Identity Politics of Difference
The Mixed-Race American Indian Experience
Engaged Archaeology in the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico
This volume of proceedings from the fifteenth biennial Southwest Symposium makes the case for engaged archaeology, an approach that considers scientific data and traditional Indigenous knowledge alongside archaeological theories and methodologies.
A Forest of History
The Maya after the Emergence of Divine Kingship
Travis Stanton and Kathryn Brown’s A Forest of History: The Maya after the Emergence of Divine Kingship presents acollection of essays that critically engage with and build upon the lasting contributions A Forest of Kings made to Maya epigraphy, iconography, material culture, and history.
Maya Gods of War
Maya Gods of War investigates the Classic period Maya gods who were associated with weapons of war and the flint and obsidian from which those weapons were made.
The Greater Chaco Landscape
Ancestors, Scholarship, and Advocacy
The Greater Chaco Landscape examines both the imminent threat posed by energy extraction and new ways of understanding Chaco Canyon and Chaco-era great houses and associated communities from southeast Utah to west-central New Mexico in the context of landscape archaeology.
Stone Houses and Earth Lords
Maya Religion in the Cave Context
Chuj (Mayan) Narratives
Folklore, History, and Ethnography from Northwestern Guatemala
In Chuj (Mayan) Narratives, Nicholas Hopkins analyzes six narratives that illustrate the breadth of the Chuj storytelling tradition, from ancient mythology to current events and from intimate tales of local affairs to borrowed stories, such as an adaptation of Oedipus Rex.
Barbed Voices
Oral History, Resistance, and the World War II Japanese American Social Disaster
Why Those Who Shovel Are Silent
A History of Local Archaeological Knowledge and Labor
Why Those Who Shovel Are Silent is based on six years of in-depth ethnographic work with current and former site workers at two major Middle Eastern archaeological sites—Petra, Jordan, and Çatalhöyük, Turkey—combined with thorough archival research.