by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Cultural Anthropology
2011. Edited by Janis H. Jenkins
An anthropological study that examines both human suffering and its biological realities, Pharmaceutical Self focuses on the social, cultural, and political aspects of the expanding distribution of psychopharmacological drugs.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Archaeology, SAR Press
1975. Edited by Elmer Harp, Jr.
Contemporary archaeology is increasingly reliant upon photography as a working tool and as a medium for communicating the results of field research. The chapters in this book provide detailed, practical advice and information on photography in the field.
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 | Jul 25, 2017 | Archaeology, Non-Series
2009. Edited by Peter R. Schmidt
This volume features some of the foremost archaeologists from Africa and the United States and presents cutting-edge proposals for how archaeology in Africa today can be made more relevant to the needs of local communities, from enhancing cultural capacity to cope with AIDS to promoting economic development and human rights claims, generating locally rooted intellectual paradigms, and preventing the degradation of heritage resources.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Indigenous Peoples, Non-Series
1997. J. J. Brody
This book places this important but under-appreciated fine art tradition squarely within the contexts of Pueblo culture and Euro-American modernism, bringing long-overdue recognition to the tradition and its preeminent practitioners as a vital part of American art history.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Ancient Americas, Archaeology, Arroyo Hondo/Grand Canyon, Southwest
1983. Ann M. Palkovich
Excavation at Arroyo Hondo yielded 120 human skeletons, many accompanied by grave goods. Palkovich examines skeletal pathologies in relation to age distribution, offering insights into the demographic impact of malnutrition.
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 operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Ancient Americas, Archaeology, Arroyo Hondo/Grand Canyon, Southwest
1983. Martin R. Rose, Jeffrey S. Dean, and William P. Robinson
This landmark study uses archaeological tree-ring chronologies in the first attempt to quantitatively reconstruct past climate variability.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Indigenous Peoples, Non-Series, Southwest
1993. Text and photographs by Stephen Trimble
In this book, Stephen Trimble provides an introduction to these Native peoples that is unrivaled in its scope and readability. Graced with an absorbing, well-researched text, a wealth of maps and historic photographs, and the author’s penetrating contemporary portraits and landscapes, The People is the indispensable reference for anyone interested in the Indians of the Southwest.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Ancient Americas, Archaeology, Popular Archaeology, Southwest
2005. Edited by Robert P. Powers
In this beautifully illustrated book, archaeologists, historians, ecologists, and Pueblo contributors tell a deep and sweeping story of the region.