Knihu nedodáme do Vánoc.
DORUČENÍ MŮŽETE OČEKÁVAT
VYZVEDNOUT SI MŮŽETE
Zadejte do formuláře e-mailovou adresu a jakmile knihu naskladníme, zašleme vám o tom zprávu. Pohlídáme vše za vás.
Nákupem získáte 261 bodů
Beginning sometime in the thirteenth century, people from the Hopi Mesas established a cluster of villages to the south along the Little Colorado River, attracted by the river's resources and the region's ideal conditions for growing cotton. By the late 1300s, these Homol'ovi villages were the center of a robust trade in cotton among many clusters of villages near or on the southern Colorado Plateau and were involved in the beginning of katsina religion.Charles Adams has directed fifteen years of research at these sites for the Arizona State Museum, including excavations in five of the seven primary Homol'ovi villages and in other villages predating them. Through this research he concludes that the founders of these settlements were Hopis who sought to protect their territory from migrating groups elsewhere in the Pueblo world. This book summarizes that research and broadens our understanding of the relationship of Homol'ovi to ancient and modern Hopi people.Each Homol'ovi village had a unique history of establishment, growth, sociopolitical organization, length of occupation, and abandonment; and although the villages shared much in the way of material culture, their size and configuration were tremendously varied. By comparing Homol'ovi research to information from projects on other settlements in the area, Adams has been able to reconstruct a provocative history of the Homol'ovi cluster that includes relationships among the individual villages and their relationships to nearby clusters. He shows that social organization within villages is apparent by the number and variety of ritual structures, while political organization among villages is indicated by the need for Cooperationto share water for irrigation and by the exchange of such materials as pottery, obsidian, and ground stone.Adams advances several important theories about why Homol'ovi was founded where and when it was, who its founders were, and the importance of cotton in making Homo
2614 KčVíce informací o nákupu knihy
Potřebujete pro rozhodnutí o koupi nahlédnout do stránek knihy? Rádi vám pomůžeme! Zadejte svůj e-mail a jakmile bude náhled do obsahu na stránkách k dispozici, zašleme vám zprávu.
Při objednávce knihy obdržíte aktuální výtisk časopisu, který jako jediný na českém trhu provádí nezávislé testy výrobků a služeb.Chci vědět více
Sleva pro studenty a učitele - držitele ISIC/ITIC/IYTC a ALIVE.
Můžete nám věřit - jsme držiteli několika prestižních certifikátů dlouhodobé zákaznické spokojenosti.
Osobní odběr Praha, Brno, Ostrava, Olomouc, Plzeň, ČB a 1153 dalších
Dobré na všech stránkách
Nákupní košík ( prázdný )