by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Cultural Anthropology, History/Social Sciences
1994. Edited by Rubie S. Watson
Eight anthropologists, sociologists, and historians probe the oppositional narratives created by Chinese rural intellectuals, èmigrè Croats, and organized dissenters such as the Djilas of Yugoslavia who constructed and maintained oppositional histories in state socialist societies.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Ancient Americas, Archaeology, History/Social Sciences, Popular Archaeology
2010. Edited by Margaret C. Nelson and Michelle Hegmon
Beginning with an overview of the abrupt change in lifestyle that launched the distinctive Mimbres culture, the book explores the lives of men and women, their sustenance, the changing nature of leadership, and the possible meanings of their dramatic pottery designs.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Ancient Americas, Archaeology, History/Social Sciences, Non-Series, SAR Press, Southwest
2010. David M. Brugge
Combining archaeological evidence with Navajo cultural precepts, Brugge has used the records of the oldest European institution in the American Southwest – the Catholic Church – to shed light on the practices, causes, and effects of Spanish, Mexican, and American occupation on the Navajo Nation.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Global Indigenous Politics, History/Social Sciences, Indigenous Peoples, SAR Press
2009. Nancy Marie Mithlo
In this pathbreaking study, anthropologist Nancy Marie Mithlo examines the power of stereotypes, the utility of pan-Indianism, the significance of realist ideologies, and the employment of alterity in Native American arts.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | General Anthropology, History/Social Sciences, Non-Series, Southwest
2007. Nancy Owen Lewis and Kay Leigh Hagan; Preface by James F. Brooks
This book brings to life the people, debates, conflicts, and creativity that make the School for Advanced Research an exciting and thought-provoking place to study, work, and create. It serves at once as the story of an exceptional institution and a fascinating history of anthropology and anthropology’s diverse cast of characters.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Ancient Americas, Archaeology, Cultural Anthropology, General Anthropology, History/Social Sciences, Indigenous Peoples, Resident Scholar, Southwest
2014. John A. Ware; foreword by Timothy Earle
This volume offers new perspectives on the pithouse to pueblo transition, Chaco phenomenon, evolution of Rio Grande moieties, Western Pueblo lineages and clans, Katsina cult, great kivas, dynamics of village aggregation in the late prehistoric period, and much more.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Cultural Anthropology, General Anthropology, History/Social Sciences, Indigenous Peoples
2004. Edited by John M.Watanabe and Edward F. Fischer
This volume brings together eight Maya specialists and a prominent anthropological theorist to assess the contrasting historical circumstances and emerging cultural futures of Maya in Mexico and Guatemala.
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 Sarah Soliz | Feb 17, 2021 | Cultural Anthropology, General Anthropology, History/Social Sciences, Indigenous Peoples, Non-Series, Recently Published Titles, SAR Press
2021. Edited by John P. Hawkins
Drawing on over fifty years of research and data, the book argues that two factors—cultural collapse and systematic social and economic exclusion—explain the recent religious transformation of Maya Guatemala and the style and emotional intensity through which that transformation is expressed.
by operations | Jul 26, 2017 | History/Social Sciences, Non-Series, Southwest
2010. Sarah Bronwen Horton
Through close readings of canonical texts by New Mexican historian Fray Angélico Chávez about La Conquistadora, a fifteenth-century Marian icon to whom legend credits Don Diego De Vargas’s “peaceful” resettlement, and through careful attention to the symbolic action of the event, this book explores the tropes of gender, time, genealogy, and sexuality through which this form of cultural nationalism is imagined.