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title: Anasazi Architecture and American Design author: Price, V. B. publisher: University of New Mexico isbn10 | asin: 0826317790 print isbn13: 9780826317797 ebook isbn13: 9780585187280 language: English Pueblo architecture--Congresses, Pueblo philosophy--Congresses, Pueblo Indians-- subject Antiquities--Congresses, Southwest, New-- Antiquities--Congresses. publication date: 1997 lcc: E99.P9A48 1997eb ddc: 720/.979 Pueblo architecture--Congresses, Pueblo philosophy--Congresses, Pueblo Indians-- philosophy--Congresses, Pueblo Indians-- subject: Antiquities--Congresses, Southwest, New-- Antiquities--Congresses. Page iii Anasazi Architecture and American Design Edited by Baker H. Morrow and V. B. Price With a Foreword by Robert C. Heyder UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS Albuquerque Page iv © 1997 by the University of New Mexico Press All rights reserved. Second paperbound printing, 1998 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data applied for. Anasazi Architecture and American Design grew out of the Mesa Verde symposium on the Anasazi built environment, an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas involving historians, architects, archaeologists, urban planners and critics, and landscape architects held at Mesa Verde National Park 17-19 May 1991. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Anasazi architecture and American design / edited by Baker H. Morrow and V. B. Price ; with a foreword by Robert C. Heyder. 1st ed. p. cm. Results of a conference held at the Mesa Verde National Park in May 1991. Includes index. ISBN 0-8263-1778-2 (cloth). ISBN 0-8263-1779-0 (pbk.) 1. Pueblo architectureCongresses. 2. Pueblo philosophyCongresses. 3. Pueblo IndiansAntiquitiesCongresses. 4. Southwest, NewAntiquitiesCongresses. I. Morrow, Baker H., 1946-. II. Price, V. B. (Vincent Barrett) E99.P9A48 1997 720'.979dc20 96-25381 CIP To JoAnn, Susie, Hazel, Roz, Julie, and Tom. BHM For Rini, Jody and Amy, Keir and Kady, and Ryan and Talia, Chris and Cheryl, Marc and Jerri, Toria and Danae, Mary, Jim, Jackie, and D.O.D. Page vii The Anasazi are a reminder: Human life is fundamentally diverse and finally impenetrable. That we cannot do better than a crude reconstruction of their life . . . a thousand years ago is probably to our advantage, for it steers us away from presumption and judgment. Barry Lopez Page ix CONTENTS Acknowledgements Foreword xiii Robert C. Heyder Preface xv Baker H. Morrow and V B. Price Prologue 1 Baker H. Morrow Part One: Archaeology, Architecture, and the Anasazi 1 5 The Rhetoric of Formalism: Interpreting Anasazi Architecture J. J. Brody 2 16 The Changing Image of the Anasazi World in the American Imagination Richard Ellis Part Two: The Patterns of Settlement 3 27 Anasazi Communities in Context Stephen H. Lekson 4 36 Power and Efficiency in Eastern Anasazi Architecture: A Case of Multiple Evolutionary Trajectories David E. Stuart 5 53 A Planners' Primer: Lessons from Chaco Stephen D. Dent and Barbara Coleman 6 62 The Chacoan Roads: A Cosmological Interpretation Michael P Marshall Part Three: Stone and Mortar in the Service of the Imagination 7 77 Engineering Feats of the Anasazi: Buildings, Roads, and Dams Stephen D. Schreiber Page x 8 88 The Primary Architecture of the Chacoan Culture: A Cosmological Expression Anna Sofaer 9 133 High Noon in Old Bonito: Sun, Shadow, and the Geometry of the Chaco Complex John R. Stein, Judith E. Suiter, and Dabney Ford 10 149 Prehistoric Architecture with Unknown Function Ian Thompson, Mark Varien, and Susan Kenzle, with a Puebloan Perspective by Rina Swentzell 11 159 Notes on the Landscape Architecture of Anasazi Communities Baker H. Morrow Part Four: Regional Tradition And Architectural Meaning 12 171 Pueblo Indian and Spanish Town Planning in New Mexico: The Pueblo of Isleta Theodore S. Jojola 13 186 An Understated Sacredness Rina Swentzell 14 190 The Anasazi Revival V B. Price 15 204 Learning from Mesa Verde: A Case Study in the Modern Interpretation of Anasazi Design Anthony Anella 16 214 Anasazi-Pueblo Site Design: Application to Contemporary Urban Development Paul Lusk Epilogue 227 V B. Price Contributors 231 Index 233
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