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Ritual Ground - Bent's Old Fort, World Formation, and the Annexation of the Southwest (Paperback, New)
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Ritual Ground - Bent's Old Fort, World Formation, and the Annexation of the Southwest (Paperback, New)
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From about 1830 to 1849, Bent's Old Fort, located in present-day
Colorado on the Mountain Branch of the Santa Fe Trail, was the
largest trading post in the Southwest and the mountain-plains
region. Although the raw enterprise and improvisation that
characterized the American westward movement seem to have little to
do with ritual, Douglas Comer argues that the fort grew and
prospered because of ritual and that ritual shaped the subsequent
history of the region to an astonishing extent. At Bent's Old Fort,
rituals of trade, feasting, gaming, marriage, secret societies, and
war, as well as the 'calcified ritual' provided by the fort itself,
brought together and restructured Anglo, Hispanic, and American
Indian cultures. Comer sheds new light on this heretofore poorly
understood period in American history, building at the same time a
powerfully convincing case to demonstrate that the human world is
made through ritual. Comer gives his narrative an anthropological
and philosophical framework; the events at Bent's Old Fort provide
a compelling example not only of 'world formation' but of a world's
tragic collapse, culminating in the Sand Creek massacre. He also
calls attention to the reconstructed Bent's Old Fort on the site of
the original. Here visitors reenact history, staff work out
personal identities, and groups lobby for special versions of
history by ritual recasting of the past as the present.
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