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Social Disorganization in Picuris Pueblo

Social Disorganization in Picuris Pueblo Social Disorganization in Picuris Pueblo BERNARD J. SIEGEL Stanford University, Stanford, U.S.A. PICURIS pueblo is located about fifty miles northeast of Santa Fe and twenty-four miles southeast of Taos in northeastern New Mexico. Ethnographi- cally it is the least known of the eastern peublos. At the time of the Spanish explorations in the sixteenth century, however, it was one of the largest and most influential Indian communities in the region. It played a leading role in the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 for which its citizens subsequently suffered a consider- able cost in the form of loss of land and removal on three occasions in the eighteenth century to Colorado and Kansas. When they finally returned to stay, the population had been reduced from an estimated 2,000-3,000 individuals to approximately 300. The influenza epidemic of World War I made further in- roads so that since 1920 the number of permanent residents has fluctuated be- tween 90 and 150. Taking into account simply the past disruption of normal group processes, it is not surprising that one should find, in relation to these events, much evidence of sharply reduced organizational efficiency in social life and a corre- sponding increase in the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Comparative Sociology (in 2002 continued as Comparative Sociology) Brill

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Brill
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© 1965 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0020-7152
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1745-2554
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10.1163/156854265X00026
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Social Disorganization in Picuris Pueblo BERNARD J. SIEGEL Stanford University, Stanford, U.S.A. PICURIS pueblo is located about fifty miles northeast of Santa Fe and twenty-four miles southeast of Taos in northeastern New Mexico. Ethnographi- cally it is the least known of the eastern peublos. At the time of the Spanish explorations in the sixteenth century, however, it was one of the largest and most influential Indian communities in the region. It played a leading role in the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 for which its citizens subsequently suffered a consider- able cost in the form of loss of land and removal on three occasions in the eighteenth century to Colorado and Kansas. When they finally returned to stay, the population had been reduced from an estimated 2,000-3,000 individuals to approximately 300. The influenza epidemic of World War I made further in- roads so that since 1920 the number of permanent residents has fluctuated be- tween 90 and 150. Taking into account simply the past disruption of normal group processes, it is not surprising that one should find, in relation to these events, much evidence of sharply reduced organizational efficiency in social life and a corre- sponding increase in the

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International Journal of Comparative Sociology (in 2002 continued as Comparative Sociology) – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1965

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