The Sociopolitical structure of prehistoric Southwestern societies. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Steadman Upham, Kent G. Lightfoot, and Roberta A. Jewett.
• Editors: Upham, Steadman; Lightfoot, Kent G, 1953-; Jewett, Roberta A
• Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- Complex Societies in the Prehistoric American Southwest: A Consideration of the Controversy -- Historical Foundations and Theoretical Approaches -- History and Theory in Reconstructing Southwestern Sociopolitical Organization -- Structuring Debate and Debating Structure: A Mesoamerican Perspective on Prehistoric Social Organization in the American Southwest -- East Meets West: Hierarchy and Elites in Pueblo Society -- Studying Complexity -- Exchange and Sociopolitical Relations -- The Sociopolitics of Exchange (and Archaeological Research) in the Northern Southwest -- Regional Exchange Networks in the American Southwest: A Comparative Analysis of Long-Distance Trade -- Southwestern Case Studies -- A Regional Perspective on Hohokam Irrigation in the Lower Salt River Valley, Arizona -- Differentiation and Integration in a Tucson Basin Classic Period Hohokam Community -- The Casas Grandes Polity in the International Four Corners -- Did the Sheep Look Up? Sociopolitical Complexity in Ninth Century Dolores Society -- Distance, Interaction, and Complexity: The Spatial Organization of Pan-Regional Settlement Clusters in the American Southwest -- Interpreting Settlement Hierarchies: A Reassessment of Pinedale and Snowflake Settlement Patterns -- Surplus Production and Complexity in the Upper Little Colorado Province, East-Central Arizona -- The Chronologies of Nuvakwewtaqa: Implications for Social Processes -- The Evolution of the Kayenta Regional System -- The Chacoan Regional System: Interpreting the Evidence for Sociopolitical Complexity -- Virgin Anasazi Sociopolitical Organization, a.d. 1 to 1150 -- Concluding Thoughts -- The Sociopolitical Structure of Prehistoric Southwestern Societies: Concluding Thoughts
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 979/.01; Indians of North America -- Southwest, New -- Antiquities; Pueblo Indians -- Antiquities; Indians of North America -- Southwest, New -- Politics and government; Pueblo Indians -- Politics and government; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General; Southwest, New -- Antiquities; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429314612; 0429314612; 9781000269611; 1000269612; 9781000233674; 1000233677; 9781000305555; 1000305554
• Related ISBNs: 9780367295868; 0367295865
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 2, 2019)
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