Sedentism and Mobility in a Social Landscape: Mesa Verde & Beyond

by Mark D. Varien

Research on hunting and gathering peoples has given anthropologists a long-standing conceptual framework of sedentism and mobility based on seasonality and ecological constraints. This work challenges that position by arguing that mobility is a socially negotiated activity and that neither mobility nor sedentism can be understood outside of its social context. Drawing on research in the Mesa Verde region that focuses on communities and households,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816519048
• ISBN13: 9780816519040
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.1"