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Founded in 1965, the University Press of Colorado is a nonprofit cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State University, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University of Denver, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, University of Wyoming, Utah State University, and Western Colorado University.

In 2012, University Press of Colorado merged with Utah State University Press, which was established in 1972. USU Press titles are managed as an active imprint of University Press of Colorado, and they maintain offices in both Louisville, Colorado, and Logan, Utah.

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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Maya Potters' Indigenous Knowledge

Cognition, Engagement, and Practice

University Press of Colorado

Based on fieldwork and reflection over a period of almost fifty years, Maya Potters’ Indigenous Knowledge utilizes engagement theory to describe the indigenous knowledge of traditional Maya potters in Ticul, Yucatán, Mexico. In this heavily illustrated narrative account, Dean E. Arnold examines craftspeople’s knowledge and skills, their engagement with their natural and social environments, the raw materials they use for their craft, and their process for making pottery.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Colorado Day by Day

University Press of Colorado

A readable, this-day-in-history approach to the key figures, developments, and forces that shaped Colorado from ancient times to the present.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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The Minuses

University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing

The Minuses beckons attention to ecological and feminist issues, amplifying the endangerments predicating women’s lives and the natural world, laying bare the struggle and faith necessary to endure with integrity and spirit intact.
 

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Rewriting Maya Religion

Domingo de Vico, K’iche’ Maya Intellectuals, and the Theologia Indorum

University Press of Colorado

Sparks examines the earliest religious documents composed by missionaries and native authors in the Americas, including a reconstruction of the first original, explicit Christian theology written in the Americas—the Theologia Indorum.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Hidden Out in the Open

Spanish Migration to the United States (1875-1930)

University Press of Colorado

The first English-language volume on Spanish migration to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Historicizing Fear

Ignorance, Vilification, and Othering

University Press of Colorado

A historical interrogation of the use of fear as a tool to vilify and persecute groups and individuals from a global perspective, offering an unflinching look at racism, fearful framing, oppression, and marginalization across human history.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Detachment from Place

Beyond an Archaeology of Settlement Abandonment

University Press of Colorado

The first comparative and interdisciplinary volume on the archaeology of settlement abandonment, with contributions focusing on materiality, ideology, the environment, and social construction of space.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Anthropomorphic Imagery in the Mesoamerican Highlands

Gods, Ancestors, and Human Beings

University Press of Colorado

Researchers explore the meanings and functions of two- and three-dimensional human representations in the pre-Columbian communities of the Mexican highlands.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Rituals and Sisterhoods

Single Women's Households in Mexico, 1560–1750

University Press of Colorado

Rituals and Sisterhoods reveals the previously under-studied world of plebeian single women and single-female-headed households in colonial Mexican urban centers.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Indigenous Graphic Communication Systems

A Theoretical Approach

University Press of Colorado

Indigenous Graphic Communication Systems reports new results and insights into the meaning of the rich and varied content of indigenous American graphic expression and culture.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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