A Study of Southwestern Archaeology.

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Plan of the Last Book -- "What Do You Want Us to Do?" -- Choking on Chaco -- A Study of Southwestern Archaeology -- Notes on Terms -- Apparatuses, Albatrosses, Aphorisms -- 1. Chaco in the Twentieth Century -- In the Beginning, All the World Was America -- Glass Ceilings and Iron Curtains -- ¿Qué es Pueblo? -- Pueblo Mystique, Pueblo Style -- Hippies and Hopis -- The Tyranny of Ethnology -- Surveys of Chaco Canyon -- Scientism -- Law-like Statements: Land Claims and NAGPRA -- Ritual über Alles -- Getting the Southwest Wrong: Chaco in Pueblo Space -- 2. Chaco in the Twenty-First Century -- Nouveau Chaco -- Chaco, from Clinton to Bush to Obama, 2000-2015 -- Light-Bending Gravity of Pueblo Space versus Mind-Bending Anomaly of Chaco -- Bombs Away -- The Mystery of Chaco Canyon -- 3. A History of the Ancient Southwest -- Ten Fun Facts about Chaco -- What Was Chaco, Really? -- Chaco beyond Pueblo Space: Solving the Mystery -- 4. A Science of the Ancient Southwest -- Scale: They Needed Government -- Diffusion: They Had Models for Government -- States: They Applied Those Models -- Cities: They Built a Capital -- Cycles: They Collapsed -- The Science of Secondary City-States -- 5. An Appraisal of the Ancient Southwest -- Heritage, History, Science . . . and Anthropology -- Whose Heritage? -- Whose History? -- Whose Science? -- Who Is Our Audience? -- 6. A Future for the Ancient Southwest -- Theories of Everything -- Methods in the Madness -- Getting Our Swagger Back -- 7. The End -- Here's What I Want You to Do -- The Good -- The Bad -- The Ugly -- And So, Farewell . . . -- Appendix: Indigenous Chaco -- Notes -- References -- Index.

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