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 | Popular Archaeology, Southwest
2014. Edited by David Grant Noble
In this illustrated anthology, readers will discover chapters written over the past several decades by anthropologist-writers. They speak about the beauty and originality of Mimbres pottery, the rock paintings in Canyon de Chelly, the history of the Wupatki Navajos, O’odham songs describing ancient trails to the Pacific Coast, and other subjects relating to the deep indigenous history and culture of the American Southwest.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Ancient Americas, Archaeology
1981. Edited by Wendy Ashmore
This book is a series of essays that offers a framework for the study of lowland Maya settlement patterns, surveying the range of interpretive ideas about ancient Maya remains. Suggesting hypotheses to guide future research, the articles discuss historical, geographical, chronological, and theoretical matters.
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, Resident Scholar, SAR Press
2015. Craig R. Janes and Oyuntsetseg Chuluundorj
The authors analyze a broad range of phenomena that are fundamentally linked to the adverse social and economic consequences of climate change, including urbanization and urban poverty, access to essential health care and education, changes to gender roles (especially for women), rural economic development and resource extraction, and public health more generally.
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.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Global Indigenous Politics, Indigenous Peoples
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.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Cultural Anthropology, SAR Press
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.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Ancient Americas, Archaeology, Indigenous Peoples, Popular Archaeology
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.