Kroeber’s Formulation of the Southwest Culture Area (Pamphlet)

Description

Author: Wheat, Joe Ben  (1916-1997)

Publisher: University of Colorado (Boulder, CO)

Pub Date: 1954

Binding: Paperback

Condition:  Fair.  Stapled binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends, folds.  All corners worn, some edge wear.

Notes: Pamphlet.  Offprint.  Originally published in University of Colorado Studies, Series in Anthropology, No. 4, September, 1954.  Wheat examines the differences and similarities between the Pueblo Indians and the Indians of California and southern Arizona suggested by Alfred Kroeber (1876-1960).  Architecture, agriculture, ceramics, warfare versus peacefulness, religions and shamanism, and matrilineal versus patrilineal descent are compared.  “…Kroeber’s definition of the Southwestern culture area does not describe a single time plane.  It would appear that many of the Pueblo material culture traits represent various time horizons with the prehistoric period and that, by and large, they are more characteristic of the Western than of the Eastern group.  The material culture of the Sonora-Gila-Yuma, on the other hand, is primarily selected from the historic period….Of greater consequence is the fact that Kroeber has selected elements from larger or smaller segments of the groups and has posed them as characterizing the area as a whole.”  (Page 39)