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.
West : Fire : Archive
A poetry collection that challenges preconceived, androcentric ideas about biography, autobiography, and history fueled by the western myth of progress presented in Frederick Jackson Turner’s “frontier thesis.”
The Egyptian Mummies and Coffins of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science
History, Technical Analysis, and Conservation
The Egyptian Mummies and Coffins of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science provides replicable findings and consistent terminology for institutions performing holistic studies on extant museum collections of a range of material types and will add substantially to what we know about the effective conservation of Egyptian mummies and coffins.
Southeastern Mesoamerica
Indigenous Interaction, Resilience, and Change
Southeastern Mesoamerica highlights the diversity and dynamism of the Indigenous groups that inhabited and continue to inhabit the borders of Southeastern Mesoamerica, an area that includes parts of present-day Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador.
The Explorer's Guide to Death Valley National Park, Fourth Edition
Originally published in 1995, soon after Death Valley National Park became the fifty-third park in the US park system, The Explorer’s Guide to Death Valley National Park was the first complete guidebook available for this spectacular area.
Ancient Households on the North Coast of Peru
Ancient Households on the North Coast of Peru provides insight into the organization of complex, urban, and state-level society in the region from a household perspective, using observations from diverse north coast households to generate new understandings of broader social processes in and beyond Andean prehistory.
Archaeology of the Night
Life After Dark in the Ancient World
Pueblos, Plains, and Province
New Mexico in the Seventeenth Century
In Pueblos, Plains, and Province Joseph P. Sánchez offers an in-depth examination of sociopolitical conflict in seventeenth-century New Mexico, detailing the effects of Spanish colonial policies on settlers’, missionaries’, and Indigenous peoples’ struggle for economic and cultural control of the region.
Energy Impacts
A Multidisciplinary Exploration of North American Energy Development
Energy Impacts brings together important new research on site-level social, economic, and behavioral impacts from large-scale energy development.
Sorcery in Mesoamerica
Approaching sorcery as highly rational and rooted in significant social and cultural values, Sorcery in Mesoamerica examines and reconstructs the original indigenous logic behind it, analyzing manifestations from the Classic Maya to the ethnographic present.
The Poetics of Processing
Memory Formation, Identity, and the Handling of the Dead
The Poetics of Processing combines social theory and bioarchaeology to examine how the living manipulate the bodies of the dead for social purposes.
Shamanism and Vulnerability on the North and South American Great Plains
In Shamanism and Vulnerability on the North and South American Great Plains Kathleen Bolling Lowrey provides an innovative and expansive study of indigenous shamanism and the ways in which it has been misinterpreted and dismissed by white settlers, NGO workers, policymakers, government administrators, and historians and anthropologists.
Mapping Identity
The Creation of the Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation, 1805-1902
Representing Aztec Ritual
Performance, Text, and Image in the Work of Sahagun
Night Burial
In Night Burial, Kate Bolton Bonnici mourns her mother’s death from ovarian cancer by tracing the composition, decomposition, and recomposition of the maternal body in poetry.
Dears, Beloveds
The prose poetry in Kevin Phan’s first collection, Dears, Beloveds, offers a fine-grained meditation on grief—personal, familial, ecological, and political. Informed by the author’s engagement with Buddhism & mindfulness, the poems address looming absences: in our vanishing earth, the scraps of a haunting voicemail, or waiting at hospice with little to do.
Invasion and Transformation
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Conquest of Mexico
Tezcatlipoca
Trickster and Supreme Deity
Relational Identities and Other-than-Human Agency in Archaeology
Abundance
The Archaeology of Plenitude
Jim Crow and the Wilson Administration
Protesting Federal Segregation in the Early Twentieth Century
The Geology, Ecology, and Human History of the San Luis Valley
The Geology, Ecology, and Human History of the San Luis Valley explores the rich landscapes and diverse social histories of the San Luis Valley, an impressive mountain valley spanning over 9,000 square miles that crosses the border of south-central Colorado and north-central New Mexico and includes many cultural traditions.
Cosmology, Calendars, and Horizon-Based Astronomy in Ancient Mesoamerica
Indigenous Dance and Dancing Indian
Contested Representation in the Global Era
Olmec Lithic Economy at San Lorenzo
Olmec Lithic Economy at San Lorenzo examines the specialized craft production, manufacturing, adoption, and spread of obsidian cutting tools at San Lorenzo, Mexico, the first major Olmec center to develop in the southern Gulf Coast region of Mesoamerica.
The Rain Gods' Rebellion
The Cultural Basis of a Nahua Insurgency
Providing a rare longitudinal look at the cultural basis of this grassroots insurgency, The Rain Gods’ Rebellion offers rare insight into the significance of oral history in forming Nahua collective memory and, by extension, culture.
Spirit Lands of the Eagle and Bear
Numic Archaeology and Ethnohistory in the Rocky Mountains and Borderlands
Spirit Lands of the Eagle and Bear explores advances in the prehistory and early history of Numic hunter-gatherers in the Rocky Mountain West through the presentation and analysis of archaeological and historic research on the period from the earliest established presence in the Rockies and its borderlands more than a thousand years ago to the forced removal of Ute, Shoshone, and other tribes to reservations in the mid-nineteenth century.
Political Strategies in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica
Interpreting the Legacy
John Neihardt and Black Elk Speaks
Ancient Southwestern Mortuary Practices
Chronicles the modal patterns, diversity, and change of ancient mortuary practices from across the US Southwest and northwest Mexico over four thousand years of Prehispanic occupation.
An Inconstant Landscape
The Maya Kingdom of El Zotz, Guatemala
Fanning the Sacred Flame
Mesoamerican Studies in Honor of H. B. Nicholson
Peter Fidler
From York Factory to the Rocky Mountains
This book presents Hudson’s Bay Company surveyor Peter Fidler’s journals, edited and extensively annotated by historian Barbara Belyea.
America's Switzerland
Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park, the Growth Years
Reshaping the World
Debates on Mesoamerican Cosmologies
A nuanced exploration of the plurality, complexity, and adaptability of Precolumbian and colonial-era Mesoamerican cosmological models and the ways in which anthropologists and historians have used colonial and indigenous texts to understand these models in the past.
Pleas and Petitions
Hispano Culture and Legislative Conflict in Territorial Colorado
Maya Potters' Indigenous Knowledge
Cognition, Engagement, and Practice
Colorado Day by Day
A readable, this-day-in-history approach to the key figures, developments, and forces that shaped Colorado from ancient times to the present.
The Minuses
The Minuses beckons attention to ecological and feminist issues, amplifying the endangerments predicating women’s lives and the natural world, laying bare the struggle and faith necessary to endure with integrity and spirit intact.
Rewriting Maya Religion
Domingo de Vico, K’iche’ Maya Intellectuals, and the Theologia Indorum
Hidden Out in the Open
Spanish Migration to the United States (1875-1930)
Historicizing Fear
Ignorance, Vilification, and Othering
A historical interrogation of the use of fear as a tool to vilify and persecute groups and individuals from a global perspective, offering an unflinching look at racism, fearful framing, oppression, and marginalization across human history.
Detachment from Place
Beyond an Archaeology of Settlement Abandonment
The first comparative and interdisciplinary volume on the archaeology of settlement abandonment, with contributions focusing on materiality, ideology, the environment, and social construction of space.
Anthropomorphic Imagery in the Mesoamerican Highlands
Gods, Ancestors, and Human Beings
Rituals and Sisterhoods
Single Women's Households in Mexico, 1560–1750
Indigenous Graphic Communication Systems
A Theoretical Approach
As Precious as Blood
The Western Slope in Colorado's Water Wars, 1900-1970
Steven C. Schulte examines the water wars between Colorado’s Eastern and Western Slopes and how the western part of the state fits into Colorado’s overall water story, exploring their social and political dimensions alongside the technical and scientific perspectives.