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Hidden Out in the Open
Spanish Migration to the United States (1875-1930)
Edited by Phylis Cancilla Martinelli and Ana Varela-Lago
University Press of Colorado
The first English-language volume on Spanish migration to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Historicizing Fear
Ignorance, Vilification, and Othering
Edited by Travis D. Boyce and Winsome M. Chunnu
University Press of Colorado
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
Edited by Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire and Scott Macrae
University Press of Colorado
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
University Press of Colorado
Researchers explore the meanings and functions of two- and three-dimensional human representations in the pre-Columbian communities of the Mexican highlands.
Rituals and Sisterhoods
Single Women's Households in Mexico, 1560–1750
By Amos Megged
University Press of Colorado
Rituals and Sisterhoods reveals the previously under-studied world of plebeian single women and single-female-headed households in colonial Mexican urban centers.
Indigenous Graphic Communication Systems
A Theoretical Approach
Edited by Katarzyna Mikulksa and Jerome A. Offner
University Press of Colorado
Indigenous Graphic Communication Systems reports new results and insights into the meaning of the rich and varied content of indigenous American graphic expression and culture.
As Precious as Blood
The Western Slope in Colorado's Water Wars, 1900-1970
University Press of Colorado
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.
Pueblos within Pueblos
Tlaxilacalli Communities in Acolhuacan, Mexico, ca. 1272-1692
University Press of Colorado
Focusing on the specific case of Acolhuacan in the eastern Basin of Mexico, Pueblos within Pueblos is the first book to systematically analyze tlaxilacalli history over nearly four centuries, beginning with their rise at the dawn of the Aztec empire through their transformation into the “pueblos” of mid-colonial New Spain.
Seeking Conflict in Mesoamerica
Operational, Cognitive, and Experiential Approaches
University Press of Colorado
Seeking Conflict in Mesoamerica focuses on the conflicts of the ancient Maya, providing a holistic history of Maya hostilities and comparing them with those of neighboring Mesoamerican villages and towns.
Objects of Survivance
A Material History of the American Indian School Experience
University Press of Colorado
Rejecting the narrative that archival objects preserve dying Native cultures, Objects of Survivance reframes the Bratley Collection at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, showing how tribal members have reconnected to these items, embracing them as part of their past and reclaiming them as part of their contemporary identities.
Thanks for Watching
An Anthropological Study of Video Sharing on YouTube
University Press of Colorado
In Thanks for Watching, Patricia G. Lange offers an anthropological perspective on the heavily mediated social environment of YouTube by analyzing videos and the emotions that motivate sharing them.
The Anthropological Study of Class and Consciousness
Edited by E. Paul Durrenberger
University Press of Colorado
Presenting prehistoric, historic, and ethnographic data from Mongolia, China, Iceland, Mexico, Brazil, and the United States, The Anthropological Study of Class and Consciousness offers a first step toward examining class as a central issue within anthropology. Contributors to this volume use the methods of historical materialism, cultural ecology, and political ecology to understand the realities of class and how they evolve.
Patron Gods and Patron Lords
The Semiotics of Classic Maya Community Cults
By Joanne Baron
University Press of Colorado
Return to Ixil
Maya Society in an Eighteenth-Century Yucatec Town
University Press of Colorado
Return to Ixil is an examination of over 100 colonial-era Maya wills from the Yucatec town of Ixil, presented together and studied fully for the first time.
Retelling Trickster in Naapi's Language
University Press of Colorado
An examination of Nitsitapiisinni (Blackfoot) origin stories about one of the most powerful and unpredictable of the early creators in Niitsitapii consciousness and chronology: Naapi.
Yellowstone Cougars
Ecology before and during Wolf Restoration
University Press of Colorado
Yellowstone Cougars examines the effect of wolf restoration on the cougar population in Yellowstone National Park.
Imperial Peripheries in the Neo-Assyrian Period
Edited by Craig W. Tyson and Virginia R. Herrmann
University Press of Colorado
Focuses on the variability of imperial strategies and local responses to Assyrian power across time and space.
Japanese Brazilian Saudades
Diasporic Identities and Cultural Production
University Press of Colorado
Explores the self-definition of Nikkei discourse in Portuguese-language cultural production by Brazilian authors of Japanese ancestry and suggests an alternative model of postcoloniality, particularly as it pertains to the post–World War II experience of Nikkei people in Brazil.
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Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City"
Reshaping Justice, Social Hierarchy, and Political Culture in Colonial Peru
University Press of Colorado
Through newly unearthed texts virtually unknown in Andean studies, Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City" highlights the Andean intellectual tradition of writing in their long-term struggle for social empowerment and questions the previous understanding of the "lettered city" as a privileged space populated solely by colonial elites. Rarely acknowledged in studies of resistance to colonial rule, these writings challenged colonial hierarchies and ethnic discrimination in attempts to redefine the Andean role in colonial society.
Communities and Households in the Greater American Southwest
New Perspectives and Case Studies
University Press of Colorado
Presents new research on human organization in the American Southwest.
Manufactured Light
Mirrors in the Mesoamerican Realm
Edited by Emiliano Gallaga and Marc G. Blainey
University Press of Colorado
Lithic Technologies in Sedentary Societies
Edited by Rachel A. Horowitz and Grant S. McCall
University Press of Colorado
Examines lithic technology from ancient societies in Mesoamerica, the Near East, South Asia, and North America.
Governors and the Progressive Movement
University Press of Colorado
The first comprehensive overview of the Progressive movement’s unfolding at the state level, covering every state in existence at the time through the words and actions of state governors.
Religion, History, and Place in the Origin of Settled Life
Edited by Ian Hodder
University Press of Colorado
This volume explores the role of religion and ritual in the origin of settled life in the Middle East.
Interregional Interaction in Ancient Mesoamerica
Edited by Joshua Englehardt and Michael D. Carrasco
University Press of Colorado
Explores the role of interregional interaction in the dynamic sociocultural processes that shaped the pre-Columbian societies of Mesoamerica.
The Archaeology of Medieval Islamic Frontiers
From the Mediterranean to the Caspian Sea
Edited by A. Asa Eger
University Press of Colorado
The Archaeology of Medieval Islamic Frontiers demonstrates that different areas of the Islamic polity previously understood as “minor frontiers” were, in fact, of substantial importance to state formation.
Best Backpacking Trips in Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado
By Mike White and Douglas Lorain
University Press of Colorado
La Consentida
Settlement, Subsistence, and Social Organization in an Early Formative Mesoamerican Community
University Press of Colorado
Anthropomorphizing the Cosmos
Middle Preclassic Lowland Maya Figurines, Ritual, and Time
University Press of Colorado
Explores the sociocultural significance of more than three hundred Middle Preclassic Maya figurines uncovered at the site of Nixtun-Ch'ich' on Lake Petén Itzá in northern Guatemala.
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