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The Role of Ritual Variability in Social Negotiations of Early Communities: Great Kiva Homogeneity and Heterogeneity in the Mogollon Region of the North American Southwest

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Patricia A. Gilman  and
Tammy Stone
Patricia A. Gilman
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019 (pgilman@ou.edu)
Tammy Stone
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO 80217 (tammy.stone@ucdenver.edu))
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Abstract

Religion and religious buildings play critical roles in the social negotiations that surround early village formation. Although religion and the buildings or spaces that house concomitant ceremonies may certainly serve to bring people together under a unified creed, ritual activities also provide settings that people can manipulate to their own ends. Great Kivas appear to have been a major locus of supra-family rituals in the Mogollon area from A.D.1 to 1000. We examine Great Kiva architecture and feature variability across three major areas and three time periods to understand the degree to which there was similarity in ritual practice across the region. The patterns of variation suggest that people took opportunities to make such buildings more individual and more responsive to a family’s or small group’s particular purposes.

Resumen

Resumen

La religión y las estructuras religiosas juegan un papel fundamental dentro de las negociaciones sociales durante la formación temprana de aldeas. Aunque la religión y las estructuras o espacios religiosos en donde se llevan acabo las ceremonias, sirven para unificar a la comunidad dentro de un mismo credo, también proveen un contexto en donde la gente puede manipular hacia sus propios intereses las actividades religiosas. Las Grandes Kivas parecen haber sido el lugar principal para la realización de rituales supra-familiare s en el área Mogollon del 1 al 1,000 d.C. Se examinó la variabilidad arquitectónica y de elementos en las Grandes Kivas a lo largo de tres áreas principales y durante tres periodos cronológicos, para entender el grado de similitud en las prácticas religiosas de la región. También, los patrones de variabilidad sugieren que las personas tomaron la oportunidad de realizar estas estructuras más individuales y más representativas de una familia o con el objetivo particular de un grupo pequeño.

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American Antiquity , Volume 78 , Issue 4 , October 2013 , pp. 607 - 623
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 2014

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