Ebook: Religion on the rocks: Hohokam rock art, ritual practice, and social transformation

This book is an exercise in the social analysis of rock art, with a particularly close examination of a corpus of petroglyphs crafted by the Hohokam, desert farmers of the ancient North American Southwest. Insights from this case study lead to a conclusion that Hohokam rock art, as both symbol and practice, was an active, ritualized medium in the negotiation of religious knowledge.