David E. Stuart
David E. Stuart, the first student in the State of West Virginia to earn a degree in Anthropology, came to UNM in “67/'68 where he earned the Masters and Ph.D. and, later, an honorary doctorate from WVa Wesleyan College. He has conducted fieldwork in Mexico, Alaska, Ecuador, and the American Southwest, where he continues to publish in both Anthropology and Archaeology. He served the University of New Mexico as a senior academic administrator for many years, and still teaches the Archaeology of New Mexico.
The Morganza, 1967
Life in a Legendary Reform School
Stuart describes the life of students and staff in this infamous school that was, in reality, a youth prison camp.
- Copyright year: 2009
The Ancient Southwest
Chaco Canyon, Bandelier, and Mesa Verde
Stuart's accessible stories of the ancient peoples and sites of the American Southwest have been updated with recent discoveries on Chaco Canyon, Bandelier, and Mesa Verde.
- Copyright year: 2009
Anasazi America
Seventeen Centuries on the Road from Center Place, Second Edition
David E. Stuart incorporates extensive new research findings through groundbreaking archaeology to explore the rise and fall of the Chaco Anasazi and how it parallels patterns throughout modern societies in this new edition.
- Copyright year: 2014
The Guaymas Chronicles
La Mandadera
This memoir of a young gringo anthropologist's assimilation into the exotic street life of a bustling port on Mexico's Sea of Cortez is also an account of the area's working-class life in the late 1960s.
- Copyright year: 2006
Pueblo Peoples on the Pajarito Plateau
Archaeology and Efficiency
Stuart demonstrates how the descendants of the Chaco survivors who relocated to Bandlier and the Pajarito Plateau rebalanced their society to be more efficient and practical in order to survive.
- Copyright year: 2011
The Ecuador Effect
Dark and fast-paced, The Ecuador Effect combines a liberal dose of Ecuadorian Indian culture with the drama of a novel.
- Copyright year: 2007