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 Last Stand of the Pack
Critical Edition
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
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
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
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
Japanese American Sketches
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2016
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
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
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
38 Lessons, Revised Edition
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2016
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
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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
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
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
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
Recent Journeys in Ancient South America
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
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
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"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
(Boulder, Colorado)
By Erin Tripp
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2017
The History of the Death Penalty in Colorado
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2017
Wayne Aspinall and the Shaping of the American West
University Press of Colorado
Colorado Congressman Wayne N. Aspinall was variously dubbed the "Ruler of the Land," a "bridge between the old and new Wests," and the environmental movement's "most durable foe." The late David Brower, the notable Sierra Club leader, remarked that the environmental movement had seen "dream after dream dashed on the stony continents of Wayne Aspinall."
In Wayne Aspinall and the Shaping of the American West, Steven C. Schulte details a political career that encompassed some of the most crucial years in the development of the twentieth-century West. As chairman of the House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee from 1959 to 1973, Aspinall shaped the nation's reclamation, land, wilderness, and natural resource policies. His crusty and dtermined personality was at the enter of some of the key environmental battles of the twentieth century, including the Echo Park Dam fight, the struggle for the Wilderness Act, and the long controversy over the Central Arizona Project.
- Copyright year: 2002
Alternative Pathways to Complexity
A Collection of Essays on Architecture, Economics, Power, and Cross-Cultural Analysis
Edited by Lane F. Fargher and Verenice Y. Heredia Espinoza
University Press of Colorado
Alternative Pathways to Complexity focuses on the themes of architecture, economics, and power in the evolution of complex societies. Case studies examine the relationship between political structures and economic configurations of ancient chiefdoms and states through a framework of comparative archaeology.
- Copyright year: 2016
Traditions, Transitions, and Technologies
Themes in Southwestern Archaeology
Edited by Sarah H. Schlanger
University Press of Colorado
Traditions, Transitions, and Technologies offers diverse perspectives on the state of Southwestern archaeology at the end of the twentieth century, linking the legacies of the past to present trends by placing current research into historical context.
- Copyright year: 2016
How Humans Cooperate
Confronting the Challenges of Collective Action
By Richard E. Blanton, with Lane F. Fargher
University Press of Colorado
Blanton and Fargher develop is strongly empirical, historically deep, and more synthetic approach to investigating human cooperation, using findings from fields as diverse as neurobiology, primatology, ethnography, history, art history, and archaeology.
- Copyright year: 2016
Gendered Labor in Specialized Economies
Archaeological Perspectives on Female and Male Work
Edited by Sophia E. Kelly and Traci Ardren
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2016
Commoner Ritual and Ideology in Ancient Mesoamerica
Edited by Nancy Gonlin and Jon C. Lohse
University Press of Colorado
This volume explores the ritual life of Mesoamerica's common citizens, inside and outside of the domestic sphere, from Formative through Postclassic periods. Building from the premise that ritual and ideological expression inhered at all levels of society in Mesoamerica, the contributors demonstrate that ideology did not emanate solely from exalted individuals and that commoner ritual expression was not limited to household contexts. Taking an empirical approach to this under-studied and under-theorized area, contributors use material evidence to discover how commoner status conditioned the expression of ideas and values.
- Copyright year: 2016
Archaeological Variability and Interpretation in Global Perspective
Edited by Alan P. Sullivan and Deborah Irene Olszewski
University Press of Colorado
Contributors illustrate the virtues of various ecological, experimental, statistical, typological, technological, and cognitive/social approaches for understanding the origins, formation histories, and inferential potential of a wide range of archaeological phenomena.
- Copyright year: 2016
&luckier
University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing
In his first collection of poems, &luckier, Christopher J Johnson explores the depths to which we can know our most intimate friends, habits, and—even more so—selves.
- Copyright year: 2016
Negotiation within Domination
New Spain's Indian Pueblos Confront the Spanish State
University Press of Colorado
Negotiation within Domination examines the formation of colonial governance in New Spain through interactions between indigenous peoples and representatives of the Spanish Crown. The book highlights the complexity of native negotiation and mediation with colonial rule across time, culture, and place and how it shaped colonial political and legal structures from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries.
- Copyright year: 2016
Exit Theater
By Mike Lala
University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing
- Copyright year: 2016
Mixtec Evangelicals
Globalization, Migration, and Religious Change in a Oaxacan Indigenous Group
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2016
A Roof Over My Head, Second Edition
Homeless Women and the Shelter Industry
University Press of Colorado
Based upon extensive ethnographic data, A Roof Over My Head examines the lives of homeless women who often care for children and live in small shelters and transitional living centers. Previous literature on homelessness has focused on those living literally on the streets or in large armory-style shelters. As William maintains, such studies often overlook those homeless women—many with children—who live in small shelters and transitional living centers.
The author draws upon interviews with homeless women, interviews with housed people, and, finally, evaluations of shelter services, philosophies, and policies to get at the causes and social construction of homelessness. A Roof Over My Head is a ground-breaking study that unveils the centrality of abuse and poverty in homeless women's lives and outlines ways in which societal responses can and should be more effective.
- Copyright year: 2016
Risk Communication and Miscommunication
Case Studies in Science, Technology, Engineering, Government, and Community Organizations
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2016
A Land Made from Water
Appropriation and the Evolution of Colorado's Landscape, Ditches, and Water Institutions
University Press of Colorado
A Land Made from Water chronicles how the appropriation and development of water and riparian resources in Colorado changed the face of the Front Range—an area that was once a desert and is now an irrigated oasis suitable for the habitation and support of millions of people.
- Copyright year: 2016
The Man Who Thought He Owned Water
On the Brink with American Farms, Cities, and Food
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2016
Forest Conservation in the Anthropocene
Science, Policy, and Practice
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2016
Political Landscapes of Capital Cities
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2016
Stories in Stone
The Enchanted Gem Carvings of Vasily Konovalenko
By Stephen E. Nash; By (photographer) Richard M. Wicker
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2016
Chol (Mayan) Folktales
A Collection of Stories from the Modern Maya of Southern Mexico
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2016
Denver Landmarks and Historic Districts
By Thomas J. Noel and Nicholas Wharton
University Press of Colorado
- Copyright year: 2016
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