Scully, Vincent. "Men and Nature in Pueblo Architecture." In American Indian Art: Form and Tradition, 35-41. New York: Dutton, 1972. Scully's essay examines pueblo architecture as a reflection of the builders' conception of the relationship between nature and material culture. The resemblance of the buildings to natural forms is an expression of the congruence between nature and humanity (and its products). In a system that sees all parts of the world as intrinsically connected the buildings served as a frame for ritual and later evolved, perhaps in response to increasing desiccation, in terms of the outward orientation of ritual. Scully's conclusions are based on his linguistic analysis, in which he identifies descriptions of space and shape (which the language was
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