Identity, feasting, and the archaeology of the greater Southwest : proceedings of the 2002 Southwest symposium / edited by Barbara J. Mills.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Conference Name:

Southwest Symposium (1988- ) (8th : 2002 : Tucson, Ariz.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Southwest, New--Ethnic identity--Congresses.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Material culture--Southwest, New--Congresses.

Indians of North America--Food--Southwest, New--Congresses.

Indians of North America--Food.

Politics and government.

Antiquities.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Indians of North America--Material culture.

Ethnicity.

New Southwest.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Southwest, New--Congresses.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Mexico--Chihuahua (State)--Congresses.

Southwest, New--Antiquities--Congresses.

Southwest, New.

Southwest, New--Politics and government--Congresses.

Chihuahua (Mexico : State)--Antiquities--Congresses.

Chihuahua (Mexico : State).

Chihuahua (Mexico : State)--Politics and government--Congresses.

Mexico--Chihuahua (State).

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xvi, 339 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, [2004]

Summary:

With contributions from sociocultural and linguistic anthropologists as well as archaeologists, this volume is the first to present case studies of social identity and feasting from throughout the Greater Southwest. A section of the book is also devoted to a synthesis and set of case studies on the archaeology of the pivotal Mexican State of Chihuahua. Unlike many previous studies, the authors of this volume place emphasis on how differences within and between societies came about rather than why dissimilar structures arose, elevating the place of both agency and history in understanding the past. Identity, Feasting, and the Archaeology of the Greater Southwest will be of interest to all doing archaeological research in the Southwestern United States and those conducting research on social identity, cultural affiliation, and commensal politics.

Contents:

Identity, feasting, and the archaeology of the greater Southwest / Barbara J. Mills

Academic, legal, and political contexts of social identity and cultural affiliation research in the Southwest / T.J. Ferguson

Tracking cultural affiliation: enculturation and ethnicity / Jeffery J. Clark

Textiles, baskets, and Hopi cultural identity / Laurie D. Webster and Micah Loma'omvaya

Surviving extinction: the legacy of Pecos Pueblo / Frances Levine

Material culture and the making of southern Paiute ethnic identity / Catherine S. Fowler

Two styles for language and social identity among the Tohono O'odham / Jane H. Hill

An interface between archaeology and American Indian studies: use of place and imagination in theories of identity / K. Tsianina Lomawaima

Feasting and commensal politics in the prehispanic Southwest: an introductory review / W.H. Wills and Patricia L. Crown

Community and cuisine in the prehispanic American Southwest / James M. Potter and Scott G. Ortman

Crafting feasts in the prehispanic Southwest / Scott van Keuren

Communal feasting, ceramics, and exchange / Katherine A. Spielmann

Large-scale feasting and politics: an essay on power in precontact southwestern societies / David A. Phillips, jr. and Lynne Sebastian

Forty years after the Joint Casas Grandes Project: an introduction to Chihuahuan archaeology / Paul E. Minnis and Michael E. Whalen

Late archaic period hilltop settlements in northwestern Chihuahua, Mexico / Robert J. Hard and John R. Roney

Recent research in west-central Chihuahua / Jane H. Kelley, Joe D. Stewart, A.C. Macwilliams, and Karen R. Adams

After the survey: further research around Paquimé, Chihuahua, Mexico / Michael E. Whalen and Paul E. Minnis.

Notes:

"Includes three sessions that were presented at the Eighth Biennial Meeting of the Southwest Symposium, held in January 2002 in Tucson, Arizona."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0870817620

0870817671

OCLC:

53903737