Research Catalog

Title

The bioarchaeology of social control : assessing conflict and cooperation in pre-contact Puebloan society / Ryan P. Harrod.

Author

Harrod, Ryan P.

Publication

• Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2017]
• ©2017

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Details

Description

xix, 172 pages : illustrations, maps (some color); 25 cm

Summary

Taking a bioarchaeological approach, this book examines the Ancestral Pueblo culture living in the Four Corners region of the United States during the late Pueblo I through the end of the Pueblo III period (AD 850-1300). During this time, a vast system of pueblo villages spread throughout the region creating what has been called the Chaco Phenomenon, named after the large great houses in Chaco Canyon that are thought to have been centers of control. Through a bioarchaeological analysis of the human skeletal remains, this volume provides evidence that key individuals within the hierarchical social structure used a variety of methods of social control, including structural violence, to maintain their power over the interconnected communities.

Series Statement

Bioarchaeology and social theory

Uniform Title

Bioarchaeology and social theory.

Subjects

• Violence
• Social conflict
• Social control
• Southwest, New
• Human remains (Archaeology)
• Chaco culture
• Southwest, New > Antiquities
• Violence > Southwest, New > History
• Antiquities
• Human remains (Archaeology) > Southwest, New
• Pueblo Indians > Social life and customs
• History
• Social archaeology > Southwest, New
• Social conflict > Southwest, New > History
• Pueblo Indians > Antiquities
• Ethnoarchaeology > Southwest, New
• Social control > Southwest, New > History

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• "This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature"--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Understanding the Chaco phenomenon. The Greater Southwest. A brief overview : life during the Chaco phenomenon. Violence as an ideology in the US Southwest ; Human skeletal remains and biological anthropology. Social theory in bioarchaeology and osteoarchaeology. Bioarchaeological approaches to violence ; Where do we go from here -- 2. Culture, corn, and complexity. Life in the post-agriculture US Southwest. Ancestral Pueblo. Hohokam. Mogollon. Salado and Sinagua. The Athabascan cultures ; The multicultural Southwest -- 3. Systems of social control. Defining social control. Social control in the US Southwest ; Forms of social control. Violent social control. Direct violence. Structural violence ; Social control during the Chaco phenomenon ; Social control as violence and ideology. Ritual sacrifice, public executions, and witch killings. Gambling, prestige items, and debt. Navajo versions. Pueblo versions ; Social control during times of peace and causing conflict ; Summary -- 4. Chaco Canyon. Settling in the canyon. The "Chaco phenomenon". Centers of control ; Leaving the canyon -- 5. Putting Chaco into context. A tradition of moving across the landscape. Aggregation. Reorganization ; A temporal and spatial context -- 6. Putting the people back into the pueblos. Reconstructing a bioarchaeological profile. Site and mortuary context. Population demographics ; Site complexity and demography. Pueblo Bonito. Peñasco Blanco. Pueblo del Arroyo. Kin Bineola. Wingate sites. La Plata sites. Aztec ruins ; Summary -- 7. Reassessing "Pax Chaco". Reading the bones. Biocultural identity ; Identifying social control on the body. What the body reveals ; Summary -- 8. The role of elites and social control. Evidence of an elite class. Archaeological and mortuary data. Bioarchaeological data ; Trauma as an indicator of social control ; The not so peaceful Chaco phenomenon ; The nature of leadership at Chaco -- 9. The decline of social control in the Pueblo world. Immigration. The impact of migrants ; Ideology; Summary -- 10. Conclusion. Why Is Chaco unique?

Call Number

JFE 18-2978

ISBN

• 9783319595153
• 3319595156

LCCN

2017946475

OCLC

1005083352

Author

Harrod, Ryan P., author.

Title

The bioarchaeology of social control : assessing conflict and cooperation in pre-contact Puebloan society / Ryan P. Harrod.

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2017]

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Bioarchaeology and social theory

Bioarchaeology and social theory.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 18-2978