{"product_id":"connected-communities-matthew-a-peeples-9780816544721","title":"Connected Communities: Networks, Identity, and Social Change in the Ancient Cibola World","description":"The Cibola region on the Arizona-New Mexico border has fascinated archaeologists for more than a century. The region's core is recognized as the ancestral homeland of the contemporary Zuni people, and the area also spans boundaries between the Ancestral Puebloan and Mogollon culture areas. The complexity of cross-cutting regional and cultural designations makes this an ideal context within which to explore the relationship between identity and social change at broad regional scales. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eConnected Communities\u003c\/i\u003e, Matthew A. Peeples examines a period of dramatic social and political transformation in the ancient Cibola region (ca. A.D. 1150-1325). He analyzes archaeological data generated during a century of research through the lens of new and original social theories and methods focused on exploring identity, social networks, and social transformation. In so doing, he demonstrates the value of comparative, synthetic analysis. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The book addresses some of the oldest enduring questions in archaeology: How do large-scale social identities form? How do they change? How can we study such processes using material remains? Peeples approaches these questions using a new set of methods and models from the broader comparative social sciences (relational sociology and social networks) to track the trajectories of social groups in terms of both networks of interactions (relations) and expressions of similarity or difference (categories). He argues that archaeological research has too often conflated these different \u003ci\u003ekinds \u003c\/i\u003eof social identity and that this has hindered efforts to understand the drivers of social change. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In his strikingly original approach, Peeples combines massive amounts of new data and comparative explorations of contemporary social movements to provide new insights into how social identities formed and changed during this key period.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Matthew A. Peeples\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816544727\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816544721\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Arizona Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/09\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Matthew A. Peeples","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46747704852735,"sku":"9780816544721","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0748498e-924f-44c7-a12e-444722c8d03b.jpg?v=1743584487","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/connected-communities-matthew-a-peeples-9780816544721","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}