by operations | Jul 24, 2017 | Ancient Americas, Archaeology, Non-Series, SAR Press, Southwest
2009. Stephen H. Lekson
While many works would have us believe that nothing much ever happened in the ancient Southwest, this book argues that the region experienced rises and falls, kings and commoners, war and peace, triumphs and failures.
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 | Ancient Americas, Archaeology, Popular Archaeology, SAR Press, Southwest
2008. Edited by Suzanne K. Fish and Paul R. Fish
Written by archaeologists who have led the effort to excavate, record, and preserve the remnants of this ancient culture, the chapters illuminate the way the Hohokam organized their households and their communities, their sophisticated pottery and textiles, their irrigation system, the huge ballcourts and platform mounds they built, and much more.
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 | Indigenous Peoples, Non-Series, SAR Press, Southwest
2001. Susan Brown McGreevy; Foreword by Kevin Navasie
Exploring the history and the current renaissance of basket making in the Native American Southwest, this lavishly illustrated volume features the work and words of the contemporary basket makers that participated in a Convocation at the School of American Research.
by operations | Jul 24, 2017 | Indigenous Peoples, Non-Series, SAR Press, Southwest
2002. Katherine L. Chase; Foreward by Diane Reyna
The book profiles ten outstanding painters representing seven different Pueblo Indian groups and the Navajo Nation who participated in a convocation at the Indian Arts Research Center at the SAR.
by operations | Jul 24, 2017 | Ancient Americas, Archaeology, Popular Archaeology, SAR Press, Southwest
2004. Edited by David Grant Noble
This completely updated edition features seventeen original essays, scores of photographs, maps, and site plans, and the perspectives of archaeologists, historians, and Native American thinkers.
by operations | Jul 24, 2017 | Non-Series, SAR Press, Southwest
2010. David Grant Noble; Foreword by N. Scott Momaday
This book represents the culmination of David Grant Noble’s forty-year career as a fine arts photographer and writer. It features seventy-six duotone plates of the land, people, and deep past of the Southwest, most published here for the first time.
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, 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.