D K Washburn
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 12944 |
|---|---|
| NOME | D K Washburn |
| PRENOMES | D K |
| SOBRENOME | Washburn |
| ASSINATURA | WASHBURN D K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9696-9101 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 200 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1974 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Monitoring Cultural Change through Ceramics from the Prehispanic Tarascan Region
In Mesoamerica ceramics are used to define spatial and chronological units of past social, political, and economic activities. Here we compare results on ceramics subjected to type-variety classification, INAA and thin-section petrography, and symmetry analysis of design structure. The samples are primarily from sites in the Lake Pátzcuaro and Zacapu Basins in central and northern Michoacán from the Late Preclassic to the Late Postclassic periods…
Cultural dimensions of symmetric pattern – an annotated bibliography of recent research
This bibliographic essay focuses on research that has explored symmetries of non-representational geometric pattern created in cultural contexts. I provide annotated discussions and full bibliographic citations of recent studies of symmetric patterns on tiling, textiles, basketry, ceramics, sculpture, architecture, and other materials. I describe studies that reveal how this focus on pattern structure as measured by geometric symmetries enhances …
Antecedents, Continuities, and Experimental Stages in a Design System
Symmetry analysis characterizes ∼1300 geometric designs on bowl interiors from five sites of the Mimbres culture tradition, AD 1000–1150, of southwestern New Mexico. The analysis reveals a distinct homogeneity in pattern structure and color on three layouts (pendant, centered and band) that, classified by plane pattern symmetries, shows a preference for four finite structures (C2, C4, D2, D4) and two one-dimensional structures (p112, pmm2) and a …
Comparative Analysis of Three Analytical Methodologies for Polychrome Design
Mesoamerican Antecedents of Sikyatki-Style Geometric Patterns on Textiles Depicted in Murals from the American Southwest
This paper uses plane pattern symmetries to describe the structural arrangement of motifs in Sikyatki-style patterns on textiles depicted in fourteenth and fifteenth century AD kiva murals from Awat'ovi and Kawaika'a in Arizona and Pottery Mound in New Mexico. The analysis reveals that these textiles have pattern structures in common with designs on textiles, ceramic artifacts, and architectural decorations in the Postclassic Mixteca-Puebla style…
Ritual Songs of the Cora of West Mexico and the Hopi of the American Southwest
Ritual Songs of the Cora of West Mexico and the Hopi of the American Southwest:Shared Ideas Related to Maize Agriculture Dorothy K. Washburn (bio) and Sophia Fast (bio) Introduction This paper presents a comparative study of the shared ideas voiced in ritual song texts created by two Uto-Aztecan-speaking cultural groups who follow a lifeway based on maize. The texts analyzed were collected at the turn of the 20th century among the Cora (Náyari) l…
Cognitive archaeology
This paper explores the role of symmetry in social relationships. Research from experimental psychology and neuroscience suggests that symmetry is a conceptual property that mediates between structures of the mind and its manifestation in structures of social behavior. Fiske (1991), Bolender (2010) and others have shown that sets of symmetrical social structures organize social relationships in all societies from simple, egalitarian communities t…
Chemical analysis of cacao residues in archaeological ceramics from North America
Symmetry Analysis of Hopi Yellow Wares
This paper analyzes the Hopi yellow ware design system in terms of the plane pattern symmetries that structure the designs. This analysis reveals that the advent of the yellow wares correlates with the aggregation of farming villages into large pueblos in response to the thirteenth-century drought. Coincident with this settlement change is a shift from geometric designs organized by bifold rotation that metaphorically represent the reciprocities …
Continuities and Changes in the Structure of Ceramic Design
This paper traces migration and social adaptation in the northern Ancestral Pueblo Southwest during the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries from the perspective of continuities and changes in the structure of ceramic design. During the Coalition period cultural continuities are recorded in the patterns and structures between McElmo B/W and Santa Fe B/W and between Mesa Verde B/W and Galisteo B/W. Migrants from the Four Corners initially continued m…
Cacao consumption during the 8th century at Alkali Ridge, southeastern Utah
Shared Image Metaphors of the Corn Lifeway in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest
The corn lifeway originated in Mesoamerica and spread throughout the Americas. Unresolved is the mechanism by which this lifeway entered the American Southwest. In this article I offer new kinds of evidence to support the argument that corn was brought north with migrating maize farmers (e.g., Carpenter et al. 2002; Matson 2002), in contrast to the prevailing view that corn diffused northward via a down-the-line, group-to-group process (e.g., Mer…
The prehistoric drug trade
A Design and Technological Study of Hatched Ceramics
This study addresses the relationship between two well-excavated Chacoan great houses in the Middle San Juan (MSJ), Aztec and Salmon, and great houses in Chaco Canyon. We examine a common ceramic database to ascertain whether technological features o f paste and temper in conjunction with a design symmetry analysis of patterns in the Chaco Design System (CDS) show evidence for an initial migration of Chacoan craftspeople north into the MSJ and la…
Pattern Symmetries of the Chaco Phenomenon
This study describes the symmetrical structure of hatched patterns in two ceramic types, Gallup Black-on-white and Chaco Black-on-white, made and used during the heyday of the Chaco network, A. D. 1050-1150. This design system represents a discontinuity in pattern, pattern formation, and structural symmetry from the previous decorative styles in the region. It consists of a limited repertoire of patterns formed by the continuous-line construction…
A Symmetry Analysis of Design Structure
This paper postulates that cultural entities with long term structural integrity are characterized by symmetrical relationships between and among the constituent sectors of society. We demonstrate how such social relationships are embedded in the symmetrical arrangements of motifs in geometric design. We test this premise with an analysis of 1000 years of ceramic design from the northern American Southwest, AD 600-1600, with a description of the …
As a Matter of Practice... Hopi Cosmology in Hopi Life
This paper illustrates how an untapped form of oral tradition—ritual song—embodies the principles of ritual belief and the practice of daily activities that are at the heart of native cosmologies. The authors contend that understanding how these principles shape and direct a people's lifeway can assist the archaeologist in theory formation and data interpretation
Nuvatukya'ovi, San Francisco Peaks
The recent legal battle between the U.S. Forest Service and 13 Native American tribes, including the Hopi, concerning the San Francisco Peaks constitutes a serious threat to fundamental religious beliefs that are representative of viable cultural practices. In this study, cultural meanings ascribed to the San Francisco Peaks (Nuvatukya'ovi) as expressed in Hopi verbal and visual arts are examined in an effort to clarify the sacred nature of the S…
Symmetry and Color Perspectives on Basketmaker Cultural Identities
Basketmaker basket designs have long been considered the model for the earliest black-on-white ceramic designs in the northern Southwest. This article explores this premise from the perspective of symmetry analysis. We compare the design systems used to decorate Basketmaker baskets and ceramic bowls, and conclude that although some elements are shared, Basketmaker III basket weavers and potters used different symmetrical layouts to decorate their…
They Go Along Singing
This article demonstrates how the cosmological metaphors in ritual song texts are an important but unrecognized resource in the repertoire of oral tradition that can be used to reconstruct past lifeways. We test this proposition with a study of 125 Hopi katsina song texts from the 20th century and show how the cosmological principles underlying the Hopi lifeway are embedded in special song word and phrase metaphors. Through the transcription and …
Remembering Things Seen
An Interactive Test of Color and Contour Perception by Artists and Non-Artists
The author explores Richard Latto's proposition that art com-municates effectively because art-ists manipulate basic features of form that the human perceptual system has evolved to detect. She offers an empirical test of the correlated proposition-that view-ers of art use these same fea-tures to assess art. The author presents the results of an experi-ment in which both artists and non-artists were asked to discern and draw shapes in patterns de…
Cartography in the Traditional African, American, Arctic, Australian, and Pacific Societies
Cartography in the Traditional African, American, Arctic, Australian, and Pacific Societies. David Woodward and G.Malcolm Lewis. eds. The History of Cartography. Volume 2. Book 3. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1998.662 pp
Mathematical Symmetries for Pattern Analysis
Perceptual Anthropology
In this paper, I advance the position that knowledge about the universals of form perceived by the visual system is fundamental to a theory of how art communicates. I focus on how the perceptual system uses the universal property of symmetry to recognize and classify form. I propose that the symmetries that structure design parts in non-representational geometric patterns metaphorically encode a culture's fundamental relationships about the world…
Structure and Cognition in Art
List of contributors 1. Towards a theory of structural style in art Dorothy K. Washburn 2. The structure of Tarascan pottery painting Margaret Ann Hardin 3. Recent Shapiro-Conibo ceramics and their implications for archaeological interpretation Donald W. Lathrap 4. Where two dimensions meet: the Kuba of Zaire Marie Jeanne Adams 5. Design structure and community organization in Quinua, Peru Dean E. Arnold 6. When the map is the territory: art in M…
Perceptual Anthropology
In this paper, I advance the position that knowledge about the universals of form perceived by the visual system is fundamental to a theory of how art communicates. I focus on how the perceptual system uses the universal property of symmetry to recognize and classify form. I propose that the symmetries that structure design parts in non-representational geometric patterns metaphorically encode a culture's fundamental relationships about the world…
They Go Along Singing
This article demonstrates how the cosmological metaphors in ritual song texts are an important but unrecognized resource in the repertoire of oral tradition that can be used to reconstruct past lifeways. We test this proposition with a study of 125 Hopi katsina song texts from the 20th century and show how the cosmological principles underlying the Hopi lifeway are embedded in special song word and phrase metaphors. Through the transcription and …
The prehistoric drug trade
Chemical analysis of cacao residues in archaeological ceramics from North America
Cartography in the Traditional African, American, Arctic, Australian, and Pacific Societies
Cartography in the Traditional African, American, Arctic, Australian, and Pacific Societies. David Woodward and G.Malcolm Lewis. eds. The History of Cartography. Volume 2. Book 3. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1998.662 pp
Continuities and Changes in the Structure of Ceramic Design
This paper traces migration and social adaptation in the northern Ancestral Pueblo Southwest during the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries from the perspective of continuities and changes in the structure of ceramic design. During the Coalition period cultural continuities are recorded in the patterns and structures between McElmo B/W and Santa Fe B/W and between Mesa Verde B/W and Galisteo B/W. Migrants from the Four Corners initially continued m…
Cacao consumption during the 8th century at Alkali Ridge, southeastern Utah
Remembering Things Seen
Shared Image Metaphors of the Corn Lifeway in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest
The corn lifeway originated in Mesoamerica and spread throughout the Americas. Unresolved is the mechanism by which this lifeway entered the American Southwest. In this article I offer new kinds of evidence to support the argument that corn was brought north with migrating maize farmers (e.g., Carpenter et al. 2002; Matson 2002), in contrast to the prevailing view that corn diffused northward via a down-the-line, group-to-group process (e.g., Mer…
Pattern Symmetries of the Chaco Phenomenon
This study describes the symmetrical structure of hatched patterns in two ceramic types, Gallup Black-on-white and Chaco Black-on-white, made and used during the heyday of the Chaco network, A. D. 1050-1150. This design system represents a discontinuity in pattern, pattern formation, and structural symmetry from the previous decorative styles in the region. It consists of a limited repertoire of patterns formed by the continuous-line construction…
A Symmetry Analysis of Design Structure
This paper postulates that cultural entities with long term structural integrity are characterized by symmetrical relationships between and among the constituent sectors of society. We demonstrate how such social relationships are embedded in the symmetrical arrangements of motifs in geometric design. We test this premise with an analysis of 1000 years of ceramic design from the northern American Southwest, AD 600-1600, with a description of the …
Nearest Neighbor Analysis of Pueblo I-III Settlement Patterns along the Rio Puerco of the East, New Mexico
Nearest neighbor analysis, a method which quantifies the deviation of a body of data from a random toward either a clustered or an anticlustered distribution, was utilized to study aspects of a settlement system. Data from a surface survey of 241 Pueblo I-III sites on the middle Rio Puerco of the East, New Mexico, corroborated the hypothesis of a direct correlation between house location and presence of arable land, assuming use of akchin farming…
A Design and Technological Study of Hatched Ceramics
This study addresses the relationship between two well-excavated Chacoan great houses in the Middle San Juan (MSJ), Aztec and Salmon, and great houses in Chaco Canyon. We examine a common ceramic database to ascertain whether technological features o f paste and temper in conjunction with a design symmetry analysis of patterns in the Chaco Design System (CDS) show evidence for an initial migration of Chacoan craftspeople north into the MSJ and la…
Nuvatukya'ovi, San Francisco Peaks
The recent legal battle between the U.S. Forest Service and 13 Native American tribes, including the Hopi, concerning the San Francisco Peaks constitutes a serious threat to fundamental religious beliefs that are representative of viable cultural practices. In this study, cultural meanings ascribed to the San Francisco Peaks (Nuvatukya'ovi) as expressed in Hopi verbal and visual arts are examined in an effort to clarify the sacred nature of the S…
Symmetry and Color Perspectives on Basketmaker Cultural Identities
Basketmaker basket designs have long been considered the model for the earliest black-on-white ceramic designs in the northern Southwest. This article explores this premise from the perspective of symmetry analysis. We compare the design systems used to decorate Basketmaker baskets and ceramic bowls, and conclude that although some elements are shared, Basketmaker III basket weavers and potters used different symmetrical layouts to decorate their…
Symmetries of Culture
Mesoamerican Antecedents of Sikyatki-Style Geometric Patterns on Textiles Depicted in Murals from the American Southwest
This paper uses plane pattern symmetries to describe the structural arrangement of motifs in Sikyatki-style patterns on textiles depicted in fourteenth and fifteenth century AD kiva murals from Awat'ovi and Kawaika'a in Arizona and Pottery Mound in New Mexico. The analysis reveals that these textiles have pattern structures in common with designs on textiles, ceramic artifacts, and architectural decorations in the Postclassic Mixteca-Puebla style…
Symmetry Analysis of Hopi Yellow Wares
This paper analyzes the Hopi yellow ware design system in terms of the plane pattern symmetries that structure the designs. This analysis reveals that the advent of the yellow wares correlates with the aggregation of farming villages into large pueblos in response to the thirteenth-century drought. Coincident with this settlement change is a shift from geometric designs organized by bifold rotation that metaphorically represent the reciprocities …
An Interactive Test of Color and Contour Perception by Artists and Non-Artists
The author explores Richard Latto's proposition that art com-municates effectively because art-ists manipulate basic features of form that the human perceptual system has evolved to detect. She offers an empirical test of the correlated proposition-that view-ers of art use these same fea-tures to assess art. The author presents the results of an experi-ment in which both artists and non-artists were asked to discern and draw shapes in patterns de…
Style, Classification and Ethnicity
Dorothy K. Washburn, Style, Classification and Ethnicity: Design Categories on Bakuba Raffia Cloth, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Vol. 80, No. 3 (1990), pp. i-xi+1-157
Nearest Neighbor Analysis of Pueblo I-III Settlement Patterns along the Rio Puerco of the East, New Mexico
Nearest neighbor analysis, a method which quantifies the deviation of a body of data from a random toward either a clustered or an anticlustered distribution, was utilized to study aspects of a settlement system. Data from a surface survey of 241 Pueblo I-III sites on the middle Rio Puerco of the East, New Mexico, corroborated the hypothesis of a direct correlation between house location and presence of arable land, assuming use of akchin farming…
A Study of the Red on Cream and Cream on Red Designs on Early Neolithic Ceramics from Nea Nikomedeia
Designs on Red on Cream and Cream on Red wares were reconstructed from sherds excavated from the Early Neolithic site of Nea Nikomedeia, Macedonia. Eight whole patterns (Classes A-H) and nineteen fragmentary patterns (Groups I-XIX) are described and illustrated
Hopi Kachina, Spirit of Life
Structure and Cognition in Art
List of contributors 1. Towards a theory of structural style in art Dorothy K. Washburn 2. The structure of Tarascan pottery painting Margaret Ann Hardin 3. Recent Shapiro-Conibo ceramics and their implications for archaeological interpretation Donald W. Lathrap 4. Where two dimensions meet: the Kuba of Zaire Marie Jeanne Adams 5. Design structure and community organization in Quinua, Peru Dean E. Arnold 6. When the map is the territory: art in M…
Symmetries of Culture
Style, Classification and Ethnicity
Dorothy K. Washburn, Style, Classification and Ethnicity: Design Categories on Bakuba Raffia Cloth, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Vol. 80, No. 3 (1990), pp. i-xi+1-157
Symmetries of Culture
Style, Classification, and Ethnicity
Putting types on the line
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Style, Classification and Ethnicity
The New Museology
The New Museology. Edited by Peter Vergo. London: Reaktion Books, 1989. 230pp., photographs, references, index. Distributed by University of Washington Press. $19.95
An ethnoarchaeological perspective on textile categories of identification and function
The User as Collector
Natural History of the Traditional Quilt
Mathematical Symmetries for Pattern Analysis
Perceptual Anthropology
In this paper, I advance the position that knowledge about the universals of form perceived by the visual system is fundamental to a theory of how art communicates. I focus on how the perceptual system uses the universal property of symmetry to recognize and classify form. I propose that the symmetries that structure design parts in non-representational geometric patterns metaphorically encode a culture's fundamental relationships about the world…
An Interactive Test of Color and Contour Perception by Artists and Non-Artists
The author explores Richard Latto's proposition that art com-municates effectively because art-ists manipulate basic features of form that the human perceptual system has evolved to detect. She offers an empirical test of the correlated proposition-that view-ers of art use these same fea-tures to assess art. The author presents the results of an experi-ment in which both artists and non-artists were asked to discern and draw shapes in patterns de…
Cartography in the Traditional African, American, Arctic, Australian, and Pacific Societies
Cartography in the Traditional African, American, Arctic, Australian, and Pacific Societies. David Woodward and G.Malcolm Lewis. eds. The History of Cartography. Volume 2. Book 3. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1998.662 pp
Remembering Things Seen
They Go Along Singing
This article demonstrates how the cosmological metaphors in ritual song texts are an important but unrecognized resource in the repertoire of oral tradition that can be used to reconstruct past lifeways. We test this proposition with a study of 125 Hopi katsina song texts from the 20th century and show how the cosmological principles underlying the Hopi lifeway are embedded in special song word and phrase metaphors. Through the transcription and …
Symmetry and Color Perspectives on Basketmaker Cultural Identities
Basketmaker basket designs have long been considered the model for the earliest black-on-white ceramic designs in the northern Southwest. This article explores this premise from the perspective of symmetry analysis. We compare the design systems used to decorate Basketmaker baskets and ceramic bowls, and conclude that although some elements are shared, Basketmaker III basket weavers and potters used different symmetrical layouts to decorate their…
As a Matter of Practice... Hopi Cosmology in Hopi Life
This paper illustrates how an untapped form of oral tradition—ritual song—embodies the principles of ritual belief and the practice of daily activities that are at the heart of native cosmologies. The authors contend that understanding how these principles shape and direct a people's lifeway can assist the archaeologist in theory formation and data interpretation
Nuvatukya'ovi, San Francisco Peaks
The recent legal battle between the U.S. Forest Service and 13 Native American tribes, including the Hopi, concerning the San Francisco Peaks constitutes a serious threat to fundamental religious beliefs that are representative of viable cultural practices. In this study, cultural meanings ascribed to the San Francisco Peaks (Nuvatukya'ovi) as expressed in Hopi verbal and visual arts are examined in an effort to clarify the sacred nature of the S…
A Symmetry Analysis of Design Structure
This paper postulates that cultural entities with long term structural integrity are characterized by symmetrical relationships between and among the constituent sectors of society. We demonstrate how such social relationships are embedded in the symmetrical arrangements of motifs in geometric design. We test this premise with an analysis of 1000 years of ceramic design from the northern American Southwest, AD 600-1600, with a description of the …
The prehistoric drug trade
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