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

Sekaquaptewa, Emory; Washburn, Dorothy K.

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“…Ethnohistorical and historical sources inform numerous studies of ancient ritual, particularly in the new world (e.g., Bauer 1992, Brady & Prufer 2005, Sekaquaptewa & Washburn 2004, Hayes-Gilpin & Hill 1999, Fowles 2005. These studies rely on the greater ability of myth, art, and other forms of religious expression to provide guidance on the interpretation of material remains of ritual.…”

Section: Mortuary Ritualmentioning

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The Archaeology of Religious Ritual

Fogelin

2007

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

201

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Archaeologists traditionally assumed that rituals were understood best in light of religious doctrines, beliefs, and myths. Given the material focus of archaeology, archaeologists believed that ritual was a particularly unsuitable area for archaeological inquiry. In the past 25 years, archaeologists have increasingly started to address ritual in their research. Some archaeologists with access to extensive historical or ethnohistorical sources continue to see rituals as the enactment of religious principles or myths. Other archaeologists have adopted a more practice-oriented understanding of ritual, arguing that ritual is a form of human action. In emphasizing ritual practice, archaeologists reject a clear dichotomy between religious and nonreligious action or artifacts, focusing instead on the ways that the experience of ritual and ritual symbolism promotes social orders and dominant ideologies. 55 Annu. Rev. Anthropol. 2007.36:55-71. Downloaded from www.annualreviews.org by University of Wisconsin -Madison on 10/11/12. For personal use only.

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Section: Mortuary Ritualmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Archaeology of Religious Ritual

Fogelin

2007

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

201

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“…We review the range of ethnographic and archaeological test cases that have addressed the cultural significance of symmetry preference in pattern and the kinds of cultural insights obtained when this property is studied. We then describe our discovery that the symmetries themselves can be emblematic of the social relationships basic to the organization and operation of societies (Sekaquaptewa and Washburn 2004;Washburn 1999). This discovery emerged from study of a 1,000-year design sequence from the American Southwest in which we connected past patterns to present beliefs and practices.…”

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A Symmetry Analysis of Design Structure: 1,000 Years of Continuity and Change in Puebloan Ceramic Design

Washburn¹,

Crowe

Ahlstrom³

2010

Am. antiq.

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This paper postulates that cultural entities with long term structural integrity are characterized by symmetrical relationships between and among the constituent sectors of society. We demonstrate how such social relationships are embedded in the symmetrical arrangements of motifs in geometric design. We test this premise with an analysis of 1000 years of ceramic design from the northern American Southwest, AD 600-1600, with a description of the continuities and changes in the plane pattern symmetries that structure design. Two major points of change in symmetry use at c. AD 900 and AD 1300 correlate with changes in settlement type from pithouses to unit pueblos and from unit pueblos to multi-storied plaza oriented pueblos that accompanied adjustments to changes in environmental conditions. We propose that in the American Southwest the predominant use of bifold symmetry is a structural metaphor for the reciprocal social relationships basic to the organization of small puebloan agricultural communities and that the changes in these symmetries reflect the changing integration of the household into an increasingly complex social system. This interpretation of the meaning of design structure is derived from cosmological principles embedded in 20th century ritual songs of the Hopi, descendents of the prehistoric puebloans, as well as depicted in images in their 15th century kiva wall murals. We present this interpretation of the sequence of pueblo development in the American Southwest in terms of the changing symmetrical nature of the social relationships that integrated the agricultural communities as an example of the insights possible with this new approach to design analysis.

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“…Nous ignorons la signification de ces figures préhistoriques, mais nous savons que le papillon est toujours présent aujourd'hui dans les mythes, les rituels et l'iconographie hopis. Selon l'anthropologue Emory Sekaquaptewa et l'archéologue Dorothy Washburn, il est possible d'établir des liens entre l'imagerie visuelle de l'art rupestre ancien, des murales des kivas et des motifs des poteries, d'une part, et l'imagerie métaphorique des chansons des Katchinas, d'autre part (Sekaquaptewa et Washburn 2004). Dans les chansons hopies, les métaphores sont « utilisées pour informer, conseiller et inspirer le peuple hopi quant à la vie qu'il a choisie » (ibid.…”

Section: Hookona : Le Papillon Monarqueunclassified

Les araignées et les insectes dans la mythologie et la religion des Indiens hopis1

Geertz¹,

Deschamps²

2018

raq

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Les araignées et les insectes jouent un rôle important dans la mythologie et la religion des Indiens hopis. Ils apparaissent souvent dans l’art rupestre, sur les peintures murales et les objets cérémoniels. Ils sont également très présents dans les mythes et les histoires, où ils jouent des rôles de héros ou de méchants. Les insectes sont en effet conceptualisés comme des créatures bénéfiques portant la vie dans les mythes fondateurs des rituels, ou comme des assistants malfaisants dans la sorcellerie et la magie noire. Il n’existe aucune étude systématique générale sur les araignées et les insectes dans la mythologie et la religion des Indiens hopis, mais un certain nombre de recherches s’intéressent à des insectes en particulier, et l’on retrouve évidemment des références aux insectes dans la littérature. Dans cette étude préliminaire, l’auteur explore les diverses représentations des araignées et des insectes dans la pensée et les comportements des Hopis.

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

Cited by 52 publications

References 20 publications

The Archaeology of Religious Ritual

The Archaeology of Religious Ritual

A Symmetry Analysis of Design Structure: 1,000 Years of Continuity and Change in Puebloan Ceramic Design

Les araignées et les insectes dans la mythologie et la religion des Indiens hopis1

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