
9781607815594
Published
Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2017] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (xvi, 369 pages ) : illlustrations, maps ;
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Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
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Description based on print version record.
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Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - 2017 Archaeology and Anthropology.
Project MUSE - 2017 Complete.
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Online version: Prehistoric games of North American Indians Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2017]
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 21, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-353) and index.
Contents
Why waltes was a woman's game / Kevin Leonard
Playing the Apalachee ballgame in the fields of the thunder god : archaeological and ideological evidence for the game's antiquity / J. Grant Stauffer and F. Kent Reilly III
"He must die unless the whole country shall play crosse" : the role of gaming in Great Lakes indigenous societies / Ronald F. Williamson and Martin S. Cooper
Chunkey and the historic experience in the Mississippian world / Thomas J. Zych
The sacred role of dice games in eastern North America : implications for the protohistoric lower Mississippi Valley / David H. Dye
Reinventing the wheel game : prestige gambling on the plains/plateau frontier / Gabriel M. Yanicki
Gaming in Fremont society / Joel C. Janetski
Mobility, exchange, and the fluency of games : promontory in a broader sociodemographic setting / Gabriel M. Yanicki and John W. Ives
Social aspects of an Apachean stave-dice gaming feature at Three Sisters / Deni J. Seymour
Serious play in the preclassic : the Chalcatzingo figurines as guides in a game of social learning / Mark E. Harlan
Ancient Maya patolli / John Walden and Barbara Voorhies
Sport and ritual as social bonding : the communal nature of Mesoamerican ballgames / Marijke Maurine Stoll and David S. Anderson
Acrobatic dances and games of Mesoamerica as ritual-entertainment / Gerardo Guitierrez
Aztec gambling and magical thinking / Susan Toby Evans
The biggest losers : gambling and enslavement in native North America / Catherine M. Cameron and Lindsay D. Johansson
Post-game remarks / Warren R. Deboer.
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