"How did Southwestern peoples subsist in the arid reaches of the Great Basin? When and why did violence erupt in the Mesa Verde region? Who were the Fremont people? How do some Hopis view Chaco Canyon
Highlighting the contradictions and disadvantages of creating written materials for a language that historically had no written language, this study charts the development of written indigenous langua
Medieval Mississippians, the eighth volume in the award-winning Popular Archaeology Series, introduces a key historical period in pre-Columbian eastern North America--the "Mississippian&q
Medieval Mississippians, the eighth volume in the award-winning Popular Archaeology Series, introduces a key historical period in pre-Columbian eastern North America--the "Mississippian&q
Editors Chen and Sharp present students, academics, researchers, policy makers, and professionals working in a wide variety of fields with a collection of academic essays and articles that argue colle
How did Southwestern peoples make a living in the vast arid reaches of the Great Basin? When and why did violence erupt in the Mesa Verde region? Who were the Fremont people? How do some Hopis view Ch
More than just a book about the National Museum of the American Indian, this publication--written by a curator who served as a lead researcher in the curatorial department of the NMAI from 1999 to 200
Perspectives on Indian education in this anthology come from a variety of fields: anthropology, law, education, history, English, and Indigenous studies. The editors work to broaden the conversation a
African American Katherine Dunham was a published anthropologist and political activist, as well as a dancer who led the first black modern dance company. Papers from a June 2010 seminar detail her ac
This study of 500 years of Pueblo social history doubles as a call to return anthropology to its roots. The author emphasizes the connection between ethnography and archaeology, and argues for the com
Social scientists and historians look at the experience of the US and Canada with guestworker programs designed to permit a controlled flow of workers across national borders. They cover critical move
The author surveys the policies pursued towards the indigenous peoples of the Americas by colonial and postcolonial powers and interests from, as the subtitle notes, Columbus to John Collier (the US C
Cultural anthropologists and human geographers present research on the political and cultural worlds of street economies (street vendors being the most iconic actors of street economies) in the global
Drawn from a May 2009 seminar held in Santa Fe, this collection explores what ethnographic and anthropological approaches bring to understanding market systems and individual behavior, and examines th
With the sequencing of the human genome during the early 2000s, geneticists who sought to support the role of genes in explaining race challenged the social-construction model of race that had been do
Social anthropologists reflect on the role of kinship in a secular global society dominated by commerce. Their topics include kinship within and beyond the "Movement of Progressive Societies," transna
The 11 chapters in this volume arise out of the "Images without Borders" seminar held at the School for Advanced Research in May of 2008. The concern of this work is the inter-cultural circulation of
This book is the outcome of the advanced seminar, "Reassembling the Collection: Indigenous Agency and Ethnographic Collections," hosted by the School for Advanced Research in New Mexico in September 2
"There is an unsettling paradox in the anthropology of religion. Modern understandings of "religion" emerged out of a specifically Western genealogy, and recognizing this, many anthropologists have be
The seminar "Towards a Global Human History: Agency and the Explanation of Long-Term Change" was held in September-October 2009. Archaeologists from Europe and the US consider such topics as theorizin
Editor Berman, an anthropologist affiliated with the Repatriation Office at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, presents cases demonstrating controversial issues in indigenous art in N
In this follow-up to their 2005 book, For Indigenous Eyes Only, Dakota activist and teacher Waziyatawin and social work educator Yellow Bird (Humboldt State University) write from the understanding th
In these papers from a November 2007 conference held at Southern Methodist University, US contributors in art and law employ many different ethical approaches to the debate between ownership versus st
By observing changes in ancient midden deposits, or modern waste, the ethnoarchaeologist is able to theorize about relationships between these material remains and the human behavior that produced the
This collection of eleven essays considers the interdependence between indigenous people of the North Pacific and the salmon on which so many of them have relied upon for subsistence and cultural mean
Houston (anthropology, Brown U.) unites works by US contributors in classics, anthropology, and Near Eastern languages to shed light on principles and patterns of the birth, maintenance, and death of
The seven essays presented mainly in Spanish and Portuguese are based on six projects of the Otros Saberes Initiative, a project of the Latin American Studies Association aimed at promoting Afro-desce
This collection of ten ethnographic studies of "middle classness" around the world, presented by Heiman (social sciences, The New School for Public Engagement), Freeman (anthropology and gender studie
Archaeologists summarize for general readers the voluminous research conducted over the decades into the prehistoric people who lived in the vicinity of modern Flagstaff, Arizona, an area the Spanish
This collection of ten essays presents case studies where religious and scientific views about nature and humans relationships with it over-lap and interact. Each essay looks at how people from around
The national monuments of Wupatki, Walnut Canyon, and Montezuma's Castle showcase the treasures of the first people who settled and developed farms, towns, and trade routes throughout northern Arizona
The introductory essay discusses the history and scope of bioarchaeology, emphasizing that the field nurtures a range of approaches and encompasses both specialized and holistic studies. The nine cont
Policymakers and strategists have found ethnographic data useful in military decision-making, note McNamara (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico) and Rubinstein (sociology and anthro
Szabo (art history, U. of New Mexico) has produced a complete analysis of the circumstances behind the drawings as well as their content, discussing in an initial essay who made drawings at Fort Mario
Two small books of vivid drawings--one filled with images by the Southern Cheyenne warrior-artist Howling Wolf and the other with images by Zotom, a Kiowa man--came to the Southwest Museum of the Amer
Anthropologists and other social scientists examine the rapidly changing historical moment in Bolivia signaled by the 2005 election of Evo Morales as the first indigenous national president in the Ame
This book arose out of a multi-disciplinary project funded by the National Science Foundation designed to study the interconnections between land, agriculture, and pre-European contact Hawaiian cultur
Anthropologists and other social scientists from the US and Latin America look at physical evidence for the resistance of Native Americans first against Spanish conquest, and later against occupation
According to the US census, the Native American population grew by an astounding 349 percent between 1960 and 2000, a figure that is inexplicable unless it is reflective of what Sturm (anthropology, U
US and UK contributors in anthropology, social and political science, psychiatry, and women's studies address the worldwide proliferation of psychopharmaceutical use. Unlike other studies on the topic
