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<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>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>The Great Plains has been central to academic and popular visions of Native American warfare, largely because the region’s well-documented violence was so central to the expansion of Euroamerican settlement. However, social violence has deep roots on the Plains beyond this post-Contact perception, and these roots have not been systematically examined through archaeology before. War was part,...
<p>Transference of orientalist images and identities to the American landscape and its inhabitants, especially in the Westーin other words, portrayal of the West as the “Orient”ーhas been a common aspect of American cultural history. Place names, such as the Jordan River or Pyramid Lake, offer noexamples, but the imagery and its varied meanings are more widespread and significant. Understanding ...
<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...
<p>This volume celebrates and examines the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center’s past, present, and future by providing a backdrop for the not-for-profit’s beginnings and highlighting key accomplishments in research, education, and American Indian initiatives over the past four decades. Specific themes include Crow Canyon’s contributions to projects focused on community and regional settlement ...
<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...
Making the White Man's West Whiteness and the Creation of the American West【電子書籍】[ Jason E. Pierce ]
<p>The West, especially the Intermountain states, ranks among the whitest places in America, but this fact obscures the more complicated history of racial diversity in the region. In <em>Making the White Man’s West</em>, author Jason E. Pierce argues that since the time of the Louisiana Purchase, the American West has been a racially contested space. Using a nuanced theory of historical “w...
<p><em>Political Landscapes of Capital Cities</em> investigates the processes of transformation of the natural landscape into the culturally constructed and ideologically defined political environments of capital cities. In this spatially inclusive, socially dynamic interpretation, an interdisciplinary group of authors including archaeologists, anthropologists, and art historians uses the me...