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Arizona State Museum, The University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ) eBooks, 2005
This title from the ASM Archaeological Series is made available by the Arizona State Museum and U... more This title from the ASM Archaeological Series is made available by the Arizona State Museum and University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions about this title, please contact Jannelle Weakly at the Arizona State Museum, (520) 621-6311, jweakly@email.arizona.edu.
The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 2016
The long-awaited third edition of this well-known textbook continues to be the go-to text and ref... more The long-awaited third edition of this well-known textbook continues to be the go-to text and reference for anyone interested in Southwest archaeology. It provides a comprehensive summary of the major themes and topics central to modern interpretation and practice. More concise, accessible, and student-friendly, the Third Edition offers students the latest in current research, debates, and topical syntheses as well as increased coverage of Paleoindian and Archaic periods and the Casas Grandes phenomenon. It remains the perfect text for courses on Southwest archaeology at the advanced undergraduate and graduate levels and is an ideal resource book for the Southwest researchers' bookshelf and for interested general readers.
Journal of Anthropological Research, Dec 1, 2016
In its classic union of gleaming silver and blue turquoise, Native American jewellery of the Sout... more In its classic union of gleaming silver and blue turquoise, Native American jewellery of the Southwest is an iconic art form. Internationally recognized and locally significant, Native American jewellery has a compelling history—it represents the persistence of tradition while encapsulating the vitality of Native American communities and the continuously transforming nature of the jewellery makers’ art. Author Henrietta Lidchi focuses on jewellery in the cultural economy of the Southwest, exploring jewellery making as a decorative art form in constant transition. She describes the jewellery as subject to a number of desires, controlled at different times by government agencies, individual entrepreneurs, traders, curators, and Native American communities. Lidchi explores the jewellery as craft, material culture, commodity, and adornment. Considering the impact of tourism, she discusses fakes in the market and the artists’ desires to codify traditional styles, explaining how these factors can affect stylistic development and value. Surviving Desires suggests the complexity and reinvention innate to Native American jewellery as a commercial craft. Drawing on the author’s archival research and on interviews she conducted with Native American jewellers, traders, dealers, and curators, this volume examines British collecting, exchanges between British and American institutions, and the development of the British Museum’s contemporary collection. Lavishly illustrated with 300 color photographs of jewellery in the British Museum, the National Museums Scotland, and major collections in the United States, Surviving Desires presents many previously unpublished pieces and showcases works by twenty Native American jewellers, including the best-known names in the field today. The volume is a visually stunning exploration of the symbolic, economic, and communal value of jewellery in the American Southwest.
This book provides an overview of the uses of turquoise in native arts of the Southwest, beginnin... more This book provides an overview of the uses of turquoise in native arts of the Southwest, beginning with the earliest people who mined and processed the stone for use in jewellery, on decorative objects, and as a powerful element in ceremony. In the past, as now, turquoise was valued for its color and beauty but also for its symbolic nature: sky, water, health, protection, abundance. The book traces historical and contemporary jewellery made by Navajo, Zuni, Hopi, and Santo Domingo artisans, and the continuously inventive ways the stone has been worked.
Museum Anthropology, Mar 2, 2015
Oxford University Press eBooks, Sep 6, 2017
Our understanding of the Archaic period in the American Southwest is much greater than before the... more Our understanding of the Archaic period in the American Southwest is much greater than before the advent of cultural resource management and mandated environmental impact statements, but it is still understudied. Research on this period relies largely on analyses of stone and bone material remains and has focused on subsistence, technology, and landscape use. Regional patterns, north to south and east to west, differ throughout this period. Increasing numbers of cultural features are being found, now that archaeologists are looking for them. Additionally, broader classes of material culture are being used to examine questions of social identity, ritual practices, gender roles, and other non-economic aspects of life.
Journal of Archaeological Research, Feb 3, 2010
Museum Anthropology, Mar 1, 2016
The Kiva, Mar 1, 2006
Page 1. A NEW SPIN ON CORDAGE: THE EFFECTS OF MATERIAL AND CULTURE MAXINE MCBRINN AND CRISTINA PE... more Page 1. A NEW SPIN ON CORDAGE: THE EFFECTS OF MATERIAL AND CULTURE MAXINE MCBRINN AND CRISTINA PETERSON SMITH ABSTRACT Cordage spin direction is primarily thought to be the result of cultural ...
Museum Anthropology, Sep 1, 2017
Journal of Anthropological Research, 2017
Science, 2008
... learn and appreciate. SAIKAT KUMAR BASU Department of Biological Sciences, University of Leth... more ... learn and appreciate. SAIKAT KUMAR BASU Department of Biological Sciences, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB T1K 3M4, Canada. E-mail: saikat.basu@ uleth.ca tEcHNicAl commENt ABstRActs COMMENT ON A ...
The mobile hunters and gatherers of the Archaic Southwest were members of at least three differen... more The mobile hunters and gatherers of the Archaic Southwest were members of at least three different kinds of social groups: bands, endogamous marriage groups and a risk-sharing economic network. By comparing the geographic distributions of iconological and technological style in cordage, sandals and projectile points, it is possible to distinguish marriage groups from the larger economic networks. Using artifacts from Bat Cave, Tularosa Cave and Cordova Cave in the New Mexico Mogollon and from Presnal Shelter in the Tularosa Basin, this research was able to demonstrate that technological style in fiber artifacts is more geographically constrained than iconological style in textiles or projectile points indicating that although groups using these rock shelters came from different bands, they belonged to the same marriage group, yet participated in different risk-sharing economic networks.Ch. 1.; Introduction --; Ch. 2.; late Archaic period in the U.S. Southwest --; Ch. 3.; Style, terr...
Arizona State Museum, The University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ) eBooks, 2005
This title from the ASM Archaeological Series is made available by the Arizona State Museum and U... more This title from the ASM Archaeological Series is made available by the Arizona State Museum and University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions about this title, please contact Jannelle Weakly at the Arizona State Museum, (520) 621-6311, jweakly@email.arizona.edu.
The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 2016
The long-awaited third edition of this well-known textbook continues to be the go-to text and ref... more The long-awaited third edition of this well-known textbook continues to be the go-to text and reference for anyone interested in Southwest archaeology. It provides a comprehensive summary of the major themes and topics central to modern interpretation and practice. More concise, accessible, and student-friendly, the Third Edition offers students the latest in current research, debates, and topical syntheses as well as increased coverage of Paleoindian and Archaic periods and the Casas Grandes phenomenon. It remains the perfect text for courses on Southwest archaeology at the advanced undergraduate and graduate levels and is an ideal resource book for the Southwest researchers' bookshelf and for interested general readers.
Journal of Anthropological Research, Dec 1, 2016
In its classic union of gleaming silver and blue turquoise, Native American jewellery of the Sout... more In its classic union of gleaming silver and blue turquoise, Native American jewellery of the Southwest is an iconic art form. Internationally recognized and locally significant, Native American jewellery has a compelling history—it represents the persistence of tradition while encapsulating the vitality of Native American communities and the continuously transforming nature of the jewellery makers’ art. Author Henrietta Lidchi focuses on jewellery in the cultural economy of the Southwest, exploring jewellery making as a decorative art form in constant transition. She describes the jewellery as subject to a number of desires, controlled at different times by government agencies, individual entrepreneurs, traders, curators, and Native American communities. Lidchi explores the jewellery as craft, material culture, commodity, and adornment. Considering the impact of tourism, she discusses fakes in the market and the artists’ desires to codify traditional styles, explaining how these factors can affect stylistic development and value. Surviving Desires suggests the complexity and reinvention innate to Native American jewellery as a commercial craft. Drawing on the author’s archival research and on interviews she conducted with Native American jewellers, traders, dealers, and curators, this volume examines British collecting, exchanges between British and American institutions, and the development of the British Museum’s contemporary collection. Lavishly illustrated with 300 color photographs of jewellery in the British Museum, the National Museums Scotland, and major collections in the United States, Surviving Desires presents many previously unpublished pieces and showcases works by twenty Native American jewellers, including the best-known names in the field today. The volume is a visually stunning exploration of the symbolic, economic, and communal value of jewellery in the American Southwest.
This book provides an overview of the uses of turquoise in native arts of the Southwest, beginnin... more This book provides an overview of the uses of turquoise in native arts of the Southwest, beginning with the earliest people who mined and processed the stone for use in jewellery, on decorative objects, and as a powerful element in ceremony. In the past, as now, turquoise was valued for its color and beauty but also for its symbolic nature: sky, water, health, protection, abundance. The book traces historical and contemporary jewellery made by Navajo, Zuni, Hopi, and Santo Domingo artisans, and the continuously inventive ways the stone has been worked.
Museum Anthropology, Mar 2, 2015
Oxford University Press eBooks, Sep 6, 2017
Our understanding of the Archaic period in the American Southwest is much greater than before the... more Our understanding of the Archaic period in the American Southwest is much greater than before the advent of cultural resource management and mandated environmental impact statements, but it is still understudied. Research on this period relies largely on analyses of stone and bone material remains and has focused on subsistence, technology, and landscape use. Regional patterns, north to south and east to west, differ throughout this period. Increasing numbers of cultural features are being found, now that archaeologists are looking for them. Additionally, broader classes of material culture are being used to examine questions of social identity, ritual practices, gender roles, and other non-economic aspects of life.
Journal of Archaeological Research, Feb 3, 2010
Museum Anthropology, Mar 1, 2016
The Kiva, Mar 1, 2006
Page 1. A NEW SPIN ON CORDAGE: THE EFFECTS OF MATERIAL AND CULTURE MAXINE MCBRINN AND CRISTINA PE... more Page 1. A NEW SPIN ON CORDAGE: THE EFFECTS OF MATERIAL AND CULTURE MAXINE MCBRINN AND CRISTINA PETERSON SMITH ABSTRACT Cordage spin direction is primarily thought to be the result of cultural ...
Museum Anthropology, Sep 1, 2017
Journal of Anthropological Research, 2017
Science, 2008
... learn and appreciate. SAIKAT KUMAR BASU Department of Biological Sciences, University of Leth... more ... learn and appreciate. SAIKAT KUMAR BASU Department of Biological Sciences, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB T1K 3M4, Canada. E-mail: saikat.basu@ uleth.ca tEcHNicAl commENt ABstRActs COMMENT ON A ...
The mobile hunters and gatherers of the Archaic Southwest were members of at least three differen... more The mobile hunters and gatherers of the Archaic Southwest were members of at least three different kinds of social groups: bands, endogamous marriage groups and a risk-sharing economic network. By comparing the geographic distributions of iconological and technological style in cordage, sandals and projectile points, it is possible to distinguish marriage groups from the larger economic networks. Using artifacts from Bat Cave, Tularosa Cave and Cordova Cave in the New Mexico Mogollon and from Presnal Shelter in the Tularosa Basin, this research was able to demonstrate that technological style in fiber artifacts is more geographically constrained than iconological style in textiles or projectile points indicating that although groups using these rock shelters came from different bands, they belonged to the same marriage group, yet participated in different risk-sharing economic networks.Ch. 1.; Introduction --; Ch. 2.; late Archaic period in the U.S. Southwest --; Ch. 3.; Style, terr...