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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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Polity and Ecology in Formative Period Coastal Oaxaca
Edited by Arthur A. Joyce
University Press of Colorado
Encapsulating two decades of research, <i>Polity and Ecology in Formative Period Coastal Oaxaca</i> is the first major treatment of the lower Río Verde region of Oaxaca, investigating its social, political, and ecological history. Tracing Formative period developments from the earliest known evidence of human presence to the collapse of Río Viejo (the region's first centralized polity), the volume synthesizes the archaeological and paleoecological evidence from the valley.<
Cooperation and Collective Action
Archaeological Perspectives
Edited by David M. Carballo
University Press of Colorado
Past archaeological literature on cooperation theory has emphasized competition's role in cultural evolution. As a result, bottom-up possibilities for group cooperation have been under theorized in favor of models stressing top-down leadership, while evidence from a range of disciplines has demonstrated humans to effectively sustain cooperative undertakings through a number of social norms and institutions. Cooperation and Collective Action is the first volume to focus on the use of archaeological evidence to understand cooperation and collective action.
- Copyright year: 2013
Archaeometallurgy in Mesoamerica
Current Approaches and New Perspectives
Edited by Aaron N. Shugar and Scott E. Simmons
University Press of Colorado
Presenting the latest in archaeometallurgical research in a Mesoamerican context, Archaeometallurgy in Mesoamerica brings together up-to-date research from the most notable scholars in the field.
Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia
Reconstructing Past Identities from Archaeology, Linguistics, and Ethnohistory
Edited by Alf Hornborg and Jonathan D. Hill
University Press of Colorado
A transdisciplinary collaboration among ethnologists, linguists, and archaeologists, Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia traces the emergence, expansion, and decline of cultural identities in indigenous Amazonia.
Dinéjí Na`nitin
Navajo Traditional Teachings and History
University Press of Colorado
Traditional teachings derived from stories and practices passed through generations lie at the core of a well-balanced Navajo life. These teachings are based on a very different perspective of the physical and spiritual world than that found in general American culture. Dinéjí Na`nitin is an introduction to traditional Navajo teachings and history for a non-Navajo audience, providing a glimpse into this unfamiliar domain and illuminating the power and experience of the Navajo worldview.
Agency in Ancient Writing
Edited by Joshua Englehardt
University Press of Colorado
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 actors and actions in the archaeological record.
Family System
University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing
- Copyright year: 2012
The Menial Art of Cooking
Archaeological Studies of Cooking and Food Preparation
Edited by Sarah R. Graff and Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría
University Press of Colorado
<i>The Menial Art of Cooking</i> shows how cooking activities provide a window into other aspects of society and, as such, should be taken seriously as an aspect of social, cultural, political, and economic life.<
Maya Creation Myths
Words and Worlds of the Chilam Balam
University Press of Colorado
There is no Classical Yucatecan Maya word for "myth." But around the close of the seventeenth century, an anonymous Maya scribe penned what he called u kahlay cab tu kinil, "the world history of the era," before Christianity came to the Peten. He collected numerous accounts of the cyclical destruction and reestablishment of the cosmos; the origins of gods, human beings, and the rituals and activities upon which their relationship depends; and finally the dawn of the sun and the sacred calendar Maya diviners still use today to make sense of humanity's place in the otherwise inscrutable march of time. These creation myths eventually became part of the documents known today as the Books of Chilam Balam.
Maya Creation Myths provides not only new and outstanding translations of these myths but also an interpretive journey through these often misunderstood texts, providing insight into Maya cosmology and how Maya intellectuals met the challenge of the European clergy's attempts to eradicate their worldviews.
Implementing the Endangered Species Act on the Platte Basin Water Commons
University Press of Colorado
Implementing the Endangered Species Act on the Platte Basin Water Commons tells of the negotiations among the U.S. Department of the Interior, the environmental community, and the states of Wyoming, Colorado, and Nebraska that took place from the mid-1970s to 2006. Ambitious talks among rival water users, environmentalists, state authorities, and the Department of the Interior finally resulted in the Platte River Habitat Recovery Program.
Human No More
Digital Subjectivities, Unhuman Subjects, and the End of Anthropology
Edited by Neil L. Whitehead and Michael Wesch
University Press of Colorado
Turning an anthropological eye toward cyberspace, Human No More explores how conditions of the online world shape identity, place, culture, and death within virtual communities.
Histories of Infamy
Francisco López de Gómara and the Ethics of Spanish Imperialism
By Cristián A. Roa-de-la-Carrera; Translated by Scott Sessions
University Press of Colorado
Thomas F. Walsh
Progressive Businessman and Colorado Mining Tycoon
By John Stewart
University Press of Colorado
Thomas F. Walsh tells the story of one of the West's wealthiest mining magnates - an Irish American prospector and lifelong philanthropist who struck it rich in Ouray County, Colorado.
Politics, Labor, and the War on Big Business
The Path of Reform in Arizona, 1890-1920
University Press of Colorado
<i>Politics, Labor, and the War on Big Business </i>details the rise, fall, and impact of the anticorporate reform effort in Arizona during the Progressive reform era, roughly 1890-1920. Drawing on previously unexamined archival files and building on research presented in his previous books, author David R. Berman offers a fresh look at Progressive heritage and the history of industrial relations during Arizona's formative period.<
Upper Level Disturbances
By Kevin Goodan
University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing
Mountain West Poetry Series
Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University
Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University
The Anthropology of Labor Unions
Edited by E. Paul Durrenberger and Karaleah S. Reichart
University Press of Colorado
The Anthropology of Labor Unions presents ethnographic data and analysis in eight case studies from several very diverse industries. It covers a wide range of topics, from the role of women and community in strikes to the importance of place in organization, and addresses global concerns with studies from Mexico and Malawu.
Reshaping New Spain
Government and Private Interests in the Colonial Bureaucracy, 1535-1550
University Press of Colorado
Originally published in Mexico as Gobierno y Sociedad en Nueva Espana, Ethelia Ruiz Medrano's seminal study Reshaping New Spain is now available in an updated English edition.
Drawing on extensive archival research, Ruiz examines the developing colonial institutions in Mexico and how they changed indigenous land ownership and labor laws to favor the new bureaucrats. This portrait of the emerging government in New Spain fills a critical niche in Latin American studies.
- Copyright year: 2006
Surviving Sudden Environmental Change
Answers From Archaeology
Edited by Jago Cooper and Payson Sheets
University Press of Colorado
Archaeologists have long encountered evidence of natural disasters through excavation and stratigraphy. In Surviving Sudden Environmental Change, case studies examine how eight different past human communities-ranging from Arctic to equatorial regions, from tropical rainforests to desert interiors, and from deep prehistory to living memory-faced and coped with such dangers
Colorado Flora
Western Slope, Fourth Edition
A Field Guide to the Vascular Plants
University Press of Colorado
<i>Colorado Flora: Western Slope</i> describes the remarkable flora of the state, distinctive in its altitudinal range, numerous microhabitats, and ancient and rare plants. Together with <i>Colorado Flora: Eastern Slope, Fourth Edition</i>, these volumes are designed to educate local amateurs and professionals in the recognition of vascular plant species and encourage informed stewardship of our biological heritage.<
Colorado Flora
Eastern Slope, Fourth Edition
A Field Guide to the Vascular Plants
University Press of Colorado
Colorado Flora: Eastern Slope describes the remarkable flora of the state, distinctive in its altitudinal range, numerous microhabitats, and ancient and rare plants. Together with Colorado Flora: Western Slope, Fourth Edition, these volumes are designed to educate local amateurs and professionals in the recognition of vascular plant species and encourage informed stewardship of our biological heritage
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