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Mills, James Earle.

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Spiritual landscapes: A comparative study of burial mound sites in the Upper Mississippi River Basin and the practice of 'feng shui' in east Asia.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Spiritual landscapes: A comparative study of burial mound sites in the Upper Mississippi River Basin and the practice of 'feng shui' in east Asia./
Author:	Mills, James Earle.
Description:	270 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Fred Lukermann.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International53-02A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Archaeology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9220272

Spiritual landscapes: A comparative study of burial mound sites in the Upper Mississippi River Basin and the practice of 'feng shui' in east Asia.
Mills, James Earle.

Spiritual landscapes: A comparative study of burial mound sites in the Upper Mississippi River Basin and the practice of 'feng shui' in east Asia. - 270 p.

Adviser: Fred Lukermann.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 1992.

The concept of spiritual landscapes is developed in this dissertation by exploring two different phenomena. One is the siting of thousands of burial mounds constructed by residents of the Upper Mississippi River Basin over a two thousand year period prior to European settlement. The second phenomenon is the practice of feng shui. Feng shui is a complicated belief system, but it is responsible for many aspects of the cultural landscape in China and Korea, especially the siting of tombs. In some respects, these two phenomena are quite different. However, they both involve patterns in siting that seem to express cosmological beliefs, numinous feelings and aesthetic experience. In the case of burial mounds, we have no historical evidence to document this. Nevertheless, the patterns in siting are striking. They at least show a tenacious vision of what constitutes a proper mound site. This study uses current approaches in archaeology to infer meaning from the patterns. In the case of feng shui, the patterns in siting have well documented cosmological roots. This study extends the interpretation into the aesthetic and numinous realms. In both cases, extensive fieldwork combined with topographic map analysis helped define and document the patterns. The study concludes with comparisons of the two phenomena and questions about the role that landscapes and places that cater to our spiritual selves could play in contemporary society.Subjects--Topical Terms:

622985
Anthropology, Archaeology.

Spiritual landscapes: A comparative study of burial mound sites in the Upper Mississippi River Basin and the practice of 'feng shui' in east Asia.
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