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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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The Lisu

The Lisu

Far from the Ruler

By Michele Zack

University Press of Colorado

This first-ever book about the Lisu brings their ironic worldview to life through vivid, often amusing accounts of individuals, communities, regions, and practices. One of the smallest and last groups of stateless people, and the most egalitarian of all Southeast Asian highland minorities, the Lisu have not only survived extremes at the crossroads of civil wars, the drug trade, and state-sponsored oppression but adapted to modern politics and technology without losing their identity.

Copyright year: 2017

The Last Stand of the Pack

The Last Stand of the Pack

Critical Edition

By Arthur Carhart, with Stanley Young; Edited by Andrew Gulliford and Tom Wolf

University Press of Colorado

This critical edition explores the past and future of wolves in Colorado. Originally published in 1929, The Last Stand of the Pack is a historical account of the extermination of what were then believed to be the last wolves in Colorado.

Copyright year: 2017

Stones, Bones, and Profiles

Stones, Bones, and Profiles

Exploring Archaeological Context, Early American Hunter-Gatherers, and Bison

Edited by Marcel Kornfeld and Bruce Huckell

University Press of Colorado

Copyright year: 2016

Instead of Dying

Instead of Dying

By Lauren Haldeman

University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing

Invoking spiders and senators, physicists and aliens, Lauren Haldeman’s second book, Instead of Dying, decodes the world of death with a powerful mix of humor, epiphany, and agonizing grief.

Copyright year: 2017

Relating to Rock Art in the Contemporary World

Relating to Rock Art in the Contemporary World

Navigating Symbolism, Meaning, and Significance

Edited by Liam M. Brady and Paul S.C. Taçon

University Press of Colorado

Relating to Rock Art in the Contemporary World challenges traditional ways of thinking about this highly recognizable form of visual heritage and provides insight into its contemporary significance.

Copyright year: 2016

The Great Unknown

The Great Unknown

Japanese American Sketches

By Greg Robinson

University Press of Colorado

Copyright year: 2016

An Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology

An Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology

Adaptations, Structures, Meanings

By David Haines

University Press of Colorado

This texbook exposes students to the cultural detail and personal experiences that lie in the anthropological record and extends their anthropological understanding to contemporary issues.

Copyright year: 2017

Uncertain Times

Uncertain Times

Anthropological Approaches to Labor in a Neoliberal World

Edited by E. Paul Durrenberger

University Press of Colorado

This first-ever collection of labor anthropology from around the world asserts that traditional labor unions have been co-opted by neoliberal policies of corporate capital and have become service organizations rather than drivers of social movements.

Copyright year: 2017

Navajo Textiles

Navajo Textiles

The Crane Collection at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science

By Laurie D. Webster, Louise Stiver, D. Y. Begay, and Lynda Teller Pete; Introduction by Ann Lane Hedlund

University Press of Colorado

Navajo Textiles is a nuanced account of the historical context of the Navajo weavings in the Crane Collection at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science—one of the largest collections of Navajo textiles inthe world. Bringing together the work of anthropologists and indigenous artists, the book explores the Navajo rug trade in the mid-nineteenth century and changes in the Navajo textile market while highlighting the museum’s important, though still relatively unknown, collection of Navajo textiles.

Copyright year: 2017

Basic K'ichee' Grammar

Basic K'ichee' Grammar

38 Lessons, Revised Edition

By James L. Mondloch

University Press of Colorado

Copyright year: 2016

Creating Dialogues

Creating Dialogues

Indigenous Perceptions and Changing Forms of Leadership in Amazonia

Edited by Hanne Veber and Pirjo Virtanen

University Press of Colorado

Creating Dialogues discusses contemporary forms of leadership in a variety of Amazonian indigenous groups. Examining the creation of indigenous leaders as political subjects in the context of contemporary state policies of democratization and exploitation of natural resources, the book addresses issues of resilience and adaptation at the level of local community politics in lowland South America.

Copyright year: 2017

These "Thin Partitions"

These "Thin Partitions"

Bridging the Growing Divide between Cultural Anthropology and Archaeology

Edited by Joshua Englehardt and Ivy Rieger

University Press of Colorado

Copyright year: 2016

Beautiful Flesh

Beautiful Flesh

A Body of Essays

Edited by Stephanie G'Schwind

University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing

Beautiful Flesh gathers eighteen essays on the body, essentially building a multi-gender, multi-ethnic body out of essays, each concerning a different part of the body: belly, brain, bones, blood, ears, eyes, hair, hands, heart, lungs, nose, ovaries, pancreas, sinuses, skin, spine, teeth, and vas deferens.

Copyright year: 2017

Rituals of the Past

Rituals of the Past

Prehispanic and Colonial Case Studies in Andean Archaeology

Edited by Silvana Rosenfeld and Stefanie Bautista

University Press of Colorado

Rituals of the Past explores the various approaches archaeologists use to identify ritual in the material record and discusses the influence ritual had on the formation, reproduction, and transformation of community life in past Andean societies. A diverse group of established and rising scholars from across the globe investigates how ritual influenced, permeated, and altered political authority, economic production, shamanic practice, landscape cognition, and religion in the Andes over a period of three thousand years.

Copyright year: 2017

Legacies of Space and Intangible Heritage

Legacies of Space and Intangible Heritage

Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and the Politics of Cultural Continuity in the Americas

Edited by Fernando Armstrong-Fumero and Julio Hoil Gutierrez

University Press of Colorado

Legacies of Space and Intangible Heritage is an interdisciplinary exploration of the intersections between the study and management of physical sites and the reproduction of intangible cultural legacies. The volume provides nine case studies that explore different ways in which place is mediated by social, political, and ecological processes that have deep historical roots and that continue to affect the politics of heritage management.

Copyright year: 2017

Incidence of Travel

Incidence of Travel

Recent Journeys in Ancient South America

By Jerry D. Moore

University Press of Colorado

In Incidence of Travel, archaeologist Jerry Moore draws on his personal experiences and historical and archaeological studies throughout South America to explore and understand the ways traditional peoples created cultural landscapes in the region. Combining travel narrative and archaeology in a series of essays—accounts of discoveries, mishaps of travel, and encounters with modern people living in ancient places—Incidence of Travel will engage any general reader, student, or scholar with interest in archaeology, anthropology, Latin American history, or storytelling.

Copyright year: 2017

Ancient Maya Commerce

Ancient Maya Commerce

Multidisciplinary Research at Chunchucmil

Edited by Scott R. Hutson

University Press of Colorado

Presents nearly two decades of multidisciplinary research at Chunchucmil, Yucatan, Mexico showing how the city was a major center for both short- and long-distance trade, integrating the Guatemalan highlands, the Gulf of Mexico, and the interior of the northern Maya lowlands.

Copyright year: 2017

"The Only True People"

"The Only True People"

Linking Maya Identities Past and Present

Edited by Bethany J. Beyette and Lisa J. LeCount

University Press of Colorado

"The Only True People" is a timely and rigorous examination of ethnicity among the ancient and modern Maya, focusing on ethnogenesis and exploring the complexities of Maya identity—how it developed, where and when it emerged, and why it continues to change over time. In the volume, a multidisciplinary group of well-known scholars including archaeologists, linguists, ethnographers, ethnohistorians, and epigraphers investigate ethnicity and other forms of group identity at a number of Maya sites and places, from the northern reaches of the Yucatan to the Southern Periphery, and across different time periods, from the Classic period to the modern day.

Copyright year: 2017

Field Guide to the Lichens of White Rocks

Field Guide to the Lichens of White Rocks

(Boulder, Colorado)

University Press of Colorado

Copyright year: 2017

The History of the Death Penalty in Colorado

The History of the Death Penalty in Colorado

By Michael Radelet

University Press of Colorado

Copyright year: 2017

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