by operations | Aug 27, 2018 | Advanced Seminar, Ancient Americas, Archaeology, Cultural Anthropology, General Anthropology, History/Social Sciences, Indigenous Peoples, Linguistics, Recently Published Titles, Southwest
2018. Edited by Peter M. Whitely
The contributors draw upon the insights of archaeology, ethnology, and linguistic anthropology to examine social history and practice, including kinship groups, ritual sodalities, architectural forms, economic exchange, environmental adaptation, and political order, as well as their patterns of transmission over time and space.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Ancient Americas, Archaeology, Arroyo Hondo/Grand Canyon, Southwest
1983. Martin R. Rose, Jeffrey S. Dean, and William P. Robinson
This landmark study uses archaeological tree-ring chronologies in the first attempt to quantitatively reconstruct past climate variability.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Indigenous Peoples, Non-Series, Southwest
1993. Text and photographs by Stephen Trimble
In this book, Stephen Trimble provides an introduction to these Native peoples that is unrivaled in its scope and readability. Graced with an absorbing, well-researched text, a wealth of maps and historic photographs, and the author’s penetrating contemporary portraits and landscapes, The People is the indispensable reference for anyone interested in the Indians of the Southwest.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Ancient Americas, Archaeology, Popular Archaeology, Southwest
2005. Edited by Robert P. Powers
In this beautifully illustrated book, archaeologists, historians, ecologists, and Pueblo contributors tell a deep and sweeping story of the region.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Ancient Americas, Archaeology, Arroyo Hondo/Grand Canyon, Southwest
1993. Judith A. Habicht-Mauche
In this eighth volume of the Arroyo Hondo Archaeological Series, Judith A. Habicht-Mauche builds on an exhaustive study of the mineralogical and chemical attributes of the ceramic assemblage to produce a penetrating evaluation of the stylistic diversity, origins, and changes through time of the pottery types found at Arroyo Hondo.
by operations | Aug 24, 2018 | Advanced Seminar, Cultural Anthropology, General Anthropology, Recently Published Titles
2018. Edited by Nikhil Anand, Akhil Gupta, and Hannah Appel
While infrastructures promise modernity and development, their breakdowns and absences reveal the underbelly of progress, liberal equality, and economic growth. This tension, between aspiration and failure, makes infrastructure a productive location for social theory.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, General Anthropology, SAR Press
2013. Edited by Rodney Harrison, Sarah Byrne, and Anne Clarke
This volume considers the material networks and affective qualities of “things” alongside their representational role within the museum and explores the ways in which concepts of agency and indigeneity need to be reconfigured in light of the study of these concepts within the museum context.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Ancient Americas, Archaeology, Cultural Anthropology, General Anthropology, SAR Press
1970. Edited by William A. Longacre
The chapters in this book focus on methods and theories used to systematically test hypotheses about prehistoric social organization.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Cultural Anthropology, General Anthropology, SAR Press
1991. Edited by Richard G. Fox
The ten papers in this volume offer different versions of how and where anthropologists might work usefully in today’s world, converging on the issue of how anthropology can best recapture the progressive character its basic concepts, such as “culture,” once had.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Linguistics, SAR Press
2000. Edited by Paul V. Kroskrity
Moving beyond a preoccupation with ideologies of cultural “others,” the volume includes reflexive analyses of European language philosophy and historical linguistics, US academic ideologies of language, political discourses by US journalists and elite image advisors, and the impact of Christian missionaries on indigenous peoples in the Papua New Guinea highlands.