Field Houses, Villages, and the Tragedy of the Commons in the Early Northern Anasazi Southwest (Pamphlet)

Description

Author: Kohler, Timothy A.

Publisher: American Antiquity

Pub Date: 1992

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Stapled binding tight.  No tears, folds.  Gift inscription by the author on upper front cover corner.  Bottom front cover corner at spine foot has an approx. 1″ crease, ends on lower rear cover corner as an approx. 1/8″ bend.  Lower front cover corner slightly worn, maybe dropped but not hard enough to bend the corner.  Light edge wear.

Notes: Pamphlet.  Offprint.  Originally published in American Antiquity, Vol. 57, No. 4, October 1992.  When land is communally owned, farmed, and cared for, the establishment of field houses and small villages may have been early attempts to limit access or exert a degree of control or ownership over specific fields.  When times get tough (think resource scarcity), saying “This is mine/ours” tends to destroy community (thus, the “tragedy of the commons”).