The Sinagua and aggregation: an interdisciplinary approach to cultural development

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Main Author:	Piker, Joshua Aaron
Language:	English
Published:	Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK 1989
Subjects:	Cultural Anthropology Sociology culutral development
Online Access:	http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1316195626

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spelling	ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-oberlin13161956262021-08-03T05:42:32Z The Sinagua and aggregation: an interdisciplinary approach to cultural development Piker, Joshua Aaron Cultural Anthropology Sociology culutral development Archaeology is, like any good sub-field of anthropology,concerned with the descriptions of, and comparisons between,cultural systems. The evidence used by archaeologists is,however, often of a very different nature than that used byethnographers or linguists. Language is, of course, notpreserved in the archaeological record, and many of the everyday behaviors that ethnographers are able to take for granted are invisible at a distance of two thousand years. This paper will be concerned with the study of social organization and group dynamics. However, determining the "structure" of a prehistoricsociety is notoriously difficult. Benson has stated that "Socialstructure has no unambiguous referents in the archaeologicalrecord" because "1) it requires relationships and not just unitsof variables, 2) relationships between elements of socialstructure are not unambiguous in living societies, 3) structuralunits are analytic categories of social scientists and are notisomorphic with corporate groups at any scale ... and thus have unspecifiable or widely varying material correlates" (Benson1985:183). 1989 English text Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1316195626 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1316195626 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws.
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The Sinagua and aggregation: an interdisciplinary approach to cultural development

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