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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.
Olmec Lithic Economy at San Lorenzo
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
The Rain Gods' Rebellion
The Cultural Basis of a Nahua Insurgency
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
Spirit Lands of the Eagle and Bear
Numic Archaeology and Ethnohistory in the Rocky Mountains and Borderlands
Spirit Lands of the Eagle and Bear explores advances in the prehistory and early history of Numic hunter-gatherers in the Rocky Mountain West through the presentation and analysis of archaeological and historic research on the period from the earliest established presence in the Rockies and its borderlands more than a thousand years ago to the forced removal of Ute, Shoshone, and other tribes to reservations in the mid-nineteenth century.
- Copyright year: 2020
Political Strategies in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica
- Copyright year: 2016
Interpreting the Legacy
John Neihardt and Black Elk Speaks
- Copyright year: 2020
Ancient Southwestern Mortuary Practices
Chronicles the modal patterns, diversity, and change of ancient mortuary practices from across the US Southwest and northwest Mexico over four thousand years of Prehispanic occupation.
- Copyright year: 2020
An Inconstant Landscape
The Maya Kingdom of El Zotz, Guatemala
- Copyright year: 2018
Fanning the Sacred Flame
Mesoamerican Studies in Honor of H. B. Nicholson
Peter Fidler
From York Factory to the Rocky Mountains
This book presents Hudson’s Bay Company surveyor Peter Fidler’s journals, edited and extensively annotated by historian Barbara Belyea.
- Copyright year: 2020
America's Switzerland
Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park, the Growth Years
Reshaping the World
Debates on Mesoamerican Cosmologies
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
Pleas and Petitions
Hispano Culture and Legislative Conflict in Territorial Colorado
- Copyright year: 2019
Maya Potters' Indigenous Knowledge
Cognition, Engagement, and Practice
- Copyright year: 2017
Colorado Day by Day
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
The Minuses
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
Rewriting Maya Religion
Domingo de Vico, K’iche’ Maya Intellectuals, and the Theologia Indorum
- Copyright year: 2019
Hidden Out in the Open
Spanish Migration to the United States (1875-1930)
- Copyright year: 2018
Historicizing Fear
Ignorance, Vilification, and Othering
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
Detachment from Place
Beyond an Archaeology of Settlement Abandonment
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
Anthropomorphic Imagery in the Mesoamerican Highlands
Gods, Ancestors, and Human Beings
- Copyright year: 2019
Rituals and Sisterhoods
Single Women's Households in Mexico, 1560–1750
- Copyright year: 2019
Indigenous Graphic Communication Systems
A Theoretical Approach
- Copyright year: 2019
As Precious as Blood
The Western Slope in Colorado's Water Wars, 1900-1970
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
Pueblos within Pueblos
Tlaxilacalli Communities in Acolhuacan, Mexico, ca. 1272-1692
- Copyright year: 2017
Magnifier
- Copyright year: 2019
Seeking Conflict in Mesoamerica
Operational, Cognitive, and Experiential Approaches
- Copyright year: 2019
Objects of Survivance
A Material History of the American Indian School Experience
- Copyright year: 2019
Thanks for Watching
An Anthropological Study of Video Sharing on YouTube
- Copyright year: 2019
The Anthropological Study of Class and Consciousness
- Copyright year: 2012
Patron Gods and Patron Lords
The Semiotics of Classic Maya Community Cults
- Copyright year: 2016
Return to Ixil
Maya Society in an Eighteenth-Century Yucatec Town
- Copyright year: 2019
Retelling Trickster in Naapi's Language
- Copyright year: 2019
Yellowstone Cougars
Ecology before and during Wolf Restoration
- Copyright year: 2018
Imperial Peripheries in the Neo-Assyrian Period
- Copyright year: 2018
Japanese Brazilian Saudades
Diasporic Identities and Cultural Production
- Copyright year: 2019
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Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City"
Reshaping Justice, Social Hierarchy, and Political Culture in Colonial Peru
- Copyright year: 2010
Communities and Households in the Greater American Southwest
New Perspectives and Case Studies
- Copyright year: 2019
Manufactured Light
Mirrors in the Mesoamerican Realm
- Copyright year: 2015
Lithic Technologies in Sedentary Societies
- Copyright year: 2019
Governors and the Progressive Movement
- Copyright year: 2019