Journal of the Southwest articles from September 1999

Journal of the Southwest archives from September 1999

Preface: BAE Anthropology, Its Roots and Legacy.
September 22, 1999... The papers in this issue were originally presented at the annual meetings of the Society for American Archaeology in Nashville (1997).(1) These were invited contributions to the symposium entitled "Scholars of the BAE: The Relevance of...

The Rise and Fall of the Bureau of American Ethnology.
September 22, 1999... BEGINNINGS The Smithsonian Institution, in which the Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE) was lodged administratively throughout its existence, was founded in 1846 after rancorous congressional debate about the relative merits of using James...

Linguistic Natural History: John Wesley Powell and the Classification of American Languages.
September 22, 1999... Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries natural history dominated those aspects of Western science devoted to the study of the place of mankind in nature. Under this philosophy, native peoples were considered to be a part of the...

BAE Scholars As Documenters of Diversity and Change at Hopi, 1870-1895.
September 22, 1999... Few Southwestern archaeologists have escaped the temptation of incorporating aspects of Hopi culture and society into models of prehistoric Pueblo social organization. The Hopi have figured prominently in archaeological and ethnographic...

Edward Palmer: Present before the Creation of Archaeological Stratigraphy and Associations, Formation Processes, and Ethnographic Analogy.
September 22, 1999... Dr. Edward Palmer (1830?-1911) was probably the first hired, and definitely one of the most active and productive, of the "field assistants" for the Mound Exploration Division of the Smithsonian's Bureau of Ethnology in the early 1880s. For...

Why Did the BAE Hire an Architect?
September 22, 1999... In the late summer of 1881, a newly hired architect began his field studies of Native American houses and "social arrangements" in the American Southwest for the recently created Bureau of Ethnology (later in 1894, the Bureau of American...

Life on the Margins: The Ethnographic Poetics of Frank Hamilton Cushing.
September 22, 1999... In his recent study of nineteenth-century American aesthetics, Facing Facts: Realism in American Thought and Culture, 1850-1920, cultural historian David Shi argues that in the years following the Civil War, a "mania for facts" replaced...

Ritual, Life Histories, and the Afterlives of People and Things.
September 22, 1999... The archaeological study of religion in North America and, more specifically, in the U.S. Southwest has waxed and waned over the last hundred years (Walker 1995). Episodes of heightened interest in ritual, religion, and ideology such as...

The Bureau of American Ethnology and Its Legacy to Southeastern Archaeology.
September 22, 1999... The Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE) enjoys a unique position in the archaeology of the Southeastern United States. Some of the more important figures connected with the bureau--Henry B. Collins, Winslow Walker, Gordon R. Willey, J. Walter...