he was raised as a traditional Hopi. Talayesva started working in 1938 with a Yale University anthropologist, Leo Simmons, who helped him write his autobiography. Hopi educator, writer, and potter Polingaysi Qöyawayma (1892–1990) related stories of growing up in Oraibi in her 1964 autobiography No Turning Back. The social anthropologist Sherry Ortner uses the phrase "another pot from Old Oraibi" to characterize a style of exhaustive "thickness" in ethnographic writing which—hubristically, in her view—attempts a "holistic" comprehension of the culture under scrutiny. References Further reading External links Oraibi – ghosttowns.com Buildings and structures completed in the 12th century Hopi Pueblo great houses Hopi Reservation Unincorporated communities in Navajo County, Arizona Ghost towns in Arizona National Register of Historic Places in Navajo County, Arizona National Historic Landmarks in Arizona National Historic Landmark Districts Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Arizona 11th-century establishments in North America Unincorporated communities in Arizona Ancient Puebloan archaeological sites in Arizona