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Navajo Multi-Household Social Units : Archaeology on Black Mesa, Arizona /

In this rigorous archaeological study, Thomas R. Rocek explores a neglected but major source of social flexibility in Navajo societies. While many studies have focused on household and community-level organization, few have examined the flexible, intermediate-sized, "middle-level" cooperat...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Rocek, Thomas R.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 1995.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Black Mesa Navajos
  • 3. The Units of Navajo Social Organization
  • 4. Spatial Analysis of Navajo Social Units
  • 5. The Black Mesa Sites. The Database. Coding Methods
  • 6. Measuring Change on Northern Black Mesa. The Population. The Economy. The Social Units. Population, Economy, and Society: Correlations
  • 7. Culture Change on Black Mesa: Issues and Conclusions. Critique of Methods. The Lessons of Black Mesa
  • 8. Middle-level Social Units: Beyond the Navajo Case. Are Comparable Middle-level Units Found in Other Societies? Pastoral Nomads. The Navajo Case in Cross-cultural Perspective
  • Appendix A. Data Coding
  • Appendix B. Settlement Maps.