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Book SynopsisA nuanced exploration of the plurality, complexity, and adaptability of Precolumbian and colonial-era Mesoamerican cosmological models and the ways in which anthropologists and historians have used colonial and indigenous texts to understand these models in the past.

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Book SynopsisThe Athapaskan departure from the Canadian Subarctic centuries ago and their subsequent arrival in the American Southwest has remained the subject of continuous debate in anthropological research. This book examines archaeological, genetic, linguistic, and traditional oral history data and brings them together in fresh ways, in many cases for the first time. With a backdrop of these new and interrelated lines of evidence, each subfield must now reevaluate its approach and the forms of evidence it uses to construct arguments. The contributors here include the most knowledgeable scholars in each of the above fields, collectively providing the most up-to-date research on early Athapaskans and their movements and migrations. Each chapter approaches Athapaskan migration with data obtained from different regions, providing clarity as to the basis for individual arguments. Often, entrenched regional visualizations and localized conventions are clarified only when placed in juxtaposition to those of other regions. Because of this, conclusions rest on sometimes widely divergent theoretical and methodological underpinnings, thus expressing preference for and conveying weight to certain types of evidence and lines of reasoning. The goal of this volume is to expose these arguments in order to clarify appropriate directions for future research, making advances possible.Trade Review“Provides a ‘state-of-the-knowledge’ overview of research on Athapaskan origins and migrations that will serve as a point of reference and departure for future research on the subject.”—William L. Merrill, Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution “A set of lively, deeply informed, and current examinations... All of these essays are worth the close attention of anyone interested not only in the anthropology and history of the American Southwest but also in the worldwide debate about explanations of spread languages and in explanations for how science advances.”—Journal of Anthropological Research “The most comprehensive, and latest, word on a topic that has intrigued anthropologists for more than a century. Seymour has done a yeoman’s job of seamlessly integrating papers and creating a volume that will be a significant contribution for the next decade and beyond.”—American AntiquityTable of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables 1. Athapaskan Migrations, Mobility,and Ethnogenesis: AnIntroduction Deni J. Seymour 2. Apachean Archaeology of Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, and the Colorado Front Range Robert H. Brunswig 3. Looking for Lovitt in All the Wrong Places: Migration Models and the Athapaskan Diaspora as Viewed from Eastern Colorado Kevin P. Gilmore and Sean Larmore 4. TierraBlanca: A Complex Issue David T. Hughes 5. Isolating a Pre-differentiation Athapaskan Assemblage in the Southern Southwest: The Cerro Rojo Complex Deni J. Seymour 6. Emergence of the Navajo People David M. Brugge 7. Navajo Emergence in Din\u00e9tah: Social Imaginary and Archaeology Douglas D. Dykeman and Paul Roebuck 8. We Do Not Forget We Remember: Mescalero Apache Origins and Migration as Reflected in Place Names David L. Carmichael and Claire R. Farrer 9. Finding and Not Finding Athapaskans in the Archaeological Record Using Percentage Stratigraphy Dale Walde 10. Variation in the Production of Ceramics by Athapaskans in the Western United States David V. Hill 11. DNA Evidence of a Prehistoric Athapaskan Migration from the Subarctic to the Southwest of North America Ripan S. Malhi 12. Linguistic Evidence Regarding the Apachean Migration Keren Rice 13. Apache Names in Spanish and Early Mexican Documents:What They Can Tell Us about the Early Contact Apache Dialect Situation Willem J. de Reuse 14. Southern Athapaskan Quotative Evidentials: A Discursive Areal Typology Anthony K. Webster 15. The Ancestral Chipewyan Became the Navajo and Apache: New Support for a Northwest Plains–Mountain Route to the American Southwest Bryan C. Gordon 16. Modeling Athapaskan Migrations Martin P. R. Magne 17. \u201cBig Trips\u201d and Historic Apache Movement and Interaction: Models for Early Athapaskan Migrations Deni J. Seymour 18. Issues in Athapaskan Prehistory Roy L. Carlson List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThe American Southwest is characterised by environmentally and culturally diverse landscapes, which include the northern Rio Grande valley as it cuts through north-central New Mexico from Taos to Albuquerque. The region has a long and rich history of anthropological research primarily focused on the archaeological remains found along this valley corridor. Only recently has research involving large-scale surveys and excavations been conducted on the nearby mesas and mountains that form the rugged margins of the river valley. From Mountain Top to Valley Bottom incorporates this new research into a perspective that links the ever-changing and complementary nature of lowland and upland land use.The essays in this collection are unified by three specific themes: landscape, movement, and technology. Landscape involves the ecological backdrop of the northern Rio Grande valley, including past and present environments. Movement refers to the positioning of people across the landscape along with the dynamic and fluid nature with which people—past and present—view their relationship with the “above” and “below.” Technology not only refers to the tools and facilities that past people may have used but to the organisation of labour needed to cooperatively exploit a variety of subsistence resources and the exchange of products across the region. This volume provides both a cross section of current research from expert scholars and a broad perspective that seeks to integrate new data from lowland and upland contexts. From Mountain Top to Valley Bottom will appeal to those interested in obsidian source studies, geoarchaeology, past climatic regimes, foraging societies, early agriculture, ceramic technology, subsistence, early village formation, ethnogenesis, and historic multiethnic economies.Trade Review“Brings a wide range of specialties commenting on a single region into a single volume. It covers thousands of years of human occupation in the Northern Rio Grande and spans an array of specialties.”—Michael Adler, author of The Prehistoric Pueblo World, A.D. 1150–1350 “This volume illustrates the richness of the Northern Rio Grande archaeological record, the rapidly expanding database being built by a large number of excellent archaeologists working in the region, and the fascinating debates on fundamental interpretations that result.”—Journal of Anthropological Research “[This volume] is especially helpful as an example of a regional overview that synthesizes available data, addresses important research questions, identifies data gaps, and helps develop hypotheses for future research in Utah.”—Utah ArchaeologyTable of ContentsList of FiguresList of TablesForeword by Severin M. FowlesIntroductionBradley J. VierraPart I/Landscape1. The Geochemistry and Archaeological Petrology of Volcanic Raw Materials in Northern New Mexico: Obsidian and Dacite Sources in Upland and Lowland Contexts, M. Steven Shackley2. Surficial Processes and Preservation of Ancestral Puebloan Archaeological Sites on the Pajarito Plateau, New Mexico, Paul G. Drakos and Steven L. Reneau3. Dendroclimatologic Reconstructions of Precipitation for the Northern Rio Grande, Ronald H. Towner and Mathew W. SalzerPart II/Movement4. The Cultural Ecology of Jemez Cave, Richard I. Ford5. Transitional Archaic and Emergent Agricultural Settlement in the Lowland-Upland Settings of the Northern Rio Grande, New Mexico, Stephen S. Post6. Ecological Uncertainly and Organizational Flexibility on the Prehistoric Tewa Landscape: Notes from the Northern Frontier, Samuel Duwe and Kurt F. Anschuetz7. Living it Up: Upland Adaptation and High Altitude Occupation by the Gallina along the Continental Divide, J. Michael Bremer and Denver Burns8. Upland-Lowland Corridors and Historic Jicarilla Apache Settlement in the Northern Rio Grande, B.Sunday EiseltPart III/Technology9. Archaic Foraging Technology and Land-use in the Northern Rio Grande, Bradley J. Vierra10. The Gradual Development of Systems of Pottery Production and Distribution Across Northern Rio Grande Landscapes, C. Dean Wilson11. From the Land of the Little Birds to the Valleys of the White Rock, Tewa, Galisteo, Rio Grande and Santa Fe Rivers: Diet and Subsistence Meet the Challenges of a Changing Environment, Pamela J. McBride and Mollie S. Toll12. Northern Rio Grande Faunal Exploitation: A View from the Pajarito Plateau, the Tewa Basin and Beyond, Nancy J. Akins13. Discussion: Landscape, Movement and Technology in the Northern Rio Grande, Timothy A. KohlerList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisThis publication presents the first volume (Las Vegas) of the early ethnographic field work of anthropologist Isabel T. Kelly. From 1932 to 1934, Kelly interviewed thirty Southern Paiute people— from southeastern California, southern Nevada, northern Arizona, and southern Utah— about “the old ways.” She filled 31 notebooks, made maps, took photographs, collected nearly 300 ethnobotanical specimens, purchased and shipped over 400 ethnographic artefacts to museums, and traveled more than 7,000 miles. Her notes comprise the most extensive primary ethnographic documentation of Southern Paiute/ Chemehuevi lifeways of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Although Kelly intended to publish these notes, she was unable to do so before her death. Fowler and Garey-Sage have now synthesised the first set of these handwritten field notes and sketches, providing organisation, commentary and illustrations to put them in context for the modern reader. Kelly’s data, most of whichcould not be gathered anew today, are offered here for the use of generations to come.Trade Review“Catherine Fowler and Darla Garey-Sage do a wonderful service here in compiling Kelly’s work with her Las Vegas Southern Paiute consultants into a cohesive, integrated ethnographic monograph that brings this trove of information back to life.” —David E. Rhode, research professor of archaeology, Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nevada “This publication is a significant contribution to the specialized literature on the Southern Paiutes and provides data that can no longer be duplicated.” —Martha C. Knack, author of Boundaries Between: The Southern Paiutes, 1775–1995

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Book SynopsisTrending upward as an archaeological field of study, protohistoric mobile groups provide fascinating new directions for cutting-edge research in the American Southwest and beyond. These mobile residents represent the ancient and ancestral roots of many modern indigenous peoples, including the Apaches, Jumano, Yavapai, and Ute. These important protohistoric and historic mobile people have tended to be ignored because their archaeological sites were deemed too difficult to identify, too scant to be worthy of study, and too different to incorporate. This book brings together information from a diverse collection of authors working throughout the American Southwest and its fringes to make the bold statement that these groups can be identified in the archaeological record and their sites have much to contribute to the study of cultural process, method and theory, and past lifeways. Mobile groups are integral for assessing the grand reorganisational events of the Late Prehistoric period and are key to understanding colonial contact and transformations.Trade Review“An excellent array of regional case studies spanning the Southwest, from the edge of the Great Plains to California. A consistent, scholarly sound, and very well-rounded volume.” —John Carpenter, profesor de Investigación Científica, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Centro Insituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia Sonora “These essays provide insights into the activities of those often invisible groups whose presence bridged a cultural and temporal span between ‘prehistory’ and the leading edges of ‘history.’ Insofar as the Southwestern archaeological literature is concerned, this book stands alone.” —David H. Snow, former director and founder of Cross-Cultural Research Systems “This excellent book provides an array of information on late mobile societies in the American Southwest. Its most significant contribution, however, is bringing attention to a poorly documented and misunderstood part of the archaeological record—one that we should not continue to ignore.”—Journal of Anthropological Research “This collection of papers masterfully addresses the goals of the volume to define the archaeological correlates of mobile peoples and their social and economic roles in the protohistoric Southwest. In overthrowing the orthodoxy of Southwestern archaeology, Seymour and the many contributors to the volume demonstrate that the diversity of mobile peoples in the Southwest were not peripheral or of secondary importance to Puebloan groups.”—California Archaeology

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Book SynopsisColor attracts attention, evokes emotions, conveys information, carries complex meanings, and makes things beautiful. Color is so meaningful, in fact, that research on the color choices of Ancestral Pueblo people has the potential to deepen our understanding of religious, social, and economic change in the ancient Southwest. This volume explores museum collections and more than a century of archaeological research to create the first systematic understanding of the many ways Ancestral Pueblo people chose specific colors through time and space to add meaning and visual appeal to their lives. Beginning with the technical and practical concerns of acquiring pigments and using them to create paints, the authors explore how connections to landscapes and sacred places are embodied by many colorful materials. Contributors examine the development of polychromes and their juxtaposition with black-on-white vessels; document how color was used in rock paintings and architecture; and consider the inherent properties of materials, arguing that shell, minerals, and stone were valued not only for color but for other visual properties as well. The book concludes by considering the technological, economic, social, and ideological factors at play and demonstrates the significant role color played in aesthetic choices.Trade ReviewArchaeologists are often hesitant to go out on a limb to pursue certain lines of evidence. It takes guts to think outside the box, draw together multiple gossamers of evidence, and weave them into a convincing fabric. The volume in question could not have had better editors and authors for such a task. The discussions of colors’ multidimensionality, embodiment, animation, and nexus with history are fascinating, and I suspect that readers will adopt similar approaches with their own research." — Will G. Russell, historic preservation specialist, Arizona Department of Transportation

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Book SynopsisAn elucidating collection of ten original essays, Making Animal Meaning reconceptualizes methods for researching animal histories and rethinks the contingency of the human-animal relationship.The vibrant and diverse field of animal studies is detailed in these interdisciplinary discussions, which include voices from a broad range of scholars and have an extensive chronological and geographical reach.These exciting discourses capture the most compelling theoretical underpinnings of animal significance while exploring meaning-making through the study of specific spaces, species, and human-animal relations. A deeply thoughtful collection - vital to understanding central questions of agency, kinship, and animal consumption these essays tackle the history and philosophy of constructing animal meaning.

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Book SynopsisAn elucidating collection of ten original essays, Making Animal Meaning reconceptualizes methods for researching animal histories and rethinks the contingency of the human-animal relationship.The vibrant and diverse field of animal studies is detailed in these interdisciplinary discussions, which include voices from a broad range of scholars and have an extensive chronological and geographical reach. These exciting discourses capture the most compelling theoretical underpinnings of animal significance while exploring meaning-making through the study of specific spaces, species, and human-animal relations.A deeply thoughtful collection — vital to understanding central questions of agency, kinship, and animal consumption — these essays tackle the history and philosophy of constructing animal meaning.

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Book SynopsisThis timely book brings together activist scholars from a number of disciplines (political science, geography, sociology, anthropology, and communications) to provide new insights into a growing trend in publicly engaged research and scholarship.Bridging Scholarship and Activism creatively redefines what constitutes activism without limiting it to a narrow range of practices. Acknowledging that the current conjuncture of neoliberal globalization has created constraints on as well as possibilities for activist scholarly engagement, the book argues that racism and its intersections with gender and class oppression are salient forces to be interrogated and confronted in the predicaments and struggles activist scholarship targets.The book’s uttimate goal is to create a decolonized and democratized forum in which activist scholars from the Global South converse and cross-fertilize ideas and projects with their counterparts from the United States and other North Atlantic metropolitan-based academy. The coeditors and contributors attempt to decenter hegemonic knowledge and to create some of the necessary (if not sufficient) conditions for a more pluriversal (rather than orthodox “universal”) context for producing enabling knowledge, without the naiveté and romanticism that has characterized earlier projects in critical and radical social science.

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Book SynopsisBringing together leading scholars from Belgium, Canada, France, and the United States, French Thinking about Animals makes available for the first time to an Anglophone readership a rich variety of interdisciplinary approaches to the animal question in France. While the work of French thinkers such as Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and Felix Guattari has been available in English for many years, French Thinking about Animals opens up a much broader cross-cultural dialogue within animal studies.These original essays, many of which have been translated especially for this volume, draw on anthropology, ethology, geography, history, legal studies, phenomenology, and philosophy to interrogate human-animal relationships.They explore the many ways in which animals signify in French history, society, and intellectual history, illustrating the exciting new perspectives being developed about the animal question in the French-speaking world today. Built on the strength and diversity of these contributions, French Thinking about Animals demonstrates the interdisciplinary and internationalism that are needed if we hope to transform the interactions of humans and nonhuman animals in contemporary society.

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Book SynopsisWe live more intimately with nonhuman animals than ever before in history. The change in the way we cohabitate with animals can be seen in the way we treat them when they die. There is an almost infinite variety of ways to help us cope with the loss of our nonhuman friends - from burial, cremation, and taxidermy; to wearing or displaying the remains (ashes, fur, or other parts) of our deceased animals in jewellery, tattoos, or other artwork; to counsellors who specialize in helping people mourn pets; to classes for veterinarians; to tips to help the surviving animals who are grieving their animal friends; to pet psychics and memorial websites.But the reality is that these practices, and related beliefs about animal souls or animal afterlife, generally only extend, with very few exceptions, to certain kinds of animals - pets. Most animals, in most cultures, are not mourned, and the question of an animal afterlife is not contemplated at all. Mourning Animals investigates how we mourn animal deaths, which animals are grievable, and what the implications are for all animals.

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Book SynopsisNight and Darkness in Ancient Mesoamerica is the first volume to explicitly incorporate how nocturnal aspects of the natural world were imbued with deep cultural meanings and expressed by different peoples from various time periods in Mexico and Central America.

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Book SynopsisArchaeological research on the late Pleistocene and early Holocene periods has tended to focus on rock shelters, caves, large game kills, and occasionally butchery sites. Diversity in Open-Air Site Structure across the Pleistocene/Holocene Boundary examines a diverse range of open-air sitesbounded both naturally and culturallyin Siberia and Germany and throughout North America. Open-air sites are difficult for researchers to locate and, because of depositional processes, often more difficult to interpret; they contain many superimposed events but often show evidence of only the most recent. Working to overcome the limitations of data and poor preservation, using decades of prior research and new analytical tools, and diverging from a one-size-fits-all mode of interpretation, the contributors to this volume offer fresh insight into the formation and taphonomy of open-air sites. Contributors: Douglas B. Bamforth, Ian Buvit, Brian J. Carter, Robin Cordero, Robert Dello-Russo, George C. Frison, Kelly E. Graf, Bruce B. Huckell, Michael A. Jochim, Joshua D. Kapp, Robert L. Kelly, Aleksander V. Konstantinov, Banks Leonard, Madeline E. Mackie, Christopher W. Merriman, Matthew J. O'Brien, Spencer Pelton, Neil N. Puckett, Beth Shapiro, Todd A. Surovell, Karisa Terry, Steve Teteak, Robert Yohe

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Book SynopsisSustainability and Water Management in the Maya World and Beyond investigates climate change and sustainability through time, exploring how political control of water sources, maintenance of sustainable systems, ideological relationships with water, and fluctuations in water availability have affected and been affected by social change. Contributors focus on and build upon earlier investigations of the global diversity of water management systems and the successes and failures of their employment, while applying a multitude of perspectives on sustainability. The volume focuses primarily on the Precolumbian Maya but offers several analogous case studies outside the ancient Maya world that illustrate the pervasiveness of water's role in sustainability, including an ethnographic study of the sustainability of small-scale, farmer-managed irrigation systems in contemporary New Mexico and the environmental consequences of Angkor's growth into the world's most extensive preindustrial settlement. The archaeological record offers rich data on past politics of climate change, while epigraphic and ethnographic data show how integrated the ideological, political, and environmental worlds of the Maya were. While Sustainability and Water Management in the Maya World and Beyond stresses how lessons from the past offer invaluable insight into current approaches of adaptation, it also advances our understanding of those adaptations by making the inevitable discrepancies between past and present climate change less daunting and emphasizing the sustainable negotiations between humans and their surroundings that have been mediated by the changing climate for millennia. It will appeal to students and scholars interested in climate change, sustainability, and water management in the archaeological record. Contributors: Mary Jane Acuña, Wendy Ashmore, Timothy Beach, Jeffrey Brewer, Christopher Carr, Adrian S. Z. Chase, Arlen F. Chase, Diane Z. Chase, Carlos R. Chiriboga, Jennifer Chmilar, Nicholas Dunning, Maurits W. Ertsen, Roland Fletcher, David Friedel, Robert Griffin, Joel D. Gunn, Armando Anaya Hernández, Christian Isendahl, David Lentz, Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach, Dan Penny, Kathryn Reese-Taylor, Michelle Rich, Cynthia Robin, Sylvia Rodríguez, William Saturno, Vernon Scarborough, Payson Sheets, Liwy Grazioso Sierra, Michael Smyth, Sander van der Leeuw, Andrew Wyatt

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Book SynopsisPushing Boundaries in Southwestern Archaeology draws together the proceedings from the sixteenth biennial Southwest Symposium.

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Book SynopsisTanner Trust Fund and J. Willard Marriott Library Fact, Fiction, and Polygamyrescues an exciting true tale of international intrigue from 150 years of neglect. It tells of the travails of Henrietta Polydore, a young Anglo-Italian girl spirited out of an English Catholic convent school in 1854 and bundled across the Atlantic, the Great Plains, and the Rocky Mountains by her Mormon-convert mother and aunt to live in Salt Lake City under an alias in the polygamous household of a Latter-day Saint leader with five wives and twenty children. Midway through Henrietta’s secret sojourn in the City of the Saints, she was caught up in the Utah War of 1857–1858, President Buchanan’s attempt to suppress a perceived Mormon rebellion with nearly one-third of the U.S. Army. MacKinnon and Alford present Henrietta’s story through their editing for twenty-first-century readers of a “lost” non-fiction novel about Polydore’s saga published during 1877 in Boston’s Atlantic Monthly. This short piece—dubbed a “novella” and titled The Ward of the Three Guardians—was the work of Albert G. Browne, Jr., a Boston Brahmin with two Harvard degrees and a Ph.D. from the University of Heidelberg, who, at age twenty-three, was in Utah as the war correspondent for Horace Greeley’s New-York Tribune. Browne reported on and then became part of Henrietta’s story using his legal training to bring about her repatriation to her father in England through a sensational legal case. Her return home precluded an early, perhaps polygamous, marriage as a teenager.Fact, Fiction, and Polygamy is the work of two historian-editors with disparate backgrounds working collaboratively as professional colleagues as well as personal friends. MacKinnon, an independent historian from upstate New York now living in California, is a Presbyterian, veteran of the U.S. Air Force, and former vice president of General Motors Corporation. Colonel Alford, a Latter-day Saint and Utahn, is a professor teaching at Brigham Young University after a thirty-year career as a U.S. Army officer with teaching assignments at the U.S. Military Academy and National Defense University. MacKinnon and Alford have brought their decades of research on the subject to bear on a re-publication of Ward that helps readers separate Browne’s telling of Henrietta’s story into its strands of fact and fiction. Sit back and savor Albert Browne’s newly recovered tale and its rich blend of fact and fantasy. With the guidance of editors MacKinnon and Alford, determining the difference is half the fun and much the value of revisiting The Ward of the Three Guardians. Number Seventeen in the Series Utah, the Mormons, and the West Tanner Trust Fund and J. Willard Marriott Library

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Book SynopsisPrison Cultures offers the first systematic examination of women in prison and performances in and of the institution. Using a feminist approach to reach beyond tropes of 'bad girls' and simplistic inside vs. outside dynamics, it examines how cultural products can perpetuate or disrupt hegemonic understandings of the world of prisons. The book identifies how and why prison functions as a fixed field and postulates new ways of viewing performances in and of prison that trouble the institution, with a primary focus on the United Kingdom and examples from popular culture. A new contribution to the fields of feminist cultural criticism and prison studies, Aylwyn Walsh explores how the development of a theory of resistance and desire is central to the understanding of women’s incarceration. It problematizes the prevalence of purely literary analysis or case studies that proffer particular models of arts practice as transformative of offending behaviour.Trade Review'Walsh's book doesn't disappoint. [...] Prison Cultures provides an incredibly rich, detailed, and complex performance analysis of women's prisons and imprisonment, and develops an argument for performance as a tool for resistance in carceral settings. [...] [It] shifts the prison theatre discourse in new directions, shunning the typical arguments around efficacy and impact in favour of striking new ground. The book is an ideal source for researchers interested in theatre and performance in the criminal justice system, and for those with a keen interest in penology, cultural and feminist criminology. The provocations presented to the applied theatre in the criminal justice sector should also serve to make this a valuable resource to those studying, and practising, prison theatre.' -- Simon Ruding, New Theatre Quarterly‘This book provides an incisive and innovative analysis of carceral environments that challenges the common sense of prison cultures. Walsh deploys a radical and feminist sensibility to uncover not only how various types of performance strategy perpetuate rigid typologies of women, but also how artistic interventions and theatre representations can fashion alternative and resistive subjectivities.’ -- Prof Paul Routledge, Leadership Chair in Contentious Politics and Social Change, University of Leeds'It is a novel and original contribution to the field, with insightful performance analyses that illuminate the complex ways performance practices function in wider culture, as well as within the context of prisons themselves.' -- Katie Beswick, University of Exeter'Prison Cultures offers a multilayered and complex account of how justice is staged and experienced by women in prison and how such experiences are subsequently mediated in contemporary culture. Drawing on a range of examples and disciplines and committed to a feminist perspective, Aylwyn Walsh makes a compelling case for performance's function as a tool of resistance to carceral and patriarchal logics, imaginaries and practices against women in and out of prisons. This is an important source for anyone with an interest in performance and the criminal justice system specifically, but also, more broadly for anyone with a concern about the role of performance against regimes of power that perpetuate marginalization, racism and gender-violence. A timely intervention.’ -- Dr Marilena Zaroulia, University of WinchesterTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One: Prison Cultures Habitus and ‘Tragic Containment’ Chapter Two: Genealogies of Prison as Performance: Towards a Theory of Simulating the Cage Chapter Three: Trauma, Strategies and Tactics: Problems of Performance in Prison Chapter Four: Race, Space and Violence Chapter Five: Prison Lesbians: Screening Intimacy and Desire Chapter Six: Performance through Prison: Institutional Ghosts and Traces of the Traumatic Paradoxes of Prison Cultures Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis new book is an edited volume of essays that examine the legacy of architecture in a number of African countries soon after independence. It has its origins in an exhibition and symposium that focused on architecture as an element in Nordic countries’ aid packages to newly independent states, but the expanded breadth of the essays includes work on other countries and architects. Drawing on ethnography, archival research and careful observations of buildings, remains and people, the case studies seek to connect the colonial and postcolonial origins of modernist architecture, the historical processes they underwent, and present use and habitation. It results from the 2015 seminar and exhibition Forms of Freedom at the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo, Norway. The exhibition showed how modern Scandinavian architecture became an essential component of foreign aid to East Africa in the period 1960–80, and how the ideals of the Nordic welfare system found expression in a number of construction projects. The seminar, which built upon the exhibition as well as on a previous collaboration on the legacies of modernism in Africa between the Department of Anthropology of the University of Oslo and the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning from Ghent University, broadened the geographic scope of the discussion beyond the Scandinavian context, and set the ground for bringing together the disciplines of architectural history and social anthropology. Primary readership will be among architects and architectural historians, and graduate level architecture and urban studies students, for whom it will be valuable course material, as well as those in fields such as African studies and anthropology. It may also be of interest to those working or researching in public policy and political history.Trade Review'Tracing concrete connections between architecture and anthropology, African Modernism and Its Afterlives offers glimpses of past futures, half-remembered dreams and enduring structures. Engaging and ever clear-eyed, its chapters provide a trenchant guide to 20th century efforts to alter African social life through building, along with the artefacts they left behind.' Peter Redfield, University of Southern CaliforniaTable of ContentsList of Figures Introduction Recognizing African Modernisms Paul Wenzel Geissler, Johan Lagae and Nina Berre PART 1: AFRICAN MODERNISM Karl Henrik Nøstvik: Remnants of Nordic Aid Nina Berre Africa’s ‘Lone Star’: Building ‘New Liberia’ in the Context of Post-war Africa Iga Perzyna Countryside Reconstruction in Postcolonial Africa: The Ujamaa Experience Karl Otto Ellefsen Technocratic Colonial Housing Policies and Reductive Modernism in Eastlands, Nairobi Peter Makachia Transnational Exchanges in Postcolonial Zambia: School Buildings at the Intersection of Architectural, Political and Economic Globalization Kim De Raedt Forms of Freedom: Soviet Gifts in Postcolonial Kenya Ruth Prince Georg Lippsmeier and His Tropenbau: Salesmanship and Pragmatic Modernism Antoni Folkers Israel/Africa: The Laboratories of (Post)colonial Modernity Haim Yacobi ‘Tout le Congo est un Chantier’: Notes on the Archive of a (Post)colonial Construction Firm Johan Lagae and Robby Fivez INTERLUDE Remnants of Nordic Aid in Africa: The Zambia World Bank Educational Projects Mette Tronvoll Remnants of Nordic Aid in Africa: The KICC & Fishery Station by Architect Karl Henrik Nøstvik in Africa Iwan Baan PART 2: AFTERLIVES ‘Kenya Grew from Here’: Property and History in a Nairobi Housing Estate Constance Smith Grave Reservations: Nigerian Literature and ‘European Reservations’ during Decolonization Tim Livsey The Legacy of Nordic Expertise in Postcolonial Housing Schemes in Nairobi Tom J. C. Anyamba Privatization and the Reshaping of the Recreational Landscape of the Industrial Zambian Copperbelt Patience Mususa The Ruins of Turkana: An Archaeology of Failed Development in Northern Kenya Samuel F. Derbyshire and Lucas Lowasa The Brand New Ruins of Public Health: A Tale of Two Buildings, Kinshasa, DRC Guillaume Lachenal ‘Is This Anthropology Really a Modern Subject?’: Kenyan Students’ Experience of Nairobi’s (Changing) University Architectures Ida Skjong Grøvik Laboratory Unbuilt: An Architectural Biography of Postcolonial Science in East Africa Paul Wenzel Geissler Epilogue Buildings and People: Interdisciplinarity, Juxtaposition and Experimentation Paul Wenzel Geissler and Johan Lagae Notes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisCreating Care: Art and Medicine in US Hospitals is an ethnographic study of the creative, expressive, and art-making activities occurring in hospitals across the United States. Marlaine Figueroa Gray explores how art programming intersects with medical care in US hospitals, sharing the insights of those who facilitate, participate, and support these creative activities as well as the objectives, values, and functions of these offerings. Gray illustrates how hospital creative arts programs model care that includes both those in need of healing and those who heal.Trade ReviewIn contemporary medicine, the power of art and poetry to heal has only recently become a subject of scholarly investigation. Marlaine Figueroa Gray’s masterful study, Creating Medicine, breaks new ground in exploring the concept and practice of art therapy in American hospitals. Her book is a seminal work in understanding the therapeutic value of creative art. -- Jack Coulehan, Stony Brook University, author of The Talking CureCreating Medicine offers an insightful and rich exploration of the relationship between the arts and medicine from an anthropological perspective. It's a valuable contribution to the arts in health field, and a genuine pleasure to read. -- Patricia Dewey Lambert, University of Oregon and Chair of the Professionalization Committee, National Organization for Arts in HealthTable of ContentsChapter 1: Creative Practices, Care Practices Chapter 2: A Brief History of Art and MedicineChapter 3: Proving Art Works: Evidence and Values Underlying Creative Arts Activities Chapter 4: “It’s Many Different Things”: Creative Arts Activities as Moments of Disruption Chapter 5: The Root of Healing: Community and ConnectionChapter 6: Accompaniment and Legacy: Creative Activities at and Through the End of Life

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Book SynopsisAt the place known as Head-Smashed-In in southwestern Alberta, Aboriginal people practiced a form of group hunting for nearly 6,000 years before European contact. The large communal bison traps of the Plains were the single greatest food-getting method ever developed in human history. Hunters, working with their knowledge of the land and of buffalo behaviour, drove their quarry over a cliff and into wooden corrals. The rest of the group butchered the kill in the camp below.Author Jack Brink, who devoted 25 years of his career to "The Jump," has chronicled the cunning, danger, and triumph in the mass buffalo hunts and the culture they supported. He also recounts the excavation of the site and the development of the Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump Interpretive Centre, which has hosted 2 million visitors since it opened in 1987. Brink’s masterful blend of scholarship and public appeal is rare in any discipline, but especially in North American pre-contact archaeology.Brink attests, "I love the story that lies behind the jump—the events and planning that went into making the whole event work. I continue to learn more about the complex interaction between people, bison and the environment, and I continue to be impressed with how the ancient hunters pulled off these astonishing kills."Trade ReviewBrink takes readers on an exploration of the site, telling its story in an irresistible personal voice into which he pours his heart and soul. What comes through is the author's deep respect for his subject. -- Ken Tingley * Edmonton Journal *Pick up this book and add it to your collection; it is a must read for anyone interested in the past, anyone studying history of the plains, and everyone just looking for some fresh, new and upbeat reading material. Imagining Head-Smashed-In is a tale about courage, ingenuity and the struggle for survival. -- John Copley * Alberta Native News *A writer committed to a subject that most of the world considers marginal, yet approaches it with I-will-be-heard confidence, can win the heart of even the most recalcitrant reader. Jack W. Brink, a curator at the Royal Alberta Museum in Edmonton, has that ability. He's spent 25 years studying the way Prairie natives kept themselves alive for millennia by hunting buffalo, a subject that in his hands becomes absorbing, dramatic and almost urgent. -- Robert Fulford * National Post *Imagining Head Smashed-In brings alive the past as well as the archaeological process, in an engaging description of how archaeology really happens, which complements Brink's impressive command of the data. -- Citation from the Society for American Archaeology Public Audience Book AwardTable of ContentsForeward by Eldon YellowhornPrefaceAcknowledgements1. The Buffalo JumpCommunal Buffalo HuntingNot Just Any CliffThe SiteThe CliffHow Long Have Buffalo Jumped?Blood on the Rocks: The Story of Head-Smashed-In2. The BuffaloIs it Bison or Buffalo?In Numbers, NumberlessTricks of the TradeThe Fats of Life3. A Year in the LifeCalvesMothersFathersThe Big PictureScience and the Historic RecordThe Seasonal RoundSummerFall and WinterSpringThe Season of Buffalo Jumping4. The Killing FieldsFinding BisonDrive LanesPoints in TimeAncient KnowledgeBack to the Drive LanesDeadmenIn Small Things Forgotten5. Rounding UpThe Spirit SingsThe Nose of the BuffaloFire this TimeLuring the BuffaloBuffalo RunnersLost CalvesBilly’s StoriesThe End of the DriveOf Illusions, Pickup Trucks, and Curves in the Road6. The Great KillLeap of FaithOverkill?Drop of DeathBones on FireLet the Butchering BeginBison Hide as InsulatorBack to the Assembly Line7. Cooking up the SpoilsThe Processing SiteDay Fades to NightDried GoodsGrease is the WordHigh Plains CookingHazel Gets SlimedBuffalo ChipsHot RocksTime for a RoastWhere are the Skulls?Packing Up, Among the Bears8. Going HomeBuffalo HidesPemmicanSnow Falling on Cottonwoods9. The End of the Buffalo HuntThe Skin of the AnimalThe Last of the Buffalo JumpsRivers of BonesFinal Abandonment of Head-Smashed-In10. The Future of the PastBeginningsA Beer-Soaked Bar NapkinCranes on the CliffA Rubber CliffAnd a Rubber DigThe Blackfoot Get InvolvedMeeting with the PiikaniJoe CrowshoeA Painted SkullWhere are the Blood?Hollywood NorthOpening and AftermathOf Time and TraditionEpilogue: Just a Simple StoneNote SourcesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisNAPA Bulletin is a peer reviewed occasional publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology, dedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methods. * peer reviewed publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology * dedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methods * most editions available for course adoptionTable of ContentsGlobal Connections and Practicing Anthropology in the 21st Century Carole E. Hill , Marietta L. Baba National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin May 2006, Vol. 25, No. 1: 1-13. Applied Anthropology in Ecuador: Development Practice and Discourse Jorge E. Uquillas , Pilar Larreamendy National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin May 2006, Vol. 25, No. 1: 14-34. Applied Anthropology in Egypt: Practicing Anthropology within Local and Global Contexts el-Sayed el-Aswad National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin May 2006, Vol. 25, No. 1: 35-51. Anthropology in Policy and Practice in India L. K. Mahapatra National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin May 2006, Vol. 25, No. 1: 052-69. Applied Anthropology in China Wang Jianmin , John A. Young National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin May 2006, Vol. 25, No. 1: 70-81. Practicing Ethnology in Contemporary Russia Anatoly N. Yamskov National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin May 2006, Vol. 25, No. 1: 82-103. Applied Anthropology in Israel: Between Infancy and Maturity S. Zev Kalifon , Malka Shabtay National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin May 2006, Vol. 25, No. 1: 104-122. The Practice of Anthropology in Great Britain Sarah Pink National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin May 2006, Vol. 25, No. 1: 123-133. Applied Anthropology in Canada: Historical Foundations, Contemporary Practice and Policy Potentials Alexander M. Ervin , Lorne Holyoak National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin May 2006, Vol. 25, No. 1: 134-155. Practicing Anthropology in Portugal Ana Isabel Afonso National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin May 2006, Vol. 25, No. 1: 156-175. What's in the Name "Applied Anthropology"?: An Encounter with Global Practice Marietta L. Baba , Carole E. Hill National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin May 2006, Vol. 25, No. 1: 176-207. Biosketches of Authors National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin May 2006, Vol. 25, No. 1: 208-212.

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Book SynopsisNAPA Bulletin is a peer reviewed occasional publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology, dedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methods. * peer reviewed publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology * dedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methods * most editions available for course adoptionTable of ContentsMaking History at the Frontier Christina Wasson National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2006, Vol. 26, No. 1: 1-19. Random Walk Mary Odell Butler National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2006, Vol. 26, No. 1: 20-31. Pursuing International Development through a Gender LensReflections on a Nonlinear Career Path in Applied Anthropology Mari H. Clarke National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2006, Vol. 26, No. 1: 32-54. Seeing Double: An Anthropologist's Vision Quest Jacqueline Copeland-Carson National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2006, Vol. 26, No. 1: 55-81. Anthropology in Pursuit of Public Policy and Practical Knowledge Shirley J. Fiske National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2006, Vol. 26, No. 1: 82-107. An Interim Story of a Career as an Applied Anthropologist Madelyn Iris National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2006, Vol. 26, No. 1: 108-122. Putting On AirsFinding a Path to a Career in Applied Anthropology Susan Racine Passmore National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2006, Vol. 26, No. 1: 123-134. Theory and PracticeImprovising a Life as a Practicing Anthropologist Eve C. Pinsker National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2006, Vol. 26, No. 1: 135-151. Bushwhacking a Career Patricia Sachs National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2006, Vol. 26, No. 1: 152-162. Life at the Crossroads Jean J. Schensul National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2006, Vol. 26, No. 1: 163-190. Solving Puzzles Susan Squires National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2006, Vol. 26, No. 1: 191-208. The Spiral PathToward an Integrated Life Alaka Wali National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2006, Vol. 26, No. 1: 209-222. Histories and Futures at the FrontierSome Final Thoughts Christina Wasson National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2006, Vol. 26, No. 1: 223-226. Biosketches of Authors National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2006, Vol. 26, No. 1: 227-231.

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Book SynopsisNAPA Bulletin is a peer reviewed occasional publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology, dedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methods. * peer reviewed publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology * dedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methods * most editions available for course adoptionTable of ContentsCelebrating Student Achievement: Award-Winning Papers 2001-05 Alayne Unterberger National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin May 2007, Vol. 27, No. 1: 1-6. How Visitors Experience the Edward James Olmos Americanos Exhibit: An Ethnographic Study Jennifer Gilroy Hunsecker , Jayne B. Hoffman , Elena O'Curry , Christina Wasson National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin May 2007, Vol. 27, No. 1: 7-26. The Philani Experience: Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women in South Africa Alexandra Kenny , Conny Camenzind National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin May 2007, Vol. 27, No. 1: 27-39. Engaging Ethnography: Student Engagement as a Means for Creating Change Wendy Hathaway , James Kuzin National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin May 2007, Vol. 27, No. 1: 40-63. A Foreign Concern : Solid Waste Management in Panajachel, Lake Atitl-n, Guatemala Anna Wex National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin May 2007, Vol. 27, No. 1: 64-80. The Ethnographic Evaluation of Michigan's High-Risk Hepatitis B Vaccination Program Inez F. Adams National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin May 2007, Vol. 27, No. 1: 81-92. Health Change in Patients Using Alternative Medical Systems In Cuenca, Ecuador Michelle Albus National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin May 2007, Vol. 27, No. 1: 93-109. Development Agents And Nomadic Agency : Four Perspectives in the Development "Market" Karen Marie Greenough National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin May 2007, Vol. 27, No. 1: 110-128. An Analysis of the Impact of Aids on Funeral Culture in Malawi Adam D. Kis National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin May 2007, Vol. 27, No. 1: 129-140. Midwestern Museums and Classical Archaeology, 1893-1998 S. J. Redman National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin May 2007, Vol. 27, No. 1: 141-159. Government and Community Relations an Defforts for Comanagement in Macizo De La Muerte, Costa Rica Maggie Messerschmidt National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin May 2007, Vol. 27, No. 1: 160-175. "Is It The Spirit or The Body?": Syncretism of Health Beliefs Among Hmong Immigrants to Alaska Jacob R. Hickman National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin May 2007, Vol. 27, No. 1: 176-195. Anthropology and Development Jason Jacques Paiement National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin May 2007, Vol. 27, No. 1: 196-223. Community Knowledge and at Titudes Toward Refugees and Asylees in Miami-Dade and Broward Counties: An Analys is for the International Rescue Committee Emily Eisenhauer , Alejandro Angee , Brianne Barclay , Jasney Cogua-Lopez National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin May 2007, Vol. 27, No. 1: 224-236. Biosketches of Authors National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin May 2007, Vol. 27, No. 1: 237-241.

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Book SynopsisNAPA Bulletin is a peer reviewed occasional publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology, dedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methods. * Peer reviewed publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology * Dedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methods * Most editions available for course adoptionTable of ContentsAnthropology and Fisheries Management in the United States Palma Ingles, Jennifer Sepez, National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2007, Vol. 28, No. 1: 1-13. Influencing Fisheries Management: Multitasking for Maximum Effectiveness John R. Maiolo, National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2007, Vol. 28, No. 1: 14-26. Defining Fishing Communities: Issues in Theory and Practice Patricia M. Clay, Julia Olson, National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2007, Vol. 28, No. 1: 27-42. A Quantitative Model for Ranking and Selecting Communities Most Involved in Commercial Fisheries Jennifer Sepez, Karma Norman, Ron Felthoven, National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2007, Vol. 28, No. 1: 43-56. Social Indicators and Measurements of Vulnerability for Gulf Coast Fishing Communities Michael Jepson, Steve Jacob, National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2007, Vol. 28, No. 1: 57-68. Any Port in the Storm: The Effects of Hurricane Katrina on Two Fishing Communities in Louisiana Palma Ingles, Heather McIlvaine-Newsad, National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2007, Vol. 28, No. 1: 69-86. Filipino Crew Community in the Hawaii - Based Longline Fishing Fleet Stewart Allen, Amy Gough, National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2007, Vol. 28, No. 1: 87-98. A State-Managed Program for Conducting Interviews with Commercial Fishermen Brian Cheuvront, National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2007, Vol. 28, No. 1: 99-108. Life on the Water: A Historical-Cultural Model of African American Fishermen on the Georgia Coast (USA) Ben G. Blount, Kathi R. Kitner, National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2007, Vol. 28, No. 1: 109-122. Cultural Models and Cultural Consensus of Chesapeake Bay Blue Crab and Oyster Fisheries Michael Paolisso, National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2007, Vol. 28, No. 1: 123-135. Using Oral History Techniques in A NOAA Fisheries Service (NMFS) Education and Outreach Project: Preserving Local Fisheries Knowledge, Linking Generations, and Improving Environmental Literacy Susan Abbott-Jamieson, National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2007, Vol. 28, No. 1: 136-147. The Community Panels Project: Citizens' Groups for Social Science Research and Monitoring Madeleine Hall-Arber, National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2007, Vol. 28, No. 1: 148-162. Biosketches of Authors National Association for the Practice of Anthropology Bulletin Sep 2007, Vol. 28, No. 1: 163-166.

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Book SynopsisTotaling approximately 40,000 objects, the University Museum's ethnographic holdings represent native peoples from ten North American culture areas—the Arctic, Subarctic, Northwest Coast, California, Plateau, Great Basin, Southwest, Great Plains, Northeast, and the Southeast. This guide highlights the strength of the collections and demonstrates how objects are tied to history and people living within different cultural and social contexts. It also underscores that objects have different multiple meanings. Some objects illustrate intertribal relations; others best reflect collecting attitudes at the turn of the century when much of the Museum's collections was acquired. Visitors and off-site readers will learn about such related archival resources as documentation and photographs, past and present Museum exhibitions, current research, repatriation, and contemporary collections development.

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Book SynopsisThis humorous account of human evolution, from the beginnings of bipedalism through the Upper Paleolithic, is set in the context of a cookbook, with recipes and cartoons to match the unfolding stories. Each chapter discusses a particular milestone or event in human development, and a dash of prehistory, a sprinkling of recipes, and a generous helping of humor painlessly lighten the professorial instruction. From leading us to understand the first tool makers to showing us how to prepare a Neanderthal dinner party at the site of the authors' most recent excavations in Pech de l'Aze in France's Dordogne Valley near the town of Sarlat, this book presents archaeology as never before.Table of ContentsFood and Evolution The Earliest Humans The First Tool-Makers Man the Hunter, or Man the Scavenger? World Colonists, or Out of Africa (Part 1) Neanderthals The Middle Paleolithic or Mousterian The Origins of Modern Humans, or Out of Africa (Part 2) The definition of "Modern" Homo sapiens (Part 1) The definition of "Modern" Homo sapiens (Part 2) Upper Paleolithic Industries of France A Prehistory Dinner Party FAQs

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Book SynopsisBeginning in the mid-nineteenth century, shortly after the invention of photography, the Tlingit of southeastern Alaska encountered early Russian and American survey teams, ethnographic investigators, studio photographers, tourists, and resident amateur and commercial photographers. Why were the Tlingit photographed and how were their images disseminated? How were they portrayed through photography? How active were the Tlingit in shaping the images taken of them and in controlling their representation? Did photography remain an alien technology and activity or did the Tlingit incorporate it into their own culture? Based on research in thirteen North American archives (including the Penn Museum's Shotridge Collection), a close examination of hundreds of photographs, and extensive oral-history interviews in Sitka and other sites with both Tlingit and non-Native residents, Sharon Bohn Gmelch presents valuable insights on the motivations and reactions of Native subjects to being photographed. She shows the ways the Tlingit incorporated photography and came to use it for their own purposes, expressing a new sense of empowerment as they reclaimed images from public archives for their own purposes. This is the first book to explore the photographic imagery of the Tlingit during a critical period of change, from the 1860s through the 1920s. It also provides the first full treatment of the Tlingit photography of Elbridge W. Merrill, a neglected figure in the history of ethnographic photography.

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