List of Figures ............................................. ix
List of Tables .............................................. xi
Acknowledgments ........................................... xiii
1 Introduction: Memory, Materiality, and Depositional
Practice ..................................................... 3
Barbara J. Mills and William H. Walker
2 Practice in and as Deposition ............................... 25
Rosemary A. Joyce
3 Deposition and Material Agency in the Early Neolithic
of Southern Britain ......................................... 41
Joshua Pollard
4 Founders' Cults and the Archaeology of Wa-kan-da ............ 61
Timothy R. Pauketat
5 Remembering while Forgetting: Depositional Practices and
Social Memory at Chaco ...................................... 81
Barbara J. Mills
6 History in Practice: Ritual Deposition at La Venta
Complex A .................................................. 109
Susan D. Gillespie
7 Practice and Nonhuman Social Actors: The Afterlife
Histories of Witches and Dogs in the American Southwest .... 137
William H. Walker
8 Dogs, Pythons, Pots, and Beads: The Dynamics of Shrines
and Sacrificial Practices in Banda, Ghana, 1400-1900 ce .... 159
Ann B. Stahl
9 Memorializing Place among Classic Maya Commoners ........... 187
Lisa J. Lucero
10 The Materiality of Ancestors: Chullpas and Social Memory
in the Late Prehispanic History of the South Andes ......... 207
Axel E. Nielsen
11 Memory Work and Material Practices ......................... 233
Lynn Meskell
References ................................................. 245
Index ...................................................... 293
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