2008
DOI: 10.1007/s10816-008-9058-4
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Bundled Worlds: The Roles and Interactions of Complex Objects from the North American Plains

Abstract: This paper explores the many dimensions of power exercised by ceremonial bundles that have been held by North American Plains groups since time immemorial. Because bundles are multifarious but strictly ordered sets of objects, they embody the corpus of ecological and cosmological knowledge needed to survive in the human and supernatural worlds. Bundles, like persons, are subject to hierarchical and heterarchical power relations that parallel societal relations within tribal groups. Observations are drawn about… Show more

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“…Part of our reluctance surely stems from taken-forgranted assumptions of the rigid divide separating human beings from the material world. In grappling with the limitations of Cartesian duality, a number of scholars have attempted to develop more inclusive theories (e.g., Ashmore et al 1994;Gell 1998;Latour 1993) and apply these to archaeological data (e.g., Boast 1997;Gosden 2005;Mills and Ferguson 2008;Olsen 2003;Quilter 2007;Walker 2008;Zedeño 2008). In doing so, they revisit a basic question in social science: where does the material world end and human society begin?…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Part of our reluctance surely stems from taken-forgranted assumptions of the rigid divide separating human beings from the material world. In grappling with the limitations of Cartesian duality, a number of scholars have attempted to develop more inclusive theories (e.g., Ashmore et al 1994;Gell 1998;Latour 1993) and apply these to archaeological data (e.g., Boast 1997;Gosden 2005;Mills and Ferguson 2008;Olsen 2003;Quilter 2007;Walker 2008;Zedeño 2008). In doing so, they revisit a basic question in social science: where does the material world end and human society begin?…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Positioned within middle mound levels and thus above the human interments were several shrine clusters or bundles composed of varying substances and things (cf. Mills and Ferguson 2008;Pauketat 2013;Zedeño 2008) that were likely visible to those in the workshop (Table 5.2b, Table 5.3). The most apparent of these was emplaced adjacent to a forge installation in 44N 6W.…”
Section: Middle Mound Levels: Visible "Meshwork" Of Shrine Clustersmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…van der Leeuw 2008:fig. 12.8; see also Pauketat 2013;Zedeño 2008). To appreciate how these scaffolding "meshworks" related to broader "networks" requires scalar approaches and methods that connect "zoomed in and "zoomed out" perspectives-of microhistory and geopolitical history-things and "meshworks" with objects and networks (Knappett 2011b:47; see also Robb and Pauketat 2013).…”
Section: Concluding Thoughtsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Zedeño (2008) explores the roles and interactions of ceremonial bundles of objects among the North American Blackfoot. She views these complex objects in relation to their potential to either 'incite or modify human behaviour' (agency) or their potential to possess 'life force or soul and conditions for personhood (animacy)'.…”
Section: 'Animism' In Archaeology Recent Approachesmentioning
confidence: 99%