An Archaeology of the Soul: North American Indian Belief and Ritual.
Robert L. Hall

1997
University of Illinois Press

Softcover Price: $20.00

Book Description

"Looking beyond regional barriers, An Archaeology Of The Soul offers new depths of insight into American Indian ethnography. Hall uncovers the lineage and kinship shared by Native North Americans through the perspectives of history, archaeology, archaeoastronomy, biological anthropology, linguistics, and mythology."

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

1 Weeping Greetings and Dancing the Calumet

2 La Salle Explores the Mississippi Valley

3 The World of the Earth Divers

4 Spirit Bundles, Soul Release, and the Ghost Lodge

5 Remembering the Honored Dead

6 Mourning and Adoption

7 Calumet Ceremonialism and the Honored Child

8 The Menominee Medicine Rite

9 The Winnebago Medicine Rite

10 The Gifts of White Buffalo Calf Maiden

11 The Skiri Pawnee Morning Star Sacrifice

12 The Skiri Pawnee Garden of the Evening Star

13 Sacred Poles and Sacred Trees

14 Atlatls, Courting Flutes, and Calumets

15 The Sweat Bath and Related Female Metaphors

16 Contrary Behavior and the Spirit World

17 Sleeping, Sleeping, Sleeping on the Hill

18 Long-Nosed Gods

19 The Earth Reawakened and the Dead Requickened

Afterword / Connecting with the Past

Notes

References Cited

Index