by operations | Jul 24, 2017 | History/Social Sciences, Non-Series, Southwest
1998. Gregor Stark and E. Catherine Rayne
Richly illustrated with many previously unpublished photographs, El Delirio offers an appealing glimpse into a fascinating period of Santa Fe history. It is also a loving portrait of the remarkable, energetic, and strong-willed Elizabeth White, described by a friend as “one of the great women of the Southwest in a very small body.”
by operations | Jul 24, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Cultural Anthropology, History/Social Sciences, SAR Press
2001. Edited by Dorothy Holland and Jean Lave
Nine ethnographers address such topics as the politically sexualized transformation of identities of women political prisoners in Northern Ireland; the changing character of political activism across generations in a Guatemala Mayan family; the cultural forms that mediate the struggles of working-class men on shop floors in England; and class and community struggles between the state and grassroots activists in New York.
by operations | Jul 24, 2017 | History/Social Sciences, Indigenous Peoples, Resident Scholar, SAR Press, Southwest
1999. Garrick Bailey and Roberta Glenn Bailey
While many Native Americans have subordinated their tribal identity to their identity as Indians, unique historical circumstances have allowed the Navajos to maintain their uniqueness. This book examines these circumstances over the century and more that the tribe has lived on the reservation.
by operations | Jul 24, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Cultural Anthropology, History/Social Sciences, SAR Press
2007. Edited by Ann Stoler, Carole McGranahan, and Peter Perdue
Recasting the study of imperial governance, forms of sovereignty, and the imperial state, the authors pay close attention to non-European empires and the active trade in ideas, practices, and technologies among empires, as well as between metropolitan regions and far-flung colonies.
by operations | Jul 24, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Applied Anthropology, History/Social Sciences, Indigenous Peoples, SAR Press, Southwest
2010. Edited by Sherry L. Smith and Brian Frehner
This book explores the ways people have transformed natural resources in the American Southwest into fuel supplies for human consumption. Not only do Native Americans possess a large percentage of the Southwest’s total acreage, but much of the nation’s coal, oil, and uranium resources reside on tribal lands.
by operations | Jul 24, 2017 | General Anthropology, History/Social Sciences, Resident Scholar, SAR Press, Southwest
2008. Edited, annotated, and introduced by Marit K. Munson
Archaeologist and rock art specialist Marit K. Munson presents a carefully edited and annotated edition of Chapman’s memoirs. Written in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Chapman’s side of the story is an intimate insider’s portrait of the personalities and events that shaped Santa Fe.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Cultural Anthropology, History/Social Sciences
2004. Edited by Sally Engle Merry and Donald Brenneis
Focusing on the intimate relationship between law, culture, and the production of social knowledge, these essays re-center law in social theory. The authors analyze the transition from chiefdom to capitalism, colonizers’ racial and governmental ideologies, land and labor policies, and contemporary efforts to recuperate indigenous culture and assert or maintain indigenous sovereignty.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Ancient Americas, Cultural Anthropology, General Anthropology, History/Social Sciences, Indigenous Peoples, Southwest
2015. Edited by Bonnie Martin and James F. Brooks
This volume has brought together scholars from anthropology, history, psychology, and ethnic studies to share their original research into the lesser known stories of slavery in North America and reveal surprising parallels among slave cultures across the continent.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Archaeology, History/Social Sciences
1995. Edited by Peter R. Schmidt and Thomas C. Patterson
In Making Alternative Histories, eleven scholars from Africa, India, Latin America, North America, and Europe debate and discuss how to respond to the erasures of local histories by colonialism, neocolonial influences, and the practice of archaeology and history as we know them today in North America and much of the Western world.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Applied Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, General Anthropology, History/Social Sciences, Indigenous Peoples, Resident Scholar, SAR Press
2006. Charles R. Hale
This deeply researched and sensitively rendered study raises troubling questions about the contradictions of anti-racist politics and the limits of multiculturalism in Guatemala and, by implication, other countries in the midst of similar reform projects.