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Landscapes of Movement and Predation
Perspectives from Archaeology, History, and Anthropology
Edited by Brenda J. Bowser and Catherine M. Cameron
The University of Arizona Press
Landscapes of Movement and Predation is a global study of times and places, in the colonial and precolonial eras, where people were subject to brutality, displacement, and loss of life, liberty, livelihood, and possessions. The book provides a startling new perspective on an aspect of the past that is often overlooked: the role of violence in shaping where, how, and with whom people lived.
Ancient Mesoamerican Population History
Urbanism, Social Complexity, and Change
The University of Arizona Press
Including research from both highland central Mexico and the tropical lowlands of the Maya and Olmec areas, this book reexamines demography in ancient Mesoamerica. Through new technology such as LiDAR (light detecting and ranging), the book provides new understandings of ancient Mesoamerican societies and how they changed over time.
Birds of the Sun
Macaws and People in the U.S. Southwest and Mexican Northwest
The University of Arizona Press
The multiple vivid colors of scarlet macaws and their ability to mimic human speech are key reasons they were and are significant to the Native peoples of the U.S. Southwest and Mexican Northwest. Although the birds’ natural habitat is the tropical forests of Mexico and Central and South America, they were present at multiple archaeological sites in the region yet absent at the vast majority. Leading experts in southwestern archaeology explore the reasons why.
Foodways of the Ancient Andes
Transforming Diet, Cuisine, and Society
Edited by Marta P Alfonso-Durruty and Deborah E Blom
The University of Arizona Press
Exploring the multiple social, ecological, cultural, and ontological dimensions of food in the Andean past, this book offers a diverse set of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches that reveal the richness, sophistication, and ingenuity of Andean peoples. With forty-six contributors from ten countries, the studies presented in this volume employ new analytical methods, integrating different food data and interdisciplinary research to show how food impacts sociopolitical relationships and ontologies that are otherwise invisible in the archaeological record.
The Border and Its Bodies
The Embodiment of Risk Along the U.S.-México Line
Edited by Thomas E. Sheridan and Randall H. McGuire
The University of Arizona Press
The increasingly militarized U.S.-México border is an intensely physical place, affecting the bodies of all who encounter it. The essays in this volume explore how crossing becomes embodied in individuals on the most basic social unit possible: the human body.
Flower Worlds
Religion, Aesthetics, and Ideology in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest
Edited by Michael Mathiowetz and Andrew Turner
The University of Arizona Press
The recognition of Flower Worlds is one of the most significant breakthroughs in the study of Indigenous spirituality in the Americas.Flower Worldsis the first volume to bring together a diverse range of scholars to create an interdisciplinary understanding of floral realms that extend at least 2,500 years in the past.
The Global Spanish Empire
Five Hundred Years of Place Making and Pluralism
Edited by Christine Beaule and John G. Douglass
The University of Arizona Press
The Global Spanish Empire tackles broad questions about indigenous cultural persistence, pluralism, and place making using a global comparative perspective grounded in the shared experience of Spanish colonialism. Through an expansive range of essays that look at Africa, the Americas, Asia, the Caribbean and the Pacific, this volume brings often-neglected regions into conversation.
Knowledge in Motion
Constellations of Learning Across Time and Place
Edited by Andrew P. Roddick and Ann B. Stahl
The University of Arizona Press
Knowledge in Motion brings together archaeologists, historians, and cultural anthropologists to examine communities from around the globe as they engage in a range of practices constituting situated learned and knowledge transmission. The contributors lay the groundwork to forge productive theories and methodologies for exploring situated learning and its broad-ranging outcomes.
The Davis Ranch Site
A Kayenta Immigrant Enclave in Southeastern Arizona
By Rex E. Gerald; Edited by Patrick D. Lyons
The University of Arizona Press
In this volume, the results of Rex Gerald’s 1957 excavations at the Davis Ranch site in southeastern Arizona's San Pedro River Valley are reported in their entirety for the first time. Annotations to Gerald’s original manuscript and newly written material place Gerald’s work in the context of what is currently known regarding the late thirteenth-century Kayenta diaspora and the relationship between Kayenta immigrants and the Salado phenomenon.
The Continuous Path
Pueblo Movement and the Archaeology of Becoming
Edited by Samuel Duwe and Robert W. Preucel
The University of Arizona Press
The Continuous Path challenges archaeologists to take Pueblo concepts of movement seriously by privileging Pueblo concepts of being and becoming in the interpretation of anthropological data. The collaborative volume brings together Native community members, archaeologists, and anthropologists to weave multiple perspectives together to write the histories of Pueblo peoples past, present, and future.
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