effigy mound (Q4356478)

raised pile of earth built in the shape of a stylized animal, symbol, human, or other figure and generally containing one or more human burials

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English	effigy mound	raised pile of earth built in the shape of a stylized animal, symbol, human, or other figure and generally containing one or more human burials

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Culture as Creative Refusal

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Part I: World History / Mauss is [...] Called ‘The Shamanic Trace’, it skates through half a dozen different themes, but the heart of it has to do with a series of peculiar earth sculptures called ‘effigy mounds’, (English)

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Effigy mounds

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