Animate Objects: Shell Trumpets and Ritual Networks in the Greater Southwest |
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Authors: | Barbara J Mills T J Ferguson |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721–0030, USA |
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Abstract: | For over a millennium, shell trumpets have been an important part of Southwestern US ritual practice. We investigate the distribution
of Southwestern shell trumpets, arguing that they are objects that are accorded animacy and can be used to track the history
of different social networks. Using ethnohistoric and ethnographic documentation, at least two traditions of historically
linked ritual practices are identified: one associated with serpent iconography and the other with curing, warfare, and sorcery.
These two traditions represent enduring dispositions that link various regions of the Southwest through the introduction and
adoption of ritual practices associated with migration and the transformation of late prehistoric societies. |
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Keywords: | Animacy Ritual practice Materiality Southwest archaeology |
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