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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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Stone Houses and Earth Lords

Maya Religion in the Cave Context

University Press of Colorado

Stone Houses and Earth Lords is the first volume dedicated exclusively to the use of caves in the Maya Lowlands, covering primarily Classic Period archaeology from A.D. 100 through the Spaniards' arrival. Although the caves that riddled the lowlands show no signs of habitation, most contain evidence of human use - evidence that suggests that they functioned as ritual spaces.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Chuj (Mayan) Narratives

Folklore, History, and Ethnography from Northwestern Guatemala

University Press of Colorado

In Chuj (Mayan) Narratives, Nicholas Hopkins analyzes six narratives that illustrate the breadth of the Chuj storytelling tradition, from ancient mythology to current events and from intimate tales of local affairs to borrowed stories, such as an adaptation of Oedipus Rex.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Barbed Voices

Oral History, Resistance, and the World War II Japanese American Social Disaster

University Press of Colorado

Featuring selected inmates and camp groups, Arthur Hansen reveals why, when, where, and how some of the 120,000 incarcerated Japanese Americans spearheaded resistance movements in the ten War Relocation Authority–administered compounds in the United States during World War II.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Why Those Who Shovel Are Silent

A History of Local Archaeological Knowledge and Labor

University Press of Colorado

Why Those Who Shovel Are Silent is based on six years of in-depth ethnographic work with current and former site workers at two major Middle Eastern archaeological sites—Petra, Jordan, and Çatalhöyük, Turkey—combined with thorough archival research.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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West : Fire : Archive

University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing

A poetry collection that challenges preconceived, androcentric ideas about biography, autobiography, and history fueled by the western myth of progress presented in Frederick Jackson Turner’s “frontier thesis.”

  • Copyright year: 2021
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The Egyptian Mummies and Coffins of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science

History, Technical Analysis, and Conservation

University Press of Colorado

The Egyptian Mummies and Coffins of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science provides replicable findings and consistent terminology for institutions performing holistic studies on extant museum collections of a range of material types and will add substantially to what we know about the effective conservation of Egyptian mummies and coffins.
 

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Southeastern Mesoamerica

Indigenous Interaction, Resilience, and Change

University Press of Colorado

Southeastern Mesoamerica highlights the diversity and dynamism of the Indigenous groups that inhabited and continue to inhabit the borders of Southeastern Mesoamerica, an area that includes parts of present-day Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Mobility and Migration in Ancient Mesoamerican Cities

University Press of Colorado

Mobility and Migration in Ancient Mesoamerican Cities is the first focused book-length discussion of migration in central Mexico, west Mexico and the Maya region, presenting case studies on population movement in and among Classic, Epiclassic, and Postclassic Mesoamerican societies and polities within the framework of urbanization and de-urbanization.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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The Explorer's Guide to Death Valley National Park, Fourth Edition

University Press of Colorado

Originally published in 1995, soon after Death Valley National Park became the fifty-third park in the US park system, The Explorer’s Guide to Death Valley National Park was the first complete guidebook available for this spectacular area.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Ancient Households on the North Coast of Peru

University Press of Colorado

Ancient Households on the North Coast of Peru provides insight into the organization of complex, urban, and state-level society in the region from a household perspective, using observations from diverse north coast households to generate new understandings of broader social processes in and beyond Andean prehistory.
 

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Archaeology of the Night

Life After Dark in the Ancient World

University Press of Colorado

Archaeology of the Night explores the archaeology, anthropology, mythology, iconography, and epigraphy of nocturnal practices and questions the dominant models of daily ancient life.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Pueblos, Plains, and Province

New Mexico in the Seventeenth Century

University Press of Colorado

In Pueblos, Plains, and Province Joseph P. Sánchez offers an in-depth examination of sociopolitical conflict in seventeenth-century New Mexico, detailing the effects of Spanish colonial policies on settlers’, missionaries’, and Indigenous peoples’ struggle for economic and cultural control of the region.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Energy Impacts

A Multidisciplinary Exploration of North American Energy Development

University Press of Colorado

Energy Impacts brings together important new research on site-level social, economic, and behavioral impacts from large-scale energy development.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Sorcery in Mesoamerica

University Press of Colorado

Approaching sorcery as highly rational and rooted in significant social and cultural values, Sorcery in Mesoamerica examines and reconstructs the original indigenous logic behind it, analyzing manifestations from the Classic Maya to the ethnographic present.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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The Poetics of Processing

Memory Formation, Identity, and the Handling of the Dead

University Press of Colorado

The Poetics of Processing combines social theory and bioarchaeology to examine how the living manipulate the bodies of the dead for social purposes.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Shamanism and Vulnerability on the North and South American Great Plains

University Press of Colorado

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.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Mapping Identity

The Creation of the Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation, 1805-1902

University Press of Colorado

Mapping Identity traces the formation of the Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation in northern Idaho from the introduction of the Jesuit notion of "reduction" in the 1840s to the finalization of reservation boundaries in the 1890s. Using Indian Agency records, congressional documents, Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) records, Jesuit missionary reports, and tribal accounts, historian Laura Woodworth-Ney argues that the reservation-making process for the Coeur d'Alenes reflected more than just BIA policy objectives.

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Representing Aztec Ritual

Performance, Text, and Image in the Work of Sahagun

University Press of Colorado

Arriving in Mexico less than a decade after the Spanish conquest of 1521, the Franciscan missionary Bernardino de Sahagún not only labored to supplant native religion with Christianity, he also gathered voluminous information on virtually every aspect of Aztec (Nahua) life in contact-period Mexico. Sahagún's remarkably detailed descriptions of Aztec ceremonial life offer the most extensive account of a non-Western ritual system recorded before modern times. Representing Aztec Ritual: Performance, Text, and Image in the Work of Sahagún uses Sahagún's corpus as a starting point to focus on ritual performance, a key element in the functioning of the Aztec world.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Night Burial

University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing

In Night Burial, Kate Bolton Bonnici mourns her mother’s death from ovarian cancer by tracing the composition, decomposition, and recomposition of the maternal body in poetry.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Dears, Beloveds

University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing

The prose poetry in Kevin Phan’s first collection, Dears, Beloveds, offers a fine-grained meditation on grief—personal, familial, ecological, and political. Informed by the author’s engagement with Buddhism & mindfulness, the poems address looming absences: in our vanishing earth, the scraps of a haunting voicemail, or waiting at hospice with little to do.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Invasion and Transformation

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Conquest of Mexico

University Press of Colorado

Invasion and Transformation examines the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire and transformations in political, social, cultural, and religious life in Mexico during the Conquest and the ensuing colonial period. In particular, contributors consider the ways in which the Conquest itself was remembered, both in its immediate aftermath and in later centuries.

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Tezcatlipoca

Trickster and Supreme Deity

University Press of Colorado
  • Copyright year: 2014
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Relational Identities and Other-than-Human Agency in Archaeology

University Press of Colorado

Relational Identities and Other-than-Human Agency in Archaeology explores the benefits and consequences of archaeological theorizing on the social agency of nonhumans.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Abundance

The Archaeology of Plenitude

Edited by Monica L. Smith
University Press of Colorado

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 and activities. Economists frequently focus on scarcity as a driving principle in the development of social and economic hierarchies, yet focusing on plenitude enables the understanding of a range of cohesive behaviors that were equally important for the development of social complexity.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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Jim Crow and the Wilson Administration

Protesting Federal Segregation in the Early Twentieth Century

University Press of Colorado

In Jim Crow and the Wilson Administration, Nicholas Patler presents the first in-depth study of the historic protest movement that challenged federal racial segregation and discrimination during the first two years of Woodrow Wilson's presidency.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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The Geology, Ecology, and Human History of the San Luis Valley

University Press of Colorado

The Geology, Ecology, and Human History of the San Luis Valley explores the rich landscapes and diverse social histories of the San Luis Valley, an impressive mountain valley spanning over 9,000 square miles that crosses the border of south-central Colorado and north-central New Mexico and includes many cultural traditions.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Indigenous Dance and Dancing Indian

Contested Representation in the Global Era

University Press of Colorado

Focusing on the enactment of identity in dance, Indigenous Dance and Dancing Indian is a cross-cultural, cross-ethnic, and cross-national comparison of indigenous dance practices.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Olmec Lithic Economy at San Lorenzo

University Press of Colorado

Olmec Lithic Economy at San Lorenzo examines the specialized craft production, manufacturing, adoption, and spread of obsidian cutting tools at San Lorenzo, Mexico, the first major Olmec center to develop in the southern Gulf Coast region of Mesoamerica.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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The Rain Gods' Rebellion

The Cultural Basis of a Nahua Insurgency

University Press of Colorado

 Providing a rare longitudinal look at the cultural basis of this grassroots insurgency, The Rain Gods’ Rebellion offers rare insight into the significance of oral history in forming Nahua collective memory and, by extension, culture.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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