Polities and Power: An Economic and Political History of the Western Pueblo

History

Upham, Steadman

Americas

Academic Pr

A Hopi Social History

All anthropologists and archaeologists seek to answer basic questions about human beings and society. Why do people behave the way they do? Why do patterns in the behavior of individuals and groups sometimes persist for remarkable periods of time? Why do patterns in behavior sometimes change? A Hopi Social History explores these basic questions in a unique way. The discussion is constructed around a historically ordered series of case studies from a single sociocultural system (the Hopi) in order to understand better the multiplicity of processes at work in any sociocultural system through time. The case studies investigate the mysterious abandonments of the Western Pueblo region in late prehistory, the initial impact of European diseases on the Hopis, Hopi resistance to European domination between 1680 and 1880, the split of Oraibi village in 1906, and some responses by the Hopis to modernization in the twentieth century. These case studies provide a forum in which the authors examine a number of theories and conceptions of culture to determine which theories are relevant to which kinds of persistence and change. With this broad theoretical synthesis, the book will be of interest to students and scholars in the social sciences.

Rushforth, Scott

University of Texas Press

Edward Sherriff Curtis spent more than forty years photographing and documenting the Native peoples of North America, taking more than 40,000 photographs and amassing a staggering archive of documentary material about North American tribes and social groups. While many books have explored the artistic value of the images he created, The Many Faces of Edward Sherriff Curtis assesses his contributions to the field of anthropology. Curtis began documenting the Native peoples of North America in 1889. By this time, the U.S. government had pushed most Native Americans onto reservations and seemed determined to destroy their cultures and social organizations by forcibly removing their children to government boarding schools, by depriving them of the right to speak their languages and practice their religions, and by carving up tribal lands into ever smaller portions and giving away sizable pieces to non-Natives. Curtis believed that his generation might be the last to see and hear these Native people in the flesh. Scholars Steadman Upham and Nat Zappia examine eighty of Curtis’s portraits within three contexts: the Native American in U.S. history, the history of Native peoples worldwide during the same period, and the individual subjects, whose portraits are arranged from youngest to oldest. Within the larger arena of U.S. and world history, the gravity, determination, humor, and dignity of Curtis’s portraits become vitally clear. The people he photographed were, in many cases, suffering degradation and hardship, but their faces speak of purpose and hope. More than seventy years after Curtis created his last photograph, these portraits speak not of the “vanishing Indian” he believed he was documenting for posterity but of the resilience of entire nations, which persist and even thrive in difficult circumstances. The Many Faces of Edward Sherriff Curtis is a book for our time. Its clear assessment of the past, its striving to bring forth images and words too long out of the public eye, and its message of endurance bespeak the future of Native peoples worldwide. Steadman Upham is president and professor of anthropology at the University of Tulsa. Nat Zappia is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

The Many Faces of Edward Sherriff Curtis: Portraits and Stories from Native North America

Arts & Photography

Beehler, Carol

Individual Artists

University of Washington Press

The Sociopolitical Structure Of Prehistoric Southwestern Societies

Lightfoot, Kent G.

Jewett, Roberta A.

Routledge

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 copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

The Sociopolitical Structure Of Prehistoric Southwestern Societies (Investigations in American Archaeology)

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

Westview Press

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