University Press Of Colorado: 252 books
Ancient Zapotec Religion
An Ethnohistorical and Archaeological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Ancient Zapotec Religion is the first comprehensive study of Zapotec religion as it existed in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca on the eve of the Spanish Conquest. Author Michael Lind brings a new perspective, focusing not on underlying theological principles but on the material and spatial expressions...
Adventures in Eating
Anthropological Experiences in Dining from Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
Anthropologists training to do fieldwork in far-off, unfamiliar places prepare for significant challenges with regard to language, customs, and other cultural differences. However, like other travelers to unknown places, they are often unprepared to deal with the most basic and necessary requirement:...
by Clark C. Spence
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
A History of Gold Dredging in Idaho tells the story of a revolution in placer mining—and its subsequent impact on the state of Idaho—from its inception in the early 1880s until its demise in the early 1960s. Idaho was the nation’s fourth-leading producer of dredged gold after 1910 and therefore...
Ancient Households of the Americas
Conceptualizing What Households Do
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
In Ancient Households of the Americas archaeologists investigate the fundamental role of household production in ancient, colonial, and contemporary households.
Several different cultures-Iroquois, Coosa, Anasazi, Hohokam, San Agustín, Wankarani, Formative Gulf Coast Mexico, and Formative,...
Surplus
The Politics of Production and the Strategies of Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
The concept of surplus captures the politics of production and also conveys the active material means by which people develop the strategies to navigate everyday life. Surplus: The Politics of Production and the Strategies of Everyday Life examines how surpluses affected ancient economies, governments,...
Heritage Keywords
Rhetoric and Redescription in Cultural Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Situated at the intersection of scholarship and practice, Heritage Keywords positions cultural heritage as a transformative tool for social change. This volume unlocks the persuasive power of cultural heritage—as it shapes experiences of change and crafts present and future possibilities from historic...
Elusive Unity
Factionalism and the Limits of Identity Politics in Yucatán, Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
In Elusive Unity, Armstrong-Fumero examines early twentieth-century peasant politics and twenty-first-century indigenous politics in the rural Oriente region of Yucatán.
The rural inhabitants of this region have had some of their most important dealings with their nation’s government as...
Uncertain Times
Anthropological Approaches to Labor in a Neoliberal World
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
In this first-ever collection of labor anthropology from around the world, the contributors to Uncertain Times assert that traditional labor unions have been co-opted by neoliberal policies of corporate capital and have become service organizations rather than drivers of social movements. The current...
The Divided Dominion
Social Conflict and Indian Hatred in Early Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
In The Divided Dominion, Ethan A. Schmidt examines the social struggle that created Bacon's Rebellion, focusing on the role of class antagonism in fostering violence toward native people in seventeenth-century Virginia. This provocative volume places a dispute among Virginians over the permissibility...
The Neo-Indians
A Religion for the Third Millenium
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
The Neo-Indians is a rich ethnographic study of the emergence of the neo-Indian movement—a new form of Indian identity based on largely reinvented pre-colonial cultures and comprising a diverse group of people attempting to re-create purified pre-colonial indigenous beliefs and ritual practices...
by Christopher M. Filley, Christopher M Filley
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Thoroughly revised and updated to reflect key advances in behavioral neurology, Neurobehavioral Anatomy, Third Edition is a clinically based account of the neuroanatomy of human behavior centered on a consideration of behavioral dysfunction caused by disorders of the brain. A concise introduction...
Sacred Darkness
A Global Perspective on the Ritual Use of Caves
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
Caves have been used in various ways across human society, but despite the persistence within popular culture of the iconic caveman, deep caves were never used primarily as habitation sites for early humans. Rather, in both ancient and contemporary contexts, caves have served primarily as ritual spaces....
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
Paleoethnobotany, the study of archaeological plant remains, is poised at the intersection of the study of the past and concerns of the present, including agricultural decision making, biodiversity, and global environmental change, and has much to offer to archaeology, anthropology, and the interdisciplinary...
Wyoming Revisited
Rephotographing the Scenes of Joseph E. Stimson
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
In Wyoming Revisited, Michael A. Amundson uses the power of rephotography to show how landscapes across the state have endured over the last century. Three sets of photographs—the original black-and-white photographs taken by famed Wyoming photographer Joseph E. Stimson more than a century ago,...