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| Anasazi America: Seventeen Centuries on the Road from Center Place | 
 enlarge | Author: David E. Stuart
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Category: Book
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Pages: 264
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 0.7
ISBN: 0826321798
Dewey Decimal Number: 978.982
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Publication Date: May 1, 2000
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| Customer Reviews:
 Serious Anasazi Interest October 17, 2001
17 out of 18 found this review helpful
The Anasazi America is a book which answers the request for *more detail* about the Anasazi of the Chaco Canyon region. Dr. Stuart writes with an engaging style while satisfying the thirst for knowledge and understanding about these not-so-ancient people. The book is full of referenced details. This material may be too much if this is your first book on the Anasazi unless you have already visited the ruins or share genetics with the Anasazi. If you have been lit on fire with a desire to know more, and if that fire is burning in your soul, then while you read this book you will thank Dr. Stuart and Susan Moczygema-McKinsey for their efforts in bringing so much research about the Anasazi into your hands!
 A Warning Out of the Dust of Time...... June 20, 2001
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
Far more than another "rise and fall" recounting of The Chaco Phenomenon--which has become commonplace--this book dispassionately weaves the archeological record into a literate, albeit highly readable 12-century story of the Anasazi, from their Paleo forebearers to their present-day Pueblo descendants. Nothing is especially new about that, either; what truly distinguishes this narrative from all the rest is its examination of the mistakes, the blind alleys taken along the way--and of the very real parallels that exist in 21st century America. For instance: the Chacoan system, as has ours, evolved into a precipitous divide between the very wealthy and very poor. The stabilizing ballast of a middle class fell to the wayside, unnoticed. A period of violent upheavel erupted--not unlike the French Revolution--or for that matter, whatever the Watts and Rodney King riots, and the Oklahoma City bombing might be foreshadowing--after which such architectural marvels as Pueblo Bonito and White House stood quiet and abandoned for centuries. Someday, so might The World Trade Center, to become yet another warning to succeeding generations.
A Warning Out of the Dust of Time...... June 20, 2001
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
Far more than another "rise and fall" recounting of The Chaco Phenomenon--which has become commonplace--this book dispassionately weaves the archeological record into a literate, albeit highly readable 12-century story of the Anasazi, from their Paleo forebearers to their present-day Pueblo descendants. Nothing is especially new about that, either; what truly distinguishes this narrative from all the rest is its examination of the mistakes, the blind alleys taken along the way--and of the very real parallels that exist in 21st century America. For instance: the Chacoan system, as has ours, evolved into a precipitous divide between the very wealthy and very poor. The stabilizing ballast of a middle class fell to the wayside, unnoticed. A period of violent upheavel erupted--not unlike the French Revolution--or for that matter, whatever the Watts and Rodney King riots, and the Oklahoma City bombing might be foreshadowing--after which such architectural marvels as Pueblo Bonito and White House stood quiet and abandoned for centuries. Someday, so might The World Trade Center, to become yet another warning to succeeding generations.
A superb written contribution to Native American studies January 24, 2001
22 out of 23 found this review helpful
At the height of their power in the late 11th Century, the Chaco Anasazi dominated a territory in the American Southwest that was larger than any European nation at the time. The Anasazi enjoyed a vast and powerful alliance of thousands of farming hamlets and nearly one hundred major towns integrated through economic and religious ties, with the whole system being interconnected with hundreds of miles of roads. It took the Anasazi more than seven centuries to lay the agricultural, organizational, and technological groundwork for the creation of classic Chacoan civilization. Only to have it last a mere two hundred years and completely collapse in 40 years. Anasazi America explains what such a great society collapsed, who survived the collapse, how they survived, and what useful lessons modern societies can draw from the Anasazi experience. Anasazi America is a superb written contribution to Native American studies and reading lists.
Fantastic review by Michael Adler in "SCIENCE" magazine November 28, 2000
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
"[David Stuart's]characterization of an emerging Chacoan elite is convincingly argued. These debates are far from over, but Stuart's contributions reach out with commendable clarity, backed by well-researched discussions of archaeological evidence and impressive endnotes. Perhaps the book's greatest contribution is a well-crafted dialogue that unites archaeology with our present world. ANASAZI AMERICA contrasts community conflit one thousand years ago with the bloodshed in Yugoslavia and Northern Ireland, making links that bring the Native American past into a tumultuous yet understandable present. Stuart relates the painful circumstances of high infant mortality among the ancestral Pueblo peoples to similarly devastating conditions in less economically developed parts of our own world. Stuart's depiction of the Chaco system as a failed experiment in power politics and overspecialized agricultural startegies is both compelling and correct. From a dry and dusty archaeology, Stuart crafts an understandable story that is depicted in a thought-provoking and contemporary context."--Michael Adler, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX. (c)2000 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science
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