The Tewa World

Ortíz, Alfonso Bouzas

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“…Tewa social structure, unlike that of the Western Pueblos such as the Hopi, Zuni, and western Keresans, is based on a primary system of nonexogamous dual organization with winter and summer sodalities similar to moieties (Ortiz, 1969;Ware, 2001;Ware and Blinman, 1998). Western Pueblo social structure, on the other hand, is based primarily on matrilineal exogamous clan organization, with matrilocal residence.…”

Section: Ritual Political and Social Organizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…All members of a Tewa pueblo are members of either the winter or summer moiety, and each moiety has a chief. The chief of the Winter moiety governs the pueblo during the autumn and winter, while the chief of the Summer moiety governs during the spring and summer, overseeing most agricultural duties (Ortiz, 1969).…”

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Craniometric variation and population history of the prehistoric Tewa

Schillaci

Stojanowski

2005

Am. J. Phys. Anthropol.

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Although the population history and social organization of the prehistoric Pueblo Indians of the American Southwest have received attention in the archaeological literature, little research on this topic has been conducted by biological anthropologists. Here, we examine postmarital residence at two ancestral Tewa Indian pueblos located in north-central New Mexico using determinant ratio analysis. In addition, we examine genetic relationships among pueblos, as well as levels of within-pueblo heterogeneity due to gene flow from extraregional sources, or regional aggregation. Results from determinant ratio analysis indicate greater within-pueblo male variation, consistent with matrilocal residence for at least one Tewa pueblo. Less than expected heterogeneity at two pueblos suggests that endogamy might have been practiced among some prehistoric Tewa pueblos. Gene flow from extraregional sources is indicated for two different pueblos by greater than expected within-group heterogeneity. Distance matrix correlation analyses indicate little if any relationship between phenotypic and geographic distances, suggesting that geography was not the primary basis of gene flow or mate exchange. The weak relationship between phenotypic and geographic distances may be the combined effects of endogamy at some pueblos, nonrandom extraregional gene flow or migration at other pueblos, and limited nonproximity-dependent regional gene flow or migration among pueblos, possibly structured on ritual exchange networks based on medicine society affiliation.

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Section: Ritual Political and Social Organizationmentioning

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Section: Ritual Political and Social Organizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Craniometric variation and population history of the prehistoric Tewa

Schillaci

Stojanowski

2005

Am. J. Phys. Anthropol.

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“…Of the above -mentioned games, hoop and pole, doubleball, and quoits have disappeared, and participation in archery is minimal; shinny is occasionally demonstrated. In the Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico, the athletes participate annually in kickstick races and long distance races which are viewed by Cheska (1974Cheska ( ,1976Cheska ( ,1979aCheska ( , 1979bCheska ( , 1981Cheska ( ,1982a, Culin (1907), Drucker (1941), Kroeber (1925), Ortiz (1969), Underhill (1951). This listing is exploratory, but gives the general distribution of traditional sports as noted, recorded, and compiled by ethnologists and anthropologists.…”

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Sport as Ethnic Boundary Maintenance: A Case of the American Indian

Cheska

1984

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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An ethnic group's members select and translate into social boundaries cultural behaviors that support the group's values. By using sport contact situations between Navajo Indians and Euro-Americans in a 1903 Fourth of July festival and present basketball participation, it is shown that the content and form signaling ethnic boundaries changed over time from traditional Indian sports to Euro-American sport participation. An analysis of these interethnic sports encounters showed that the ethnic group members' perception, selection, and expression of changing behavioral content continually reinforced ethnic diversity. It is suggested that, because inter-ethnic sports' participation reaffirms one's own cultural values, these encounters define ethnic differences, not similarities.

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“…Yet having recognized this egalitarian dimension, it also is clear that there are other aspects of Pueblo society that are hierarchical. Many have highlighted the differential knowledge of ritual and the significance of that knowledge (e.g., Ortiz 1969;Upham 1982), while others (e.g., Levy 1993; see also Titiev 1944:61-62) have focused on control of scarce resources, particularly prime agricultural land. Dozier (1970:154) has concluded that "despotic rule by the religious-political hierarchy did take place in virtually all the pueblos and across the years some Indians lost houses, property and land, and were evicted from their pueblos."…”

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Foundations of Social Inequality

Price¹,

Feinman²

1995

Fundamental Issues in Archaeology

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anthropology as defined by Franz Boas and others at the beginning of this century.Fundamental Issues in Archaeology, then, is a new series of publications focusing on current, critical issues of broad relevance in anthropological archaeology. The thrust of the volumes will be topical and comparative, rather than areal or methodological; we will concentrate on issues, rather than techniques or regional syntheses. We will consider both monographs and edited volumes that are concerned with basic questions of research and theory. The series will publish both fully authored monographs and integrated edited works that fit its theme and goals. We welcome manuscripts and suggestions for the evolution of Fundamental Issues.

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The Tewa World

Cited by 17 publications

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Craniometric variation and population history of the prehistoric Tewa

Craniometric variation and population history of the prehistoric Tewa

Sport as Ethnic Boundary Maintenance: A Case of the American Indian

Foundations of Social Inequality

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