![]() ![]() Nash, is based on unpublished archives, including an unfinished autobiography and interviews conducted prior to her death, held by the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. This memoir, edited by Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh and Stephen E. Celebrated now as one of America’s pioneering anthropologists, Underhill reveals her life’s journey in frank, tender, unvarnished revelations that form the basis of An Anthropologist’s Arrival. After decades of trying to escape her Victorian roots, Underhill took on a new adventure at the age of forty-six, when she entered Columbia University as a doctoral student of anthropology. Underhill (1883–1984) was one of the twentieth century’s legendary anthropologists, forged in the same crucible as Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead. The Ancient Culture of the Fremont River in Utah: Report on the Explorations under the Claflin-Emerson Fund, 1928-1929 ![]() This revolutionary study thus makes an important contribution to landscape archaeology and explains how the Precolumbian Pueblo landscape was formed. He examines the history of each area, comparing and contrasting them via the themes of “provision,” “identity,” and “movement,” before turning to questions regarding social, political, and economic organization. Snead focuses on five communities in the Pueblo heartland-Burnt Corn, T’obimpaenge, Tsikwaiye, Los Aguajes, and Tsankawi-using the results of intensive archaeological surveys to discuss the changes that occurred in these communities between AD 12. This strategy goes far beyond the standard archaeological approaches, using historical ethnography and contemporary Puebloan perspectives to better understand how past and present Pueblo worldviews and meanings are imbedded in the land. Snead provides detailed insight into ancestral Puebloan cultures and societies using an approach he calls “contextual experience,” employing deep mapping and community-scale analysis. In Ancestral Landscapes of the Pueblo World, James Snead uses an exciting new approach- landscape archaeology-to understand ancestral Pueblo communities and the way the people consciously or unconsciously shaped the land around them. The eastern Pueblo heartland, located in the northern Rio Grande country of New Mexico, has fascinated archaeologists since the 1870s. Yapĭual-Processual Theory and Social Formations in the Southwest / Gary M. Reciprocity and Its Limits: Considerations for a Study of the Prehispanic Pueblo World / Timothy A. Leadership at Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico / Michael E. The Institutional Contexts of Hohokam Complexity and Inequality / Suzanne K. Leadership Strategies among the Classic Period Hohokam: A Case Study / Karen G. Organizational Variability in Platform Mound-Building Groups of the American Southwest / Mark D. Leadership Strategies in Protohistoric Zuni Towns / Keith W. PerryĬeramic Decoration as Power: Late Prehistoric Design Change in East-Central Arizona / Scott Van Keuren Ritual as a Power Resource in the American Southwest / James M. Leadership, Long-Distance Exchange, and Feasting in the Protohistoric Rio Grande / William M. Political Leadership and the Construction of Chacoan Great Houses, A.D. ![]() They also provide important models of how today's archaeologists are linking data to theory, providing a basis for comparative analysis with other regions.Īlternative Models, Alternative Strategies: Leadership in the Prehispanic Southwest / Barbara J. By illustrating complementary approaches in the study of political organization, they offer new insight into power and inequality. These case studies provide ample evidence for alternative models of leadership in middle-range societies. It examines leadership strategies in a number of archaeological contexts-from Chaco Canyon to Casas Grandes, from Hohokam to Zuni-to show striking differences in the way that leadership was constructed across the region. This is the first book-length work to apply new theories of social organization and leadership strategies to the prehispanic Southwest. Because recent theoretical developments point toward more variation in the scale, hierarchy, and degree of centralization of complex societies, this book takes a fresh look at southwestern prehistory with these new ideas in mind. In considerations of societal change, the application of classic evolutionary schemes to prehistoric southwestern peoples has always been problematic for scholars. ![]()
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