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An archaeology of doings : secularism and the study of Pueblo religion / Severin M. Fowles.
- Title
- An archaeology of doings : secularism and the study of Pueblo religion / Severin M. Fowles.
- Author
- Fowles, Severin M.
- Publication
- Santa Fe : School for Advanced Research Press, 2013.
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- Description
- xvi, 306 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm
- Summary
- "There is an unsettling paradox in the anthropology of religion. Modern understandings of "religion" emerged out of a specifically Western genealogy, and recognizing this, many anthropologists have become deeply suspicious of claims that such understandings can be applied with fidelity to premodern or non-Western contexts. And yet, archaeologists now write about "religion" and "ritual" with greater ease than ever, even though their deeply premodern and fully non-Western objects of study would seem to make the use of these concepts especially fraught. In this probing study, Severin Fowles challenges us to consider just what is at stake in archaeological reconstructions of an enchanted past. Focusing on the Ancestral Pueblo societies of the American Southwest, he provocatively argues that the Pueblos--prior to missionization--did not have a religion at all, but rather something else, something glossed in the indigenous vernacular as "doings." Fowles then outlines a new archaeology of doings that takes us far beyond the familiar terrain of premodern religion."--Publisher's website.
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Subject
- Taos Indians > Religion
- Taos Indians > Rites and ceremonies
- Taos Indians > Antiquities
- Pueblo Indians > Religion
- Pueblo Indians > Antiquities
- Indian Catholics > Taos Pueblo
- Christianity and other religions > Taos Pueblo
- Tao > Religion
- Tao > Rites et cérémonies
- Pueblo > Religion
- Pueblo > Antiquités
- Catholiques indiens d'Amérique > Taos Pueblo
- Christianisme > Relations > Taos Pueblo
- Antiquities
- Christianity
- Indian Catholics
- Interfaith relations
- Taos Indians > Religion
- Taos Pueblo (N.M.) > Religious life and customs
- Taos Plateau (N.M.) > Antiquities
- Taos Pueblo (N.M.) > Antiquities
- New Mexico > Taos Plateau
- New Mexico > Taos Pueblo
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-293) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Archaeology after Secularism -- The Paradox of the Priest -- Belief and Unbelief in a Pueblo Society -- Doings -- On Effervescence and Sympathy -- Katsina and Other Matters of Concern -- Separation of Church and Kiva.
- ISBN
- 9781934691564
- 1934691569
- LCCN
- 2012018025
- 40022233664
- OCLC
- 793503472
- SCSB-12748381
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library