Navajo Multi-Household Social Units : Archaeology on Black Mesa, Arizona /
In this rigorous archaeological study, Thomas R. Rocek explores a neglected but major source of social flexibility in Navajo societies. While many studies have focused on household and community-level organization, few have examined the flexible, intermediate-sized, "middle-level" cooperative units...
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Tucson :
University of Arizona Press,
1995.
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Table des matières:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Black Mesa Navajos
- 3. The Units of Navajo Social Organization
- 4. Spatial Analysis of Navajo Social Units
- 5. The Black Mesa Sites. The Database. Coding Methods
- 6. Measuring Change on Northern Black Mesa. The Population. The Economy. The Social Units. Population, Economy, and Society: Correlations
- 7. Culture Change on Black Mesa: Issues and Conclusions. Critique of Methods. The Lessons of Black Mesa
- 8. Middle-level Social Units: Beyond the Navajo Case. Are Comparable Middle-level Units Found in Other Societies? Pastoral Nomads. The Navajo Case in Cross-cultural Perspective
- Appendix A. Data Coding
- Appendix B. Settlement Maps.