University Press Of Colorado: 252 books
Abundance
The Archaeology of Plenitude
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
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...
Gendered Labor in Specialized Economies
Archaeological Perspectives on Female and Male Work
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Prehistoric economic relationships are often presented as genderless, yet mounting research highlights the critical role gendered identities play in the division of work tasks and the development of specialized production in pre-modern economic systems. In Gendered Labor in Specialized Economies,...
Insignia of Rank in the Nahua World
From the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
This significant work reconstructs the repertory of insignia of rank and the contexts and symbolic meanings of their use, along with their original terminology, among the Nahuatl-speaking communities of Mesoamerica from the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries. Attributes of rank carried profound...
Exploring Cause and Explanation
Historical Ecology, Demography, and Movement in the American Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
This 13th biennial volume of the Southwest Symposium highlights three distinct archaeological themes—historical ecology, demography, and movement—tied together through the consideration of the knowledge tools of cause and explanation. These tools focus discussion on how and why questions, facilitate...
New Mexico and the Pimería Alta
The Colonial Period in the American Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Winner of the 2017 Arizona Literary Award for Published Nonfiction
Focusing on the two major areas of the Southwest that witnessed the most intensive and sustained colonial encounters, New Mexico and the Pimería Alta compares how different forms of colonialism and indigenous political economies...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Individual agents are frequently evident in early writing and notational systems, yet these systems have rarely been subjected to the concept of agency as it is traceable in archeology. Agency in Ancient Writing addresses this oversight, allowing archeologists to identify and discuss real, observable...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
In Archaeological Variability and Interpretation in Global Perspective, contributors illustrate the virtues of various ecological, experimental, statistical, typological, technological, and cognitive/social approaches for understanding the origins, formation histories, and inferential potential of...
Alternative Pathways to Complexity
A Collection of Essays on Architecture, Economics, Power, and Cross-Cultural Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Alternative Pathways to Complexity focuses on the themes of architecture, economics, and power in the evolution of complex societies. Case studies from Mesoamerica, Asia, Africa, and Europe examine the relationship between political structures and economic configurations of ancient chiefdoms and states...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
Political Landscapes of Capital Cities investigates the processes of transformation of the natural landscape into the culturally constructed and ideologically defined political environments of capital cities. In this spatially inclusive, socially dynamic interpretation, an interdisciplinary group...
"The Touch of Civilization"
Comparing American and Russian Internal Colonization
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
The Touch of Civilization is a comparative history of the United States and Russia during their efforts to colonize and assimilate two indigenous groups of people within their national borders: the Sioux of the Great Plains and the Kazakhs of the Eurasian Steppe. In the revealing juxtaposition...
Gambling Debt
Iceland's Rise and Fall in the Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Gambling Debt is a game-changing contribution to the discussion of economic crises and neoliberal financial systems and strategies. Iceland’s 2008 financial collapse was the first case in a series of meltdowns, a warning of danger in the global order. This full-scale anthropology of financialization...
Hidden Out in the Open
Spanish Migration to the United States (1875-1930)
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Hidden Out in the Open is the first English-language volume on Spanish migration to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This panoramic study covers a period defined by the crucial transformations of the Progressive Era in the United States, and by similarly momentous...
by Karen Harry, Barbara J. Roth
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
This volume of proceedings from the fourteenth biennial Southwest Symposium explores different kinds of social interaction that occurred prehistorically across the Southwest. The authors use diverse and innovative approaches and a variety of different data sets to examine the economic, social, and...
The Lisu
Far from the Ruler
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
This book brings the ironic worldview of the Lisu 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...