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Worlds Out of Balance and Ontological Insecurity Worlds Out of Balance and Ontological Insecurity
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Ontological Insecurity, Pueblo Massacres, and the Bioarcheological Record Ontological Insecurity, Pueblo Massacres, and the Bioarcheological Record
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Cave 7 Cave 7
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Sacred Ridge Sacred Ridge
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Sambrito Village Sambrito Village
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Burnt Mesa Burnt Mesa
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Rattlesnake Ruin Rattlesnake Ruin
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Mancos Canyon Mancos Canyon
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Peñasco Blanco Peñasco Blanco
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Cowboy Wash Cowboy Wash
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Sand Canyon Sand Canyon
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Castle Rock Castle Rock
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Leroux Wash Leroux Wash
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Salmon Ruin Salmon Ruin
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Arroyo Hondo Arroyo Hondo
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Te’ewi Te’ewi
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Awat’ovi Awat’ovi
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Conclusion Conclusion
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References References
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5 Ontological Insecurity and Social Transformation: Ritualized Violence and Corporeality—Pueblo Case Study
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Published:May 2024
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Abstract
Indigenous forms of violence are frequently framed and interpreted through a Western lens. Collections of commingled remains of humans from the Prehistoric American Southwest have been pigeonholed into the Western assumption that they were caused by resource competition and warfare. By reexamining these cases through the frame of ontological insecurity, a rich cultural context and series of complex behaviors emerge related to personhood, corporeality, and acts of violence in the past. The Hopi idea of koyaanisqatsi, or life out of balance, fits well with the concept of ontological insecurity. Interpreting the processed remains within this framework aids in explaining the culturally specific behavior that led to ritual violence seen in the bioarchaeological record. Ontological insecurity and koyaanisqatsi show that this violence was purifying, regenerative, transformative and ideological.
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