University Press Of Colorado imprint: 222 books
Indigenous Dance and Dancing Indian
Contested Representation in the Global Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
Focusing on the enactment of identity in dance, Indigenous Dance and Dancing Indian is a cross-cultural, cross-ethnic, and cross-national comparison of indigenous dance practices.
Considering four genres of dance in which indigenous people are represented--K'iche Maya traditional dance, powwow,...
Designing Experimental Research in Archaeology
Examining Technology through Production and Use
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
Designing Experimental Research in Archaeology is a guide for the design of archaeological experiments for both students and scholars. Experimental archaeology provides a unique opportunity to corroborate conclusions with multiple trials of repeatable experiments and can provide data otherwise unavailable...
The Invasion of Indian Country in the Twentieth Century
American Capitalism and Tribal Natural Resources, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
The Invasion of Indian Country in the Twentieth Century, Second Edition is updated through the first decade of the twenty-first century and contains a new chapter challenging Americans--Indian and non-Indian--to begin healing the earth. This analysis of the struggle to protect not only natural resources...
Coffee and Community
Maya Farmers and Fair-Trade Markets
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2010
We are told that simply by sipping our morning cup of organic, fair-trade coffee we are encouraging environmentally friendly agricultural methods, community development, fair prices, and shortened commodity chains. But what is the reality for producers, intermediaries, and consumers? This ethnographic...
Santa Rita del Cobre
A Copper Mining Community in New Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
The Spanish, Mexicans, and Americans, successively, mined copper for more than 200 years in Santa Rita, New Mexico. Starting in 1799 after an Apache man led the Spanish to the native copper deposits, miners at the site followed industry developments in the nineteenth century to create a network of...
The Eastern San Juan Mountains
Their Ecology, Geology, and Human History
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
A companion to The Western San Juan Mountains (originally published in 1996), The Eastern San Juan Mountains details the physical environment, biological communities, human history, and points of interest in this rich and diverse mountain system.
A natural division between the eastern and western...
Japanese American Resettlement through the Lens
Hikaru Iwasaki and the WRA's Photographic Section, 1943-1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
Photographs by Hikaru C. Iwasaki****Foreword by the Honorable Norman Y. Mineta
In Japanese American Resettlement through the Lens, Lane Ryo Hirabayashi gathers a unique collection of photographs by War Relocation Authority photographer Hikaru Iwasaki, the only full-time WRA photographer from the period...
by Hiroshi Kashiwagi
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
A memoir in short stories, Starting from Loomis chronicles the life of accomplished writer, playwright, poet, and actor Hiroshi Kashiwagi. In this dynamic portrait of an aging writer trying to remember himself as a younger man, Kashiwagi recalls and reflects upon the moments, people, forces, mysteries,...
Fanning the Sacred Flame
Mesoamerican Studies in Honor of H. B. Nicholson
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Fanning the Sacred Flame: Mesoamerican Studies in Honor of H. B. Nicholson contains twenty-two original papers in tribute to H. B. "Nick" Nicholson, a pioneer of Mesoamerican research. His intellectual legacy is recognized by Mesoamerican archaeologists, art historians, ethnohistorians,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Seeking to move beyond the customary limits of archaeological prose and representation, Subjects and Narratives in Archaeology presents archaeology in a variety of nontraditional formats. The volume demonstrates that visual art, creative nonfiction, archaeological fiction, video, drama, and other...
Surviving Sudden Environmental Change
Answers From Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
Archaeologists have long encountered evidence of natural disasters through excavation and stratigraphy. In Surviving Sudden Environmental Change, case studies examine how eight different past human communities-ranging from Arctic to equatorial regions, from tropical rainforests to desert interiors,...
by T. Scott Bryan
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2008
This revised popular field guide describes in detail each of the more than 500 geysers in Yellowstone National Park. With updated information and a new foreword by park archivist Lee Whittlesey, Geysers of Yellowstone is both a reference work and a fine introduction to the nature of geyser activity...
An Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology
Adaptations, Structures, Meanings
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
An Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology exposes students to the cultural detail and personal experiences that lie in the anthropological record and extends their anthropological understanding to contemporary issues.
The book is divided into three parts that focus on the main themes of...
Risk Communication and Miscommunication
Case Studies in Science, Technology, Engineering, Government, and Community Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Effective communication can help prevent or minimize damage from environmental disasters. In Risk Communication and Miscommunication, Carolyn Boiarsky teaches students, technical writers, public affairs officers, engineers, scientists, and governmental officials the writing and communication skills...