CENTER FOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS Occasional Paper No. 36 Religion, Archaeology, and the Material World Close Window Contents: 1. Introduction: Methods for the Archaeology of Religion Lars Fogelin 2. Steps toward an Archaeology of Taboo Severin M. Fowles 3. Animism and Sacrifice: Reconstructing Moche Religion through Architecture, Iconography, and Archaeological Features Erica Hill 4. Tradition in Contexts: A Reassessment of the Canonical Acceptance of Art as Religion in Proto-Palatial Phaistos Joanne M. A. Murphy 5. Re-envisioning Ancient Maya Ritual Assemblages James E. Brady and Polly A. Peterson 6. Midwiving Meaning: Assessing the Use of Ancient Greek Terra-cotta Figurines as Childbirth Votives Susan Wise 7. Exploring Inca State Religion through Material Metaphor Tamara L. Bray 8. Charcoal as a Proxy for Use-Intensity in Ancient Maya Cave Ritual Holley Moyes 9. Capturing Mortuary Ritual: An Attempt to Harmonize Archaeological Method and Theory Liv Nilsson Stutz 10. Ground Truthing Ritual: Apparent Successes and Subsequent Questions Barbara A.Crass 11. Texts in Context: Praxis and Power of Funerary Rituals among Elites in Ancient Mesopotamia Nicola Laneri 12. Locating American Indian Religion at Cahokia and Beyond Thomas E. Emerson, Susan M. Alt, and Timothy R. Pauketat 13. The "Disjunctive Approach" to the Archaeological Analysis of Ritual Politics Edward Swenson 14. Life Outside the Temple: Reconstructing Traditional Hawaiian Ritual and Religion through Ritualized Practices Mark D. McCoy 15. Rock Art and the Study of Ancient Religions in Southeastern North America George Sabo III 16. The Context of Religion at Cahokia: The Mound 34 Case John E. Kelly, James A. Brown, and Lucretia S. Kelly 17. Midewiwin Myths, Missaukee Earthworks: Living Traditions and Material Evidence in Archaeologies of Religion Meghan C. L. Howey 18. On Text, Materiality, and the Tibetan Buddhist Religious Architecture at Piyang Mark Aldenderfer