P M Whiteley

Biographic Data

ID34843
NAMEP M Whiteley
GIVEN NAMESP M
FAMILY NAMEWhiteley
SIGNATUREWHITELEY P M
AFFILIATIONSAmerican Museum of Natural History
ORCID0000-0001-7439-8507
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS51
TOTAL CITATIONS183
AUTHOR COUNT51
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1982
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX7

  • Bringing Kinship Back into the House

    Open AccessP M WhiteleyARTICLECambridge Archaeological Journal2026

    Houses and unilineal descent groups have been treated as different types of social phenomena in socio-cultural anthropology, and as borrowed for analysis of households and settlements in archaeology. This paper contends that houses and lineages, especially those configured by Crow–Omaha kinship terminologies, are better considered as perspectival variants, reflecting differences that are fundamentally synchronic versus diachronic. Crow–Omaha syst…

  • Machine learning methods for isolating indigenous language catalog descriptions

    Open AccessYi Liu, Carrie Heitman et al.ARTICLEAI & Society2025

  • From Bac to Orayvi: The ethnographic entradas of Francisco Garcés, 1768–1776

    Open AccessP M WhiteleyARTICLEAnthropological Papers of the…2025

    From 1768–1776, Francisco Garcés, O.F.M., undertook a series of “entradas” (explorations) into Native nations and territories throughout modern Arizona, Sonora, and the Californias. Mostly alone in Native company, he was guided from one settlement to the next, learning interrelationships, languages, and aspects of traditional knowledge. Much of Garcés’s work is unavailable in translation, and extant publications (whether in transcription, transla…

  • The Colorado Delta, 1771-1776: Rereading Francisco Garcés

    P M WhiteleyARTICLEKIVA2024References: 12

    The ethnohistory of the Colorado River delta has been substantively misunderstood, owing to the widespread neglect and/or misinterpretations of the writings of Francisco Garcés. In 1771, 1774, and 1775–1776, Garcés undertook three entradas into the delta, and wrote a series of valuable ethnographic accounts. Not only have Garcés’s locations and routes frequently been misidentified by earlier scholars, his observations on agricultural production a…

  • The Colorado Delta, 1771-1776: Rereading Francisco Garcés

    P M WhiteleyARTICLEKIVA2024References: 10

    The ethnohistory of the Colorado River delta has been substantively misunderstood, owing to the widespread neglect and/or misinterpretations of the writings of Francisco Garcés. In 1771, 1774, and 1775–76, Garcés undertook three entradas into the delta, and wrote a series of valuable ethnographic accounts. Not only have Garcés’s locations and routes frequently been misidentified by earlier scholars, his observations on agricultural production and…

  • Trading Goods, Disseminating Knowledge: Indigenous Intercommunication across the Greater Southwest

    P M WhiteleyARTICLEJournal of Anthropological Research2023References: 6

    Native trade networks are well described for the Greater Southwest from the archaeological and ethnohistoric records: trade goods passed between the Pacific and the Rio Grande along established pathways. But were the goods—including abalone shells from the Chumash and blue woolen blankets from the Hopi—transacted in a blind series of material relays, or do they embody geographic and sociocultural knowledge that was actively intercommunicated? Acc…

  • The Making of an Ethnographic Film of the Hopi Snake Dance in August 1898: A Reconstruction from the Photographic and Textual Record

    Paul Henley, P M WhiteleyARTICLEVisual Anthropology2022Cited by: 1References: 10

    This article was prompted by a plate published in the foundational text, Principles of Visual Anthropology, which purports to show a film being made by Thomas Edison of the Snake Dance as performed in the Hopi village of Orayvi, Arizona, in August 1898. This footage is now lost but could still have been one of the first ethnographic films ever made—depending on how one defines “ethnographic.” Here, contesting its attribution to Edison, we seek to…

  • An Introduction to Vladimir A. Popov’s “Toward a Historical Typology of Kinship-Term Systems: The Crow and Omaha Types,” Translated by Anastasia Kalyuta

    Open AccessP M WhiteleyARTICLEKinship2021

    This is the first English translation of Vladimir A. Popov’s important 1977 article on Crow-Omaha kinship systems. Popov’s global comparison proposes an historical typology of these systems covariant with socio-evolutionary stages. His six subtypes are configured by the variable operation of bifurcation and linearity among G+1 and G0 kin-terms, with Popov suggesting three possible evolutionary trajectories. While directly addressing contemporary …

  • How Crow-Omaha Skewing Spreads

    P M Whiteley, Peter Whiteley et al.ARTICLEJournal of Anthropological Research2021Cited by: 1References: 63

    Crow-Omaha kinship systems skew kin terms intergenerationally. Although occurring worldwide, they are relatively infrequent and often exist in historically unrelated clusters: “similar inventions in areas widely apart” (per Boas). Most analyses have been formalist, evolutionist, or sociological. Here, adding some historical linguistics and focusing on the core kin-term equations via the ethnographic and ethnohistoric record of Indigenous Australi…

  • Archaeogenomic evidence reveals prehistoric matrilineal dynasty

    Open AccessD J Kennett, Plog et al.ARTICLENature Communications2017

    For societies with writing systems, hereditary leadership is documented as one of the hallmarks of early political complexity and governance. In contrast, it is unknown whether hereditary succession played a role in the early formation of prehistoric complex societies that lacked writing. Here we use an archaeogenomic approach to identify an elite matriline that persisted between 800 and 1130 CE in Chaco Canyon, the centre of an expansive prehist…

  • Dualism and Pluralism in Pueblo Kinship and Ritual Systems

    Open AccessP M WhiteleyARTICLEStructure and Dynamics eJournal…2016References: 14

    How do kinship and ritual systems articulate with patterns of social organization? Among the Pueblos of New Mexico and Arizona, social organization has been described as conforming to two opposing patterns. Among the Eastern Pueblos of the Rio Grande, especially the Tanoan-speaking towns north of Santa Fe, kinship is held to play a structurally insignificant role; social organization there, rather, pivots on ritual sodalities.” In the Western Pue…

  • Pueblo - tiwa Names: Hybrid Transmission in the Sprachbund

    P M Whiteley, David H Snow et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Southwest2015

    Pueblo -tiwa Names: Hybrid Transmission in the Sprachbund Peter M. Whiteley (bio) and David H. Snow (bio) Introduction The Pueblo Indians of the United States Southwest and their ascendants, the “Ancestral Pueblos” (formerly “Anasazi,” “Mogollon,” etc.), offer a rich field for the investigation of sociocultural evolution. Following the establishment of agriculture, Puebloan social formations developed over the last two millennia, with a rise and …

  • Francisco Garcés's 1775-1776 Diary and the Napac: A Further Inquiry

    P M WhiteleyARTICLEKIVA2015Cited by: 3References: 8

    This paper is a sequel to “Who Were the Napac?” (Whiteley, Peter M. 2011 Who Were the Napac? Decoding an Ethnohistorical Enigma. Kiva (77:59–86), which demonstrated how the term “Napac,” in the 1775–1776 diary of Francisco Garcés, has been misinterpreted as “Navajo.” “Napac” rather was shown to be a Havasupai reference to the San Francisco Peaks and to a Yavapai band seasonally resident there. The present paper examines additional manuscript copi…

  • Agential dialogue in the photo-ethnography of Edward S. Curtis

    Open AccessP M WhiteleyARTICLEDialectical Anthropology2015

  • Recording Toponyms to Document the Endangered Hopi Language

    Open AccessSaul L Hedquist, Stewart B Koyiyumptewa et al.ARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist2014Cited by: 14References: 20

    The toponyms of Hopitutskwa ("Hopi land") explicate Hopi history and culture. Place-names mark sacred locations, landforms associated with deities and historical events, springs, trails, and "footprints" of ancestral villages, petroglyphs, and other archaeological sites. The National Science Foundation funded a collaborative project to document the Hopi language by recording toponyms and associated narratives. Interviews with 15 Hopi individuals …

  • William Fenton: Selected Writings . William N. Fenton , William A. Starna , Jack Campisi

    P M WhiteleyARTICLEJournal of Anthropological Research2011

  • Response to David Hugh-Jones

    David Sanders, H Clarke et al.ARTICLEParliamentary Affairs2011Cited by: 1

  • Who Were the Napac? Decoding an Ethnohistorical Enigma

    P M WhiteleyARTICLEKIVA2011Cited by: 2References: 7

    This paper addresses the ethnology of northern and western Arizona, as recorded by Fray Francisco Garcés in 1775–1776. Several terms in Garcés’ diary have proven problematic for Southwest ethnohistory—especially Yabipai, Tejua, and Napac/Napao. It is argued that some key problems derive from the standard translation by Elliott Coues (1900). With a close reading of several manuscript and published versions of Garcés’ diary, and with the aid of now…

  • Ethnography

    P M Whiteley, Peter WhiteleyOTHERA Companion to the Anthropology…2004

    This chapter contains section titled: INTRODUCTION DISCOVERY THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES THE NINETEENTH CENTURY BEFORE MORGAN LEWIS HENRY MORGAN AND THE LEAGUE OF THE IROQUOIS SOCIAL EVOLUTIONISM THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY BOAS AND THE BOASIANS CULTURE AREAS RELATIVISM, CULTURE-AND-PERSONALITY, AND STRUCTURAL-FUNCTIONALISM ACTIVISM AND APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY ACCULTURATION STUDIES AND FURTHER POLICY CHANGES REVITALIZATION, RESISTA…

  • Social Formations in the Pueblo IV Southwest: An Ethnological View

    P M Whiteley, Peter WhiteleyCHAPTERProtohistoric Pueblo World, A. D.…2004

  • Why Anthropology Needs More History

    P M WhiteleyARTICLEJournal of Anthropological Research2004Cited by: 2References: 17

    Despite a recent turn toward "historical anthropology," anthropological explanation still tends to be predisposed to neglect or oppose a historical sensibility. This paper addresses how anthropological explanation can be enhanced by a more acute attention to history, in several dimensions. Those chosen concern: first, how a particular form of historical imagination reveals the hidden logic of a social order (the example is Hupa); second, the meth…

  • Bartering Pahos with the President

    P M WhiteleyARTICLEEthnohistory2004Cited by: 2References: 11

    In 1852, before they had received any visits from U.S. officials, the Hopi sent a diplomatic gift, composed of prayer-sticks, to President Millard Fillmore in Washington, dc. This article addresses both the cultural content and the social intent of this "gift," focusing on historical circumstances and ethnographic import. In seeking to transact with the president, the Hopi intent discloses a formal nexus among diplomacy,barter, and religious offe…

  • The State of Participation in Britain

    P M Whiteley, P WhiteleyARTICLEParliamentary Affairs2003Cited by: 7

    Journal Article The State of Participation in Britain Get access Paul Whiteley Paul Whiteley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 56, Issue 4, 1 October 2003, Pages 610–615, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsg105 Published: 01 October 2003

  • Leslie White's Hopi Ethnography: Of Practice and in Theory

    P M WhiteleyARTICLEJournal of Anthropological Research2003Cited by: 3

    Leslie White is known as one of the most important cultural theoreticians of the mid-twentieth century. However, his ethnography, on the Keresan pueblos, is generally treated as irrelevant to his general evolutionary theory and vice versa. This paper argues that White's little-known work among the Hopi, where he led the 1932 Laboratory of Anthropology Field Training Course in Ethnology, reflects a more active conjunction of theory with ethnograph…

  • Do "Language Rights" Serve Indigenous Interests? Some Hopi and Other Queries

    Open AccessP M Whiteley, Peter WhiteleyARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist2003Cited by: 41References: 40

    While valuable, the discourse of language rights neglects language use in cultural, social, and historical contexts. This article examines some implications of that neglect, especially vis-a-vis small-scale, indigenous, "oral" societies. Drawing principally on Hopi examples, I argue that language rights discourse rests on a reflexivization of language and culture enhanced by globalism. Now reified, language becomes an allegory of ethnic identity.…