University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Anthropology Faculty Publications Anthropology, Department of 2006 Kinship and the Dynamics of the House: Rediscovering Dualism in the Pueblo Past Carrie Heitman University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
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[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/anthropologyfacpub Part of the Archaeological Anthropology Commons Heitman, Carrie and Plog, Stephen, "Kinship and the Dynamics of the House: Rediscovering Dualism in the Pueblo Past" (2006). Anthropology Faculty Publications. 76. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/anthropologyfacpub/76 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Anthropology, Department of at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Anthropology Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Catalyst 04 9/13/05 10:31 AM Page 69 In A Catalyst for Ideas: Anthropological Archaeology and the Legacy of Douglas W. Schwartz, edited by Vernon Scarborough, pp. 69-100. School of American Research Press, Santa Fe. 4 Kinship and the Dynamics of the House Rediscovering Dualism in the Pueblo Past Carolyn Heitman and Stephen Plog Even if we grant that the Keresans came from the San Juan [Basin]— which I am inclined to believe since it is their own tradition—this does not rule out the possibility that they came equipped with moieties as well as clans and the rest. The Anasazi peoples practiced irrigation and built huge communal houses. Chaco towns have two large Kivas. It is not impos- sible that a moiety system was some sort of response to these conditions.