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Reading the Body contains current research about the body -both
physical remains and artistic representations - from sites all over
the world ranging from the European Upper Paleolithic to the Pueblo
societies of the recent past.'
In central New Mexico, tourists admire the majestic ruins of old
Spanish churches and historic pueblos at Abo, Quarai, and Gran
Quivira in Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument. The
less-imposing remains of the earliest Indian farming settlements,
however, have not attracted nearly as much notice from visitors or
from professional archaeologists. In "Constructing Community,"
Alison E. Rautman synthesizes over twenty years of research about
this little-known period of early sedentary villages in the Salinas
region.
Rautman tackles a very broad topic: how archaeologists use material
evidence to infer and imagine how people lived in the past, how
they coped with everyday decisions and tensions, and how they
created a sense of themselves and their place in the world. Using
several different lines of evidence, she reconstructs what life was
like for the Ancestral Pueblo people of Salinas, and identifies
some of the specific strategies that they used to develop and
sustain their villages over time.
Examining evidence of each site's construction and developing
spatial layout, Rautman traces changes in community organization
across the architectural transitions from pithouses to jacal
structures to unit pueblos, and finally to plaza-oriented pueblos.
She finds that, in contrast to some other areas of the American
Southwest, early villagers in Salinas repeatedly managed their
built environment to emphasize the coherence and unity of the
village as a whole. In this way, she argues, people in early
farming villages across the Salinas region actively constructed and
sustained a sense of social community.
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