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"How did Southwestern peoples subsist in the arid reaches of the Great Basin? When and why did violence erupt in the Mesa Verde region? Who were the Fremont people? How do some Hopis view Chaco Canyon? These are a few of the topics addressed in Living the Ancient Southwest. The essayists in this new highly-illustrated anthology also write about the beauty and originality of Mimbres pottery, the rock art in Canyon de Chelly, the history of the Wupatki Navajos, and O'odham songs describing ancient trails to the Pacific Coast. The anthropologist-writers in this book will enlighten readers on a variety of subjects relating to the deep history and culture of the American Southwest"--Provided by publisher

Intro -- Other Books by This Author -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: A World with Women -- One: Mothers, Daughters, Sisters, Wives -- Two: Revivals -- Part Two: A World Without Women -- Three: Saints: The Ascent of Clerical Asceticism -- Four: Fathers: Patristic Anxiety to Papal Agenda -- Five: Brothers: The Militarization of Monasticism -- Six: Priests: The Monasticization of the Church -- Seven: Bachelors: The Scholastic Cloister -- Part Three: Science -- Eight: Revelation in Nature -- Nine: The Scientific Restoration -- Ten: Women in a World Without Women -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Permissions Acknowledgments -- A Note About the Author.

part PART ONE: COMMAND AND CONTROL -- chapter 1 The Setting: The War Abroad -- chapter 2 The Setting: The War at Home -- chapter 3 Power and the Power of Ideas -- chapter 4 Toward the Automatic Factory -- part PART TWO: SOCIAL CHOICE IN MACHINE DESIGN -- chapter 5 By the Numbers I -- chapter 6 By the Numbers II -- chapter 7 The Road Not Taken -- part PART THREE: A NEW INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: CHANGE WITHOUT CHANGE -- chapter 8 Development: A Free Lunch -- chapter 9 Diffusion: A Glimpse of Reality -- chapter 10 Deployment: Power in Numbers -- chapter 11 Who's Running the Shop?.

The birth and death of American history -- Historians leaving home, killing fathers -- The crisis of American literary criticism from World War I to World War II -- Elegies for the national landscape -- The new literary criticism : the death of the nation born in New England -- The vanishing national landscape : painting, architecture, music, and philosophy in the early twentieth century -- The disintegration of national boundaries : literary criticism in the late twentieth century -- The end of American history.