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"For the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico and Arizona, the tradition of weaving and decorating textiles reaches almost two thousand years into the past. Yet because the Pueblos seldom make their traditional textiles for sale to visitors and collectors, their weaving and embroidery have long been overshadowed in popular attention by the better known textiles of the Navajos. This heavily illustrated study, a long overdue and long awaited volume on Pueblo...
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Based on the extensive Pueblo painting collections of the School of American Research in Santa Fe, the book traces the lives and examines the achievements of seven key artist: Fred Kabotie and Otis Polelonema of Hopi, Velino Shije Herrera (Ma-Pe-Wi) of Zia, and Awa Tsireh (Alfonso Roybal), Crescencio Martinez (Ta'e), Oqwa Pi (Abel Sanchez), and Tonita Pena (Quah Ah) of San Ildefonso. Brody also explores the role played by the individuals who supported...
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Published by the School of American Research Press and distributed by UW. Scholar and ceramic artist Dillingham offers a comprehensive cultural and technical history of pottery making at the New Mexico pueblos of Acoma and Laguna, lavishly illustrated (color and b&w photos), and supplemented with appendixes listing potters, detailing signs of commercial origin, and cataloging pottery housed in the Indian Arts Research Center at the School of American...
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Papers and discussions (from a 1987 seminar held at the School of American Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico), along with a chapter that summarizes and synthesizes the presentations, offer new data, current thinking, and a set of case studies on two of the Southwest's most sophisticated cultures of prehistoric times. The authors examine settlement patterns, subsistence economy, exchange of goods, and social organization with an emphasis on explaining...
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"A School of American Research book." "This volume is the result of a conference held on the days of March 18-22, 1974, at the School of American Research, in Santa Fe, NM." Bibliography: p.239-247. Includes index.
Cultural anthropology's main contribution to science has always been the investigation of the range of human cultures and the demonstration of the variety, including variety in symbols and meanings, in these cultures. In recent years,...