Description: Examines the concept of the katsina and the religion that developed around it, focusing on what makes katsinas unique, why the concept was developed, and what adaptive value it had for prehistoric Pueblo culture.
Review Quotes: "A valuable contribution to Puebloan prehistory. Its serious attempt to link Pueblo beliefs and practices with evident precursors involves a laudable cultural-historical realism too long pooh-poohed by archaeology's fashionable formalisms."--New Mexico Historical Review
"A valuable and useful contribution to the archaeology of the Southwest."--American Anthropologist "Both in scale and in scope, the book is large; the interpretations are adventurous."--Choice