Pots, Parties, and Politics: Communal Feasting in the American Southwest
Pots, Parties, and Politics: Communal Feasting in the American Southwest
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锅、派对和政治：美国西南部的公共盛宴
DOI：
10.2307/2694531
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发表时间：
2000
影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
James M. Potter
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作者：
James M. Potter
从公元850年至今，集体宴请被评为西南北部的一种政治资源，从参与的规模和资金、发生的频率和结构以及所使用的资源三个方面进行了评估。宴席是一种反复出现的社会实践，它一直促进着西南社区的社会融合，但随着时间的推移，表现出了相当大的变化。在大约公元1275年之前，集体宴会似乎更多地是社区内部分化的来源，而不是在这个日期之后，那时宴会变成了真正的社区和一体化，就像今天在普埃布兰社区内一样。同时，宴请在规模上也变得跨社区，显然在较大集群内个别社区的仪式分化中发挥了作用。人们认为，宴请作用的这些变化与生态或环境变量关系不大，而是反映了当时整个西南部发生的普遍的文化、社会和宗教变化。
Communal feasting is evaluated as a political resource in the northern Southwest from A.D. 850 to present along three axes: scale of participation and finance, frequency and structure of occurrence, and the resources used. Feasting is a recurrent social practice that has consistently facilitated social integration within Southwest communities, but has shown considerable variation through time. Prior to about A.D. 1275 communal feasting appears to have been more of a source of differentiation within communities than it was after this date, when feasting became truly communal and integrative, as it is today within Puebloan communities. At the same time, feasting also became inter-communal in scale and apparently played a role in the ritual differentiation of individual communities within larger clusters. It is suggested that these changes in the role of feasting had little to do with ecological or environmental variables, but instead reflect the pervasive cultural, social, and religious changes that occurred at this time throughout the Southwest.