Hopi Oral Tradition and the Archaeology of Identity
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Author: Bernardini, Wesley
Publisher: University of Arizona Press (Tucson, AZ)
Pub Date: 2005
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good. Binding tight. No marks, tears, bends or folds. Very light edge and corner wear. Appears unused.
Notes: “The period from about A.D. 1275 to 1400 witnessed dramatic social and demographic changes in the American Southwest> In little more than one hundred years, settlement contracted from dozens of areas into the handful of Native American population centers still occupied today…to bring this fresh perspective to the study of prehistoric migration and identity, I have drawn on an unconventional source–Hopi conventional knowledge….Historical perspectives contained in oral traditions are largely independent of archaeological constructs and conventions as a result, hypotheses developed from oral tradition can stimulate novel and productive ways to think about the archaeological record.” (From Chapter 1: Introduction to the Problem). Migration and identity. Textbook perhaps, upper level, assigned reading.
