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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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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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As Precious as Blood

The Western Slope in Colorado's Water Wars, 1900-1970

University Press of Colorado

Steven C. Schulte examines the water wars between Colorado’s Eastern and Western Slopes and how the western part of the state fits into Colorado’s overall water story, exploring their social and political dimensions alongside the technical and scientific perspectives.

  • Copyright year: 2016
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Pueblos within Pueblos

Tlaxilacalli Communities in Acolhuacan, Mexico, ca. 1272-1692

University Press of Colorado

Focusing on the specific case of Acolhuacan in the eastern Basin of Mexico, Pueblos within Pueblos is the first book to systematically analyze tlaxilacalli history over nearly four centuries, beginning with their rise at the dawn of the Aztec empire through their transformation into the “pueblos” of mid-colonial New Spain.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Magnifier

University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing

Formally various, balanced on the edge of order and chaos, the poems in Magnifier cry out for “something more” from the “nothing but” even as they zero in on the damage we have done.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Seeking Conflict in Mesoamerica

Operational, Cognitive, and Experiential Approaches

University Press of Colorado

Seeking Conflict in Mesoamerica focuses on the conflicts of the ancient Maya, providing a holistic history of Maya hostilities and comparing them with those of neighboring Mesoamerican villages and towns.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Objects of Survivance

A Material History of the American Indian School Experience

University Press of Colorado

Rejecting the narrative that archival objects preserve dying Native cultures, Objects of Survivance reframes the Bratley Collection at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, showing how tribal members have reconnected to these items, embracing them as part of their past and reclaiming them as part of their contemporary identities.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Thanks for Watching

An Anthropological Study of Video Sharing on YouTube

University Press of Colorado

In Thanks for Watching, Patricia G. Lange offers an anthropological perspective on the heavily mediated social environment of YouTube by analyzing videos and the emotions that motivate sharing them.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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The Anthropological Study of Class and Consciousness

University Press of Colorado

Presenting prehistoric, historic, and ethnographic data from Mongolia, China, Iceland, Mexico, Brazil, and the United States, The Anthropological Study of Class and Consciousness offers a first step toward examining class as a central issue within anthropology. Contributors to this volume use the methods of historical materialism, cultural ecology, and political ecology to understand the realities of class and how they evolve.

  • Copyright year: 2012
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Patron Gods and Patron Lords

The Semiotics of Classic Maya Community Cults

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2016
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Return to Ixil

Maya Society in an Eighteenth-Century Yucatec Town

University Press of Colorado

Return to Ixil is an examination of over 100 colonial-era Maya wills from the Yucatec town of Ixil, presented together and studied fully for the first time.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Retelling Trickster in Naapi's Language

University Press of Colorado

An examination of Nitsitapiisinni (Blackfoot) origin stories about one of the most powerful and unpredictable of the early creators in Niitsitapii consciousness and chronology: Naapi.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Yellowstone Cougars

Ecology before and during Wolf Restoration

University Press of Colorado

Yellowstone Cougars examines the effect of wolf restoration on the cougar population in Yellowstone National Park.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Imperial Peripheries in the Neo-Assyrian Period

University Press of Colorado

Focuses on the variability of imperial strategies and local responses to Assyrian power across time and space.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Japanese Brazilian Saudades

Diasporic Identities and Cultural Production

University Press of Colorado

Explores the self-definition of Nikkei discourse in Portuguese-language cultural production by Brazilian authors of Japanese ancestry and suggests an alternative model of postcoloniality, particularly as it pertains to the post–World War II experience of Nikkei people in Brazil.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City"

Reshaping Justice, Social Hierarchy, and Political Culture in Colonial Peru

University Press of Colorado

Through newly unearthed texts virtually unknown in Andean studies, Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City" highlights the Andean intellectual tradition of writing in their long-term struggle for social empowerment and questions the previous understanding of the "lettered city" as a privileged space populated solely by colonial elites. Rarely acknowledged in studies of resistance to colonial rule, these writings challenged colonial hierarchies and ethnic discrimination in attempts to redefine the Andean role in colonial society.

  • Copyright year: 2010
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Communities and Households in the Greater American Southwest

New Perspectives and Case Studies

University Press of Colorado

Presents new research on human organization in the American Southwest.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Manufactured Light

Mirrors in the Mesoamerican Realm

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2015
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Lithic Technologies in Sedentary Societies

University Press of Colorado

Examines lithic technology from ancient societies in Mesoamerica, the Near East, South Asia, and North America.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Governors and the Progressive Movement

University Press of Colorado

The first comprehensive overview of the Progressive movement’s unfolding at the state level, covering every state in existence at the time through the words and actions of state governors.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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