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Founded in 1965, the University Press of Colorado is a nonprofit cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State University, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University of Denver, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, University of Wyoming, Utah State University, and Western Colorado University.

In 2012, University Press of Colorado merged with Utah State University Press, which was established in 1972. USU Press titles are managed as an active imprint of University Press of Colorado, and they maintain offices in both Louisville, Colorado, and Logan, Utah.

The University Press of Colorado, including the Utah State University Press imprint, publishes forty to forty-five new titles each year, with the goal of facilitating communication among scholars and providing the peoples of the state and region with a fair assessment of their histories, cultures, and resources.

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Night Burial

University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing

In Night Burial, Kate Bolton Bonnici mourns her mother’s death from ovarian cancer by tracing the composition, decomposition, and recomposition of the maternal body in poetry.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Dears, Beloveds

University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing

The prose poetry in Kevin Phan’s first collection, Dears, Beloveds, offers a fine-grained meditation on grief—personal, familial, ecological, and political. Informed by the author’s engagement with Buddhism & mindfulness, the poems address looming absences: in our vanishing earth, the scraps of a haunting voicemail, or waiting at hospice with little to do.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Invasion and Transformation

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Conquest of Mexico

University Press of Colorado

Invasion and Transformation examines the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire and transformations in political, social, cultural, and religious life in Mexico during the Conquest and the ensuing colonial period. In particular, contributors consider the ways in which the Conquest itself was remembered, both in its immediate aftermath and in later centuries.

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Tezcatlipoca

Trickster and Supreme Deity

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2014
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Relational Identities and Other-than-Human Agency in Archaeology

University Press of Colorado

Relational Identities and Other-than-Human Agency in Archaeology explores the benefits and consequences of archaeological theorizing on the social agency of nonhumans.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Abundance

The Archaeology of Plenitude

Edited by Monica L. Smith
University Press of Colorado

Using case studies from around the globe—including Mesoamerica, North and South America, Africa, China, and the Greco-Roman world—and across multiple time periods, the authors in this volume make the case that abundance provides an essential explanatory perspective on ancient peoples’ choices and activities. Economists frequently focus on scarcity as a driving principle in the development of social and economic hierarchies, yet focusing on plenitude enables the understanding of a range of cohesive behaviors that were equally important for the development of social complexity.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Jim Crow and the Wilson Administration

Protesting Federal Segregation in the Early Twentieth Century

University Press of Colorado

In Jim Crow and the Wilson Administration, Nicholas Patler presents the first in-depth study of the historic protest movement that challenged federal racial segregation and discrimination during the first two years of Woodrow Wilson's presidency.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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The Geology, Ecology, and Human History of the San Luis Valley

University Press of Colorado

The Geology, Ecology, and Human History of the San Luis Valley explores the rich landscapes and diverse social histories of the San Luis Valley, an impressive mountain valley spanning over 9,000 square miles that crosses the border of south-central Colorado and north-central New Mexico and includes many cultural traditions.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Indigenous Dance and Dancing Indian

Contested Representation in the Global Era

University Press of Colorado

Focusing on the enactment of identity in dance, Indigenous Dance and Dancing Indian is a cross-cultural, cross-ethnic, and cross-national comparison of indigenous dance practices.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Olmec Lithic Economy at San Lorenzo

University Press of Colorado

Olmec Lithic Economy at San Lorenzo examines the specialized craft production, manufacturing, adoption, and spread of obsidian cutting tools at San Lorenzo, Mexico, the first major Olmec center to develop in the southern Gulf Coast region of Mesoamerica.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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The Rain Gods' Rebellion

The Cultural Basis of a Nahua Insurgency

University Press of Colorado

 Providing a rare longitudinal look at the cultural basis of this grassroots insurgency, The Rain Gods’ Rebellion offers rare insight into the significance of oral history in forming Nahua collective memory and, by extension, culture.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Spirit Lands of the Eagle and Bear

Numic Archaeology and Ethnohistory in the Rocky Mountains and Borderlands

University Press of Colorado

Spirit Lands of the Eagle and Bear explores advances in the prehistory and early history of Numic hunter-gatherers in the Rocky Mountain West through the presentation and analysis of archaeological and historic research on the period from the earliest established presence in the Rockies and its borderlands more than a thousand years ago to the forced removal of Ute, Shoshone, and other tribes to reservations in the mid-nineteenth century.
 

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Political Strategies in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2016
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Interpreting the Legacy

John Neihardt and Black Elk Speaks

University Press of Colorado

Ambitious and provocative, Interpreting the Legacy: John Neihardt and Black Elk Speaks is a new study of the classic spiritual text that is sure to spark debate. Neihardt's work has recently been critiqued by scholars who maintain that the author filtered and corrupted Black Elk's teachings through a European spiritual and political lens. In this book, Brian Holloway offers a rather different view, making a convincing case that Neihardt quite consciously attempted to use his literary craftsmanship to provide the reader with direct and immediate access to the teachings of the Oglala elder.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Ancient Southwestern Mortuary Practices

University Press of Colorado

Chronicles the modal patterns, diversity, and change of ancient mortuary practices from across the US Southwest and northwest Mexico over four thousand years of Prehispanic occupation.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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An Inconstant Landscape

The Maya Kingdom of El Zotz, Guatemala

University Press of Colorado

An Inconstant Landscape paints a complex picture of a dynamic landscape over the course of almost 2,000 years of occupation.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Fanning the Sacred Flame

Mesoamerican Studies in Honor of H. B. Nicholson

University Press of Colorado

Fanning the Sacred Flame: Mesoamerican Studies in Honor of H. B. Nicholson contains twenty-two original papers in tribute to H. B. "Nick" Nicholson, a pioneer of Mesoamerican research. His intellectual legacy is recognized by Mesoamerican archaeologists, art historians, ethnohistorians, and ethnographers--students, colleagues, and friends who derived inspiration and encouragement from him throughout their own careers.

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Peter Fidler

From York Factory to the Rocky Mountains

Edited by Barbara Belyea
University Press of Colorado

This book presents Hudson’s Bay Company surveyor Peter Fidler’s journals, edited and extensively annotated by historian Barbara Belyea.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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America's Switzerland

Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park, the Growth Years

University Press of Colorado

America's Switzerland, a companion volume to This Blue Hollow, is the first comprehensive history of Rocky Mountain National Park and its neighboring town, Estes Park, during the decades when travel became a middle-class rite of summer.

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Reshaping the World

Debates on Mesoamerican Cosmologies

Edited by Ana Díaz
University Press of Colorado

A nuanced exploration of the plurality, complexity, and adaptability of Precolumbian and colonial-era Mesoamerican cosmological models and the ways in which anthropologists and historians have used colonial and indigenous texts to understand these models in the past.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Pleas and Petitions

Hispano Culture and Legislative Conflict in Territorial Colorado

University Press of Colorado

Virginia Sánchez sheds new light on the political obstacles, cultural conflicts, and institutional racism experienced by Hispano legislators in the wake of the legal establishment of the Territory of Colorado.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Maya Potters' Indigenous Knowledge

Cognition, Engagement, and Practice

University Press of Colorado

Based on fieldwork and reflection over a period of almost fifty years, Maya Potters’ Indigenous Knowledge utilizes engagement theory to describe the indigenous knowledge of traditional Maya potters in Ticul, Yucatán, Mexico. In this heavily illustrated narrative account, Dean E. Arnold examines craftspeople’s knowledge and skills, their engagement with their natural and social environments, the raw materials they use for their craft, and their process for making pottery.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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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.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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The Minuses

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.
 

  • Copyright year: 2020
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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.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Hidden Out in the Open

Spanish Migration to the United States (1875-1930)

University Press of Colorado

The first English-language volume on Spanish migration to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Historicizing Fear

Ignorance, Vilification, and Othering

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.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Detachment from Place

Beyond an Archaeology of Settlement Abandonment

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.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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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.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Rituals and Sisterhoods

Single Women's Households in Mexico, 1560–1750

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.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Indigenous Graphic Communication Systems

A Theoretical Approach

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.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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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.

  • Copyright year: 2016
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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.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Magnifier

University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing

Formally various, balanced on the edge of order and chaos, the poems in Magnifier cry out for “something more” from the “nothing but” even as they zero in on the damage we have done.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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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.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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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.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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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.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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The Anthropological Study of Class and Consciousness

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.

  • Copyright year: 2012
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Patron Gods and Patron Lords

The Semiotics of Classic Maya Community Cults

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2016
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