Earth Politics and Intangible Heritage
Three Case Studies in the Americas
Focusing on three communities in the Americas, this book layers archaeological research with oral narratives and social memories, demonstrating a way of reconciling the tension between Western scientific and local Indigenous approaches to history.
Below the Stars
How the Labor of Working Actors and Extras Shapes Media Production
The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom
Essential Lessons for Collective Action
In The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom, author Erik Nordman brings to life Ostrom’s brilliant mind. Ostrom’s research proved that people can and do act in collective interest, and her ideas about common resources have played out around the world, from Maine lobster fisheries to taxicab use in Nairobi. Ostrom broke barriers at a time when women were regularly excluded from academia. Her message of shared collective action is more relevant than ever for solving today’s most pressing environmental problems.
Why Marianne Faithfull Matters
The Rowell-Sirois Commission and the Remaking of Canadian Federalism
The Rowell-Sirois Commission and the Remaking of Canadian Federalism reveals the commission’s impact on the high politics of federal-provincial relations and its legacy for Canadian federalism today.
Standing at the Threshold
Working through Liminality in the Composition and Rhetoric TAship
Redefining Roles
The Professional, Faculty, and Graduate Consultant’s Guide to Writing Centers
Redefining Roles is the first book to recognize and provide sustained focus on the presence of professional, faculty, and graduate student consultants in writing centers.
Mountain Witches
Yamauba
Mountain Witches is a comprehensive guide to the complex figure of yamauba—female yōkai often translated as mountain witches, who are commonly described as tall, enigmatic women with long hair, piercing eyes, and large mouths that open from ear to ear and who live in the mountains—and the evolution of their roles and significance in Japanese culture and society from the premodern era to the present.
First Nations Wildfire Evacuations
A Guide for Communities and External Agencies
Based on the experiences of evacuees from seven First Nations communities, this book offers guidance to Indigenous communities and external agencies on how to successfully plan for and carry out wildfire evacuations.
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.
American Vaudeville
A dreamlike, evocative reckoning with a lost epoch in popular culture—and with old, weird America.
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.
Widodo’s Employment Creation Law, 2020
What Its Journey Tells Us about Indonesian Politics
Water and Power in West Maui
Trauma Healing in the Yoga Zone
A Guide for Mental Health Professionals, Yoga Therapists and Teachers
Tales of Idolized Boys
Male-Male Love in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Narratives
Southeast Asian Affairs 2021
Plastic Legacies
Pollution, Persistence, and Politics
Plastic Legacies brings together scholars from the fields of marine biology, psychology, anthropology, environmental studies, Indigenous studies, and media studies to investigate and address the urgent socio-ecological challenges brought about by plastics.