Sacred Southwestern Landscapes

Aaron M. Wright is a preservation anthropologist with Archaeology Southwest. His collaborative work with Tribal communities has been recognized with commendations from the Arizona Governor's Archaeology Advisory Commission and the American Rock Art Research Association. He is coeditor of Leaving Mesa Verde: Peril and Change in the Thirteenth-Century Southwest and author of the award-winning Religion on the Rocks: Hohokam Rock Art, Ritual Practice, and Social Transformation.

List of Figures List of Tables Preface Chapter 1: Southwestern Landscapes, Archaeology, and Religious Ecology: An Introduction to an Intersection by Aaron M. Wright Part I: The Southern Southwest Chapter 2: Bringing the Landscape Home: The Materiality of Placemaking and Pilgrimage in Jornada and Mimbres Mogollon Settlement by Myles R. Miller Chapter 3: Envisioning Natural and Built Environments as Sacred Landscapes in Ancient Casas Grandes, Mexico by Michael T. Searcy, Todd Pitezel, Steve Swanson, and Scott M. Ure Chapter 4: Horizon Events: A Semiosis of Hohokam Attachments to the Liminal and Distant by Aaron M. Wright and Henry D. Wallace Chapter 5: Sacred Places and Rock Art Sites in the Sonoran Desert: Defining Common Patterns by Julio Amador Bech Chapter 6: An Ecology of the Patayan-Yuman Dreamland by Aaron M. Wright, Lorey Cachora, and Nathalie O. Brusgaard Part II: The Northern Southwest Chapter 7: Making a Homeland: Navajo Landscapes and Power Moving Around by Polly Schaafsma and William B. Tsosie Chapter 8: Timber Importation as Pilgrimage to Chaco Canyon by Sean Field Chapter 9: Places of Reference: Metonymy in Pueblo Landscapes by Barry Price Steinbrecher, Maren P. Hopkins, Octavius Seowtewa, and Paul Tosa Chapter 10: Through Tewa Eyes? Exploring the Universality and Duality of Doings in Pueblo Cultural Landscapes by Samuel Duwe and Kurt F. Anschuetz Chapter 11: Negotiating Inscription and Experience in the Sacred Landscapes of Seventeenth-Century New Mexico by Mark T. Lycett and Phillip O. Leckman Chapter 12: Procession and Sacred Landscape among Hispanic Catholics in New Mexico by Sylvia RodrIguez Chapter 13: Land of Re-enchantment: The Archaeology of Esotericism in New Mexico by Darryl Wilkinson and Severin Fowles Part III: Commentary Chapter 14: The Ladder of Inference Reconceptualized as a MOEbius Strip: Reflections on Southwestern Cultural Landscapes by Kurt F. Anschuetz Afterword: Archaeology, Religion, and Ecology by John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker Appendix A: Federally Recognized Religious Places Names for Landscape Features in the Southwest References List of Contributors Index

"In Sacred Southwestern Landscapes archaeologists, historians, and their Indigenous collaborators examine how inhabitants of what today is the Mexican Northwest and U.S. Southwest have interacted with the landscape and the role that landscape played in religious practices."-Jakob W. Sedig, Mogollon Communal Spaces and Places in the Greater American Southwest