Ceremonial Patterns in the Greater Southwest b/w Factionalism in Isleta Pueblo

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Authors: Underhill, Ruth M.  (1883-1984)–Ceremonial Patterns in the Greater Southwest

French, David H.  (1918-1994)–Factionalism in Isleta Pueblo

Publisher:  American Ethnological Society, distributed by the University of Washington Press

Pub Date: 1966 (Second printing)

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight.  Without dust jacket, as issued.  Upper corner front pastedown has a sticker shadow, and that long-gone sticker has left a smaller shadow on the upper corner ffep.  No tears, bends, folds.  Foxing to rear pastedown.  Slight wear to corners, spine head and foot.  It’s really a handsome little volume.

Notes:  Monographs 13 and 14, American Ethnological Society. “Ceremonial Patterns” was originally published by AES in 1948.  Underhill proposes a “Greater Southwest” stretching from California through west Texas, into Mexico at the south and the Great Basin in the north (arid North America), populated by two distinct groups–hunters and agriculturalists.  “….two separate lines of religious practice can, I think, be followed out.  Oversimplified, they are as follows: The agriculturalists tend to develop communal ceremonies, the hunters, personal religious participation.”  (page viii)  Mass versus Vision.

French’s monograph, “Factionalism” is historical anthropology–Isleta Pueblo in 1870, the tribal political organization at that time, 70 years of factionalism (political, social, and casual relationships).  “….to demonstrate that factionalism is caused by the inability of men of prestige and authority in the pueblo –the men who make the decisions–to achieve the unanimity that is necessary there for the proper functioning of government.” (From the Introduction)