by operations | Jul 26, 2017 | Indigenous Peoples, Non-Series, SAR Press
2007. Stephen Trimble
Stephen Trimble’s photographs capture the spirit of Pueblo pottery in its stunning variety, from the glittering micaceous jars of Taos Pueblo to the famous black ware of San Ildefonso Pueblo, from the bold black-on-white designs of Acoma Pueblo to the rich red and gold polychromes of the Hopi villages.
by operations | Jul 26, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Ancient Americas, Archaeology, SAR Press
1994. Edited by George J. Gumerman
Two dozen leading archaeologists isolate a number of themes that were central to the process of increasing complexity in prehistoric Southwestern society, including increased food production, a greater degree of sedentism, and a dramatically increasing population.
by operations | Jul 26, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Ancient Americas, Archaeology, Cultural Anthropology, General Anthropology, SAR Press
2015. Edited by Rosemary A. Joyce and Susan D. Gillespie
Complementing the concept of object biography, the contributors to this volume use the complex construct of “itineraries” to trace the places in which objects come to rest or are active, the routes through which things circulate, and the means by which they are moved.
by operations | Jul 26, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Ancient Americas, Archaeology, SAR Press
2003. Edited by Jeremy A. Sabloff
New insights from the Tikal excavations and epigraphic breakthroughs suggest that a thriving marketplace existed in the center of the city, that foreigners comprised a significant element of its populace, and that differences in tomb form and contents signal the changing fortunes of Tikal’s rulers.
by operations | Jul 26, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Cultural Anthropology, SAR Press
2008. Edited by Elizabeth Emma Ferry and Mandana E. Limbert
Oil is running out. What’s more, its final depletion, once relegated to a misty future, now seems imminent. In all the more or less apocalyptic discussions of oil and similar depleted resources, nature, labor, and time converge. This volume focuses on how resources, resource-making, and resource-claiming are entangled with experiences of time.
by Sarah Soliz | Apr 26, 2021 | Advanced Seminar, Cultural Anthropology, General Anthropology, History/Social Sciences, Recently Published Titles, SAR Press, Southwest
2021. Edited by Phillip B. Gonzales, Renato Rosaldo, and Mary Louise Pratt
This volume situates a new phase of presidential politics in relation to what went before and asks what new political possibilities emerged from this dramatic chapter in our history.
by operations | Jul 26, 2017 | Non-Series, SAR Press
1991. Edited by Robert L. Canfield
In this volume, the contributors write about different aspects of Turko-Persian culture. The work consists of an historical survey of the culture, a chronology of major developments in the region from the rise of the Persian empire before Islam up to the present, and six chapters by eminent authorities on the region.
by operations | Jul 26, 2017 | Ancient Americas, Archaeology, Arroyo Hondo/Grand Canyon, SAR Press, Southwest
1980. Douglas W. Schwartz, Richard C. Chapman, and Jane Kepp
This book is the first volume in SAR’s Archaeology of the Grand Canyon series. It provides information on the archaeological excavation conducted at the site during the late 1960s.
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2001. Edited by Mitchell S. Rothman
The contributing field and theoretical archaeologists in this volume radically reassess the chronological framework for the region, assemble the basic data sets on both local and regional levels, and interpret and synthesize these data in order to put local patterns and dynamics into their widest regional context.
by operations | Jul 26, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Ancient Americas, Archaeology, SAR Press
1976. Edited by Eric R. Wolf
The chapters in this volume present an important contemporary interpretation of the cultural and archaeological legacy of the Valley of Mexico, a rich and ancient place where the presence of the past is all around.