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Where the Earth and sky are sewn together : Sobaipuri-O'odham contexts of contact and colonialism / Deni J. Seymour.

Title: Where the Earth and sky are sewn together : Sobaipuri-O'odham contexts of contact and colonialism / Deni J. Seymour.
Author: Seymour, Deni J.
Publication: Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, c2011.

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xv, 327 p. : ill., maps; 27 cm.

Summary

The Sobaípuri-O?odham occupied the San Pedro and Santa Cruz valleys of southern Arizona from the 1400s. Their descendants reside at the contemporary community if Wa:k (San Xavier del Bac). Most of the protohistory and history concerning the Sobaípuri-O?odham has been gleaned from documents written by the early Spanish colonizers and other Europeans and emphasizes the influence of Father Eusebio Kino; there are few accounts of the indigenous people themselves. In recent years, however, archaeological surveys and excavations in southern Arizona have revealed new information about this group. Where the Earth and Sky Are Sewn Together includes these archaeological findings to provide an enhanced interpretation of the Sobaípuri-O?odham lifeway, addressing questions that have been unanswerable by historical documents alone. Seymour considers new methods and theory for tackling the difficulties of working with a sparse archaeological record and proposes some very different answers. This book represents a much revised rendition of the historian?s Sobaípuri-O?odham, a people who once dominated southern Arizona?s landscape.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-318) and index.

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committed to retain

Contents

The fertile fields of the Sobaípuri-O'odham -- Background and basis -- Integrating sources -- Distinguishing the Sobaípuri -- O'odham housing -- O'odham domestic space -- Sobaípuri foodways and hearth-related practices -- Sobaípuri land use -- Dating sites -- Ranchería and community -- Sobaípuri occupational duration -- Contrarian perspectives on Sobaípuri transformation -- A relation to the Sobaípuri past.

ISBN

9781607810674 (cloth : alk. paper)
1607810670 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2010050566

OCLC

694172136

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