The bioarchaeology of social control : assessing conflict and cooperation in pre-contact Puebloan society /: assessing conflict and cooperation in pre-contact Puebloan society. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ryan P. Harrod.
• Authors: Harrod, Ryan P
• Contents: 1. Understanding the Chaco phenomenon. The Greater Southwest. A brief overview : life during the Chaco phenomenon. Violence as an ideology in the US Southwest ; Human skeletal remains and biological anthropology. Social theory in bioarchaeology and osteoarchaeology. Bioarchaeological approaches to violence ; Where do we go from here -- 2. Culture, corn, and complexity. Life in the post-agriculture US Southwest. Ancestral Pueblo. Hohokam. Mogollon. Salado and Sinagua. The Athabascan cultures ; The multicultural Southwest -- 3. Systems of social control. Defining social control. Social control in the US Southwest ; Forms of social control. Violent social control. Direct violence. Structural violence ; Social control during the Chaco phenomenon ; Social control as violence and ideology. Ritual sacrifice, public executions, and witch killings. Gambling, prestige items, and debt. Navajo versions. Pueblo versions ; Social control during times of peace and causing conflict ; Summary -- 4. Chaco Canyon. Settling in the canyon. The "Chaco phenomenon". Centers of control ; Leaving the canyon -- 5. Putting Chaco into context. A tradition of moving across the landscape. Aggregation. Reorganization ; A temporal and spatial context -- 6. Putting the people back into the pueblos. Reconstructing a bioarchaeological profile. Site and mortuary context. Population demographics ; Site complexity and demography. Pueblo Bonito. Peñasco Blanco. Pueblo del Arroyo. Kin Bineola. Wingate sites. La Plata sites. Aztec ruins ; Summary -- 7. Reassessing "Pax Chaco". Reading the bones. Biocultural identity ; Identifying social control on the body. What the body reveals ; Summary -- 8. The role of elites and social control. Evidence of an elite class. Archaeological and mortuary data. Bioarchaeological data ; Trauma as an indicator of social control ; The not so peaceful Chaco phenomenon ; The nature of leadership at Chaco -- 9. The decline of social control in the Pueblo world. Immigration. The impact of migrants ; Ideology; Summary -- 10. Conclusion. Why Is Chaco unique?
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 973.1; Social sciences; Pueblo Indians -- Social life and customs; Pueblo Indians -- Antiquities; Chaco culture; Human remains (Archaeology) -- Southwest, New; Social control -- Southwest, New -- History; Social conflict -- Southwest, New -- History; Violence -- Southwest, New -- History; Ethnoarchaeology -- Southwestern States; Social archaeology -- Southwest, New; Archaeology; HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General; Antiquities; Chaco culture; Ethnoarchaeology; Human remains (Archaeology); Pueblo Indians -- Antiquities; Pueblo Indians -- Social life and customs; Social archaeology; Social conflict; Social control; Violence; Social Science -- Archaeology; Archaeology; Southwest, New -- Antiquities; Southwest, New; United States -- Southwestern States; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319595160; 3319595164
• Related ISBNs: 9783319595153; 3319595156
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