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Colorado Day by Day
University Press of Colorado
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
By Jami Macarty
University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing
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
University Press of Colorado
Sparks examines the earliest religious documents composed by missionaries and native authors in the Americas, including a reconstruction of the first original, explicit Christian theology written in the Americas—the Theologia Indorum.
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.
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