The Sociopolitical Structure Of Prehistoric Southwestern Societies

by Steadman Upham, Kent G Lightfoot, Roberta A. Jewett

Overview

This book examines current archaeological approaches for studying the organizational structure of prehistoric societies in the American Southwest. It presents the historical background of the divergent theoretical models that have been used to interpret Southwestern socio-political organizations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367295868
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/07/2019
Pages:	708
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Steadman Upham Department of Anthropology and Sociology New Mexico State University, Box 3BV Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003 Kent G. Lightfoot Department of Anthropology University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, California 94720 Roberta A. Jewett Department of Anthropology University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, California 94720

Table of Contents

Preface — Introduction — Complex Societies in the Prehistoric American Southwest: A Consideration of the Controversy — Historical Foundations and Theoretical Approaches — History and Theory in Reconstructing Southwestern Sociopolitical Organization — Structuring Debate and Debating Structure: A Mesoamerican Perspective on Prehistoric Social Organization in the American Southwest — East Meets West: Hierarchy and Elites in Pueblo Society — Studying Complexity — Exchange and Sociopolitical Relations — The Sociopolitics of Exchange (and Archaeological Research) in the Northern Southwest — Regional Exchange Networks in the American Southwest: A Comparative Analysis of Long-Distance Trade — Southwestern Case Studies — A Regional Perspective on Hohokam Irrigation in the Lower Salt River Valley, Arizona — Differentiation and Integration in a Tucson Basin Classic Period Hohokam Community — The Casas Grandes Polity in the International Four Corners — Did the Sheep Look Up? Sociopolitical Complexity in Ninth Century Dolores Society — Distance, Interaction, and Complexity: The Spatial Organization of Pan-Regional Settlement Clusters in the American Southwest — Interpreting Settlement Hierarchies: A Reassessment of Pinedale and Snowflake Settlement Patterns — Surplus Production and Complexity in the Upper Little Colorado Province, East-Central Arizona — The Chronologies of Nuvakwewtaqa: Implications for Social Processes — The Evolution of the Kayenta Regional System — The Chacoan Regional System: Interpreting the Evidence for Sociopolitical Complexity — Virgin Anasazi Sociopolitical Organization, a.d. 1 to 1150 — Concluding Thoughts — The Sociopolitical Structure of Prehistoric Southwestern Societies: Concluding Thoughts

Editorial Reviews

Contributors examine the evolution of specific organizational forms among the Anasazi, Mogollon, and Hohokam in the American Southwest, using case studies and state-of-the-art analyses of burial populations, settlement patterns, ceramic distributions, and architectural styles. The picture that emerges is significantly different from that traditionally perceived by analogy from the ethnographic record. No index. Not typeset. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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