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1 online resource |
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Why waltes was a woman's game / Kevin Leonard -- Playing the Apalachee ballgame in the fields of the thunder god : archaeological and ideological evidence for the game's antiquity / J. Grant Stauffer and F. Kent Reilly III -- "He must die unless the whole country shall play crosse" : the role of gaming in Great Lakes indigenous societies / Ronald F. Williamson and Martin S. Cooper -- Chunkey and the historic experience in the Mississippian world / Thomas J. Zych -- Sacred role of dice games in eastern North America : implications for the protohistoric lower Mississippi Valley / David H. Dye -- Reinventing the wheel game : prestige gambling on the plains/plateau frontier / Gabriel M. Yanicki -- Gaming in Fremont society / Joel C. Janetski -- Mobility, exchange, and the fluency of games : promontory in a broader sociodemographic setting / Gabriel M. Yanicki and John W. Ives -- Social aspects of an Apachean stave-dice gaming feature at Three Sisters / Deni J. Seymour -- Serious play in the preclassic : the Chalcatzingo figurines as guides in a game of social learning / Mark E. Harlan -- Ancient Maya patolli / John Walden and Barbara Voorhies -- Sport and ritual as social bonding : the communal nature of Mesoamerican ballgames / Marijke Maurine Stoll and David S. Anderson -- Acrobatic dances and games of Mesoamerica as ritual-entertainment / Gerardo Guitiérrez -- Aztec gambling and magical thinking / Susan Toby Evans -- Biggest losers : gambling and enslavement in native North America / Catherine M. Cameron and Lindsay D. Johansson -- Post-game remarks / Warren R. Deboer. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Contents note from ECIP table of contents. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Indians of North America -- Games.
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Indians of North America -- Games. |
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Indians of North America -- Sports.
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Indians of North America -- Sports. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Voorhies, Barbara, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Prehistoric games of North American Indians. Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, [2017] 9781607815594 (DLC) 2017021791 |
| ISBN |
9781607815600 (electronic book) |
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1607815605 (electronic book) |
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9781607815594 |
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1607815591 |
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