{"product_id":"becoming-white-clay-a-history-and-archaeology-of-jicarilla-apache-enclavement-9781647691523","title":"Becoming White Clay: A History and Archaeology of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe story of one of the longest-lived and most successful  nomadic enclaves in North America provides a rare glimpse into the material  expressions of Apache self-determination and survival. For nearly 200 years the  Jicarilla Apache of New Mexico thrived in the interstices of Pueblo and Spanish  settlements following their expulsion from the Plains. Critical to their success  was their ability to extend key aspects of Plains-Pueblo exchange to Indian and  mixed-blood communities on the fringes of colonial rule. More than other nomadic  tribes, the Jicarilla played an enormous role in holding together the social  fabric of New Mexican villages after the fall of the Spanish Empire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis  comprehensive study by Sunday Eiselt begins with the great Athapaskan migration  out of Canada during prehis-toric times and ends with the forced settlement of  the Jicarilla on the Dulce reservation in the 1880s. Eiselt combines  archaeological and ethno­historical data in an examination of Jicarilla  strategies for self-preservation. She reveals the ideological and political  imperatives of “­belonging” that shaped their interactions with local  communities and the state and that enabled them to avoid reservation life well  into the 1880s. Throughout their long history, Jicarilla identity remained  intact, distinctive, and discernable even as life on the reservation disrupted  the intimate connections that once existed with their Hispanic and Pueblo  neighbors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSunday Eiselt has produced THE definitive work on Jicarilla  Apache history and archaeology. She uses a strong theoretical approach to  enclavement and combines history, archaeology, and ethnohistory to not only  describe past Jicarilla movements and cultural development throughout the  Southwest, but to explain how and why Jicarilla social organization at different  scales structured that development during times of warfare, removal from  traditional lands, and economic stress. Eiselt’s scholarship is  second-to-none.\" - Ronald H. Towner, University of Arizona\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sunday Eiselt has provided the definitive reference on the history and archaeology of the Jicarilla Apache….  [The book’s] value as a resource for researchers cannot be overstated.\" - \u003ci\u003eKIVA\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"University of Utah Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50469704565079,"sku":"9781647691523","price":28.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781647691523.jpg?v=1744896021","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/becoming-white-clay-a-history-and-archaeology-of-jicarilla-apache-enclavement-9781647691523","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}