The Distinctive Features and Distribution of the San Juan Anasazi Culture

Reed, Erik K.

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“…Sutherland (1949, p. 783) wrote that the Pueblo Indians were the “most advanced aboriginal culture surviving in North America.” Descendants of the Anasazi culture, the Pueblo people have the oldest culture north of Mexico. For discussions of the Anasazi, see Reed (1946) and Roberts (1996).…”

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Taos Pueblo: an indigenous community holding on to Promethean values

Dana

Anderson²

2007

Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy

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PurposeThis paper aims to give an account – using photographs as well as words – to describe a North American indigenous community that is retaining pre‐contact Promethean values.Design/methodology/approachThe paper adopts as its approach ethnographic literature and field interviews coupled with extensive photography.FindingsEntrepreneurship may be linked to Promethean values, a characteristic of Pueblo Indians who were imaginatively original, long before the arrival of Europeans. Since ancient times, the use of irrigation in agriculture allowed the Pueblo Indians to reside in permanent houses; these two features – sophisticated farming and settlements – resulted in these indigenous people being unlike their nomadic neighbours. Farming – as opposed to hunting – was the backbone of the Pueblo economies, and theocratic government developed to control land and water usage; complex religious ceremonies became prerequisites to harvests. Religion taught discipline, and religious values remain important. Discipline – significant in this community even today – may be the causal variable explaining Promethean over Dionysian values.Research limitations/implicationsFuture research might examine further differences between indigenous groups.Practical implicationsRegardless of how religious a person is, values perpetuated by religion can transcend to a generation that practises them less than their elders. In the case of Taos Pueblo Indians, traditional Promethean values are being perpetuated, including a highly disciplined work ethic.Originality/valueThe paper suggests that entrepreneurship values may be linked to traditional religion and historic innovation.

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Section: Historical Overviewmentioning

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Taos Pueblo: an indigenous community holding on to Promethean values

Dana

Anderson²

2007

Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy

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“…Anasazi culture, which belongs within the "four-corners" region of the Southwest (Reed, 1946) was identified as a tradi tion (first Basket Maker and later Pueblo phases of develop ment) beginning about A.D. 200 (Martin, Quimby and Collier, 1947: 101). The growth of culture for about 1,000 years follow ing A.D. 500 (from the Modified Basket Makers) will be exam ined here.…”

Section: Anasazi Culture Growthmentioning

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Some Social and Spatial Aspects of Innovation at Zuni

McFeat¹

1960

Anthropologica

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Southwestern physical anthropology: Do the cultural and biological parameters correspond?

El-Najjar

1978

American J Phys Anthropol

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D e p a r t m m t ofAnthropology, Case Western ReserveUnroersrty, Ciei ?Land. Ohio 44106 KEY WORDS Anthropometry . Skeleton Biological distance . Southwest Plateau . ABSTRACTSkeletal series representing 15 prehistoric and historic Southwestern American Indian groups were examined to estimate the degree of biological distance on the basis of craniometric data, to re-examine Carl Seltzer's ('44) hypothesis of biological continuity in the Southwest Plateau region, and to see whether the biological parameters correspond to the cultural taxonomies and chronological subdivisions of the Southwestern prehistorians. Within and between group differences were found to he relatively small. Cult.ura1 and genetic isolation, disease selection and dietary patterns are suggested to best explain these differences. Seltzer's ('44) hypothesis is firmly supported. Conclusions reached by physical anthropologists with regard to biological relationships through time and space in the Southwest Plateau area are in agreement with the archeological subdivisions and known cultural history of the American Southwest.

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The Distinctive Features and Distribution of the San Juan Anasazi Culture

Cited by 19 publications

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Taos Pueblo: an indigenous community holding on to Promethean values

Taos Pueblo: an indigenous community holding on to Promethean values

Some Social and Spatial Aspects of Innovation at Zuni

Southwestern physical anthropology: Do the cultural and biological parameters correspond?

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