New Perspectives on the Pueblos
Edited by Alfonso Ortiz
This volume, the result of an advanced seminar at the School of American Research, takes a fresh look at Pueblo Indian culture, with chapters on everything from language to religion, prehistory, ecology, and from literature to music. Alfonso Ortiz molded the work of a diverse set of contributors into a cohesive and comprehensive examination that is informative and enjoyable to the scholarly and lay reader alike. The results show that evidence for the diversity of origin for prehistoric Pueblo cultures seems greater than ever.
1972. 360 pp., figures, maps, tables, notes, references, index, 6 x 9
Contributors: Albert Alvarez, John J. Bodine, Fred Eggan, Richard I. Ford, Robin Fox, Kenneth Hale, Byron Harvey III, Louis A. Hieb, Alfonso Ortiz, Stewart L. Peckham, Don L. Roberts, Albert H. Schroeder, Dennis Tedlock
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- Introduction
Alfonso Ortiz - An Ecological Perspective on the Eastern Pueblos
Richard I. Ford - Three Perspectives on Puebloan Prehistory
Richard I. Ford, Albert H. Schroeder, and Stewart L. Peckham - Rio Grande Ethnohistory
Albert H. Schroeder - Some Unsolved Problems of Pueblo Social Organization
Robin Fox - A New Perspective on American Indian Linguistics
Kenneth Hale, Appendix by Albert Alvarez - Ritual Drama and the Pueblo World View
Alfonso Ortiz - Meaning and Mismeaning: Toward an Understanding of the Ritual Clown
Louis A. Hieb - An Overview of Pueblo Religion
Byron Harvey, III - Pueblo Literature: Style and Verisimilitude
Dennis Tedlock - The Ethnomusicology of the Eastern Pueblos
Don L. Roberts - Acculturation Processes and Population Dynamics
John J. Bodine - Summary
Fred Eggan