Class Cultures and Social Mobility
The Hidden Strengths of Working-Class First-Generation Graduates
Class Cultures and Social Mobility tells the stories of people who grew up working-class, became the first of their family to graduate from college, and undertook professional work that serves working-class people, drawing upon their roots to construct careers aimed at building stability, mobility, and fulfillment for the next generation.
Archaeological Structuration
A Critical Engagement for the Twenty-First Century
Archaeological Structuration is a critical analysis of the theory of structuration and its utility in the study of societal development over deep time. Structuration theory was originally developed by Anthony Giddens in sociology and adopted piecemeal into archaeology. This book takes a closer look at its contributions to new materialism and develops novel ways to operationalize the theory in archaeological research in the twenty-first century.
Alterhumanism
Becoming Human on a Conservation Frontier
On the conservation frontier of southern Chile, the lives of smallholding settlers, Indigenous Mapuche farmers, environmental activists, entrepreneurs, and conservation scientists all grapple with the enduring impacts of settler-caused environmental depletion, aspirations for a new ethics of care, and the promises of an ecotourism boom. Here, the question of what it means to be human is not simply an existential concern but the reflexive result of experiences of becoming human through and with nonhuman others in an increasingly uncertain world.
The Archaeology of the American Revolution
This volume takes a holistic approach to the American Revolutionary War era, drawing on perspectives from archaeology and related disciplines to illuminate the multifaceted nature of the conflict.
Mother Tongues of the High Andes
Gender, Language, and Indigenous Difference in Peru
This book analyzes how inter-Indigenous linguistic and social difference in Puno, Peru, has been maintained and negotiated over time. Central to these processes are Indigenous women and how their linguistic and social practices—as well as the ways that they are discursively interpreted and idealized—influence the maintenance of Indigenous linguistic and social differences in the past while shaping new ideologies and understandings of Indigenous linguistic praxis and Indigenous ethnic differences.
Lady Bird Johnson
A Biography for Beginning Historians
Concrete Encoded
Poetry, Design, and the Cybernetic Imaginary in Brazil
Borícua Muslims
Everyday Cosmopolitanism among Puerto Rican Converts to Islam
Avocado Dreams
Remaking Salvadoran Life and Art in the Washington, D.C. Metro Area
Avocado Dreams tells the story of how and why Salvadorans migrated to the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and how in the process they both transformed and were transformed by the region through their labor, culture, language, art, and ingenuity.