2009. Emilio del Valle Escalante
This book focuses on the emergence and political-cultural implications of Guatemala’s Maya movement. It explores how, since the 1970s, indigenous peoples have been challenging established, hegemonic narratives of modernity, history, nation, and cultural identity as these relate to the indigenous world.
1976. Edited by Keith H. Basso and Henry A. Selby
In recent years, anthropological interest in meaning and symbolism has increased and moved into new types of analysis. This book is a useful array of papers representing some of these.
2015. Edited by Timothy R. Pauketat and Susan M. Alt
The eighth volume in the award-winning Popular Archaeology Series, introduces a key historical period in pre-Columbian eastern North America — the “Mississippian” era — via a series of colorful chapters on places, practices, and peoples written from Native American and non-Native perspectives on the past.
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.
2008. Edited by Barbara J. Mills and William H. Walker
In this book the authors focus on a set of case studies that illustrate how social memories were made through repeated, patterned, and engaged social practices.
2006. Edited by David Grant Noble
This book showcases new findings about the region’s prehistory, environment, and archaeological history, from newly discovered reservoir systems on Mesa Verde to astronomical alignments at Yellow Jacket Pueblo.
1973. Edited by M. H. Crawford and P. L. Workman
This book deals with the methods and theories used to study variation within and among human populations, specifically looking at genetics research conducted in the 1960s and 1970s. It presents empirical support for many modern theories in population genetics and demography.
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.
2005. J. J. Brody
In this revised edition, noted Mimbres scholar Dr. J. J. Brody incorporates the extensive fieldwork done since the original publication in 1977, updating his discussion of village life, the larger world in which the Mimbres people lived, and how the art that they practiced illuminates these wider issues.
2014. Edited by David Griffith
Managed migration enables nation-states to regulate population movements; direct foreign nationals to specific, identified economic sectors that citizens are less likely to care about; match employers who claim labor shortages with highly motivated workers; and offer people from poorer countries higher earning potential abroad through temporary absence from their families and homelands. Unfortunately, managed migration does not always work on the ground as well as it does on paper.