University Of Washington Press imprint: 536 books
by Hazel Heckman
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
In her first book, Island in the Sound, Heckman brought to life Anderson Island in Puget Sound, its people, its history, and its sadly vanishing way of life. Now, in this book, she brings the same clarity of vision, warmth, and insight to the natural life of her island, recording the cycle of the...
Order and Discipline in China
The Shanghai Mixed Court 1911-1927
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
China�s traditional system of dispute resolution and maintenance of order in society has been treated by Western scholars as legal history, but because the Chinese system is radically different from European systems in its conceptual structure and therefore does not fit into the familiar categories...
Agayuliyararput/Our Way of Making Prayer
Kegginaqut, Kangiit-llu/Yup'ik Masks and the Stories They Tell
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Drawing on the remembrances of elders who were born in the early 1900s and saw the last masked Yup�ik dances before missionary efforts forced their decline, Agayuliyararput is a collection of first-person accounts of the rich culture surrounding Yup�ik masks. Stories by thirty-three elders from...
by James D. Keyser, Michael A. Klassen
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
The Plains region that stretches from northern Colorado to southern Alberta and from the Rockies to the western Dakotas is the land of the Cheyenne and the Blackfeet, the Crow and the Sioux. Its rolling grasslands and river valleys have nurtured human cultures for thousands of years. On cave walls,...
Ellavut / Our Yup'ik World and Weather
Continuity and Change on the Bering Sea Coast
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
Ellavut / Our Yup'ik World and Weather is a result of nearly ten years of gatherings among Yup'ik elders to document the qanruyutet (words of wisdom) that guide their interactions with the environment. In an effort to educate their own young people as well as people outside the community, the elders...
Early Rock Art of the American West
The Geometric Enigma
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2018
The earliest rock art�in the Americas as elsewhere�is geometric or abstract. Until�Early Rock Art in the American West,�however, no book-length study has been devoted to the deep antiquity and amazing range of geometrics and the fascinating questions that arise from their ubiquity and variety....
Cultivating Nature
The Conservation of a Valencian Working Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
The watery terrain of the Albufera Natural Park, an area ten kilometers south of Valencia that is widely regarded as the birthplace of paella, has long been prized by residents and visitors alike. Since the twentieth century, the disparate visions of city dwellers, farmers, fishermen, scientists,...
The Portland Black Panthers
Empowering Albina and Remaking a City
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Portland, Oregon, though widely regarded as a liberal bastion, also has struggled historically with ethnic diversity; indeed, the 2010 census found it to be “America’s whitest major city.” In early recognition of such disparate realities, a group of African American activists in the 1960s formed...
Reinventing Hoodia
Peoples, Plants, and Patents in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2017
Native to the Kalahari Desert, Hoodia gordonii is a succulent plant known by generations of Indigenous San peoples to have a variety of uses: to reduce hunger, increase energy, and ease breastfeeding. In the global North, it is known as a natural appetite suppressant, a former star of the booming...
Making New Nepal
From Student Activism to Mainstream Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
One of the most important political transitions to occur in South Asia in recent decades was the ouster of Nepal�s monarchy in 2006 and the institution of a democratic secular republic in 2008. Based on extensive ethnographic research between 2003 and 2015,�Making New Nepal�provides a snapshot...
Figuring the Population Bomb
Gender and Demography in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Figuring the Population Bomb traces the genealogy of twentieth-century demographic �facts� that created a mathematical panic about a looming population explosion. This narrative was popularized in the 1970s in Paul Ehrlich�s best-selling book The Population Bomb, which pathologized population...
by Marsha Weisiger
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country offers a fresh interpretation of the history of Navajo (Din�) pastoralism. The dramatic reduction of livestock on the Navajo Reservation in the 1930s -- when hundreds of thousands of sheep, goats, and horses were killed -- was an ambitious attempt by the federal...
Sensitive Space
Fragmented Territory at the India-Bangladesh Border
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Enclaves along the India-Bangladesh border have posed conceptual and pragmatic challenges to both states since Partition in 1947. These pieces of India inside of Bangladesh, and vice versa, are spaces in which national security, belonging, and control are shown in sharp relief. Through ethnographic...
A Landscape of Travel
The Work of Tourism in Rural Ethnic China
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
While the number of domestic leisure travelers has increased dramatically in reform-era China, the persistent gap between urban and rural living standards attests to ongoing social, economic, and political inequalities. The state has widely touted tourism for its potential to bring wealth and modernity...