History Is in the Land: Multivocal Tribal Traditions in Arizona's San Pedro Valley Paperback - 2006
by T. J. Ferguson; Chip Colwell
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Arizonaas San Pedro Valley is a natural corridor through which generations of native peoples have traveled for more than 12,000 years, and today many tribes consider it to be part of their ancestral homeland. This book explores the multiple cultural meanings, historical interpretations, and cosmological values of this extraordinary region by combining archaeological and historical sources with the ethnographic perspectives of four contemporary tribes: Tohono Oaodham, Hopi, Zuni, and San Carlos Apache. Previous research in the San Pedro Valley has focused on scientific archaeology and documentary history, with a conspicuous absence of indigenous voices, yet Native Americans maintain oral traditions that provide an anthropological context for interpreting the history and archaeology of the valley. The San Pedro Ethnohistory Project was designed to redress this situation by visiting archaeological sites, studying museum collections, and interviewing tribal members to collect traditional histories. The information it gathered is arrayed in this book along with archaeological and documentary data to interpret the histories of Native American occupation of the San Pedro Valley. This work provides an example of the kind of interdisciplinary and politically conscious work made possible when Native Americans and archaeologists collaborate to study the past. As a methodological case study, it clearly articulates how scholars can work with Native American stakeholders to move beyond confrontations over who aownsa the past, yielding a more nuanced, multilayered, and relevant archaeology.
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- Title History Is in the Land: Multivocal Tribal Traditions in Arizona's San Pedro Valley
- Author T. J. Ferguson; Chip Colwell
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Arizona Press
- Date 2006
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780816525669 / 0816525668
- Weight 1.34 lbs (0.61 kg)
- Dimensions 10.02 x 7.08 x 0.81 in (25.45 x 17.98 x 2.06 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Southwest U.S.
- Ethnic Orientation: Native American
- Geographic Orientation: Arizona
- Library of Congress subjects Indians of North America - Arizona -, Indians of North America - San Pedro River
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005028022
- Dewey Decimal Code 979.17
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- Reference and Research Bk News, 08/01/2006, Page 70
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