Relational Identities and Other-than-Human Agency in Archaeology 2018

Contents

1 An Introduction to Relational Personhood and Other-than-Human Agency in Archaeology

Eleanor Harrison-Buck and Julia A. Hendon

2 Personhood and Agency in Eskimo Interactions with the Other-than-Human

Erica Hill

3 Dead Kettles and Indigenous Afterworlds in Early Colonial Encounters in the Maritimes

Meghan C. L. Howey

4 Water and Shells in Bodies and Pots: Mississippian Rhizome, Cahokian Poiesis

Timothy R. Pauketat and Susan M. Alt

5 The Inalienable-Commodity Continuum in the Circulation of Birds on the North American Plains

María Nieves Zedeño, Wendi Field Murray, and Kaitlyn Chandler

6 Objects with Voices among the Ancient Maya

Matthew Looper

7 Can Tools Have Souls? Maya Views on the Relations between Human and Other-than-Human Persons

Julia A. Hendon

8 Torres Strait Canoes as Social and Predatory Object-Beings

Ian J. McNiven

9 Efficacious Objects and Techniques of the Subject: “Ornaments” and Their Depositional Contexts in Banda, Ghana

Ann B. Stahl

10 Finding Objects, Making Persons: Fossils in British Early Bronze Age Burials

Joanna Brück and Andrew Meirion Jones

11 Relational Matters of Being: Personhood and Agency in Archaeology

Eleanor Harrison-Buck