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<p>Focusing on the two major areas of the Southwest that witnessed the most intensive and sustained colonial encounters, <em>New Mexico and the Pimer?a Alta</em> compares how different forms of colonialism and indigenous political economies resulted in diverse outcomes for colonists and Native peoples. Taking a holistic approach and studying both colonist and indigenous perspectives through ...
<p>The Valley of Oaxaca was unified under the rule of Monte Alb?n until its collapse around AD 800. Using findings from John Paddock’s long-term excavations at Lambityeco from 1961 to 1976, Michael Lind and Javier Urcid examine the political and social organization of the ancient community during the Xoo Phase (Late Classic period).Focusing on change within this single archaeological period rat...
<p>In <em>Coal in Our Veins</em>, Erin Thomas employs historical research, autobiography, and journalism to intertwine the history of coal, her ancestors' lives mining coal, and the societal and environmental impacts of the United States' dependency on coal as an energy source. In the first part of her book, she visits Wales, native ground of British coal mining and of her emigrant ancestors...
<p><em>Historicizing Fear</em> is 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.The book examines fear and Othering from a historical context, providing a better understanding of how power and oppress...
<p>As Americans try to better manage and protect the natural resources of our watersheds, is politics getting in the way? Why does watershed management end up being so political? In <em>Embracing Watershed Politics</em>, political scientists Edella Schlager and William Blomquist provide timely illustrations and thought-provoking explanations of why political considerations are essential, una...
<p>Years before Hitler unleashed the “Final Solution” to annihilate European Jews, he began a lesser-known campaign to eradicate the mentally ill, which facilitated the gassing and lethal injection of as many as 270,000 people and set a precedent for the mass murder of civilians. In <em>Confronting the “Good Death”</em> Michael Bryant analyzes the U.S. government and West German judiciar...
<p><em>Animals and Inequality in the Ancient World</em> explores the current trends in the social archaeology of human-animal relationships, focusing on the ways in which animals are used to structure, create, support, and even deconstruct social inequalities.</p> <p>The authors provide a global range of case studies from both New and Old World archaeologyーa royal Aztec dog burial, the m...
<p>L.G. Freeman is a major scholar of Old World Paleolithic prehistory and a self-described “behavioral paleoanthropologist.” <em>Anthropology without Informant</em>s is a collection of previously published papers by this preeminent archaeologist, representing a cross section of his contributions to Old Work Paleolithic prehistory and archaeological theory.</p> <p>A socio-cultural anth...
<p><em>Ancient Households on the North Coast of Peru</em> provides insight into the organization of complex, urban, and state-level society in the region from a household perspective, using observations from diverse North Coast households to generate new understandings of broader social processes in and beyond Andean prehistory.</p> <p>Many volumes on this region are limited to one time ...
<p><em>From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico</em> compares the Christianization of the Roman Empire with the evangelization of Mesoamerica, offering novel perspectives on the historical processes involved in the spread of Christianity. Combining concepts of empire and globalization with the notion of religion from a postcolonial perspective, the book proposes the method of analytical comparis...
<p><em>Rituals of the Past</em> 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 pol...
<p>Political authority contains an inherent contradiction. Rulers must reinforce social inequality and bolster their own unique position at the top of the sociopolitical hierarchy, yet simultaneously emphasize social similarities and the commonalities shared by all. <em>Political Strategies in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica</em> explores the different and complex ways that those who exercised aut...
<p><em>Interregional Interaction in Ancient Mesoamerica</em> explores the role of interregional interaction in the dynamic sociocultural processes that shaped the pre-Columbian societies of Mesoamerica. Interdisciplinary contributions from leading scholars investigate linguistic exchange and borrowing, scribal practices, settlement patterns, ceramics, iconography, and trade systems, presenti...
<p>Numerous archaeological projects have found substantial evidence of the military nature of Maya society, and warfare is a frequent theme of Maya art. <em>Maya Gods of War</em> investigates the Classic period Maya gods who were associated with weapons of war and the flint and obsidian from which those weapons were made.</p> <p>Author Karen Bassie-Sweet traces the semantic markers used ...
<p>YouTube hosts one billion visitors monthly and sees more than 400 hours of video uploaded every minute. In her award winning book, <em>Thanks for Watching</em>, Patricia G. Lange offers an anthropological perspective on this heavily mediated social environment by analyzing videos and the emotions that motivate sharing them. She demonstrates how core concepts from anthropologyーparticipant-...
<p>A year after spending six months in the Amazon Jungle while returning Belle to the Sky People, Professor Maria Espinoza now teaches DNA Profiling at a university in Brazil. Compared to past adventures, seeing and experiencing what few people on this planet can even imagine, she finds her class boring and unfulfilling. She wonders where her life is going now that she has lost the man she loves...