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New Lives for Ancient and Extinct Crops
Learning the Possible
Mexican American Students Moving from the Margins of Life to New Ways of Being
Learning the Possible chronicles the experiences of five academically underprepared Mexican American students in their first year of college, aided by a federally funded one-year scholarship and support program called the College Assistance Migrant Program. CAMP works, says Reyes, and does so primarily by helping students develop new identities as successful learners.
Archaeological Anthropology
Perspectives on Method and Theory
In this collection, four generations of Longacre protégés show how they are building upon and developing—but also modifying—the theoretical paradigm that remains at the core of Americanist archaeology. The contributions focus on six themes prominent in Longacre’s career: the intellectual history of the field in the late twentieth century, archaeological methodology, analogical inference, ethnoarchaeology, cultural evolution, and reconstructing ancient society.
Object and Apparition
Envisioning the Christian Divine in the Colonial Andes
Beyond Germs
Native Depopulation in North America
Tribal Water Rights
Essays in Contemporary Law, Policy, and Economics
The Tropical Deciduous Forest of Alamos
Biodiversity of a Threatened Ecosystem in Mexico
The Learned Ones
Nahua Intellectuals in Postconquest Mexico
A Zapotec Natural History
Trees, Herbs, and Flowers, Birds, Beasts, and Bugs in the Life of San Juan Gbëë
Inland Fishes of the Greater Southwest
Chronicle of a Vanishing Biota
O'odham Creation and Related Events
As Told to Ruth Benedict in 1927
Anthropologies of Guayana
Cultural Spaces in Northeastern Amazonia
