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050 00 $aE99.N3$bR58 1995
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100 1 $aRocek, Thomas R.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86077541
245 10 $aNavajo multi-household social units :$barchaeology on Black Mesa, Arizona /$cThomas R. Rocek.
260 $aTucson :$bUniversity of Arizona Press,$c[1995], ©1995.
300 $axiv, 237 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [205]-221) and index.
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.
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.
520 8 $aFurthermore, 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.
520 8 $aIn 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.
520 8 $aRocek 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.
520 8 $a. 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.
650 00 $aNavajo Indians$xHistory$vSources.
650 00 $aNavajo Indians$xKinship.
650 00 $aNavajo Indians$xAntiquities.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010103553
650 00 $aSocial structure$zArizona$zBlack Mesa (Navajo County and Apache County)
650 00 $aSocial archaeology$zArizona$zBlack Mesa (Navajo County and Apache County)
650 00 $aEthnohistory$zArizona$zBlack Mesa (Navajo County and Apache County)
651 0 $aBlack Mesa (Navajo County and Apache County, Ariz.)$xAntiquities.
852 00 $bglx$hE99.N3$iR58 1995