University Alabama Press imprint: 831 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
The nine essays in this volume offer critical studies of the range of King’s public discourse as forms of sermonic rhetoric. They focus on five diverse and relative short examples from King’s body of work: “Death of Evil on the Seashore,” “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” “I Have a Dream,”...
Kolomoki
Settlement, Ceremony, and Status in the Deep South, A.D. 350 to 750
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication
The first comprehensive and systematic investigation of a Woodland period ceremonial center.
Kolomoki, one of the most impressive archaeological sites in the southeastern United States, includes at least nine large earthen mounds in the lower Chattahoochee...
by Gregory L. Fox, Paul P. Kreisa, David H. Dye
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Fourteen experts examine the current state of Central Valley prehistoric research and provide an important touchstone for future archaeological study of the region.
The Mississippi Valley region has long played a critical role in the development of American archaeology and continues to be widely...
Mississippian Polity and Politics on the Gulf Coastal Plain
A View from the Pearl River, Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
The definition of the regional limits of chiefly influence during the Mississippian period in the southeastern United States remains unresolved. In the Gulf Coastal Plain between the Mississippi and Black Warrior rivers, some studies have explored the role that interpolity interactions played in influencing...
by Edwin A. Lyon
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2010
Recipient of the 1994 Anne B. and James B. McMillan Prize
This comprehensive study provides a history of New Deal archaeology in the Southeast in the 1930s and early 1940s and focuses on the projects of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, the Civil Works Administration, the Works Progress...
The Swift Creek Gift
Vessel Exchange on the Atlantic Coast
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
A unique dataset for studying past social interactions comes from Swift Creek Complicated Stamped pottery that linked sites throughout much of the Eastern Woodlands but that was primarily distributed over the lower Southeast. Although connections have been demonstrated, their significance has remained...
Field Rhetoric
Ethnography, Ecology, and Engagement in the Places of Persuasion
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
**A survey of the innovative scholarship emerging at the intersections of rhetoric, **and fieldwork
A variety of research areas within rhetorical studies—including everyday and public rhetorics, space and place-based work, material and ecological approaches, environmental communication,...
The Everest Effect
Nature, Culture, Ideology
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
In The Everest Effect Elizabeth Mazzolini traces a series of ideological shifts in the status of Mount Everest in Western culture over the past century to the present day and links these shifts to technologies used in climbs. By highlighting the intersections of technology and cultural ideologies...
Public Management Reform and Innovation
Research, Theory, and Application
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
Leading scholars present the most complete, as well as the most advanced,
treatment of public management reform and innovation available.
The subject of reform in the public sector is not new;
indeed, its latest rubric, reinventing government, has become good politics.
Still, as the contributors...
The Savannah River Chiefdoms
Political Change in the Late Prehistoric Southeast
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2005
This volume explores political change in chiefdoms, specifically how complex chiefdoms emerge and collapse, and how this process—called cycling—can be examined using archaeological, ethnohistoric, paleoclimatic, paleosubsistence, and physical anthropological data. The focus for the research is...
by Reniel Rodríguez Ramos
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
The history of Puerto Rico has usually been envisioned as a sequence of colonizations-various indigenous peoples from Archaic through Taíno were successively invaded, assimilated, or eliminated, followed by the Spanish entrada, which was then modified by African traditions and, since 1898, by the...
Ancient Borinquen
Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Native Puerto Rico
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Native American cultures of Puerto Rico prior to the arrival of the Spanish in 1493.
A book on the prehistory of a modern geopolitical entity is artificial. It is unlikely that prehistoric occupants recognized the same boundaries and responded to the same political forces that operated in...
Caciques and Cemi Idols
The Web Spun by Taino Rulers Between Hispaniola and Puerto Rico
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Cemís are both portable artifacts and embodiments of persons or spirit, which the Taínos and other natives of the Greater Antilles (ca. AD 1000-1550) regarded as numinous beings with supernatural or magic powers. This volume takes a close look at the relationship between humans and other (non-human)...
by Divaldo Antonio Gutierrez Calvache, Racso Fernandez Ortega, Pedro A. Alvarado Layos
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
This compilation, by an international grouping of scholars, focuses on the nature of Caribbean rock art or rock graphics and makes clear the region's substantial and distinctive rock art tradition. Thorough and comparative, it includes data on the history of rock graphic research, the nature of the...