Abstract The five books under review here explicitly call for archaeologists to place greater emphasis on agency and practice in understanding the role of religion and ritual in the ancient world. Four volumes, principally investigating Mississippian polities, draw our attention to the American midcontinent and its earthen monuments, magical plants, rock art, sacra, and sacred shrines. Although spanning a diversity of approaches and perspectives, the authors demonstrate how cosmograms, exotic objects, sacred landscapes, and transcendental beings articulate with people’s daily lives and lived experiences. Each work offers an awareness of religion as expressed through materiality and the ways past belief systems were bundled, constituted, entangled, and intermeshed with agentive things, built landscapes, humans, natural environments, and other-than-human-persons. The fifth book, by Brian Hayden, contributes a significant approach to these ongoing discussions by stressing the importance of secret societies for interpreting and understanding the power of ritual in the ancient world.

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密西西比州的宗教信仰和仪式实践：土制古迹，岩石艺术和神圣神社

摘要在此回顾的五本书明确呼吁考古学家更加重视代理和实践，以理解宗教和仪式在古代世界中的作用。四卷主要研究密西西比州的政体，引起我们对美国中部大陆及其泥土古迹，神奇植物，岩石艺术，sa骨和神圣圣地的关注。尽管作者涵盖了各种各样的方法和观点，但他们演示了宇宙图，异国情调的物体，神圣的风景和超然的生物如何与人们的日常生活和生活经验联系在一起。每件作品都通过物质性以及过去的信仰体系与代理事物，建筑景观，人类，自然环境的捆绑，构成，纠缠和相互交织的方式来表达对宗教的认识。和非人类的人。布莱恩·海登（Brian Hayden）撰写的第五本书，通过强调秘密社会对于解释和理解古代世界中仪式的力量的重要性，为这些正在进行的讨论做出了重要贡献。