＜p＞When Roger Smith returns home for a short break from his military duties, he has every intention of seeing his high school sweetheart, Caroline. Roger's intentions had been clear to Caroline- when it was time to return to South Carolina, she would leave with him and they were going to marry. Roger's parents had given him their blessings even though they didn't agree with his decision. Roger's...

＜p＞As a 20 yr old Marine in Vietnam in 1967 /68 I will describe what it was like flying on missions as a Helicopter Gunner and Crew Chief with HMM-361, having accumulated 314 combat missions in my 13-month tour. Perhaps this would have been an average tour had it not been for the events of 28 August thru 3 September 1967 at Dong Ha, Vietnam involving NVA artillery attacks.＜/p＞ ＜p＞" After the...

＜p＞In ＜em＞Identity Politics of Difference＜/em＞, author Michelle R. Montgomery uses a multidisciplinary approach to examine questions of identity construction and multiracialism through the experiences of mixed-race Native American students at a tribal school in New Mexico. She explores the multiple ways in which these students navigate, experience, and understand their racial status and how ...

＜p＞Little is known about how Late Postclassic populations in southeast Mesoamerica organized their political relations. ＜em＞Networks of Power＜/em＞ fills gaps in the knowledge of this little-studied area, reconstructing the course of political history in the Naco Valley from the fourteenth through early sixteenth centuries.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Describing the material and behavioral patterns pertaining...

＜p＞＜em＞Ancient Maya Commerce＜/em＞ presents nearly two decades of multidisciplinary research at Chunchucmil, Yucatan, Mexicoーa thriving Classic period Maya center organized around commercial exchange rather than agriculture. An urban center without a king and unable to sustain agrarian independence, Chunchucmil is a rare example of a Maya city in which economics, not political rituals, served...

＜p＞Through newly unearthed texts virtually unknown in Andean studies, ＜em＞Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City"＜/em＞ highlights the Andean intellectual tradition of writing in their long-term struggle for social empowerment and questions the previous understanding of the "lettered city" as a privileged space populated solely by colonial elites. Rarely acknowledged in studies of resista...

＜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＞A companion volume to ＜em＞Environmental Conflict in Alaska＜/em＞, ＜em＞Pioneering Conservation in Alaska＜/em＞ chronicles the central land and wildlife issues and the growth of environmental conservation in Alaska during its Russian and territorial eras.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The Alaskan frontier tempted fur traders, whalers, salmon fishers, gold miners, hunters, and oilmen to take what they could ...

＜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＞＜em＞Mixtec Evangelicals＜/em＞ is a comparative ethnography of four Mixtec communities in Oaxaca, detailing the process by which economic migration and religious conversion combine to change the social and cultural makeup of predominantly folk-Catholic communities. The book describes the effects on the home communities of the Mixtecs who travel to northern Mexico and the United States in se...

＜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＞In ＜em＞Wives, Mothers, and the Red Menace,＜/em＞ Mary Brennan examines conservative women's anti-communist activism in the years immediately after World War II.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Brennan details the actions and experiences of prominent anti-communists Jean Kerr McCarthy, Margaret Chase Smith, Freda Utley, Doloris Thauwald Bridges, Elizabeth Churchill Brown, and Phyllis Stewart Schlafly. She descr...

＜p＞For over one hundred years, Navajos have gone to work in significant numbers on Southwestern railroads. As they took on the arduous work of laying and anchoring tracks, they turned to traditional religion to anchor their lives.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Jay Youngdahl, an attorney who has represented Navajo workers in claims with their railroad employers since 1992 and who more recently earned a master's in ...

＜p＞＜em＞"The Only True People"＜/em＞ is a timely and rigorous examination of ethnicity among the ancient and modern Maya, focusing on ethnogenesis and exploring the complexities of Maya identityー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...

＜p＞＜em＞Legacies of Space and Intangible Heritage＜/em＞ 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 th...

＜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＞In ＜em＞Unsettling Assumptions＜/em＞, editors Pauline Greenhill and Diane Tye examine how tradition and gender come together to unsettle assumptions about culture and its study.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Contributors explore the intersections of traditional expressive culture and sex/gender systems to question, investigate, or upset concepts like family, ethics, and authenticity. Individual essays conside...

＜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＞Using case studies from around the globeーincluding Mesoamerica, North and South America, Africa, China, and the Greco-Roman worldーand across multiple time periods, the authors in this volume make the case that abundance provides an essential explanatory perspective on ancient peoples’ choices and activities. Economists frequently focus on scarcity as a driving principle in the development of...

＜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...