Society for American Archaeology Hohokam Political Ecology and Vulnerability: Comments on Waters and Ravesloot Author(s): Bradley E. Ensor, Marisa O. Ensor and Gregory W. De Vries Reviewed work(s): Source: American Antiquity, Vol. 68, No. 1 (Jan., 2003), pp. 169-181 Published by: Society for American Archaeology Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3557040 . Accessed: 04/10/2012 15:57 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
[email protected]. Society for American Archaeology is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to American Antiquity. http://www.jstor.org HOHOKAM POLITICAL ECOLOGY AND VULNERABILITY: COMMENTS ON WATERS AND RAVESLOOT Bradley E. Ensor, Marisa O. Ensor, and GregoryW. De Vries Watersand Ravesloot (2001) test the assumption that natural river channel change caused periods of Hohokamcultural reor- ganization. However, they conclude that channel changes did not correlate with all periods and areas of significant cultural changes and that landscape alone cannot explain Hohokamtransformations. An anthropologicalperspective on political ecol- ogy and disasters can explain why environmentalprocesses and events differentiallyimpact societies, differentiallyimpact soci- eties diachronically and differentially impact social groups within societies. Wesuggest that this perspective may explain the variability described by Watersand Ravesloot.