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Sedentism and Mobility in a Social Landscape: Mesa Verde and Beyond
Mark D. Varien
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Description for Sedentism and Mobility in a Social Landscape: Mesa Verde and Beyond
Hardcover. Num Pages: 296 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HD; JFFN; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 232 x 163 x 27. Weight in Grams: 533.
Research on hunting and gathering peoples has given anthropologists a long-standing conceptual framework of sedentism and mobility based on seasonality and ecological constraints. This work challenges that position by arguing that mobility is a socially negotiated activity and that neither mobility nor sedentism can be understood outside of its social context. Drawing on research in the Mesa Verde region that focuses on communities and households, Mark Varien expands the social, spatial, and temporal scales of archaeological analysis to propose a new model for population movement. Rather than viewing sedentism and mobility as opposing concepts, he demonstrates that they were separate ... Read more
Research on hunting and gathering peoples has given anthropologists a long-standing conceptual framework of sedentism and mobility based on seasonality and ecological constraints. This work challenges that position by arguing that mobility is a socially negotiated activity and that neither mobility nor sedentism can be understood outside of its social context. Drawing on research in the Mesa Verde region that focuses on communities and households, Mark Varien expands the social, spatial, and temporal scales of archaeological analysis to propose a new model for population movement. Rather than viewing sedentism and mobility as opposing concepts, he demonstrates that they were separate ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Tucson, United States
ISBN
9780816519040
SKU
V9780816519040
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99-15
Reviews for Sedentism and Mobility in a Social Landscape: Mesa Verde and Beyond
“Varien’s research re-examines and discards the either/or approach to theories of mobility in Southwest archaeology—those approaches that contrast the frequent movement of hunter-gatherers with the sedentism of agricultural groups.” —Utah Historical Quarterly