An ethnoarchaeological perspective on textile categories of identification and function

Washburn, Dorothy K.; Petitto, Andrea L.

doi:10.1006/jaar.1993.1005

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“…Notes 1. Washburn's (1977) observation that Southwest puebloan ceramic design was consistently organized by a few geometric symmetries prompted her studies of the cultural factors affecting design structure (e.g., Washburn 1986Washburn , 1989Washburn , 1990Washburn , 1995Washburn , 2000Washburn , 2001Washburn and Matson 1985;Washburn and Petitto 1991). It appears that, for cultures dependant on visual and oral means of information transmission, designs and their arrangements are metaphors of ideas and relationships basic to the organization and persistence of that culture.…”

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They Go Along Singing: Reconstructing the Hopi Past from Ritual Metaphors in Song and Image

Sekaquaptewa

Washburn

2004

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This article demonstrates how the cosmological metaphors in ritual song texts are an important but unrecognized resource in the repertoire of oral tradition that can be used to reconstruct past lifeways. We test this proposition with a study of 125 Hopi katsina song texts from the 20th century and show how the cosmological principles underlying the Hopi lifeway are embedded in special song word and phrase metaphors. Through the transcription and translation of the content of these song metaphors we reveal a consistency of thought and prescribed social action that has sustained the Hopi people as they have followed a lifeway of corn agriculture done by hand. We then show how these same principles for living expressed metaphorically in words are visually repeated in the same metaphors in mural images on 15th- and 16th-century kiva murals from the Hopi sites of Awatovi and Kawaika'a as well as on associated Jeddito and Sikyatki yellow ware ceramic design.

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They Go Along Singing: Reconstructing the Hopi Past from Ritual Metaphors in Song and Image

Sekaquaptewa

Washburn

2004

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“…O entendimento destes aspectos é fundamental para a definição das tipologias artefatuais e para a interpretação da sua variação e variabilidade no tempo e no espaço (Washburn & Petitto, 1993;Silvestre, 1994;Pryor & Carr, 19 95 ;Si lv a, 20 00 , 20 07 ;Jo rd an & Shennan, 2003).…”

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A variabilidade dos trançados dos Asurini do Xingu

Silva

2009

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A compreensão das causas e do significado da variabilidade artefatual encontrada no registro arqueológico é um dos objetivos mais importantes da pesquisa arqueológica. Em geral, os estudos sobre o tema consideram quatro dimensões da variabilidade: 1) a formal; 2) a quantitativa; 3) a espacial; e 4) a relacional. Este trabalho mostra, através de uma abordagem etnoarqueológica, que a variabilidade formal e quantitativa dos objetos trançados Asurini está relacionada com aspectos da sua organiza ção social e econômica, da sua cosmologia e da sua interação com o mundo dos "brancos".

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Cognitive archaeology: a symmetry/symmetry-breaking model for the analysis of societies

Washburn

2018

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An ethnoarchaeological perspective on textile categories of identification and function

Cited by 6 publications

References 22 publications

They Go Along Singing: Reconstructing the Hopi Past from Ritual Metaphors in Song and Image

They Go Along Singing: Reconstructing the Hopi Past from Ritual Metaphors in Song and Image

A variabilidade dos trançados dos Asurini do Xingu

Cognitive archaeology: a symmetry/symmetry-breaking model for the analysis of societies

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