University Press Of Colorado imprint: 222 books
Ancient Maya Commerce
Multidisciplinary Research at Chunchucmil
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Ancient Maya Commerce presents nearly two decades of multidisciplinary research at Chunchucmil, Yucatan, Mexico—a thriving Classic period Maya center organized around commercial exchange rather than agriculture. An urban center without a king and unable to sustain agrarian independence, Chunchucmil...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2018
Relational Identities and Other-than-Human Agency in Archaeology explores the benefits and consequences of archaeological theorizing on and interpretation of the social agency of nonhumans as relational beings capable of producing change in the world. The volume cross-examines traditional understanding...
Maya Potters' Indigenous Knowledge
Cognition, Engagement, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
Based on fieldwork and reflection over a period of almost fifty years, Maya Potters’ Indigenous Knowledge utilizes engagement theory to describe the indigenous knowledge of traditional Maya potters in Ticul, Yucatán, Mexico. In this heavily illustrated narrative account, Dean E. Arnold examines...
by David R. Berman
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2019
*Governors and the Progressive Movement *is the first comprehensive overview of the Progressive movement’s unfolding at the state level, covering every state in existence at the time through the words and actions of state governors. It explores the personalities, ideas, and activities of this period’s...
How Humans Cooperate
Confronting the Challenges of Collective Action
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
In How Humans Cooperate, Richard E. Blanton and Lane F. Fargher take a new approach to investigating human cooperation, developed from the vantage point of an "anthropological imagination." Drawing on the discipline’s broad and holistic understanding of humans in biological, social, and...
The Archaeology of Medieval Islamic Frontiers
From the Mediterranean to the Caspian Sea
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
The Archaeology of Medieval Islamic Frontiers demonstrates that different areas of the Islamic polity previously understood as “minor frontiers” were, in fact, of substantial importance to state formation. Contributors explore different conceptualizations of “border,” the importance of which...
by Karen Bassie-Sweet, Nicholas A. Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
In Maya Narrative Arts, authors Karen Bassie-Sweet and Nicholas A. Hopkins present a comprehensive and innovative analysis of the principles of Classic Maya narrative arts and apply those principles to some of the major monuments of the site of Palenque. They demonstrate a recent methodological shift...
Unitary Caring Science
Philosophy and Praxis of Nursing
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
Unitary Caring Science: The Philosophy and Praxis of Nursing takes a profound look at conscious, intentional, reverential caring-healing as sacred practice/praxis and as a necessary turn for survival. Jean Watson posits Unitary Caring Science for the evolved Caritas-conscious practitioner and scholar....
Re-Creating Primordial Time
Foundation Rituals and Mythology in the Postclassic Maya Codices
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Re-Creating Primordial Time offers a new perspective on the Maya codices, documenting the extensive use of creation mythology and foundational rituals in the hieroglyphic texts and iconography of these important manuscripts. Focusing on both pre-Columbian codices and early colonial creation accounts,...
Thiefing a Chance
Factory Work, Illicit Labor, and Neoliberal Subjectivities in Trinidad
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
When an IMF-backed program of liberalization opened Trinidad’s borders to foreign ready-made apparel, global competition damaged the local industry and unraveled worker entitlements and expectations but also presented new economic opportunities for engaging the “global” market. This fascinating...
Life beyond the Boundaries
Constructing Identity in Edge Regions of the North American Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Life beyond the Boundaries explores identity formation on the edges of the ancient Southwest. Focusing on some of the more poorly understood regions, including the Jornada Mogollon, the Gallina, and the Pimería Alta, the authors use methods drawn from material culture science, anthropology, and...
Innocents on the Ice
A Memoir of Antarctic Exploration, 1957
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
"Adventures in the Antarctic only happen when someone makes a mistake.”
—From the Preface
In 1956, John C. Behrendt had just earned his master’s degree in geophysics and obtained a position as an assistant seismologist in the International Geophysical Year glaciological program....