ARCHAEOLOGICAL CULTURES AND CULTURAL AFFILIATION - HOPI AND ZUNI PERSPECTIVES IN THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST

Archaeologists and Native Americans apply different concepts to classi fy ancient groups of people, who lived in the past. This Is a topic of current interest because many archaeologists in the United States are now having to determine the cultural affiliation of the materials the y study to comply, with the Native American Graves Protection and Repa triation Act. The Hopi and Zuni tribes in the American Southwest are u sed as case examples to examine how and why archaeological and tribal views of cultural affiliation are divergent. We suggest anthropologica l perspectives of culture need to be reintegrated into archaelogical t heory in collaboration with Native Americans in order to interpret the past in a manner that is both useful and interesting to the multiple audiences interested in our work.