Steadman Upham
Biographic Data
| ID | 109057 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steadman Upham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steadman |
| FAMILY NAME | Upham |
| SIGNATURE | UPHAM S |
| AFFILIATIONS | New Mexico State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 299 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
The Sociopolitical Structure of Prehistoric Southwestern Societies
Sociopolitical Structure of Prehistoric Southwestern Societies
East Meets West: Hierarchy and Elites in Pueblo Society
The original and preferred definition of the word refers to a body of religious officials ordered by rank and jurisdiction. Hierarchical societies are thus related to or controlled by a religious hierarchy. Ideas of political elites and sociopolitical hierarchies are often associated with Marxist anthropology, but such notions of political power can be found in the writings of the earliest social philosophers. Problems with the analogical framewo…
Political Hierarchies and Organizational Strategies in the Puebloan Southwest
This paper offers a new perspective for the study of prehistoric Pueblo political organization in the American Southwest. In reviewing salient developments in Puebloan archaeology over the last 20 years, we discuss shortcomings in previous studies that argued for either 'simple' or 'complex' societies without recognizing the potential for hierarchy and equality to coexist simultaneously in all human societies. An alternative approach is outlined …
Nomads of the Desert West: A shifting continuum in prehistory
A Hopi Social History: Anthropological Perspectives on Sociocultural Persistence and Change
Preface Part One. Persistence, Change, and History 1. Perspectives on Persistence and Change 2. The Western Pueblo and the Hopis Part Two. A Hopi Social History 3. Regional Abandonments and the Western Pueblo (A.D. 1450-1539) 4. Colonial Contact, Disease, and Population Decline in the Western Pueblo Region (A.D. 1540-1679) 5. Hopi Resistance to Subjugation and Change (A.D. 1680-1879) 6. Village Fission at Old Oraibi (A.D. 1880-1909) 7. Accommodat…
Orayvi Revisited: Social Stratification in an "Egalitarian" Society
Ten Years after: Adaptive Diversity and Southwestern Archaeology
Perspectives on Southwestern Prehistory . Paul E. Minnis and Charles L. Redman
A Hopi Social History
All anthropologists and archaeologists seek to answer basic questions about human beings and society. Why do people behave the way they do? Why do patterns in the behavior of individuals and groups sometimes persist for remarkable periods of time? Why do patterns in behavior sometimes change? A Hopi Social History explores these basic questions in a unique way. The discussion is constructed around a historically ordered series of case studies fro…
The Evolution of Political Systems: Sociopolitics in Small-Scale Sedentary Societies
The Sociopolitical Structure of Prehistoric Southwestern Societies
The Origin and Development of the Pueblo Katsina Cult
The Sociopolitical Structure of Prehistoric Southwestern Societies
The Evolution of political systems: Sociopolitics in Small-Scale Sedentary Societies
xxi, 310 p. : 24 cm
Toward Useful Clarification: Response to Paine
Paine's comments do not clarify problems with the data from Grasshopper. We maintain that the age/sex pyramid for the Grasshopper series remains problematical
Culture and Cultural Behavior: One More Time, Please
The comments by Reid and others demonstrate a continued failure to distinguish problems of a general theoretical nature from those concerns relating to specific interpretations of southwestern prehistory. We separate these issues here. We also suggest that confusion arises because there are important philosophical differences between our approaches
Archaeological Visibility and the Underclass of Southwestern Prehistory
Archaeologists interpreting the patterns of prehistory in the American Southwest have been influenced dramatically by the obtrusiveness of certain kinds of archaeological remains and by the remarkable record of continuity they suggest. Low-visibility archaeological remains and discontinuous developmental sequences have been accorded only minor significance in southwestern prehistory, in spite of the fact that occupational 'discontinuities' are ev…
Teaching Anthropology: Research, Students, and the Marketplace
During the past two decades the relevance of various academic disciplines to college students has changed dramatically. In part, this is related to changing sociopolitical and economic attitudes among students about what a college education means in today's world. Also at issue, however, are fundamental changes in the way particular disciplines have met the needs of students during the past twenty years. Anthropology is one discipline that has ex…
The Age and Evolutionary Significance of Southwestern Maiz de Ocho
Understanding the Disease History of the Southwest: A Reply to Reff
Functional Variability and Limited Activity Sites: The Real Message from Pitiful Flats
Obscuring Cultural Patterns in the Archaeological Record: A Discussion from Southwestern Archaeology
Failure to distinguish clearly between human behavior and cultural behavior, as well as inattention to procedures for evaluating inferences about the past, undermine some recent efforts in archaeological interpretation. Examples from the archaeological literature of the American Southwest show how analytical confusion may arise when research strategies obscure cultural variability. We are especially concerned about instances in which archaeologis…
Evidence Concerning the Origin of Maiz de Ocho
The Interpretation of Prehistoric Political Complexity in the Central and Northern Southwest: Toward a Mending of the Models
Archaeologists from two major research projects in central Arizona, the Grasshopper Project and the Chavez Pass Project, have investigated the processes of growth and abandonment of large masonry pueblos dating to the late periods of prehistory (ca. 1270 to 1425 A.C.). Results of this research have produced conflicting interpretations of prehistoric political development, in spite of the fact that many similar cultural processes have been identif…
Polities and power: An economic and political history of the western Pueblo
The Production Step Measure: An Ordinal Index of Labor Input in Ceramic Manufacture
We present the production step measure, an ordinal scale index of the labor input in ceramic manufacture. The measure is used to compare the relative labor costs of producing different kinds of pottery vessels. It is then employed in an analysis of archaeological ceramic samples from the Late Postclassic Valley of Oaxaca and the Reserve phase in the Pine Lawn Valley, New Mexico
Explaining Socially Determined Ceramic Distributions in the Prehistoric Plateau Southwest
We examine the process of political development in relation to selected social and economic variables in the plateau region of the American Southwest. We argue that political development was closely associated with strategies of agricultural intensification, surplus production, changes in the organization and management of labor, and expanding regional exchange. We draw supporting data from several settlement systems and attempt to demonstrate th…
Adaptive Diversity and Southwestern Abandonment
The abandonment of at least some regions of the Southwest during the late periods of prehistory is a recurrent theme in culture-historical reconstructions. This paper examines the issue of abandonments by using a model of adaptive diversity. Mobility and sedentism are argued to be basic and complementary adaptive strategies for many southwestern regions after A.D. 600. Archaeological data in support of the model are reviewed. I conclude that many…
Evidence Concerning the Origin of Maiz de Ocho
Political Hierarchies and Organizational Strategies in the Puebloan Southwest
This paper offers a new perspective for the study of prehistoric Pueblo political organization in the American Southwest. In reviewing salient developments in Puebloan archaeology over the last 20 years, we discuss shortcomings in previous studies that argued for either 'simple' or 'complex' societies without recognizing the potential for hierarchy and equality to coexist simultaneously in all human societies. An alternative approach is outlined …
Nomads of the Desert West: A shifting continuum in prehistory
Smallpox and Climate in the American Southwest
The Interpretation of Prehistoric Political Complexity in the Central and Northern Southwest: Toward a Mending of the Models
Archaeologists from two major research projects in central Arizona, the Grasshopper Project and the Chavez Pass Project, have investigated the processes of growth and abandonment of large masonry pueblos dating to the late periods of prehistory (ca. 1270 to 1425 A.C.). Results of this research have produced conflicting interpretations of prehistoric political development, in spite of the fact that many similar cultural processes have been identif…
Obscuring Cultural Patterns in the Archaeological Record: A Discussion from Southwestern Archaeology
Failure to distinguish clearly between human behavior and cultural behavior, as well as inattention to procedures for evaluating inferences about the past, undermine some recent efforts in archaeological interpretation. Examples from the archaeological literature of the American Southwest show how analytical confusion may arise when research strategies obscure cultural variability. We are especially concerned about instances in which archaeologis…
Archaeological Visibility and the Underclass of Southwestern Prehistory
Archaeologists interpreting the patterns of prehistory in the American Southwest have been influenced dramatically by the obtrusiveness of certain kinds of archaeological remains and by the remarkable record of continuity they suggest. Low-visibility archaeological remains and discontinuous developmental sequences have been accorded only minor significance in southwestern prehistory, in spite of the fact that occupational 'discontinuities' are ev…
The Origin and Development of the Pueblo Katsina Cult
Teaching Anthropology: Research, Students, and the Marketplace
During the past two decades the relevance of various academic disciplines to college students has changed dramatically. In part, this is related to changing sociopolitical and economic attitudes among students about what a college education means in today's world. Also at issue, however, are fundamental changes in the way particular disciplines have met the needs of students during the past twenty years. Anthropology is one discipline that has ex…
A Hopi Social History: Anthropological Perspectives on Sociocultural Persistence and Change
Preface Part One. Persistence, Change, and History 1. Perspectives on Persistence and Change 2. The Western Pueblo and the Hopis Part Two. A Hopi Social History 3. Regional Abandonments and the Western Pueblo (A.D. 1450-1539) 4. Colonial Contact, Disease, and Population Decline in the Western Pueblo Region (A.D. 1540-1679) 5. Hopi Resistance to Subjugation and Change (A.D. 1680-1879) 6. Village Fission at Old Oraibi (A.D. 1880-1909) 7. Accommodat…
The Age and Evolutionary Significance of Southwestern Maiz de Ocho
The Sociopolitical Structure of Prehistoric Southwestern Societies
Ten Years after: Adaptive Diversity and Southwestern Archaeology
The Sociopolitical Structure of Prehistoric Southwestern Societies
Culture and Cultural Behavior: One More Time, Please
The comments by Reid and others demonstrate a continued failure to distinguish problems of a general theoretical nature from those concerns relating to specific interpretations of southwestern prehistory. We separate these issues here. We also suggest that confusion arises because there are important philosophical differences between our approaches
Understanding the Disease History of the Southwest: A Reply to Reff
Functional Variability and Limited Activity Sites: The Real Message from Pitiful Flats
The Production Step Measure: An Ordinal Index of Labor Input in Ceramic Manufacture
We present the production step measure, an ordinal scale index of the labor input in ceramic manufacture. The measure is used to compare the relative labor costs of producing different kinds of pottery vessels. It is then employed in an analysis of archaeological ceramic samples from the Late Postclassic Valley of Oaxaca and the Reserve phase in the Pine Lawn Valley, New Mexico
Archaeology: Stylistic Variation in Prehistoric Ceramics: Design Analysis in the American Southwest , Stephen Plog
Explaining Socially Determined Ceramic Distributions in the Prehistoric Plateau Southwest
We examine the process of political development in relation to selected social and economic variables in the plateau region of the American Southwest. We argue that political development was closely associated with strategies of agricultural intensification, surplus production, changes in the organization and management of labor, and expanding regional exchange. We draw supporting data from several settlement systems and attempt to demonstrate th…
Polities and power: An economic and political history of the western Pueblo
Adaptive Diversity and Southwestern Abandonment
The abandonment of at least some regions of the Southwest during the late periods of prehistory is a recurrent theme in culture-historical reconstructions. This paper examines the issue of abandonments by using a model of adaptive diversity. Mobility and sedentism are argued to be basic and complementary adaptive strategies for many southwestern regions after A.D. 600. Archaeological data in support of the model are reviewed. I conclude that many…
The Interpretation of Prehistoric Political Complexity in the Central and Northern Southwest: Toward a Mending of the Models
Archaeologists from two major research projects in central Arizona, the Grasshopper Project and the Chavez Pass Project, have investigated the processes of growth and abandonment of large masonry pueblos dating to the late periods of prehistory (ca. 1270 to 1425 A.C.). Results of this research have produced conflicting interpretations of prehistoric political development, in spite of the fact that many similar cultural processes have been identif…
The Last Fifty Years: Transforming Southwestern Archaeology
INTRODUCTION\nI accepted the task of reviewing the three books sent to me by this journal because I felt it provided me with an opportunity to review research directions in Southwestern archaeology during the last fifty years. Such an undertaking (and I use the term loosely) may signal my departure from the ranks of more rational colleagues, who may suspect that I have finally slipped over the edge into the abyss reserved for those whose only rem…
Smallpox and Climate in the American Southwest
Understanding the Disease History of the Southwest: A Reply to Reff
Functional Variability and Limited Activity Sites: The Real Message from Pitiful Flats
Obscuring Cultural Patterns in the Archaeological Record: A Discussion from Southwestern Archaeology
Failure to distinguish clearly between human behavior and cultural behavior, as well as inattention to procedures for evaluating inferences about the past, undermine some recent efforts in archaeological interpretation. Examples from the archaeological literature of the American Southwest show how analytical confusion may arise when research strategies obscure cultural variability. We are especially concerned about instances in which archaeologis…
Evidence Concerning the Origin of Maiz de Ocho
Archaeological Visibility and the Underclass of Southwestern Prehistory
Archaeologists interpreting the patterns of prehistory in the American Southwest have been influenced dramatically by the obtrusiveness of certain kinds of archaeological remains and by the remarkable record of continuity they suggest. Low-visibility archaeological remains and discontinuous developmental sequences have been accorded only minor significance in southwestern prehistory, in spite of the fact that occupational 'discontinuities' are ev…
Teaching Anthropology: Research, Students, and the Marketplace
During the past two decades the relevance of various academic disciplines to college students has changed dramatically. In part, this is related to changing sociopolitical and economic attitudes among students about what a college education means in today's world. Also at issue, however, are fundamental changes in the way particular disciplines have met the needs of students during the past twenty years. Anthropology is one discipline that has ex…
The Age and Evolutionary Significance of Southwestern Maiz de Ocho
Toward Useful Clarification: Response to Paine
Paine's comments do not clarify problems with the data from Grasshopper. We maintain that the age/sex pyramid for the Grasshopper series remains problematical
Culture and Cultural Behavior: One More Time, Please
The comments by Reid and others demonstrate a continued failure to distinguish problems of a general theoretical nature from those concerns relating to specific interpretations of southwestern prehistory. We separate these issues here. We also suggest that confusion arises because there are important philosophical differences between our approaches
The Evolution of political systems: Sociopolitics in Small-Scale Sedentary Societies
xxi, 310 p. : 24 cm
The Sociopolitical Structure of Prehistoric Southwestern Societies
Perspectives on Southwestern Prehistory . Paul E. Minnis and Charles L. Redman
A Hopi Social History
All anthropologists and archaeologists seek to answer basic questions about human beings and society. Why do people behave the way they do? Why do patterns in the behavior of individuals and groups sometimes persist for remarkable periods of time? Why do patterns in behavior sometimes change? A Hopi Social History explores these basic questions in a unique way. The discussion is constructed around a historically ordered series of case studies fro…
The Evolution of Political Systems: Sociopolitics in Small-Scale Sedentary Societies
The Sociopolitical Structure of Prehistoric Southwestern Societies
The Origin and Development of the Pueblo Katsina Cult
Nomads of the Desert West: A shifting continuum in prehistory
History (24 works) · Archaeology (20 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (16 works) · Geography (16 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Anthropology (11 works) · History (11 works) · Prehistory (11 works) · Archaeology and Natural History (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works)