Afro-Atlantic Dialogues
2006. Edited by Kevin A. Yelvington
This book breaks new theoretical and methodological ground in the study of the African diaspora in the Atlantic world. Leading scholars of archaeology, linguistics, and socio-cultural anthropology draw upon extensi…
American Arrivals
2003. Edited by Nancy Foner
Addressing issues of health care, education, and cultural values and practices among Mexicans, Haitians, Somalis, Afghans, and other newcomers to the United States, the authors illuminate the complex ways that immigrants a…
Ancient Civilization and Trade
1975. Edited by Jeremy A. Sabloff and C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky
The contributors to this volume explore trade’s dynamic role in the growth of early civilizations from the vantage points of archaeology, economics, social anthropology, and cultural g…
Anthropology in the Margins of the State
2004. Edited by Veena Das and Deborah Poole
Drawing on fieldwork in Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Peru, Guatemala, India, Chad, Colombia, and South Africa, the contributors examine official documentary practices and their forms and falsifications; the pro…
Anthropology of Race
2013. Edited by John HartiganAnthropology of Race confronts the challenge of formulating an effective rejoinder to new arguments and new data about race, and attempts to address the intense desire to understand race and why it matters.
Archaeologies of Empire
2020. Edited by Anna L. Boozer, Bleda S. Düring, and Bradley J. ParkerThis book demonstrates how archaeological research can contribute to our conceptualization of empires across disciplinary boundaries.
Archaeology & Cultural Resource Management
2010. Edited by Lynne Sebastian and William D. Lipe
By most estimates, as much as 90 percent of the archaeology done in the United States today is carried out in the field of cultural resource management (CRM). The contributors hope that this book wi…
The Archaeology of Chaco Canyon
2006. Edited by Stephen H. LeksonChaco and the people who created its monumental great houses, extensive roads, and network of outlying settlements remain an enigma in American archaeology. Two decades after the latest and largest program of field research at Chaco (the…
The Archaeology of Colonial Encounters
2005. Edited by Gil J. Stein
In this volume, ten archaeologists analyze the assumptions that have constrained previous studies of colonialism and demonstrate that colonization was common in early Old and New World state societies—an important strat…
The Archaeology of Lower Central America
1984. Edited by Fredrick W. Lange and Doris Z. StoneThis book provides a much-needed overview of the archaeological past, present, and future of lower Central America. It addresses questions such as why the region never produced complex societies like its neighbors to t…
Archaic State Interaction
2010. Edited by William A. Parkinson and Michael L. Galaty
In current archaeological research the failure to find common ground between world-systems theory believers and their counterparts has resulted in a stagnation of theoretical development in r…
Archaic States
1998. Edited by Gary M. Feinman and Joyce Marcus
One of the most challenging problems facing contemporary archaeology concerns the operation and diversity of ancient states. This volume addresses how ancient states were structured and how they operat…
Artisans and Advocacy in the Global Market
2015. Edited by Jeanne Simonelli, Katherine O’Donnell, and June Nash
The collaborations, cooperatives, and conundrums described in this collection reaffirm ancient traditions even as artisan production and the preservation of cultural identity intera…
Bioinsecurity and Vulnerability
2014. Edited by Nancy N. Chen and Lesley A. Sharp
Through considering the vulnerability of individuals and groups, particularly looking at how vulnerability propagates in the shadow of biosecurity, this volume challenges the acceptance of surveillanc…
Biology, Brains, & Behavior
2000. Edited by Sue Taylor Parker, Jonas Langer, and Michael L. McKinney
An exciting new cross-disciplinary field of biocultural research is emerging at the start of the twenty-first century: developmental evolutionary biology. Looking at the behavio…
Big Histories, Human Lives
2013. Edited by John Robb and Timothy R. Pauketat
The contributors consider something archaeologists seldom think about: the intersection of micro-scale human experience with large-scale and long-term histories. Did history unfold in different ways f…
Breathing New Life into the Evidence of Death
2012. Edited by Aubrey Baadsgaard, Alexis T. Boutin, and Jane E. Buikstra
Breathing New Life into the Evidence of Death showcases the vibrancy of bioarchaeological research and its potential for bringing “new life” to the field of mortua…
Cash on the Table
2014. Edited by Edward F. Fischer
Anthropologists have historically tended to focus on the corrosive effects of markets on traditional lifeways and the ways in which global markets disadvantage marginalized peoples. Economists often have difficulty r…
A Catalyst for Ideas
2005. Edited by Vernon L. Scarborough
In his thirty-four years as president of the School of American Research, Douglas W. Schwartz’s far-reaching vision placed SAR on the intellectual edge of research about humans across the globe. The twelve essays…
Catastrophe & Culture
2002. Edited by Susanna M. Hoffman and Anthony Oliver-Smith
Using a variety of natural and technological disasters-including Mexican earthquakes, drought in the Andes and in Africa, the nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl, the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the O…
Chaco & Hohokam
1991. Edited by Patricia L. Crown and W. James JudgeSynthesizing data and current thought about the regional systems of the Chacoans and the Hohokam, eleven archaeologists examine settlement patterns, subsistence economy, social organization, and trade, shedding new lig…
Chan Chan
1982. Edited by Michael E. Moseley and Kent C. Day
The fourteen essays in this book focus on the Chan Chan-Moche Valley Project and analyze its five-year archaeological study. It includes chapters on irrigation, excavation results, and sociopolitical…
Childhood
2016. Edited by Courtney L. Meehan and Alyssa N. Crittenden
This collection is the first to specifically address our current understanding of the evolution of human childhood, which in turn significantly affects our interpretations of the evolution o…
The Classic Maya Collapse
1973. Edited by T. Patrick CulbertIn this book, thirteen leading scholars use new data to revise the image of ancient Maya civilization and create a new model of its collapse—a general model of sociopolitical collapse not limited to the cultural history of the Maya al…
Community Building in the Twenty-First Century
2005. Edited by Stanley E. Hyland
“Community” has long been a critical concept for social scientists, and never more so amid the growing economic inequity, natural and human disasters, and warfare of the opening years of the twenty-first century.…
Confronting Cancer
2009. Edited by Juliet McMullin and Diane Weiner
In this book, anthropologists examine the lived experiences of individuals confronting cancer and reveal the social context in which prevention and treatment may succeed or fail.
Copán
2005. Edited by E. Wyllys Andrews and William L. FashThis volume collects leading scholarship on one of the most important archaeological complexes in the ancient Maya world.
Costly and Cute
2016. Edited by Wenda R. Trevathan and Karen R. Rosenberg
The authors take a broad look at how human infants are similar to and different from the infants of other species, at how our babies have constrained our evolution over the past six million years, and at …
Critical Anthropology Now
1999. Edited by George E. Marcus
Building on the legacy of Writing Culture, Critical Anthropology Now vividly represents the changing nature of anthropological research practice, demonstrating how new and more complicated locations of resear…
Crumpled Paper Boat
2017. Edited by Anand Pandian and Stuart McLean
Crumpled Paper Boat engages writing as a creative process of encounter, a way of making and unmaking worlds, and a material practice no less participatory and dynamic than fieldwork itself.
Cyborgs & Citadels
1998. Edited by Gary Lee Downey and Joseph Dumit
The authors explore such questions as how science gains authority to direct truth practices, the boundaries between humans and machines, and how science, technology, and medicine contribute to the fash…
Dangerous Liaisons
2011. Edited by Laura McNamara and Robert A. Rubinstein
Throughout the first decade of the twenty-first century, anthropologists have watched with both interest and concern as government agencies — particularly those with military and intelligence …
Democracy
2008. Edited by Julia Paley
While previous scholars of democracy have proposed one definitive model after another, the authors in this work suggest that democracy is by nature an open ended set of questions about the workings of power—questions bes…
Demographic Anthropology
1976. Edited by Ezra B. W. Zubrow
The articles in this book explore relationships between demographic variables and culture, emphasizing cultural and biological structures and processes connected to population trends. In addition, the book covers top…
Development & Dispossession
2009. Edited by Anthony Oliver-Smith
Because there can be no return to land submerged under a dam-created lake or to a neighborhood buried under a stadium or throughway, the solutions devised to meet the needs of people displaced by development must …
Disturbing Bodies
2015. Edited by Zoë Crossland and Rosemary A. Joyce
As bodies are revealed, so are hidden and often incommensurate understandings of the body after death. The theme of “disturbing bodies” has a double valence, evoking both the work that anthropologists do…
Dreaming
1992. Edited by Barbara Tedlock
The ten contributors to this book-anthropologists and psychologists-explore the ways in which dreams are remembered, recounted, shared (or not shared), interpreted, and used by people from New Guinea to the Andes.
The Dying Community
1980. Edited by Art Gallaher, Jr. and Harland Padfield
Developing a conceptual and theoretical framework for examining community decline and dissolution, the book looks at the relationships between the dying community and its natural resource base, t…
Elites
1983. Edited by George E. Marcus
This book is a collection of essays focusing on the role that elites play in shaping modern societies. Critiquing the treatment accorded elites as subjects in recent Western social thought, the essays reflect upon pas…
The Empire of Things
2002. Edited by Fred R. Myers
Representing a new wave of thinking about material culture studies-a topic long overdue for reevaluation – the essays in this volume take a fresh look at the relationship between material culture and exchange theory and …
Enduring Conquests
2011. Edited by Matthew Liebmann and Melissa S. MurphyThe contributors to this volume reject the grand narrative that views this era as a clash of civilizations—a narrative produced centuries after the fact—to construct more comprehensive and complex social historie…
Entrepreneurs in Cultural Context
1979. Edited by Sidney M. Greenfield, Arnold Strickon, and Robert T. Aubey
This book is a collection of essays on business behavior that examine the relationships between business enterprises and family networks. The essays deal with universal subjec…
Explanation of Prehistoric Change
1977. Edited by James N. Hill
What is change? What is stability? How and why does each occur? Can they be predicted? The contributors discuss these questions and others about the nature of change through diverse case studies from Hawaii, Midwestern …
The Evolution of Human Life History
2006. Edited by Kristen Hawkes and Richard R. Paine
This volume brings together specialists in hunter-gatherer behavioral ecology and demography, human growth, development, and nutrition, paleodemography, human paleontology, primatology, and the geno…
The Evolution of Leadership
2010. Edited by Kevin J. Vaughn, Jelmer W. Eerkens, and John Kantner
This book, the product of an advanced seminar at the School for Advanced Research (SAR), brings together the perspectives of cultural anthropologists and archaeologists to explore w…
Explorations in Ethnoarchaeology
1978. Edited by Richard A. Gould
The contributors to this book cover diverse societies and attempt to establish behavioral patterns from the study of what humans leave behind. The productive interaction between archaeology and ethnology demonstrates …
Fat Planet
2017. Edited by Eileen P. Anderson-Fye and Alexandra Brewis
Fat Planet represents a collaborative effort to consider at a global scale what fat stigma is and what it does to people.
Figuring the Future
2008. Edited by Jennifer Cole and Deborah DurhamTo address how and why youth and children have come to seem so important to globalization, the contributors to this book look at the both the spatial relations and the temporal dimensions of globalization in place…
Forces of Compassion
2011. Edited by Erica Bornstein and Peter Redfield
Suffering and charity have a long history. The contributors to Forces of Compassion examine this sector through the lens of anthropology, looking at dominant practices, tensions, and beliefs.
The Gender of Globalization
2008. Edited by Nandini Gunewardena & Ann Kingsolver
The authors in this volume employ feminist, ethnographic methods to examine what free trade and export processing zones, economic liberalization, and currency reform mean to women in Argentina, Sri…
Global Health in Times of Violence
2009. Edited by Barbara Rylko-Bauer, Linda Whiteford, and Paul Farmer
By investigating the fields of violence that define our modern world, the authors are able to provide alternative global health paradigms that can be used to develop more effective…
Globalization, Water, & Health
2005. Edited by Linda Whiteford and Scott Whiteford
Drawing on expertise in medical and ecological anthropology, the contributors challenge and deepen our understanding of the management, sale, and conceptualization of water as it affects human healt…
The Global Middle Classes
2012. Edited by Rachel Heiman, Carla Freeman, and Mark Liechty
Ethnographically rich and culturally particular, the essays in this volume elucidate middle-class experience and discourse and in so doing add critical nuance to theories of class itself.
Governing Gifts
2019. Edited by Erica Caple James
The contributors trace the connections among piety, philanthropy, policy, and policing and seek to understand how faith and organized religious charity can be mobilized to govern populations and their practices.
Gray Areas
2003. Edited by Philip B. Stafford
This volume features ten scholars from anthropology, nursing, sociology, gerontology, human geography, and other disciplines who provide ethnographic case studies exploring critical care decision-making, models of c…
Great Excavations
1995. Melinda Elliott
In Great Excavations, journalist and researcher Melinda Elliott uncovers the crucial and exciting role played by the great archaeologists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in unearthing the Southwest…
Historical Ecology
1994. Edited by Carole L. Crumley
In this volume, the authors take a critical step toward establishing a new environmental science by deconstructing the traditional culture/nature dichotomy and placing human/environmental interaction at the center of…
History in Person
2001. Edited by Dorothy Holland and Jean Lave
Nine ethnographers address such topics as the politically sexualized transformation of identities of women political prisoners in Northern Ireland; the changing character of political activism across gene…
How Nature Works
2019. Edited by Sarah Besky and Alex BlanchetteThe authors of this volume push ethnographic inquiry beyond the anthropocentric documentation of human work on nature in order to develop a language for thinking about how all labor is a collective ecological act.
Ideology and Pre-Columbian Civilizations
1992. Edited by Arthur A. Demarest and Geoffrey W. Conrad
Employing data from central Mexico, the Maya area, coastal Peru, and highland Peru and Bolivia, directors of several major archaeological field projects interpret evidence of prehistoric ideol…
Images That Move
2013. Edited by Patricia Spyer and Mary Margaret Steedly
This volume explores topics ranging from high art to mass media, religious iconography to pornography, and popular photography to political cartoons in a range of contexts and media including p…
Imperial Formations
2007. Edited by Ann Stoler, Carole McGranahan, and Peter Perdue
Recasting the study of imperial governance, forms of sovereignty, and the imperial state, the authors pay close attention to non-European empires and the active trade in ideas, practices…
Indians & Energy
2010. Edited by Sherry L. Smith and Brian Frehner
This book explores the ways people have transformed natural resources in the American Southwest into fuel supplies for human consumption. Not only do Native Americans possess a large percentage of the…
Katherine Dunham
2014. Edited by Elizabeth Chin
This book explores Katherine Dunham’s contribution to anthropology and the ongoing relevance of her ideas and methodologies, rejecting the idea that art and academics need to be cleanly separated from each other. Dra…
Keystone Nations
2012. Edited by Benedict J. Colombi and James F. Brooks
The histories and futures of Indigenous peoples and salmon are inextricably bound across the vast ocean expanse and rugged coastlines of the North Pacific. Keystone Nations addresses t…
Last Hunters, First Farmers
1996. Edited by T. Douglas Price and Anne Birgitte Gebauer
In case studies ranging from the Far East to the American Southwest, the authors of Last Hunters-First Farmers provide a global perspective on contemporary research into the origins …
Late Lowland Maya Civilization
1986. Edited by Jeremy A. Sabloff and E. Wyllys Andrews V
In light of new and expanding research, the contributors to this volume premise that the relationship of Classic to Postclassic in the Northern and Southern Maya Lowlands is much more complex …
Law & Empire in the Pacific
2004. Edited by Sally Engle Merry and Donald Brenneis
Focusing on the intimate relationship between law, culture, and the production of social knowledge, these essays re-center law in social theory. The authors analyze the transition from chiefdom to…
Linking the Histories of Slavery
2015. Edited by Bonnie Martin and James F. Brooks
This volume has brought together scholars from anthropology, history, psychology, and ethnic studies to share their original research into the lesser known stories of slavery in North America and reve…
Lowland Maya Settlement Patterns
1981. Edited by Wendy Ashmore
This book is a series of essays that offers a framework for the study of lowland Maya settlement patterns, surveying the range of interpretive ideas about ancient Maya remains. Suggesting hypotheses to guide future resea…
Making Alternative Histories
1995. Edited by Peter R. Schmidt and Thomas C. Patterson
In Making Alternative Histories, eleven scholars from Africa, India, Latin America, North America, and Europe debate and discuss how to respond to the erasures of local histories by co…
Meaning in Anthropology
1976. Edited by Keith H. Basso and Henry A. Selby
In recent years, anthropological interest in meaning and symbolism has increased and moved into new types of analysis. This book is a useful array of papers representing some of these.
Memory, History, and Opposition under State Socialism
1994. Edited by Rubie S. Watson
Eight anthropologists, sociologists, and historians probe the oppositional narratives created by Chinese rural intellectuals, èmigrè Croats, and organized dissenters such as the Djilas of Yugoslavia who constructed a…
Memory Work
2008. Edited by Barbara J. Mills and William H. Walker
In this book the authors focus on a set of case studies that illustrate how social memories were made through repeated, patterned, and engaged social practices.
Methods and Theories of Anthropological Genetics
1973. Edited by M. H. Crawford and P. L. Workman
This book deals with the methods and theories used to study variation within and among human populations, specifically looking at genetics research conducted in the 1960s and 1970s. It presents empiric…
(Mis)managing Migration
2014. Edited by David Griffith
Managed migration enables nation-states to regulate population movements; direct foreign nationals to specific, identified economic sectors that citizens are less likely to care about; match employers who claim labor sh…
Muslim Youth and the 9/11 Generation
2016. Edited by Adeline Masquelier and Benjamin F. Soares
This volume focuses on young Muslims in a variety of settings in Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and North America and explores the distinct pastimes and performances, processes of civi…
Nature, Science, and Religion
2012. Edited by Catherine M. Tucker
This book is about the complicated and provocative ways nature, science, and religion intersect in real settings where people attempt to live in harmony with the physical environment. Scholars of philosophy, religi…
Negotiating Structural Vulnerability in Cancer Control
2019. Edited by Julie Armin, Nancy J. Burke, and Laura Eichelberger
The contributors in this volume explore what it means to be structurally vulnerable; how structural vulnerabilities intersect with cancer risk, diagnosis, care seeking, caregiving, c…
The New Death: Mortality and Death Care in the Twenty-First Century
2022. Edited by Shannon Lee Dawdy and Tamara KneeseThis book brings together scholars who are intrigued by today’s rapidly changing death practices and attitudes. What are the beliefs, values, and ontologies entwined with these emergent death practices? Are we witness…
New Geospatial Approaches to the Anthropological Sciences
2018. Edited by Robert L. Anemone and Glenn C. Conroy
This volume brings together scholars who are currently applying state-of-the-art tools, techniques, and methods of geographical information sciences (GIScience) to diverse data sets of anthropolog…
New Landscapes of Inequality
2008. Edited by Jane L. Collins, Micaela di Leonardo, & Brett Williams
Focusing on the United States, this volumes analyze how the globalization of newly untrammeled capitalism has exacerbated preexisting inequalities, how the retreat of the benevole…
New Perspectives on the Pueblos
1972. Edited by Alfonso Ortiz
This volume, the result of an advanced seminar at the School of American Research, takes a fresh look at Pueblo Indian culture, with chapters on everything from language to religion, prehistory, ecology, and from literat…
Opening Archaeology
2008. Edited by Thomas W. Killion
In 1989–90, Congress enacted two laws, the National Museum of the American Indian Act and the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. What effects have these laws had on anthropological practice, t…
Other Intentions
1995. Edited by Lawrence Rosen
The authors argue that although intentionality might appear to be a wholly abstract phenomenon, it is deeply entwined with the nature and distribution of power, the portrayal of events, the assessment of personhood, the…
The Origins of Language
1999. Edited by Barbara J. King
In this volume ten primatologists and paleoanthropologists conduct a comprehensive examination of the nonhuman primate data, discussing different views of what language is and suggesting how the primatological perspect…
The Origins of Maya Civilization
1977. Edited by Richard E. W. Adams
The contributors to this book scrutinize the data, survey external influences on the early Maya, and consider economics, ecology, demography, and warfare – as well as social and ideological factors – in explaining …
Pharmaceutical Self
2011. Edited by Janis H. Jenkins
An anthropological study that examines both human suffering and its biological realities, Pharmaceutical Self focuses on the social, cultural, and political aspects of the expanding distribution of psychopharmacologic…
Photography in Archaeological Research
1975. Edited by Elmer Harp, Jr.
Contemporary archaeology is increasingly reliant upon photography as a working tool and as a medium for communicating the results of field research. The chapters in this book provide detailed, practical advice and info…
Pluralizing Ethnography
2004. Edited by John M.Watanabe and Edward F. Fischer
This volume brings together eight Maya specialists and a prominent anthropological theorist to assess the contrasting historical circumstances and emerging cultural futures of Maya in Mexico and G…
Puebloan Societies
2018. Edited by Peter M. Whitely
The contributors draw upon the insights of archaeology, ethnology, and linguistic anthropology to examine social history and practice, including kinship groups, ritual sodalities, architectural forms, economic exchang…
The Promise of Infrastructure
2018. Edited by Nikhil Anand, Akhil Gupta, and Hannah Appel
While infrastructures promise modernity and development, their breakdowns and absences reveal the underbelly of progress, liberal equality, and economic growth. This tension, between aspirat…
The Psychology of Women under Patriarchy
2019. Edited by Holly F. Mathews and Adriana M. ManagoThe contributors to this volume draw upon field research and in-depth qualitative data from different parts of the world to explore the reasons for women’s varied psychological responses to patriarchy.
Reassembling the Collection
2013. Edited by Rodney Harrison, Sarah Byrne, and Anne Clarke
This volume considers the material networks and affective qualities of “things” alongside their representational role within the museum and explores the ways in which concepts of agenc…
Reconstructing Prehistoric Pueblo Societies
1970. Edited by William A. Longacre
The chapters in this book focus on methods and theories used to systematically test hypotheses about prehistoric social organization.
Recapturing Anthropology
1991. Edited by Richard G. Fox
The ten papers in this volume offer different versions of how and where anthropologists might work usefully in today’s world, converging on the issue of how anthropology can best recapture the progressive character its …
Regimes of Language
2000. Edited by Paul V. Kroskrity
Moving beyond a preoccupation with ideologies of cultural “others,” the volume includes reflexive analyses of European language philosophy and historical linguistics, US academic ideologies of language, political dis…
Remaking Life & Death
2003. Edited by Sarah Franklin and Margaret Lock
This volume reflects a growing international concern about issues such as organ transplantation, new reproductive and genetic technologies and embryo research, and the necessity of cross-cultural compa…
Roots of Conflict
2011. Edited by Patrick V. Kirch
This book presents the efforts of a team of social and natural scientists to understand the complex, systemic linkages between land, climate, crops, human populations, and their cultural structures. The research group…
Seduced and Betrayed
2017. Edited by Milford Bateman and Kate Maclean, foreword by James K. Galbraith
The contributors to this multidisciplinary volume consider the origins, evolution, and outcomes of microfinance from a variety of perspectives and contend that it has be…
The Seductions of Community
2006. Edited by Gerald W. Creed
Moving the debate to a deeper level, the contributors to this volume aspire to understand the various ways “community” is deployed and the work it performs in different contexts. They compare the many cases where schol…
Senses of Place
1996. Edited by Steven Feld and Keith H. Basso
In this compelling new volume, eight respected ethnographers explore and lyrically evoke the ways in which people experience, express, imagine, and know the places in which they live. Case studies range …
The Shape of Script
2012. Edited by Stephen D. Houston
This book builds on earlier projects about the origins and extinctions of script traditions throughout the world in an effort to address the fundamental questions of how and why writing systems change.
Shipwreck Anthropology
1983. Edited by Richard A. Gould
Historical, classical, and anthropological traditions in archaeology are all represented, as are more specialized approaches—such as ethnoarchaeology, experimental archaeology, and public archaeology—in the attemp…
Simulations in Archaeology
1981. Edited by Jeremy A. Sabloff
This book aims to clarify the reasons for using systems models and computer simulations in seeking to understand dynamic cultural patterns. Computer simulations grow logically out of the steps taken by archaeology in…
Small Worlds
2008. Edited by James F. Brooks, Christopher R. N. DeCorse, & John Walton
Urging the recognition of potential commonalities among archaeology, history, sociology, and anthropology, the authors propose that historical interpretation should move freely…
Street Economies in the Urban Global South
2014. Edited by Karen Tranberg Hansen, Walter E. Little, and B. Lynne Milgram
Although contestations over public space have a long history, this volume presents the argument that the recent conjuncture of neoliberal economic policies and unprecedente…
Structure and Process in Latin America
1972. Edited by Arnold Strickon and Sidney M. Greenfield
This book provides analysis of social anthropology and approaches to the study of patronage and clientage from work done in Latin America in the late 1960s. Essays include discussions on topics…
Themes in Southwest Prehistory
1994. Edited by George J. Gumerman
Two dozen leading archaeologists isolate a number of themes that were central to the process of increasing complexity in prehistoric Southwestern society, including increased food production, a greater degree of sed…
Things in Motion
2015. Edited by Rosemary A. Joyce and Susan D. Gillespie
Complementing the concept of object biography, the contributors to this volume use the complex construct of “itineraries” to trace the places in which objects come to rest or are active, th…
Tikal: Dynasties, Foreigners, & Affairs of State
2003. Edited by Jeremy A. Sabloff
New insights from the Tikal excavations and epigraphic breakthroughs suggest that a thriving marketplace existed in the center of the city, that foreigners comprised a significant element of its populace, and that di…
Timely Assets
2008. Edited by Elizabeth Emma Ferry and Mandana E. Limbert
Oil is running out. What’s more, its final depletion, once relegated to a misty future, now seems imminent. In all the more or less apocalyptic discussions of oil and similar depleted reso…
Trumpism, Mexican America, and the Struggle for Latinx Citizenship
2021. Edited by Phillip B. Gonzales, Renato Rosaldo, and Mary Louise Pratt
This volume situates a new phase of presidential politics in relation to what went before and asks what new political possibilities emerged from this dramatic chapter in our h…
Uruk Mesopotamia & Its Neighbors
2001. Edited by Mitchell S. RothmanThe contributing field and theoretical archaeologists in this volume radically reassess the chronological framework for the region, assemble the basic data sets on both local and regional levels, and interpret and synthesize these data…
The Valley of Mexico
1976. Edited by Eric R. WolfThe chapters in this volume present an important contemporary interpretation of the cultural and archaeological legacy of the Valley of Mexico, a rich and ancient place where the presence of the past is all around.
Violence
2004. Edited by Neil L.WhiteheadCovering wide-ranging regimes of violence, these essays examine various aspects of state violence, legitimate and illegitimate forms of violence, the impact of anticipatory violence on daily life, and its effects long after the events the…
Vital Relations
2013. Edited by Susan McKinnon and Fenella CannellFor more than 150 years, theories of social evolution, development, and modernity have been unanimous in their assumption that kinship organizes simpler, “traditional,” pre-state societies but not complex, “modern,…
Walling In and Walling Out
2020. Edited by Laura McAtackney and Randall H. McGuireThe contributors to this volume illuminate the roles and uses of walls around the world—in contexts ranging from historic neighborhoods to contemporary national borders.
War in the Tribal Zone
1992. Edited by R. Brian Ferguson and Neil L.Whitehead; With a New Preface by the EditorsFinding the book’s analysis tragically prophetic in identifying the key dynamics that have produced the kinds of conflicts recently witnessed globally — as in Bosnia, Kosovo, Rwan…
Why Forage?
2016. Edited by Brian F. Codding and Karen L. KramerThrough a series of detailed case studies, the contributors to this volume examine the decisions made by modern-day foragers to sustain a predominantly hunting and gathering way of life.
Women & Men in the Prehispanic Southwest
2001. Edited by Patricia L. CrownThis volume takes a groundbreaking look at gendered activities in prehistory and the differential access that women and men had to sources and symbols of power and prestige. The authors’ probe the time period during which Southwestern po…