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100 1 _aRocek, Thomas R.
245 1 0 _aNavajo Multi-Household Social Units :
_bArchaeology on Black Mesa, Arizona /
_cThomas R. Rocek.
264 1 _aTucson :
_bUniversity of Arizona Press,
_c1995.
264 3 _aBaltimore, Md. :
_bProject MUSE,
_c2022
264 4 _c©1995.
300 _a1 online resource:
_billustrations, maps ;
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
505 0 _a1. 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.
506 0 _aOpen Access
_fUnrestricted online access
_2star
520 _aIn 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 that bind small groups of households together. Middle-level units, says the author, must be recognized as important sources of social flexibility in many such cultural contexts. Furthermore, attention to middle-level units is critical for understanding household or community-level organization, because the flexibility they offer can fundamentally alter the behavior of social units of larger or smaller scale. In examining the archaeological record of Navajo settlement on Black Mesa, Rocek develops archaeological methods for examining multiple-household social units (variously called "outfits" or "cooperating groups") through spatial analysis, investigates evidence of change in middle-level units over time, relates these changes to economic and demographic flux, and compares the Navajo case study to the broader ethnographic literature of middle-level units. Rocek finds similarities with social organization in non-unilineally organized societies, in groups that have been traditionally described as characterized by network organization, and particularly in pastoral societies. The results of Rocek's study offer a new perspective on variability in Navajo social organization, while suggesting general patterns of the response of social groups to change. Rocek's work will be of significant interest not only to those with a professional interest in Navajo history and culture, but also, for its methodological insights, to a far broader range of archaeologists, social anthropologists, ethnohistorians, ethnoarchaeologists, historians, cultural geographers, and political scientists.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 7 _aEthnohistoire
_zÉtats-Unis
_zBlack Mesa (Ariz.)
_2ram
650 7 _aArcheologie sociale
_zÉtats-Unis
_zBlack Mesa (Ariz.)
_2ram
650 7 _aStructure sociale
_zÉtats-Unis
_zBlack Mesa (Ariz.)
_2ram
650 7 _aNavaho (Indiens)
_xAntiquites.
_2ram
650 7 _aNavaho (Indiens)
_xParente.
_2ram
650 7 _aNavaho (Indiens)
_xHistoire
_xSources.
_2ram
650 7 _aVor- und Frühgeschichte
_2gnd
650 7 _aSozialstruktur
_2gnd
650 7 _aSocial structure.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01123372
650 7 _aSocial archaeology.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01122274
650 7 _aNavajo Indians
_xKinship.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01034829
650 7 _aNavajo Indians
_xAntiquities.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01034802
650 7 _aNavajo Indians.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01034799
650 7 _aEthnohistory.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst00916090
650 7 _aAntiquities.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst00810745
650 6 _aNavajo (Indiens)
_xParente.
650 6 _aNavajo (Indiens)
_xHistoire
_vSources.
650 0 _aEthnohistory
_zArizona
_zBlack Mesa (Navajo County and Apache County)
650 0 _aSocial archaeology
_zArizona
_zBlack Mesa (Navajo County and Apache County)
650 0 _aSocial structure
_zArizona
_zBlack Mesa (Navajo County and Apache County)
650 0 _aNavajo Indians
_xAntiquities.
650 0 _aNavajo Indians
_xKinship.
650 0 _aNavajo Indians
_xHistory
_vSources.
651 7 _aNavajo.
_2swd
651 7 _aBlack Mesa (Etats-Unis ; Arizona)
_xAntiquites.
_2ram
651 7 _aBlack Mesa
_gArizona
_zNordost
_2gnd
651 7 _aArizona
_zBlack Mesa (Navajo County and Apache County)
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01333775
651 0 _aBlack Mesa (Navajo County and Apache County, Ariz.)
_xAntiquities.
655 7 _aSources.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01423900
655 7 _aHistory.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01411628
655 4 _aSources.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse.
_edistributor
830 0 _aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/101380/
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