Factionalism as Argumentation: A Case Study of the Indigenous Communication Practices of Jemez Pueblo

Robert S. Littlefield Robert S. Littlefield, Department of Communication, North Dakota State University ; Jane A. Ball, Department of American Multicultural Studies and the Humanities, Minnesota State University , Moorhead. The authors wish to acknowledge the cooperation of the Jemez people, who allowed Jane A. Ball to conduct fieldwork at Jemez Pueblo, and the graduate students of Robert S. Littlefield, whose participation in a seminar discussing western and nonwestern forms of argumentation became the impetus for completing this project.Correspondence[email protected]

Jane A. Ball Robert S. Littlefield, Department of Communication, North Dakota State University ; Jane A. Ball, Department of American Multicultural Studies and the Humanities, Minnesota State University , Moorhead. The authors wish to acknowledge the cooperation of the Jemez people, who allowed Jane A. Ball to conduct fieldwork at Jemez Pueblo, and the graduate students of Robert S. Littlefield, whose participation in a seminar discussing western and nonwestern forms of argumentation became the impetus for completing this project.

Abstract

This study identifies seven characteristics of argumentation and demonstrates how the factionalism of Jemez Pueblo in New Mexico serves as an indigenous form of argumentation for that society. We analyze two examples of factionalism: the case of the governor's authority and the case for religious freedom. In both, six phases of factionalism are identified and found to illustrate how this form of argumentation provides a useful method of decision-making for the Jemez.

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