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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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"The Touch of Civilization"
Comparing American and Russian Internal Colonization
By Steven Sabol
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2017
The Archaeology of Large-Scale Manipulation of Prey
The Economic and Social Dynamics of Mass Hunting
Edited by Kristen A. Carlson and Leland C. Bement
University Press of Colorado
Large-Scale Manipulation of Prey explores the social and functional aspects of large-scale hunting adaptations in the archaeological record. Mass-kill hunting strategies are ubiquitous in human prehistory and exhibit culturally specific economic, social, environmental, and demographic markers. Here, seven case studies—primarily from the Americas and spanning from the Folsom period on the Great Plains to the ethnographic present in Australia—expand the understanding of large-scale hunting methods beyond the customary role of subsistence and survival to include the social and political realms within which large-scale hunting adaptations evolved.
- Copyright year: 2018
Leisure and Death
An Anthropological Tour of Risk, Death, and Dying
University Press of Colorado
This anthropological study examines the relationship between leisure and death, specifically how leisure practices are used to meditate upon—and mediate—life. Considering travelers who seek enjoyment but encounter death and dying, tourists who accidentally face their own mortality while vacationing, those who intentionally seek out pleasure activities that pertain to mortality and risk, and those who use everyday leisure practices like social media or dogwalking to cope with death, Leisure and Death delves into one of the most provocative subsets of contemporary cultural anthropology.
- Copyright year: 2018
Archaeological Perspectives on Warfare on the Great Plains
Edited by Andrew Clark and Douglas Bamforth
University Press of Colorado
In Archaeological Perspectives on Warfare on the Great Plains, anthropologists who study sites across the Plains critically examine regional themes of warfare from pre-Contact and post-Contact periods and assess how war shaped human societies of the region.
- Copyright year: 2018
Season of Terror
The Espinosas in Central Colorado, March–October 1863
University Press of Colorado
Season of Terror is the first book-length treatment of the little-known true story of the Espinosas—serial murderers with a mission to kill every Anglo in Civil War–era Colorado Territory—and the men who brought them down.
- Copyright year: 2013
Jeannette Rankin
A Political Woman
By James J. Lopach and Jean A. Luckowski
University Press of Colorado
Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to Congress, stands tall among American icons. The representative from Montana won her seat at a time when women didn't have the right to vote in most states. Her firm stances inspired both admiration and fury across party lines, and she gained nearly canonical status among feminists and pacifists. In Jeannette Rankin: A Political Woman, James Lopach and Jean Luckowski demythologize Rankin, showing her to be a talented, driven, and deeply divided woman.
- Copyright year: 2015
Life beyond the Boundaries
Constructing Identity in Edge Regions of the North American Southwest
Edited by Karen Harry and Sarah A. Herr
University Press of Colorado
Life beyond the Boundaries explores identity formation on the edges of the ancient Southwest. Focusing on some of the more poorly understood regions, including the Jornada Mogollon, the Gallina, and the Pimería Alta, the authors use methods drawn from material culture science, anthropology, and history to investigate themes related to the construction of social identity along the perimeters of the American Southwest.
- Copyright year: 2018
Constructions of Time and History in the Pre-Columbian Andes
Edited by Edward Swenson and Andrew Roddick
University Press of Colorado
Constructions of Time and History in the Pre-Columbian Andes explores archaeological approaches to temporalities, social memory, and constructions of history in the pre-Columbian Andes. The authors examine a range of indigenous temporal experiences and ideologies, including astronomical, cyclical, generational, eschatological, and mythical time.
- Copyright year: 2018
A History of Mortgage Banking in the West
Financing America's Dreams
University Press of Colorado
Part economic history, part public history, A History of Mortgage Banking in the West is an insider’s account of how the mortgage banking sector worked over the last 150 years, including analysis of the causes of the 2007 mortgage crisis. Beginning with the land and railroad development acts that encouraged settlement in the west, E. Michael Rosser and Diane M. Sanders trace the laws, institutions, and individuals that contributed to the economic growth of the region.
- Copyright year: 2017
Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on the Itzas of Petén, Guatemala
Edited by Prudence M. Rice and Don S. Rice
University Press of Colorado
Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on the Itzas of Petén, Guatemala is the first exhaustively detailed and thorough account of the Itzas—a Maya group that dominated much of the western lowland area of tropical forest, swamps, and grasslands in Petén, Guatemala.
- Copyright year: 2018
Land, Politics, and Memory in Five Nija’ib' K’iche’ Títulos
"The Title and Proof of Our Ancestors"
University Press of Colorado
Land, Politics, and Memory in Five Nija’ib’ K’iche’ Títulos is a careful analysis and translation of five Highland Maya títulos composed in the sixteenth century.
- Copyright year: 2017
Land, Politics, and Memory in Five Nija'ib' K'iche' Títulos
"The Title and Proof of Our Ancestors"
University Press of Colorado
Land, Politics, and Memory in Five Nija’ib’ K’iche’ Títulos is a careful analysis and translation of five Highland Maya títulos composed in the sixteenth century.
- Copyright year: 2017
Words and Worlds Turned Around
Indigenous Christianities in Colonial Latin America
Edited by David Tavárez; Foreword by William Taylor
University Press of Colorado
A sophisticated, state-of-the-art study of the remaking of Christianity by indigenous societies, Words and Worlds Turned Around reveals the manifold transformations of Christian discourses in the colonial Americas.
- Copyright year: 2017
The Lisu
Far from the Ruler
By Michele Zack
University Press of Colorado
This first-ever book about the Lisu brings their ironic worldview to life through vivid, often amusing accounts of individuals, communities, regions, and practices. One of the smallest and last groups of stateless people, and the most egalitarian of all Southeast Asian highland minorities, the Lisu have not only survived extremes at the crossroads of civil wars, the drug trade, and state-sponsored oppression but adapted to modern politics and technology without losing their identity.
- Copyright year: 2017
The Last Stand of the Pack
Critical Edition
University Press of Colorado
This critical edition explores the past and future of wolves in Colorado. Originally published in 1929, The Last Stand of the Pack is a historical account of the extermination of what were then believed to be the last wolves in Colorado.
- Copyright year: 2017
Stones, Bones, and Profiles
Exploring Archaeological Context, Early American Hunter-Gatherers, and Bison
Edited by Marcel Kornfeld and Bruce Huckell
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2016
Instead of Dying
University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing
Invoking spiders and senators, physicists and aliens, Lauren Haldeman’s second book, Instead of Dying, decodes the world of death with a powerful mix of humor, epiphany, and agonizing grief.
- Copyright year: 2017
Relating to Rock Art in the Contemporary World
Navigating Symbolism, Meaning, and Significance
Edited by Liam M. Brady and Paul S.C. Taçon
University Press of Colorado
Relating to Rock Art in the Contemporary World challenges traditional ways of thinking about this highly recognizable form of visual heritage and provides insight into its contemporary significance.
- Copyright year: 2016
The Great Unknown
Japanese American Sketches
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2016
An Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology
Adaptations, Structures, Meanings
By David Haines
University Press of Colorado
This texbook exposes students to the cultural detail and personal experiences that lie in the anthropological record and extends their anthropological understanding to contemporary issues.
- Copyright year: 2017
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