Substance of the Ancient Maya
Kingdoms and Communities, Objects and Beings
Physicians of the Future
Doctor-Influencers, Patient-Consumers, and the Business of Functional Medicine
Iñupiat of the Sii
Historical Ethnography and Arctic Challenges
Iñupiat of the Sii is a firsthand account of Wanni and Douglas Anderson’s lived experiences during eight field seasons of archaeological and ethnographic research in Selawik, Alaska, from 1968 to 1994.
Rethinking Community in Myanmar
Practices of We-Formation among Muslims and Hindus in Urban Yangon
My Land, My Life
Dispossession at the Frontier of Desire
Power and Identity at the Margins of the Ancient Near East
Power and Identity at the Margins of the Ancient Near East rethinks the dichotomy between antiquated terms such as “core” and “periphery,” explores lived realities in the margins of central authority, and centers those margins as places of resistance and power in their own right.
Maya-British Conflict at the Edge of the Yucatecan Caste War
Maya-British Conflict at the Edge of the Yucatecan Caste War interrogates the 1862 alliance forged between the San Pedro Maya and the British during the Caste War of Yucatán (1847–1901).
The Transnational Construction of Mayanness
Reading Modern Mesoamerica through US Archives
The Transnational Construction of Mayanness explores how US academics, travelers, officials, and capitalists contributed to the construction of the Maya as an area of academic knowledge and affected the lives of the Maya peoples who were the subject of generations of anthropological research from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.
Pushing Boundaries in Southwestern Archaeology
Chronometry, Collections, and Contexts
Pushing Boundaries in Southwestern Archaeology draws together the proceedings from the sixteenth biennial Southwest Symposium.
The Title of Totonicapán
This work is the first English translation of the complete text of the Title of Totonicapán, one of the most important documents composed by the K’iche’ Maya in the highlands of Guatemala, second only to the Popol Vuh.
Projectland
Life in a Lao Socialist Model Village
Citizen Designs
City-Making and Democracy in Northeastern Thailand
The Poetics of Processing
Memory Formation, Identity, and the Handling of the Dead
The Poetics of Processing combines social theory and bioarchaeology to examine how the living manipulate the bodies of the dead for social purposes.
Shamanism and Vulnerability on the North and South American Great Plains
In Shamanism and Vulnerability on the North and South American Great Plains Kathleen Bolling Lowrey provides an innovative and expansive study of indigenous shamanism and the ways in which it has been misinterpreted and dismissed by white settlers, NGO workers, policymakers, government administrators, and historians and anthropologists.