The Title of Totonicapán
This work is the first English translation of the complete text of the Title of Totonicapán, one of the most important documents composed by the K’iche’ Maya in the highlands of Guatemala, second only to the Popol Vuh.
Living Ruins
Native Engagements with Past Materialities in Contemporary Mesoamerica, Amazonia, and the Andes
Aztec Antichrist
Performing the Apocalypse in Early Colonial Mexico
Framing Complexity in Formative Mesoamerica
Where Did the Eastern Mayas Go?
The Historical, Relational, and Contingent Interplay of Ch’orti’ Indigeneity
In Where Did the Eastern Mayas Go?Brent E. Metz explores the complicatedissue of who is Indigenous by focusing on the sociohistorical transformations over thepast two millennia of the population currently known as the Ch’orti’ Maya.
Life at the Margins of the State
Comparative Landscapes from the Old and New Worlds
Confronting the "Good Death"
Nazi Euthanasia on Trial, 1945-1953
Mining Irish-American Lives
Western Communities from 1849 to 1920
After Dark
The Nocturnal Urban Landscape and Lightscape of Ancient Cities
After Darkexplores the experience of nighttime within ancient urban settings.
Diversity in Open-Air Site Structure across the Pleistocene/Holocene Boundary
Sustainability and Water Management in the Maya World and Beyond
Materializing Ritual Practices
Communities of Ludlow
Collaborative Stewardship and the Ludlow Centennial Commemoration Commission
Bound by Steel and Stone
The Colorado-Kansas Railway and the Frontier of Enterprise in Colorado, 1890-1960
Bound by Steel and Stone analyzes the Colorado-Kansas Railway through the economic enterprise in the American West in the decades after the supposed 1890 closing of the frontier.
Where the Red-Winged Blackbirds Sing
The Akimel O'odham and Cycles of Agricultural Transformation in the Phoenix Basin
Where the Red-Winged Blackbirds Sing examines the ways in which the Akimel O’odham (“River People”) and their ancestors, the Huhugam, adapted to economic, political, and environmental constraints imposed by federal Indian policy, the Indian Bureau, and an encroaching settler population in Arizona’s Gila River Valley.