Search results for ""University Press of Colorado""
University Press of Colorado Daughters of Harriet
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University Press of Colorado The Title of Totonicapán
£90.00
University Press of Colorado The Greater Chaco Landscape: Ancestors, Scholarship, and Advocacy
£29.99
University Press of Colorado On Being Maya and Getting by: Heritage Politics and Community Development in Yucatán
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University Press of Colorado The Touch of Civilization: Comparing American and Russian Internal Colonization
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University Press of Colorado Creating Dialogues: Indigenous Perceptions and Changing Forms of Leadership in Amazonia
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University Press of Colorado Carrying the Word: The Concheros Dance in Mexico City
In Carrying the Word: The Concheros Dance in Mexico City, the first full length study of the Concheros dancers, Susanna Rostas explores the experience of this unique group, whose use of dance links rural religious practices with urban post-modern innovation in distinctive ways even within Mexican culture, which is rife with ritual dances. The Concheros blend Catholic and indigenous traditions in their performances, but are not governed by a predetermined set of beliefs; rather they are bound together by long standing interpersonal connections framed by the discipline of their tradition. The Concheros manifest their spirituality by means of the dance. Rostas traces how they construct their identity and beliefs, both individual and communal, by its means. The book offers new insights into the experience of dancing as a Conchero while also exploring their history, organization and practices. Carrying the Word provides a new way for audiences to understand the Conchero's dance tradition, and will be of interest to students and scholars of contemporary Mesoamerica. Those studying identity, religion, and tradition will find this social-anthropological work particularly enlightening.
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University Press of Colorado Mountain Amnesia
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University Press of Colorado Susto
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University Press of Colorado Francisco López de Gómara's General History of the Indies
£86.89
University Press of Colorado The Invisible Professor: The Precarious Lives of the New Faculty Majority
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University Press of Colorado Paul Kontny: A Modern Artist in Europe and America
£35.99
University Press of Colorado Food Provisioning in Complex Societies: Zooarchaeological Perspectives
£44.99
University Press of Colorado Southeastern Mesoamerica: Indigenous Interaction, Resilience, and Change
£61.00
University Press of Colorado Anthropomorphic Imagery in the Mesoamerican Highlands: Gods, Ancestors, and Human Beings
£74.00
University Press of Colorado Foraging in the Past: Archaeological Studies of Hunter-Gatherer Diversity
£53.68
University Press of Colorado Gambling Debt: Iceland's Rise and Fall in the Global Economy
Gambling Debt is a game-changing contribution to the discussion of economic crises and neoliberal financial systems and strategies. Iceland's 2008 financial collapse was the first case in a series of meltdowns, a warning of danger in the global order. This full-scale anthropology of financialization and the economic crisis broadly discusses this momentous bubble and burst and places it in theoretical, anthropological, and global historical context through descriptions of the complex developments leading to it and the larger social and cultural implications and consequences. Chapters from anthropologists, sociologists, historians, economists, and key local participants focus on the neoliberal policies-mainly the privatization of banks and fishery resources-that concentrated wealth among a select few, skewed the distribution of capital in a way that Iceland had never experienced before, and plunged the country into a full-scale economic crisis. Gambling Debt significantly raises the level of understanding and debate on the issues relevant to financial crises, painting a portrait of the meltdown from many points of view-from bankers to schoolchildren, from fishers in coastal villages to the urban poor and immigrants, and from artists to philosophers and other intellectuals. This book is for anyone interested in financial troubles and neoliberal politics as well as students and scholars of anthropology, sociology, economics, philosophy, political science, business, and ethics. Publication supported in part by the National Science Foundation. Contributors: Vilhjalmur Arnason, Asmundur Asmundsson, Jon Gunnar Bernburg, James Carrier, Sigurlina Davidsdottir, Dimitra Doukas, Niels Einarsson, Einar Mar Gudmundsson, Tinna Gretarsdottir, Birna Gunnlaugsdottir, Gudny S. Gudbjornsdottir, Pamela Joan Innes, Gudni Th. Johannesson, Orn D. Jonsson, Hannes Larusson, Kristin Loftsdottir, James Maguire, Mar Wolfgang Mixa, Evelyn Pinkerton, Hulda Proppe, James G. Rice, Rognvaldur J. Saemundsson, Unnur Dis Skaptadottir, Margaret Willson
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University Press of Colorado Surviving Sudden Environmental Change: Answers From Archaeology
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, and from deep prehistory to living memory-faced and coped with such dangers. Many disasters originate from a force of nature, such as an earthquake, cyclone, tsunami, volcanic eruption, drought, or flood. But that is only half of the story; decisions of people and their particular cultural lifeways are the rest. Sociocultural factors are essential in understanding risk, impact, resilience, reactions, and recoveries from massive sudden environmental changes. By using deep-time perspectives provided by interdisciplinary approaches, this book provides a rich temporal background to the human experience of environmental hazards and disasters. In addition, each chapter is followed by an abstract summarising the important implications for today's management practices and providing recommendations for policy makers. Publication supported in part by the National Science Foundation.
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University Press of Colorado Colorado Women in World War II
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University Press of Colorado The Transnational Construction of Mayanness: Reading Modern Mesoamerica Through Us Archives
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University Press of Colorado Beyond the Betrayal: The Memoir of a World War II Japanese American Draft Resister of Conscience
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University Press of Colorado Pilgrimage to Broken Mountain: Nahua Sacred Journeys in Mexico's Huasteca Veracruzana
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University Press of Colorado Living Ruins: Native Engagements with Past Materialities in Contemporary Mesoamerica, Amazonia, and the Andes
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University Press of Colorado User Experience as Innovative Academic Practice
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University Press of Colorado Spirit Lands of the Eagle and Bear: Numic Archaeology and Ethnohistory in the Rocky Mountains and Borderlands
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University Press of Colorado Reshaping the World: Debates on Mesoamerican Cosmologies
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University Press of Colorado Leisure and Death: An Anthropological Tour of Risk, Death, and Dying
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University Press of Colorado Aztec Antichrist: Performing the Apocalypse in Early Colonial Mexico Volume 1
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University Press of Colorado Birds and Beasts of Ancient Mesoamerica: Animal Symbolism in the Postclassic Period
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University Press of Colorado Maya-British Conflict at the Edge of the Yucatecan Caste War
£73.50
University Press of Colorado Building an Archaeology of Maya Urbanism: Planning and Flexibility in the American Tropics
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University Press of Colorado Pmp Certification: A Beginner's Guide, Fourth Edition
£40.46
University Press of Colorado From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico: Religious Globalization in the Context of Empire
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University Press of Colorado The Upper Tanana Dene: People of This Land
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University Press of Colorado Teaching Mindful Writers
£27.71
University Press of Colorado More Than a Moment: Contextualizing the Past, Present, and Future
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University Press of Colorado Japanese Brazilian Saudades: Diasporic Identities and Cultural Production
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University Press of Colorado Pre-Mamom Pottery Variation and the Preclassic Origins of the Lowland Maya
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University Press of Colorado Unlearning: Rethinking Poetics, Pandemics, and the Politics of Knowledge
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University Press of Colorado Writing Their Bodies: Restoring Rhetorical Relations at the Carlisle Indian School
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University Press of Colorado Rituals and Sisterhoods: Single Women's Households in Mexico, 1560-1750
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University Press of Colorado Dialogue with Europe, Dialogue with the Past: Colonial Nahua and Quechua Elites in Their Own Words
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