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title	:	Anasazi Architecture and American Design
author	:	Price, V. B.
publisher	:	University of New Mexico
isbn10 | asin	:	0826317790
print isbn13	:	9780826317797
ebook isbn13	:	9780585187280
language	:	English
subject	Pueblo architecture--Congresses, Pueblo philosophy--Congresses, Pueblo Indians--Antiquities--Congresses, Southwest, New--Antiquities--Congresses.
publication date	:	1997
lcc	:	E99.P9A48 1997eb
ddc	:	720/.979
subject	:	Pueblo architecture--Congresses, Pueblo philosophy--Congresses, Pueblo Indians--Antiquities--Congresses, Southwest, New--Antiquities--Congresses.

Page iii Anasazi Architecture and American Design Edited by Baker H. Morrow and V. B. Price With a Foreword by Robert C. Heyder UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS Albuquerque

Page iv 1997 by the University of New Mexico Press All rights reserved. Second paperbound printing, 1998 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data applied for. Anasazi Architecture and American Design grew out of the Mesa Verde symposium on the Anasazi built environment, an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas involving historians, architects, archaeologists, urban planners and critics, and landscape architects held at Mesa Verde National Park 17-19 May 1991. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Anasazi architecture and American design / edited by Baker H. Morrow and V. B. Price ; with a foreword by Robert C. Heyder. 1st ed. p. cm. Results of a conference held at the Mesa Verde National Park in May 1991. Includes index. ISBN 0-8263-1778-2 (cloth). ISBN 0-8263-1779-0 (pbk.) 1. Pueblo architectureCongresses. 2. Pueblo philosophyCongresses. 3. Pueblo IndiansAntiquitiesCongresses. 4. Southwest, NewAntiquitiesCongresses. I. Morrow, Baker H., 1946-. II. Price, V. B. (Vincent Barrett) E99.P9A48 1997 720'.979dc20 96-25381 CIP

Page v To JoAnn, Susie, Hazel, Roz, Julie, and Tom.BHM For Rini, Jody and Amy, Keir and Kady, and Ryan and Talia, Chris and Cheryl, Marc and Jerri, Toria and Danae, Mary, Jim, Jackie, and D.O.D. VBP

Page vii The Anasazi are a reminder: Human life is fundamentally diverse and finally impenetrable. That we cannot do better than a crude reconstruction of their life... a thousand years ago is probably to our advantage, for it steers us away from presumption and judgment. Barry Lopez

Page ix CONTENTS Acknowledgements Foreword Robert C. Heyder xiii Preface Baker H. Morrow and V B. Price xv Prologue Baker H. Morrow 1 Part One: Archaeology, Architecture, and the Anasazi 1 The Rhetoric of Formalism: Interpreting Anasazi Architecture J. J. Brody 5 2 The Changing Image of the Anasazi World in the American Imagination Richard Ellis 16 Part Two: The Patterns of Settlement 3 Anasazi Communities in Context Stephen H. Lekson 27 4 Power and Efficiency in Eastern Anasazi Architecture: A Case of Multiple Evolutionary Trajectories David E. Stuart 36 5 A Planners' Primer: Lessons from Chaco Stephen D. Dent and Barbara Coleman 53 6 The Chacoan Roads: A Cosmological Interpretation Michael P Marshall 62 Part Three: Stone and Mortar in the Service of the Imagination 7 Engineering Feats of the Anasazi: Buildings, Roads, and Dams Stephen D. Schreiber 77

Page x 8 The Primary Architecture of the Chacoan Culture: A Cosmological Expression Anna Sofaer 88 9 High Noon in Old Bonito: Sun, Shadow, and the Geometry of the Chaco Complex John R. Stein, Judith E. Suiter, and Dabney Ford 133 10 Prehistoric Architecture with Unknown Function Ian Thompson, Mark Varien, and Susan Kenzle, with a Puebloan Perspective by Rina Swentzell 149 11 Notes on the Landscape Architecture of Anasazi Communities Baker H. Morrow 159 Part Four: Regional Tradition And Architectural Meaning 12 Pueblo Indian and Spanish Town Planning in New Mexico: The Pueblo of Isleta Theodore S. Jojola 171 13 An Understated Sacredness Rina Swentzell 186 14 The Anasazi Revival V B. Price 190

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