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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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The Archaeology of Wak'as
Explorations of the Sacred in the Pre-Columbian Andes
Edited by Tamara L. Bray
University Press of Colorado
In this edited volume, Andean wak'as—idols, statues, sacred places, images, and oratories—play a central role in understanding Andean social philosophies, cosmologies, materialities, temporalities, and constructions of personhood. Top Andean scholars from a variety of disciplines cross regional, theoretical, and material boundaries in their chapters, offering innovative methods and theoretical frameworks for interpreting the cultural particulars of Andean ontologies and notions of the sacred.
- Copyright year: 2014
Anthropomorphizing the Cosmos
Middle Preclassic Lowland Maya Figurines, Ritual, and Time
University Press of Colorado
Explores the sociocultural significance of more than three hundred Middle Preclassic Maya figurines uncovered at the site of Nixtun-Ch'ich' on Lake Petén Itzá in northern Guatemala.
- Copyright year: 2019
La Consentida
Settlement, Subsistence, and Social Organization in an Early Formative Mesoamerican Community
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2019
Best Backpacking Trips in Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado
By Mike White and Douglas Lorain
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2019
The Archaeology of Medieval Islamic Frontiers
From the Mediterranean to the Caspian Sea
Edited by A. Asa Eger
University Press of Colorado
The Archaeology of Medieval Islamic Frontiers demonstrates that different areas of the Islamic polity previously understood as “minor frontiers” were, in fact, of substantial importance to state formation.
- Copyright year: 2019
Interregional Interaction in Ancient Mesoamerica
Edited by Joshua Englehardt and Michael D. Carrasco
University Press of Colorado
Explores the role of interregional interaction in the dynamic sociocultural processes that shaped the pre-Columbian societies of Mesoamerica.
- Copyright year: 2019
Religion, History, and Place in the Origin of Settled Life
Edited by Ian Hodder
University Press of Colorado
This volume explores the role of religion and ritual in the origin of settled life in the Middle East.
- Copyright year: 2018
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
Lithic Technologies in Sedentary Societies
Edited by Rachel A. Horowitz and Grant S. McCall
University Press of Colorado
Examines lithic technology from ancient societies in Mesoamerica, the Near East, South Asia, and North America.
- Copyright year: 2019
Manufactured Light
Mirrors in the Mesoamerican Realm
Edited by Emiliano Gallaga and Marc G. Blainey
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2015
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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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
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
Imperial Peripheries in the Neo-Assyrian Period
Edited by Craig W. Tyson and Virginia R. Herrmann
University Press of Colorado
Focuses on the variability of imperial strategies and local responses to Assyrian power across time and space.
- Copyright year: 2018
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
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
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
Patron Gods and Patron Lords
The Semiotics of Classic Maya Community Cults
By Joanne Baron
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2016
The Anthropological Study of Class and Consciousness
Edited by E. Paul Durrenberger
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Indigenous Graphic Communication Systems
A Theoretical Approach
Edited by Katarzyna Mikulksa and Jerome A. Offner
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
Rituals and Sisterhoods
Single Women's Households in Mexico, 1560–1750
By Amos Megged
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
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
Detachment from Place
Beyond an Archaeology of Settlement Abandonment
Edited by Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire and Scott Macrae
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
Historicizing Fear
Ignorance, Vilification, and Othering
Edited by Travis D. Boyce and Winsome M. Chunnu
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
Hidden Out in the Open
Spanish Migration to the United States (1875-1930)
Edited by Phylis Cancilla Martinelli and Ana Varela-Lago
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
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
The Minuses
By Jami Macarty
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
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
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
Pleas and Petitions
Hispano Culture and Legislative Conflict in Territorial Colorado
By Virginia Sánchez; Foreword by Ken Salazar
University Press of Colorado
Virginia Sánchez sheds new light on the political obstacles, cultural conflicts, and institutional racism experienced by Hispano legislators in the wake of the legal establishment of the Territory of Colorado.
- Copyright year: 2019
Reshaping the World
Debates on Mesoamerican Cosmologies
Edited by Ana Díaz
University Press of Colorado
A nuanced exploration of the plurality, complexity, and adaptability of Precolumbian and colonial-era Mesoamerican cosmological models and the ways in which anthropologists and historians have used colonial and indigenous texts to understand these models in the past.
- Copyright year: 2019
America's Switzerland
Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park, the Growth Years
University Press of Colorado
America's Switzerland, a companion volume to This Blue Hollow, is the first comprehensive history of Rocky Mountain National Park and its neighboring town, Estes Park, during the decades when travel became a middle-class rite of summer.
Peter Fidler
From York Factory to the Rocky Mountains
Edited by Barbara Belyea
University Press of Colorado
This book presents Hudson’s Bay Company surveyor Peter Fidler’s journals, edited and extensively annotated by historian Barbara Belyea.
- Copyright year: 2020
Fanning the Sacred Flame
Mesoamerican Studies in Honor of H. B. Nicholson
Edited by Matthew A. Boxt and Brian D. Dillon
University Press of Colorado
Fanning the Sacred Flame: Mesoamerican Studies in Honor of H. B. Nicholson contains twenty-two original papers in tribute to H. B. "Nick" Nicholson, a pioneer of Mesoamerican research. His intellectual legacy is recognized by Mesoamerican archaeologists, art historians, ethnohistorians, and ethnographers--students, colleagues, and friends who derived inspiration and encouragement from him throughout their own careers.
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