Hopi Dwellings

by Catherine M. Cameron

• ISBN13: 9780816517817
• ISBN10: 0816517819
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-04-01
• Publisher: Univ of Arizona Pr

Summary

The dramatic splitof the Hopi community of Orayvi in 1906 had lasting consequences not only for the people of Third Mesa but also for the very buildings around which they centered their lives. This book examines architectural and other effects of that split, using architectural change as a framework with which to understand social and cultural processes at prehistoric Southwestern pueblos. Catherine Cameron examines architectural change at Orayvi from 1871 to 1948, a period of great demographic and social upheaval. Her study is unique in its use of historic photographs to document and understand abandonment processes and apply that knowledge to prehistoric sites. Photos taken by tourists, missionaries, and early anthropologists during the late nineteenth century portray original structures, while later photos show how Orayvi buildings changed over a period of almost eighty years. Census data relating to house size and household configuration shed additional light on social change in the pueblo. Examining change at Orayvi afforded an opportunity to study the architectural effects of an event that must have happened many times in the past--the partial abandonment of a pueblo--by tracing the effects of sudden population decline on puebloan architecture. Cameron's work provides clues to how and why villages were abandoned and re-established repeatedly in the prehistoric Southwest as it offers a unique window on the relationship between Pueblo houses and the living people who occupied them.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	ix
List of Tables	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
Archaeology and Pueblo Architecture	3	(18)
The Construction and Use-Life of Pueblo Structures	21	(14)
History, Data, and Methods	35	(12)
The Orayvi House and Household	47	(10)
Orayvi Architectural Dynamics, 1871--1901	57	(25)
Orayvi after the Split	82	(21)
Using Orayvi to Interpret the Past	103	(12)
Appendix 1. Summary of Household Information and Architectural Change	115	(6)
Appendix 2. List of Photographs Collected for the Orayvi Study	121	(14)
Appendix 3. Summary of Architectural Change to Rooms, 1871--1901	135	(3)
Appendix 4. Summary of Architectural Change to Rooms after 1906	138	(5)
Notes	143	(2)
References	145	(10)
Index	155