Don E Dumond
Biographic Data
| ID | 81119 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Don E Dumond |
| GIVEN NAMES | Don E |
| FAMILY NAME | Dumond |
| SIGNATURE | DUMOND D E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oregon |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 56 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 234 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 56 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1961 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Eater of Dust
Eater of Dust Don Dumond1 It was cheering to Snake to find out that Girl, too, was unhappy. But he knew even then that there was an uncrossable gulf of difference between them, because she was respected by all the animals—if she had a noble soul, somebody would know it. But Snake was corned. “Ooh,” said Deer from the top of his long ridiculous legs. “You grovel in the dust!” And Deer ran off. “Ugh,” said Pig. “How abominable and dirty.” “How laug…
Taymyr
Fields of power, forests of discontent
Becoming Maya
Regarding Yucatán, says Wolfgang Gabbert, “government institutions, the press, and many scholars are firmly convinced that . . . the regional population consists of two main ethnic communities—the Maya Indians . . . and the descendants of the Spanish conquerors.” But this involves a “contradiction between self-identification and identity ascribed by others” (p. xi)—with “ethnicity” defined to encompass the first and “ethnic category” the second. …
Of Wonders and Wise Men
The separate chapters in this book, according to the author’s avowal, are fugitive pieces from the research that led to his earlier Yucatán’s Maya Peasantry and the Origins of the Caste War (Univ. of Texas Press, 1996). Presented as a composite sketch of salient aspects of Yucatecan popular culture during a 75-year time span, the discussions often arrive, in one way or another, at the Caste War, although the book by no means completely orbits aro…
Volcanism and History on the Northern Alaska Peninsula
Although research has addressed the distribution of prehistoric ethnic groups along the Alaska Peninsula, little effort has been devoted to understanding the effects attributable to massive volcanic eruptions in this volcano-ridden area. Following a suggestion that three volcanic ash deposits particularly well represented along Brooks River of the upper Naknek River drainage system represent deposition of ejecta from Aniakchak Volcano, 240 km to …
Maya Wars
The title of this work is misleading: although the first phrase seems to point to a series of separate conflicts, the book’s coverage is restricted to one war-torn Yucatecan century marked by the prolonged rebellion widely known as the Caste War. The “ethnographic accounts” of the subtitle suggests—at least to this anthropologist—a set of more or less dispassionate descriptions by outsiders, and this is not fully the case. Rugeley’s introduction …
Measurements of the Marine Reservoir Effect on Radiocarbon Ages in the Eastern Bering Sea
The marine reservoir effect is known to skew radiocarbon dating (marine samples appear "older" than terrestrial samples of equivalent age), but the magnitude of this effect is not the same in all locations. Carbon-14 age determinations from 23 paired samples of terrestrial and marine origin are presented for five areas around the northern and eastern Bering Sea. It appears statistically suitable to average the age differences for three pairs, wei…
Western Arctic Small Tool
Obituaries
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American beginnings
American beginnings
Pauqvik
Holocene prehistory of the northernmost north Pacific
Disease and the Development of Inuit Culture [and Comments and Reply]
Powers Which We Do Not Know
The Real People and the Children of Thunder
A Theory of Northern Athapaskan Prehistory . John W. Ives
The Inupiat and Arctic Alaska
Fertility, Mortality, and the Mean Age at Death
Nunivak Island Eskimo (Yuit) Technology and Material Culture, by James W. VanStone
Guilá Naquitz
Research in Population and Culture
A Reexamination of Eskimo-Aleut Prehistory
Linguistic, biological, and archeological data are reconciled to suggest the following: Northeast Asian peoples, Eskimo-Aleuts, and most Northwest Coast Indians are related through post-Pleistocene ancestors, some of whom were present in the New World before 8000 B.C. Speakers of ancestral Eskimo-Aleut languages probably began to appear in the New World only around 2500 B. C. Entering as two waves that were separated in time, they divided themsel…
Archeology
Holocene prehistory of the northernmost north Pacific
Are the Biological Differences Between North American Indians and Eskimos Truly Profound? [and Comments and Reply]
A prevailing view in North American anthropology is that Eskimos are descendants of the most recent migrants from Siberia and are more closely related to Asiatic Mongoloids than to Indians. The assumption of Eskimo-Indian biological distinctiveness is challenged by genetic-marker and cranial data, analyzed separately and then compared, for populations from the Arctic, Subarctic, Northwest Coast, and Great Plains. Genetic distances and cluster ana…
Population Growth and Cultural Change
Research in Population and Culture
A Reexamination of Eskimo-Aleut Prehistory
Linguistic, biological, and archeological data are reconciled to suggest the following: Northeast Asian peoples, Eskimo-Aleuts, and most Northwest Coast Indians are related through post-Pleistocene ancestors, some of whom were present in the New World before 8000 B.C. Speakers of ancestral Eskimo-Aleut languages probably began to appear in the New World only around 2500 B. C. Entering as two waves that were separated in time, they divided themsel…
The Talking Crosses of Yucatan
On Eskaleutian Linguistics, Archaeology, and Prehistory1
Science in Archaeology
The New Archaeology has been said to involve a new view of culture and a heightened appreciation of the way to do science. By way of examining these claims, a review is made of three well known studies in which archaeologists popularly assigned to that movement attempt to relate the distributions of archaeological materials to patterns of post-marital residence. One of the studies is found to be possibly successful, the others probably unsuccessf…
Toward a Prehistory of the Na-Dene, with a General Comment on Population Movements among Nomadic Hunters
C. E. Borden has hypothesized that ancestral speakers of Na-Dene spread from Alaska to the Pacific Northwest by 5000 B.C. Based upon distributions of language and artifacts, two additional hypotheses are added here: (1) Once established from Alaska through British Columbia, Na-Dene people provided the means for the spread of side-notched projectile blades from the continental United States to Alaska before 4000 B.C. (2) After the Hypsithermal a f…
Demographic Aspects of the Classic Period in Puebla-Tlaxcala
Although the Teotihuacán affinity of the Mexican Classic period center of Cholula has long been unmistakable, recent archaeological surveys have thrown into question the nature of Classic period occupation remains in the surrounding rural areas of Puebla-Tlaxcala. Survey data are reanalyzed, leading to the conclusion that the Classic period is represented in those hinterlands solely by Teotihuacán-style materials, even though this complex is surp…
Disease and the Development of Inuit Culture [and Comments and Reply]
Revisionist Anthropology
Anthropological discussions of North American Indians and archaeological interpretation of North American prehistory tend to be distorted by biases, some the "cant of conquest," others derived from the structuring principles of the European tradition. Tripartite schemata such as the Three-Age model and premises of oppositional dualism such as the contrast between primitive and civilized should be assumed to come from these structuring principles …
Differential Artistic Productivity in the Eskimo Cultural Tradition [and Comments and Reply]
Conditions of archaeological preservation along the Arctic coast of North America allow the recovery of objects of technology and plastic art throughout the past 4,000 years of the Eskimo cultural tradition. This situation provides a unique opportunity for approaching the question: Why is more and better art produced during certain periods in the history of a society, or, in this case, of a series of historically related societies, while at other…
Swidden Agriculture and the Rise of Maya Civilization
Some Uses of R-Mode Analysis in Archaeology
One kind of R-mode analysis, the examination of the co-occurrence of particular artifact classes across a number of collections, facilitates the identification of recurrent artifact clusters. Its use with proportional data, however, requires the safeguard of equalizing collection sizes, which in turn may necessitate the use of some statistic other than the product-moment coefficient of correlation. Two examples of R-mode analysis are given, both …
Blades and Cores in Oregon
Examination of material in the Oregon State Museum of Anthropology reveals two apparent cores and several blades among surface finds from the Northern Great Basin. Collections from excavations at The Dalles, on the Columbia River, contain cores and blades from levels radiocarbon dated at about 5900 B.C., and possible examples from earlier levels
Fertility, Mortality, and the Mean Age at Death
General and Theoretical
Competition, Cooperation, and the Folk Society
Critiques based on Redfield's analysis of peasant communities imply that societies with the characteristics of his ideal folk society do not exist. This paper argues that Tusik, the most isolated of the communities in Redfield's multi-community study in Yucatan, is a folk society in Redfield's sense and compares Tusik with Chan Kom, a peasant village in the same study. Although differences between them in internal social cohesion cannot be adequa…
Swidden Agriculture and the Rise of Maya Civilization
Blades and Cores in Oregon
Examination of material in the Oregon State Museum of Anthropology reveals two apparent cores and several blades among surface finds from the Northern Great Basin. Collections from excavations at The Dalles, on the Columbia River, contain cores and blades from levels radiocarbon dated at about 5900 B.C., and possible examples from earlier levels
A Practical Field Method for the Preservation of Soil Profiles from Archaeological Cuts
A method is presented by which sections of soil profiles are preserved through the use of liquid casein glue. The method may be used in most soils encountered by the archaeologist, and requires only materials frequently to be found in the archaeological field camp
On Eskaleutian Linguistics, Archaeology, and Prehistory1
Population Growth and Cultural Change
Studies in the Natural Radioactivity of Prehistoric Materials . Arthur J. Jelinek, James E. Fitting
Chugach Prehistory
Toward a Prehistory of the Na-Dene, with a General Comment on Population Movements among Nomadic Hunters
C. E. Borden has hypothesized that ancestral speakers of Na-Dene spread from Alaska to the Pacific Northwest by 5000 B.C. Based upon distributions of language and artifacts, two additional hypotheses are added here: (1) Once established from Alaska through British Columbia, Na-Dene people provided the means for the spread of side-notched projectile blades from the continental United States to Alaska before 4000 B.C. (2) After the Hypsithermal a f…
Archeology
Competition, Cooperation, and the Folk Society
Critiques based on Redfield's analysis of peasant communities imply that societies with the characteristics of his ideal folk society do not exist. This paper argues that Tusik, the most isolated of the communities in Redfield's multi-community study in Yucatan, is a folk society in Redfield's sense and compares Tusik with Chan Kom, a peasant village in the same study. Although differences between them in internal social cohesion cannot be adequa…
Historic Settlement Patterns in the Nushagak River Region, Alaska, by James W. VanStone
Archeology
Demographic Aspects of the Classic Period in Puebla-Tlaxcala
Although the Teotihuacán affinity of the Mexican Classic period center of Cholula has long been unmistakable, recent archaeological surveys have thrown into question the nature of Classic period occupation remains in the surrounding rural areas of Puebla-Tlaxcala. Survey data are reanalyzed, leading to the conclusion that the Classic period is represented in those hinterlands solely by Teotihuacán-style materials, even though this complex is surp…
Copper Eskimo Prehistory, by Robert McGhee
General and Theoretical
Ethnology
Some Uses of R-Mode Analysis in Archaeology
One kind of R-mode analysis, the examination of the co-occurrence of particular artifact classes across a number of collections, facilitates the identification of recurrent artifact clusters. Its use with proportional data, however, requires the safeguard of equalizing collection sizes, which in turn may necessitate the use of some statistic other than the product-moment coefficient of correlation. Two examples of R-mode analysis are given, both …
Archaeology
Differential Artistic Productivity in the Eskimo Cultural Tradition [and Comments and Reply]
Conditions of archaeological preservation along the Arctic coast of North America allow the recovery of objects of technology and plastic art throughout the past 4,000 years of the Eskimo cultural tradition. This situation provides a unique opportunity for approaching the question: Why is more and better art produced during certain periods in the history of a society, or, in this case, of a series of historically related societies, while at other…
Response to Zubrow
Science in Archaeology
The New Archaeology has been said to involve a new view of culture and a heightened appreciation of the way to do science. By way of examining these claims, a review is made of three well known studies in which archaeologists popularly assigned to that movement attempt to relate the distributions of archaeological materials to patterns of post-marital residence. One of the studies is found to be possibly successful, the others probably unsuccessf…
Are the Biological Differences Between North American Indians and Eskimos Truly Profound? [and Comments and Reply]
A prevailing view in North American anthropology is that Eskimos are descendants of the most recent migrants from Siberia and are more closely related to Asiatic Mongoloids than to Indians. The assumption of Eskimo-Indian biological distinctiveness is challenged by genetic-marker and cranial data, analyzed separately and then compared, for populations from the Arctic, Subarctic, Northwest Coast, and Great Plains. Genetic distances and cluster ana…
The Fundación Alemana and Proyecto Puebla Tlaxcala
In 1962, owing particularly to the efforts of the late Paul Kirchhoff-an anthropologist and ethnohistorian of German origin who settled in Mexico-a program of international cooperation in research was initiated; it has led to numerous publications, examples of which are under review here, and must lead to many more. In that year, the West German research foundation Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, or Fundaci6n Alemana para la Investigaci6n Cienti…
Demographic Anthropology
Archaeology
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