Where the Red-Winged Blackbirds Sing: The Akimel O’odham and Cycles of Agricultural Transformation in the Phoenix Basin

Bess, Jennifer

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“…In fact, while Western histories and archaeologies often have a forced linearity and single emergence, O'Odham histories and "world-building" have multiple, related, origin events (Bahr et al 1994;Bess 2021) wherein the "cycles of destruction and re-creation follow[ing] the first creative act, [challenge] any interpretation that includes a notion of completion or fulfillment" (Bess 2021:44). As Bess notes (2021:23) this is evidence of "their experience of cycles of expansion and contraction and their commitment to self-renewal and selfdetermination".…”

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“…A flood that ruins the grade for a canal in the Phoenix Basin (e.g., Abbott 2003;Henderson and Clark 2004;Huckleberry et al 2018;Loendorf and Lewis 2017) or violence in the Tonto Basin (e.g., Di Peso 1958;Lindsay 1987;Oliver 2001) is not going to lead to a "collapse" in the Tucson Basin, the San Pedro, or the groups near the edge of the Hohokam World in the Sulphur Springs Valley or the Papaguería. Many of our local reconstructions and Indigenous histories are excellent, particularly in the Phoenix Basin (Abbott 2003;Bahr et al 1994;Bahr (ed) 2001;Bess 2021;Henderson and Clark 2004;Huckleberry et al 2018;Loendorf and Lewis 2017;Martinez 2013). As are some of the regional ones that have demonstrated large-scale downturns in water availability and upticks in heat across most of the Southwest (e.g., Dean 2000;Lekson 2002).…”

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Anarchic Social Movements as an Explanation for Rapid Change: A Case Study from the Hohokam World, A.D. 1200 – 1450

Borck¹,

Clark²

2022

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Based on research that regionally contextualizes millions of data points and hundreds of sites, we have previously argued that the Salado phenomenon was a social movement aimed at returning power to all community members in the Hohokam world and led to what archaeologists have problematically called the “Hohokam Collapse.” In this chapter, we explain why terms like collapse indicate an underlying bias and fail to capture intentionality and the achieved positive outcomes of social and political decentralization and why current archaeological explanations may be useful for explaining local changes, but are inadequate for explaining the dramatic transition in cultural practices at the end of the Classic Period for the Hohokam world at large. Finally, we discuss how this new understanding of Salado as a social movement is supported by published Akimel and Tohono O’Odham oral histories.

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