Book
Polities and power: an economic and political history of the western Pueblo
Academic Press • New York • Published In 1982 • Pages: xvi, 225
By: Upham, Steadman.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Upham examines the reasons for the historical continuity and development of the Western Pueblo Groups. He shows that Hopi, Zuni, and Acoma are hereditary oligarchies in which a core group of related individuals has dominated the leadership positions by controlling access to ritual and ceremonial knowledge. Upham evaluates the contact period population data to suggest higher population levels than previously recognized. He believes the population was a composed of Pueblo and Querecho groups. The Querechos were indigenous Puebloan groups that were dislocated following the collapse of the fourteenth-century regional system. Prior to Spanish contact the Western Pueblo area was composed of competing centers that were regionally linked by exchange of prestige goods and knowledge between the highest levels. Upham examined the data from Nuvaqueotaka and the Anderson Mesa area to see if it might have been a port-of-trade. The three settlement clusters that survived into the contact period-Hopi, Zuni, and Acoma- may have survived because they were spatially peripheral to the fourteenth century regional system and could withstand the collapse of the other centers. (pages 199-202).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Population
- Sociocultural trends
- Settlement patterns
- Community heads
- Territorial hierarchy
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Late 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
- Book
- 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
- 5: Excellent Primary 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
- 1978-1980
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 700-450 BP (AD 1300-1550)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- eastern Arizona and western New Mexico, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Steadman Upham
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-221) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 82001637
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Pueblo Indians--History
- Pueblo Indians--Economic conditions
- Indians of North America--Southwest, New--Economic conditions