ARCHAEOLOGICAL CULTURES AND CULTURAL AFFILIATION: HOPI AND ZUNI PERSPECTIVES IN THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST (original) (raw)

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Archaeologists and Native Americans apply different concepts to classify ancient groups of people who lived in the past. This is a topic of current interest because many archaeologists in the United States are now having to determine the cultural affiliation of the materials they study to comply with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. The Hopi and Zuni tribes in the American Southwest are used as case examples to examine how and why archaeological and tribal views of cultural affiliation are divergent. We suggest anthropological perspectives of culture need to be reintegrated into archaeological theory in collaboration with Native Americans in order to interpret the past in a manner that is both useful and interesting to the multiple audiences interested in our work.

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  1. The text examines divergent archaeological and tribal perspectives on cultural affiliation in the American Southwest.
  2. Cultural affiliation must comply with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA).
  3. Hopi and Zuni tribes emphasize ancestral identities over archaeological culture classifications.
  4. Archaeologists should integrate tribal historical knowledge into contemporary archaeological methods.
  5. New technology allows for better analysis of variation in the archaeological record, challenging traditional classifications.

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