C M Cameron
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 899 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | C M Cameron |
| NOMBRES | C M |
| APELLIDO | Cameron |
| FIRMA | CAMERON C M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Colorado Boulder |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2337-7591 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 61 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 365 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 61 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1977 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Realist Review on Just Transition Towards Low Emission, Climate Resilient and More Inclusive Societies in Developing Countries
Just transition describes the transformation towards greener, more inclusive, and more resilient economies and societies. This realist review provides a rigorous summary of global evidence on interventions targeting outcomes contributing towards a just transition in developing countries, spanning energy, agriculture and food, infrastructure, and ecosystem services. We found common enablers for just transition interventions across all or most sect…
Captives Were Migrants Too
Captives were a common type of migrant in small-scale societies in the past, yet they have been almost completely ignored by archaeologists. This article emphasizes that captive taking had significant effects on the composition and cultural practices of ancient societies, and that models typically used to understand ancient migration are inappropriate for understanding the movement of captives. The movement of captives across the boundaries of an…
Boundaries to Cross
Not just disease
Here we revisit the decline of Indigenous populations of North America by using the concept of perceived risk. We argue that the root cause behind Indigenous depopulation in North America was not the lack of immunological defenses against novel pathogens introduced to the New World from the Old World, a hypothesis known as “Virgin Soil.” Certainly many Indigenous people died of disease, but so did many Euro-American colonizers. The populations of…
Recommendations for Safety Education and Training for Graduate Students Directing Field Projects
Graduate schools provide students opportunities for fieldwork and training in archaeological methods and theory, but they often overlook instruction in field safety and well-being. We suggest that more explicit guidance on how to conduct safe fieldwork will improve the overall success of student-led projects and prepare students to direct safe and successful fieldwork programs as professionals. In this article, we draw on the experiences of curre…
Pueblo Bonito
Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
Unsettling Mobility
Michelle A. Lelièvre’s aptly titled Unsettling Mobility characterizes human movement as far more than simply relocating from one place to another. Instead movement can emplace people on the lands across which they move and mediate social, political, and economic relations among diverse users of a landscape. This new take on mobility is developed here around a detailed study of the Mi’kmaw people, an indigenous group occupying the northeast shore …
How far from Chaco to Orayvi? Quantifying inequality among Pueblo households
Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
Pueblo Bonito
Introduction
Movement and Migration
Movement is a fundamental concept among Native peoples of the American Southwest, and early archaeologists adopted a strong interest in migration from Native groups with whom they interacted. Over the past two decades, southwest archaeologists have made significant contributions to method and theory in migration studies, including ways of identifying migrants as they move across the landscape, the ways in which migrants interact with Indigenous r…
The Variability of the Human Experience
Archaeologists often characterize small scale societies as egalitarian and uniform. We tend to see the experiences of the people who made up these societies as similar. I argue instead that most small scale societies contained people of a variety of statuses, including those whose social position was marginal. I examine one such category of social person, captives, who were common in small scale societies worldwide. I suggest that their lives cou…
Crossing Comb Ridge
Understanding how the Chaco regional system operated requires examining the social networks maintained by great house communities during both the peak and decline ofChaco's influence. We used neutron activation analysis (NAA) of pottery, kiln wasters, and clays from three great house communities in southeast Utah (Bluff, Cottonwood Wash, and Comb Wash) to examine pottery production and the interaction networks of their residents. West of Comb Rid…
How People Moved among Ancient Societies
Archaeologists have made great strides in understanding prehistoric migration, yet they have tended to focus on only part of the continuum of human movement. In nonstate societies, individuals and groups moved frequently across social and environmental boundaries for a range of reasons. Although archaeologists are well aware of the fluid nature of social boundaries, we are only beginning to use this knowledge to understand human movement. I use e…
Vital Enemies
Book Review| October 01 2011 Vital Enemies: Slavery, Predation, and the Amerindian Political Economy of Life Vital Enemies: Slavery, Predation, and the Amerindian Political Economy of Life. By Santos-Granero, Fernando. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009. $24.95 paper.) Catherine M. Cameron Catherine M. Cameron Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (4): 746–748. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-133…
Captives and Culture Change
Captives were found in societies of all social levels throughout much of history and prehistory. They were frequently women, and they could be potent agents of culture change. In some societies they entered a highly stigmatized slave class, while in others they might be fully incorporated into the society of their captors. Regardless of their social position, captives played an important role in the transmission of cultural practices and ultimate…
The unnatural history of heritage
Heritage sites abound and the types of sites have expanded in the past 50 years. The essay reviews the variety of circumstances that would produce what might be called a ‘heritage consciousness’ in a group or in a nation. This is first considered in the West, then internationally. While the will to preserve appears to have become an entrenched core value throughout the world, the question is, how permanent is the heritage impulse? Will heritage a…
Beyond Sun, Sand and Sea
Mass tourism began in the Caribbean in the 1960s with the advent of low cost air travel. Jamaica, Barbados, and the Bahamas were among the first places to develop a resort-based tourism programme. Within 20 years, these locations began to experience the problems that are now typically associated with unplanned growth. For emergent tourist destinations, these older islands can serve as a model of what not to do. One location that has taken some le…
The Marketing of Heritage
History and Process in Village Formation
Two processes characterize the later precontact history (twelfth-fourteenth centuries) of the northern part of the American Southwest: aggregation of people into large towns and depopulation of large regions. These processes have been explained as the result of environmental, economic, and social factors, including drought and warfare. Using a theoretical perspective based on Pauketat's 'historical processualism,' we argue that aggregation and de…
Earthen Architecture at the Bluff Great House Site in SE Utah
An earthen terrace has been identified at Bluff Great House, a Chacoan site located in SE Utah. The Bluff site was part of the Chacoan regional system that operated in the northern part of the American Southwest between about A.D. 900 and 1150 and was focused on Chaco Canyon in NW New Mexico. Several types of earthen structures have been identified at great houses in Chaco Canyon and throughout its region, usually associated with the construction…
Long term health outcomes after injury in working age adults
Background: Estimating the contribution of non-fatal injury outcomes remains a considerable challenge and is one of the most difficult components of burden of disease analysis. The aim of this systematic review was to quantify the effect of being injured compared with not being injured on morbidity and health service use (HSU) in working age adults. Methods: Studies were selected that were population based, had long term health outcomes measured,…
Pit Structure Abandonment in the Four Corners Region of the American Southwest
How People Moved among Ancient Societies
Archaeologists have made great strides in understanding prehistoric migration, yet they have tended to focus on only part of the continuum of human movement. In nonstate societies, individuals and groups moved frequently across social and environmental boundaries for a range of reasons. Although archaeologists are well aware of the fluid nature of social boundaries, we are only beginning to use this knowledge to understand human movement. I use e…
Pink Chert, Projectile Points, and the Chacoan Regional System
The most unusual aspect of chipped stone in Chaco Canyon is that materials were imported from a considerable distance but used almost exclusively as informal flake tools. Narbona Pass chert from the Chuska Mountains, 75 km away, is the most common nonlocal material found during the Chacoan Era (A.D. 900-1150). There are relatively few number of formal tools found in the Canyon, primarily projectile points, and a significant number of these do not…
Captives and Culture Change
Captives were found in societies of all social levels throughout much of history and prehistory. They were frequently women, and they could be potent agents of culture change. In some societies they entered a highly stigmatized slave class, while in others they might be fully incorporated into the society of their captors. Regardless of their social position, captives played an important role in the transmission of cultural practices and ultimate…
Courtship American Style
This study investigated an increasing social phenomenon-newspaper advertising for dating or marital partners-in terms of the bargaining process involved. Content analysis of personal ads in a popular respectable singles newspaper revealed a pattern of offers and requests reminiscent of a heterosexual stock market. Exchange theory provided a theoretica! context for analyzing the personal ads. Findings confirmed expectations that advertisers sought…
History and Process in Village Formation
Two processes characterize the later precontact history (twelfth-fourteenth centuries) of the northern part of the American Southwest: aggregation of people into large towns and depopulation of large regions. These processes have been explained as the result of environmental, economic, and social factors, including drought and warfare. Using a theoretical perspective based on Pauketat's 'historical processualism,' we argue that aggregation and de…
The Effect of Varying Estimates of Pit Structure Use-Life on Prehistoric Population Estimates in the American Southwest
To accurately estimate prehistoric population in the American Southwest, the number of contemporaneously occupied structures must be known. A key variable in this equation is the length of time structures were occupied. Ethnographic and technological data are used to show that pit structures in the Southwest have far shorter use-lives than has traditionally been attributed to them. Inflated estimates of pit structure use-life result in overestima…
Battlefield Pilgrims at Gettysburg National Military Park
Historic battlefields provoke broad range of responses from visitors. This article reports on the reasons people give visiting Gettysburg National Military Park and the perceptions and images they have of the park. The meanings that Gettysburg has people are varied and in some cases highly affective. The research provides empirical support the suggestion of other studies that sometimes battlefield visitors begin as tourists, but then are transfor…
Deciphering the Organization of Production in Chaco Canyon
This special section of American Antiquity contains 9 papers that address the organization of production in Chaco Canyon during the height of the 'Chaco Phenomenon,' a regional system that covered the northern part of the American Southwest between A.D. 900 and 1150. These papers are part of an effort to synthesize the National Park Service's Chaco Project, a large-scale research project undertaken during the 1970s and early 1980s. Our introducto…
Excursions into the Un-Remembered Past
CATHERINE M. CAMERON received her Ph.D. in 1982 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is an anthropologist specializing in tourism studies and expressive culture, particularly twentieth-century American experimental music. Since 1983, she has taught at Cedar Crest College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where she is an associate professor in the Department of Social Sciences. For the past fifteen years, Dr. Cameron has been studyin…
Sacred Earthen Architecture in the Northern Southwest
This article reports on the excavation of a 'berm'-an earthen mound that surrounds the Bluff Great House in southeastern Utah. Comparisons are made to Chacoan-era (A.D. 850-1150) great house mounds in Chaco Canyon and to other berms and mounds at great houses throughout the Chacoan region. Great house mounds in Chaco Canyon and berms outside Chaco Canyon are assumed to have been ritual architecture, and continuity in the use of mounded earth and …
Emergent Industrial Heritage
Pit Structure Abandonment in the Four Corners Region of the American Southwest
Anasazi pit structures dating to the Basketmaker III and Pueblo I periods (ca. A.C. 500 to 900) in the Four Corners region of the American Southwest experienced a variety of different processes at abandonment, ranging from dismantling the superstructure to intentional burning. Data from 88 pit structures are used to examine the relationship between these processes and the causes of pit structure abandonment. Results suggest that burning was not u…
How far from Chaco to Orayvi? Quantifying inequality among Pueblo households
Seeking Numinous Experiences in the Unremembered Past
While increasing numbers of people are visiting historical sites and museums, the reasons for those visits are not well understood. An exploratory survey concerning what Americans want from their visits to such sites discovered that many tourists are motivated by more than information- or pleasure-seeking. Some indicated a quest for a deeper experience at heritage sites and a desire to make a personal connection with the people and spirit of earl…
The Marketing of Tradition
ALTHOUGH THE CONCEPT OF TRADITION is commonplace in social science, it has not received much analytic attention. This paper reviews some of the recent literature on tradition, focusing on two issues: how traditions are created, and their economic and social values. The points raised are illustrated with reference to several instances of tradition making in American high and popular culture and through an extended case study of an urban music fest…
Vital Enemies
Book Review| October 01 2011 Vital Enemies: Slavery, Predation, and the Amerindian Political Economy of Life Vital Enemies: Slavery, Predation, and the Amerindian Political Economy of Life. By Santos-Granero, Fernando. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009. $24.95 paper.) Catherine M. Cameron Catherine M. Cameron Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (4): 746–748. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-133…
The unnatural history of heritage
Heritage sites abound and the types of sites have expanded in the past 50 years. The essay reviews the variety of circumstances that would produce what might be called a ‘heritage consciousness’ in a group or in a nation. This is first considered in the West, then internationally. While the will to preserve appears to have become an entrenched core value throughout the world, the question is, how permanent is the heritage impulse? Will heritage a…
Beyond Sun, Sand and Sea
Mass tourism began in the Caribbean in the 1960s with the advent of low cost air travel. Jamaica, Barbados, and the Bahamas were among the first places to develop a resort-based tourism programme. Within 20 years, these locations began to experience the problems that are now typically associated with unplanned growth. For emergent tourist destinations, these older islands can serve as a model of what not to do. One location that has taken some le…
Exploring Archaeological Cultures in the Northern Southwest
Chaco and Mesa Verde were defined as archaeological cultures by Kidder in his 1927 synthesis of Southwestern prehistory and have been used since then as if they represented geographically and temporally bounded social units. This becomes especially problematic for understanding the role of the northern San Juan region in the Chacoan regional system and the nature of social formations after the Chacoan system ended. Recent studies of the formation…
An analysis of residential patterns and the Oraibi split
Earthen Architecture at the Bluff Great House Site in SE Utah
An earthen terrace has been identified at Bluff Great House, a Chacoan site located in SE Utah. The Bluff site was part of the Chacoan regional system that operated in the northern part of the American Southwest between about A.D. 900 and 1150 and was focused on Chaco Canyon in NW New Mexico. Several types of earthen structures have been identified at great houses in Chaco Canyon and throughout its region, usually associated with the construction…
The Architecture of Arroyo Hondo Pueblo, New Mexico
Cultural Tourism and Urban Revitalization
Many old industrial cities of the United States are in an economic decline, facing high unemployment, an eroding tax base, and in some cases, fiscal collapse. Responses to this situation range from 11th hour labour concessions to attempts to attract newer forms of light industry. An interesting alternative response is the transformation of inner city cores from sites that are merely old to time with “historical significance.” This paper chronicle…
Patronage and Artistic Change
This article considers the causal relationship between types of cultural financing and the way styles develop, with a focus on the case of recent American experimental music. While this music developed in the early decades of the 20th century, it did not effloresce until the decades after World War II. It is argued that the ensuing stylistic diversity was encouraged by the general and unrestrictive financing available during this time, especially…
Fighting with Words
In the past few decades, there has been an explosion of literature concerning the changes taking place in American art music. In many cases, this literature is the work of the very people who are making those changes, the composers of new music. Much of their commentary is written in a manifesto style reminiscent of avant-garde movements of the early twentieth century. The dominant topic concerns the changes composers feel are needed to revolutio…
Courtship American Style
This study investigated an increasing social phenomenon-newspaper advertising for dating or marital partners-in terms of the bargaining process involved. Content analysis of personal ads in a popular respectable singles newspaper revealed a pattern of offers and requests reminiscent of a heterosexual stock market. Exchange theory provided a theoretica! context for analyzing the personal ads. Findings confirmed expectations that advertisers sought…
Fighting with Words
In the past few decades, there has been an explosion of literature concerning the changes taking place in American art music. In many cases, this literature is the work of the very people who are making those changes, the composers of new music. Much of their commentary is written in a manifesto style reminiscent of avant-garde movements of the early twentieth century. The dominant topic concerns the changes composers feel are needed to revolutio…
The Marketing of Tradition
ALTHOUGH THE CONCEPT OF TRADITION is commonplace in social science, it has not received much analytic attention. This paper reviews some of the recent literature on tradition, focusing on two issues: how traditions are created, and their economic and social values. The points raised are illustrated with reference to several instances of tradition making in American high and popular culture and through an extended case study of an urban music fest…
Cultural Tourism and Urban Revitalization
Many old industrial cities of the United States are in an economic decline, facing high unemployment, an eroding tax base, and in some cases, fiscal collapse. Responses to this situation range from 11th hour labour concessions to attempts to attract newer forms of light industry. An interesting alternative response is the transformation of inner city cores from sites that are merely old to time with “historical significance.” This paper chronicle…
Book Notes
Problems in Determing the Audience Composition of a Multi-Day Festival from Survey Data
Patronage and Artistic Change
This article considers the causal relationship between types of cultural financing and the way styles develop, with a focus on the case of recent American experimental music. While this music developed in the early decades of the 20th century, it did not effloresce until the decades after World War II. It is argued that the ensuing stylistic diversity was encouraged by the general and unrestrictive financing available during this time, especially…
Pit Structure Abandonment in the Four Corners Region of the American Southwest
Anasazi pit structures dating to the Basketmaker III and Pueblo I periods (ca. A.C. 500 to 900) in the Four Corners region of the American Southwest experienced a variety of different processes at abandonment, ranging from dismantling the superstructure to intentional burning. Data from 88 pit structures are used to examine the relationship between these processes and the causes of pit structure abandonment. Results suggest that burning was not u…
The Effect of Varying Estimates of Pit Structure Use-Life on Prehistoric Population Estimates in the American Southwest
To accurately estimate prehistoric population in the American Southwest, the number of contemporaneously occupied structures must be known. A key variable in this equation is the length of time structures were occupied. Ethnographic and technological data are used to show that pit structures in the Southwest have far shorter use-lives than has traditionally been attributed to them. Inflated estimates of pit structure use-life result in overestima…
Avant-gardism as a Mode of Culture Change
The New Arts Industry
Arts and cultural organizations have traditionally been regarded as shoe-string operations, run by those long on enthusiasm and commitment, but short on business sense and organizational skills. While this image may once have been based on fact, it is less and less the case. In recent years, arts groups have had to professionalize their operations and adopt business principles to survive. This paper reports on continuing research being conducted …
World Music, Politics and Social Change
An analysis of residential patterns and the Oraibi split
Abandonment and archaeological interpretation
Abandonment conjures up images of catastrophe, mass migration, and environmental crisis. Archaeologists are not immune to the “disaster movie” mind set. Most archaeological studies of abandonment have focused on either the regional exodus (the abandonment of the Four Corners Region of the American Southwest at AD 1300) or spectacular cases of rapid abandonment (Pompeii). Since about 1970, abandonment has been increasingly recognized as a normal p…
The Abandonment of Settlements and Regions
All archaeological sites have been abandoned, but people abandoned sites in many different ways, and for different reasons. What they did when leaving a settlement, structure, or activity area had a direct effect on the kind and quality of the cultural remains entering the archaeological record - for example, whether tools were removed, destroyed, or buried in the ground, and building structures dismantled or left standing. This book examines aba…
The Authentic Interior
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, a city whose economy was once based exclusively on steel production and heavy manufacture, is now developing its historical and cultural amenities and is marketing itself as a tourist destination. This paper explores the basis of the city's appeal to visitors with an examination of one of the major tourist events, the annual Christmas program. The research suggests that visitors are lured by Bethlehem's small town charm a…
Response to Feraca
The Architecture of Arroyo Hondo Pueblo, New Mexico
Abandonment of Settlements and Regional Ethnoarchaeological Approaches
The Abandonment of Chaco Canyon, the Mesa Verde Migrations, and the Reorganization of the Pueblo World
Migration and the Movement of Southwestern Peoples
Abandonments of Settlements and Regions
Village Spaces
Ground-penetrating Radar Techniques and Three-dimensional Computer Mapping in the American Southwest
New techniques of ground-penetrating radar (GPR) acquisition and computer processing were tested at archaeological sites in the American Southwest and found to be highly effective in producing images of buried archaeological features. These new methods, especially amplitude slice-maps, were combined with more standard data processing and interpretation techniques and tested at sites with little or no surface expression. In southern Arizona, numer…
The Not-So-New Social History at Colonial Williamsburg
Richard Handler and Eric Gable The New History in an Old Museum. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997. 235 pp
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