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Visualizing the Sacred: Cosmic Visions, Regionalism, and Art of Mississippian World
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Visualizing the Sacred: Cosmic Visions, Regionalism, and Art of Mississippian World
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Visualizing the Sacred: Cosmic Visions, Regionalism, and Art of Mississippian World
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advances the study of Mississippian iconography by delving into the regional variations within what is now known as the Mississippian Iconographic Interaction Sphere (MIIS). Bringing archaeological, ethnographic, ethnohistoric, and iconographic perspectives to the analysis of Mississippian art, contributors from several disciplines discuss variations in symbols and motifs among major sites and regions across a wide span of time and also consider what visual symbols reveal about elite status in diverse political environments. These findings represent the first formal identification of style regions within the Mississippian Iconographic Interaction Sphere and call for a new understanding of the MIIS as a network of localized, yet interrelated religious systems that experienced both continuity and change over time.