Pueblo Indians and Spanish Colonial Authority in Eighteenth-Century New Mexico

International Journal of Historical Archaeology , 2020

American Antiquity, 1998

American Antiquity, 1996

Southwestern archaeologists have debated the nature of late Prehispanic western pueblo social organization for nearly a century. Weret he fiourteenth-century pueblos egalitarian or hierarchical? This issue remains unsettled largely because of the oppositional thinking that has informed most contributions to the debate: that is, the tendency to franze questions about Prehispanic sociopolitical organization in dichotomous "either-or" terms. We critique this approach to the problem and examine one of the most prominent controversies about Prehispanic social organization: the Grasshopper Pueblo-Chavez Pass controversy. We propose an alternative approach rooted in a dialectical epistemology, and a theory of social life that emphasizes the lived exper-ience of people. What impresses us most about late Prehispanic western social organization is not that it was egalitarian or hierarchical, but that it was both. We discuss how this basic contradiction between communal life and hierarchy was a major internal motor driving change in these pueblos.

Archaeologies, 2008

2006

American Antiquity, 1996

Southwestern archaeologists have debated the nature of late Prehispanic western pueblo social organization for nearly a century. Were the fourteenth-century pueblos egalitarian or hierarchical? This issue remains unsettled largely because of the oppositional thinking that has informed most contributions to the debate: that is, the tendency to frame questions about Prehispanic sociopolitical organization in dichotomous “either-or” terms. We critique this approach to the problem and examine one of the most prominent controversies about Prehispanic social organization: the Grasshopper Pueblo-Chavez Pass controversy. We propose an alternative approach rooted in a dialectical epistemology, and a theory of social life that emphasizes the lived experience of people. What impresses us most about late Prehispanic western social organization is not that it was egalitarian or hierarchical, but that it was both. We discuss how this basic contradiction between communal life and hierarchy was a m...

Hispanic American Historical Review, 2004

SensePublishers eBooks, 2017

2011

Chronological list of published books, journal articles, book chapters, essays, and reviews by E. Wayne Ross