Complete Catalogue Spring Summer 2002 UBCPressand Agencies

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Homol’ovi
An Ancient Hopi
Settlement Cluster
E. Charles Adams
In the thirteenth century, people from the Hopi
Mesas established a cluster of villages to the south
along the Little Colorado River, attracted by the
river’s resources and the region’s ideal conditions for
growing cotton. By the late 1300s, these Homol’ovi
villages were the centre of a robust trade in cotton
and were involved in the beginning of katsina religion
among Hopi people.
Charles Adams has directed excavations in five of
the seven primary Homol’ovi villages and in other
villages predating them. He concludes that the
founders of these settlements were Hopis who
sought to protect their territory from migrating
groups elsewhere in the Pueblo world.
E. Charles Adams has directed the Homol’ovi Research
Program at the Arizona State Museum since 1985.
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS
March
280 pages, 6 x 9”
48 illustrations
ISBN 0-8165-2221-9
hardcover, $83.95 CRO
Western Pueblo Identities
Regional Interaction, Migration,
and Transformation
Andrew I. Duff
Identifying distinct social groups of the past has
always challenged archaeologists because understanding
how people perceived their identity is
critical to the reconstruction of social organization.
Material culture has been the standard measure of
distinction between groups. Andrew Duff argues that
such an approach is not always appropriate: demographic
and historical factors may affect the extent
to which material evidence can define such boundaries.
Andrew I. Duff is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at
Washington State University.
UNIVERSITY OR ARIZONA PRESS
February
250 pages, 6 x 9”, illus.
ISBN 0-8165-2218-9
hardcover, $80.95 CRO
Beyond Chaco
Great Kiva Communities on the
Mogollon Rim Frontier
Sarah A. Herr
Using a frontier model to evaluate household, community,
and regional data, Herr demonstrates that
the archaeological patterns of the Mogollon Rim
region were created by the flexible and creative
behaviours of small-scale agriculturalists.
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS
January
190 pages, 8 1/2 x 11”, illus.
ISBN 0-8165-2156-5
paper, $28.95 CRO
Language Shift among
the Navajos
Identity Politics and Cultural
Continuity
Deborah House
House asks why, despite the many factors that
would seem to contribute to the maintenance of the
Navajo language, speakers of the language continue
to shift to English at such an alarming rate – and
what can be done about this.
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS
April
150 pages, 6 x 9”, illus.
ISBN 0-8165-2219-7
hardcover, $58.95 CRO
Prehistoric Culture Change
on the Colorado Plateau
Ten Thousand Years on Black
Mesa
Edited by Shirley Powell and
Francis E. Smiley
This book summarizes the results of the Peabody
Coal Company’s Black Mesa Archaeological Project
in northeastern Arizona, one of the largest archaeological
projects ever undertaken in North America.
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS
April
600 pages, 6 x 9”
78 illustrations
ISBN 0-8165-1439-9
hardcover, $83.95 CRO
Creek Indian Medicine Ways
The Enduring Power of Mvskoke
Religion
David Lewis, Jr. and Ann T. Jordan
Creek Indian Medicine Ways provides a rare glimpse
of a living religious tradition and its origins. David
Lewis, a full-blood Mvskoke and practising medicine
man, tells about the medicine tradition that has
shaped his life. He shares his memories about his
childhood training and initiation as a medicine man,
reveals part of the sacred story of the origin of
plants, and identifies some of the plants he uses in
his cures. He also describes several of the ceremonies
his teachers taught him, stressing
throughout the sacredness and importance of
Mvskoke medicine.
Ann T. Jordan traces the written accounts of
Mvskoke religion from the eighteenth century to the
present in order to contextualize Lewis’s story and
knowledge.
David Lewis, Jr. is a medicine man in the Creek Nation in
Oklahoma. Ann T. Jordan teaches Anthropology at the
University of North Texas.
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS
March
192 pages, 6 x 9”, illus.
ISBN 0-8263-2367-7
hardcover, $49.95 CRO
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