Unpacking Personhood and Identity in the Hohokam Area of Southern Arizona
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Unpacking Personhood and Identity in the Hohokam Area of Southern Arizona Item Type text; Electronic Dissertation Authors Cerezo-Román, Jessica Inés Publisher The University of Arizona. Rights Copyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the University Libraries, University of Arizona. Further transmission, reproduction or presentation (such as public display or performance) of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author. Download date 25/09/2021 19:44:24 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/10150/312658 1 UNPACKING PERSONHOOD AND IDENTITY IN THE HOHOKAM AREA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA by Jessica Inés Cerezo-Román __________________________ Copyright © Jessica Inés Cerezo-Román 2013 A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the SCHOOL OF ANTHROPOLOGY In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY In the Graduate College THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA 2013 2 THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA GRADUATE COLLEGE As members of the Dissertation Committee, we certify that we have read the dissertation prepared by Jessica Inés Cerezo-Román, titled unpacking personhood and identity in the Hohokam area of southern Arizona and recommend that it be accepted as fulfilling the dissertation requirement for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy. _______________________________________________________________________ Date: (12/12/2013) Barbara J. Mills _______________________________________________________________________ Date: (12/12/2013) Jane Buikstra _______________________________________________________________________ Date: (12/12/2013) Suzanne Fish _______________________________________________________________________ Date: (12/12/2013) John McClelland _______________________________________________________________________ Date: (12/12/2013) Thomas Sheridan Final approval and acceptance of this dissertation is contingent upon the candidate’s submission of the final copies of the dissertation to the Graduate College. I hereby certify that I have read this dissertation prepared under my direction and recommend that it be accepted as fulfilling the dissertation requirement. ________________________________________________ Date: (12/12/2013) Dissertation Director: Barbara J. Mills 3 STATEMENT BY AUTHOR This dissertation has been submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for an advanced degree at the University of Arizona and is deposited in the University Library to be made available to borrowers under rules of the Library. Brief quotations from this dissertation are allowable without special permission, provided that an accurate acknowledgement of the source is made. Requests for permission for extended quotation from or reproduction of this manuscript in whole or in part may be granted by the copyright holder. SIGNED: Jessica Inés Cerezo-Román 4 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I am very grateful to my advisor Dr. Barbara Mills for her time, support, and advice. She has been a source of vital inspirations and a role model in my academic progress and intellectual development. She has supported me in developing my potential while encouraging my research growth. I would also like to thank my other committee members: Dr. Jane Buikstra, Dr. Suzanne Fish, Dr. John McClelland, and Dr. Tom Sheridan, for their valuable feedback and comments on this dissertation. I would like to thank Saul Hedquist for producing the maps for the different publications. I also would like to thank Katrien Van de Vijver, Elisabeth Cutright-Smith, Randy Haas, Jessica MacLellan, Jessica Munson, and Matthew Pailes for their valuable editorial assistance at different stages of the dissertation. Also I would like to thanks Saul Hedquist for producing the maps for this dissertation. Access to collections and materials were granted thanks to the support of Dr. Lane Beck, and Dr. James Watson, The Bioarchaeology Laboratory at the ASM, and Alan Ferg. I would also like to acknowledge the Tohono O'odham Nation, Henry Wallace, Deborah L. Swartz, Michael W. Lindeman, William H. Doelle, Desert Archaeology, Inc., Joe Ezzo, SWCA Environmental Consultants, and Michael Margolis for their support in accessing collections, data, and field notes. I appreciate the help of Dr. Greg Hodgins, The Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, the National Science Foundation, The University of Arizona (UA), Dr. Mark Van Strydonck, and the Carbon 14 dating laboratory staff from Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage, Brussels, for their support in dating the cremated remains from the Cerro de Trincheras site, Sonora, Mexico and Elisa Villalpando for access to this collection. Financial assistance was provided by the William Shirley Fulton Scholarship (School of Anthropology, UA), Raymond H. Thompson Endowment Research Award (Arizona State Museum, UA), and a National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant (Grant #: 1132395). I also am indebted to Dr. Thomas Fenn. He is my loving husband, and has supported me in every step of the way. His love, companionship and support were 5 invaluable. He inspires me to be both a better scholar and person. He inspires me to work and achieve high standards. I am grateful for his valuable suggestions and stimulating discussions at dinners and over drinks. He also inspired me to be better person and partner every day. 6 DEDICATION To my mother and father for their love and support. 7 TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF FIGURES ................................................................................................................... 11 LIST OF TABLES ..................................................................................................................... 12 ABSTRACT ............................................................................................................................... 14 CHAPTER ONE ........................................................................................................................ 16 Introduction ............................................................................................................................ 16 General Overview of Studies of Identity ............................................................................... 17 Processual Archaeology, Individual Identity, and Social Status ............................................ 18 The “Saxe-Binford” Approach and Post-Processual Critiques of Social Status Intersections ............................................................................................................................................... 24 Moving from Social Status to Other Aspects of Identity ....................................................... 28 Sex and Gender Intersections ................................................................................................. 31 Aging, Life Course, and Life Cycle ....................................................................................... 37 Ethnicity Identity Intersections .............................................................................................. 41 New Directions in Identity(ies) Research .............................................................................. 47 General Overview of Personhood Studies ............................................................................. 49 Mortuary Customs in the Southwest: Previous Studies, Review, and Critiques .................... 59 Dissertation Research ............................................................................................................. 68 Putting it All Together: Operationalizing Personhood and Intersecting Identities ................ 71 CHAPTER TWO: PRESENT STUDY.......................................................................................... 77 Unpacking Personhood and Intersecting Identities: Methods and Main Findings......................... 77 Materials and Methods ............................................................................................................... 77 Time Periods and Samples ..................................................................................................... 77 Human Skeletal Remains and Biological Profiles ................................................................. 79 Posthumous Treatment of the Body and Archaeological Context ......................................... 87 8 Associated Burial Objects ...................................................................................................... 95 Main Findings ............................................................................................................................ 97 Appendix A: Transformation by Fire: Changes in Funerary Customs from the Early Agricultural yo Preclassic Period among the Hohokam of Southern Arizona ....................... 97 Appendix B: Pathways to Personhood: Cremation as a Social Practice among the Tucson Basin Hohokam ...................................................................................................................... 98 Appendix C: Unpacking Personhood and Identity in the Hohokam Area of Southern Arizona ............................................................................................................................................. 101 CHAPTER 3: CONCLUSIONS .................................................................................................. 105 References ................................................................................................................................ 111 APPENDIX A PREFACE PAGE ...............................................................................................