Arizona's First Sacred Site: The Mystique of the Casa Grande, 1848-1889

According to these speculative histories, the prehistoric Moundbuilders of the Ohio and Mississippi River valleys were presumed to have been peaceful agriculturalists and reluctant fighters who, after fierce and bloody conflicts, had been driven from the country by aggressive, nomadic warriors. &quo...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Bilingual review 2000-05, Vol.25 (2), p.129-145
Hauptverfasser: Hinsley, Curtis M., Wilcox, David R.
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:According to these speculative histories, the prehistoric Moundbuilders of the Ohio and Mississippi River valleys were presumed to have been peaceful agriculturalists and reluctant fighters who, after fierce and bloody conflicts, had been driven from the country by aggressive, nomadic warriors. "19 In the decades following American acquisition of the Arizona Territory, something of this nature was apparently occurring with the Casa Grande: the great house was accruing power as a morally and historically charged place and it was doing so through a public, discursive process of textual accrual and elaboration. [...]the 187Os this Casa Grande discourse still belonged, as it always had, to observers who were just passing through, and it was still directed primarily to metropolitan audiences many miles away. [...]from the 187Os onward, a local layer of interest became part of the continuing national scientific debate over the place of the great house in Arizona's prehistory. Since the ruins happened to lie on public lands, Gushing intended to move camp there, begin his excavations, and then leave a member of the expedition on the site to "improve" it through irrigation and cultivation-thereby establishing a potential legal claim.
ISSN:0094-5366
2327-624X