The Nature and Extent of Chacoan Hegemony in the Middle San Juan Region.

Summary

The Chacoan polity of northwestern New Mexico exercised hegemony throughout the San Juan Basin and surrounding highlands during the Pueblo II (A.D. 900 – 1140) period. Hegemony is defined as the predominant influence in ideological, political, military, and/or economic matters exercised by one culture over another. Furthermore, it is an historical process, and as such is theorized as "eventful," along the lines of Sewell (2005) and Beck et al. (2007). The extent and nature of this hegemony on thirteen sites comprising nine communities within the Middle San Juan Region is discussed, illustrating multiple ways local and migrant communities influenced and interacted with the expanding hegemony during the late Pueblo II. This interaction between communities and Chaco includes instances of trade, emulation, migration, and coercion. The incorporation of these events allow for further refinement of Paul Reed’s (2011) cultural history of the Middle San Juan Region. This paper is the result of dissertation research on the nature of Chacoan hegemony in the Middle San Juan Region, New Mexico, as well as associated research on borders and boundaries in the area.

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