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Ritual facilities and social integration in nonranked societies
architecture of social integration in prehistoric pueblos • (1) • Published In 1989 • Pages: 35-52
By: Adler, Michael A..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Adler examines kivas as integrative facilities used by a community to reduce scalar stress. When communities are smaller the kiva use-group is smaller and there are fewer restrictions on who may use the facility and on how the facility is used. In other words the earlier facilities were used for a variety of activities, not just ritual ones. Adler discusses integrative facilities in 28 different cultures and compares them to early Anasazi kivas.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Comparative evidence
- Public structures
- Social relationships and groups
- Religious and educational structures
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Early Anasazi
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2012
- 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 TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- 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
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2011
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not specified
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1300-700 BP (AD 700-1300)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- the Southwest; Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Michael A. Adler
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 48-52)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 89081117
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Pueblo architecture
- Pueblos--Social aspects--Southwest, New.
- Indians of North America--Southwest, New--Social life and customs