essay
Songscapes and calendar sticks
hohokam millennium • Santa Fe, N.M. • Published In 2007 • Pages: 130-139
By: Darling, J. Andrew, Lewis, Barnaby V..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Darling and Lewis describe how the 'descendants of the Huhugam (Hohokam) interpret geographical space through song traditions. We examine songscapes--landscapes remembered through O'odham song--and their relationship to traditional infrastructure for travel and the archaeology of ancient trails.' (page 131). Knowledge of trails can tell us about the locations and distributions of sacred sites and settlements. A person who knows the songs knows where to go and the dangers along the way.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Routes
- Travel
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Hohokam
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2009
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1050-550 BP (AD 950-1450)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Arizona, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- J. Andrew Darling and Barnaby V. Lewis
- For bibliographical references see document 89:Fish and Fish
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 2007024336
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hohokam culture--Arizona--Phoenix
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Arizona--Phoenix
- Phoenix (Ariz.)--Antiquities