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Archaeology/Anthropology 4, 6-10 American West 1 Art History 1 Ethnohistory 9 Geology 5 Mormon Studies 2 Western History 2-3 Featured Backlist 10-12
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AMERICAN WEST / ART HISTORY
Norwegian and American Landscape Photography
Edited by Shannon Egan and Marthe Tolnes Fjellestad
Compares early photographic histories of the U.S. and Norway and explores globally shared impulses to travel, build, exploit, and preserve the land
December 2021, 260 pp., 8.5 x 10 24 color Illustrations, 103 b/w illustrations Hardcover 978-1-64769-061-8 $69.95 Paper 978-1-64769-062-5 $34.95
Across the West and Toward the North compares how photographers in Norway and the United States represented the environment in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when once-remote wildernesses were first surveyed, developed, and photographed. Making images while traversing almost inaccessible terrain—often on foot and for months at a time—photographers created a compelling visual language that came to symbolize each nation. In this edited volume, Norwegian and American scholars offer the first study of the striking parallels in the production, distribution, and reception of these modern expressions of landscape and nationhood. In recognizing how landscape photographs were made meaningful to international audiences—such as tourists, visitors to world’s fairs, scientists, politicians, and immigrants—the authors challenge notions of American exceptionalism and singularly nationalistic histories. The book includes stunning photographs of mountainous landscapes, glaciers, and forests, punctuated by signs of human development and engineering, with more than one hundred rarely seen plates by photographers Knud Knudsen, Anders Beer Wilse, Timothy O’Sullivan, Charles R. Savage, and others. Shannon Egan is director of the Schmucker Art Gallery at Gettysburg College and the cofounder and codirector of the art gallery Ejecta Projects. She has authored articles on photographers Edward S. Curtis and Jeff Wall, and co-authored the artbook Ejecta. Marthe Tolnes Fjellestad is the curator at Perspektivet Museum, Tromsø. She is coauthor of Starman—Sophus Tromholt Photographs 1882<n>1883, and coeditor of Library and Information Studies for Arctic Social Sciences and Humanities.
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In a Rugged Land
Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and the Three Mormon Towns Collaboration, 1953-1954
James Swensen eBook 978-60781-629-4 Paper 978-1-60781-628-7 $34.95 Across the Continent
The Union Pacific Photographs of Andrew Joseph Russell
Daniel Davis eBook 978-1-60781-638-6 paper 978-1-60781-637-9 $24.95
"Across the West and Toward the North examines how Norwegian and American photographers pictured the landscape in a period of earthshaking technological transformation and expanding infrastructure. Shared artistic strategies are revealed through this smart cross-cultural study, which challenges entrenched notions that nationalism was uniquely expressed and understood in the landscape photography of each country. This book anticipates growing transnational scholarship resulting from the bicentennial commemoration of Norwegian immigration to North America in 2025." —Leslie Anne Anderson, Director of Collections, Exhibitions, and Programs, National Nordic Museum.
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The Last Called Mormon Colonization
Polygamy, Kinship, and Wealth in Wyoming’s Bighorn Basin
John Gary Maxwell
A detailed account of the Bighorn Basin Colonization Company that emigrated from Utah to Wyoming in 1900
November 2021, 256 pp., 6 x 9 13 Illustrations, 3 maps eBook 978-1-64769-060-1 Hardcover 978-1-64769-058-8 $95.00s Paper 978-1-64769-059-5 $29.95
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More than three hundred Latter-day Saint settlements were founded by LDS Church President Brigham Young. Colonization—often outside of Utah—continued under the next three LDS Church presidents, fueled by Utah’s overpopulation relative to its arable, productive land. In this book, John Gary Maxwell takes a detailed look at the Bighorn Basin colonization of 1900–1901, placing it in the political and socioeconomic climate of the time while examining whether the move to this out-of-the-way frontier was motivated in part by the desire to practice polygamy unnoticed. The LDS Church officially abandoned polygamy in 1890, but evidence that the practice was still tolerated (if not officially sanctioned) by the church circulated widely, resulting in intense investigations by the U.S. Senate. In 1896 Abraham Owen Woodruff, a rising star in LDS leadership and an ardent believer in polygamy, was appointed to head the LDS Colonization Company. Maxwell explores whether under Woodruff’s leadership the Bighorn Basin colony was intended as a means to insure the secret survival of polygamy and if his untimely death in 1904, together with the excommunication of two equally dedicated proponents of polygamy—Apostles John Whitaker Taylor and Matthias Foss Cowley—led to its collapse. Maxwell also details how Mormon settlers in Wyoming struggled with finance, irrigation, and farming and how they brought the same violence to indigenous peoples over land and other rights as did non-Mormons. The 1900 Bighorn Basin colonization provides an early twentieth-century example of a Mormon syndicate operating at the intersection of religious conformity, polygamy, nepotism, kinship, corporate business ventures, wealth, and high priesthood status. Maxwell offers evidence that although in many ways the Bighorn Basin colonization failed, Owen Woodruff’s prophecy remains unbroken: “No year will ever pass, from now until the coming of the Savior, when children will not be born in plural marriage.”
Frontier Religion
Mormons & America, 1857 –1907
Konden Smith Hansen eBook 978-1-60781-689-8 Hardcover 978-1-60781-688-1 $45.00s Mormon Colonies in Mexico Thomas Cottam Romney Paper 978-0-87480-838-4 $19.95
John Gary Maxwell is the author of several books, including the Civil War Years in Utah: The Kingdom of God and the Territory that did not Fight, and Robert Newton Baskin and the Making of Modern Utah; a retired Professor of Surgery at the University of Utah and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, he now lives in Wilmington, NC. His Scottish ancestors emigrated to Utah with the 1856 Second Handcart Company. Several were called in 1900 to colonize the Bighorn Basin.
WESTERN HISTORY / LITERATURE
Wallace Stegner in California
Matthew D. Stewart
Examines Wallace Stegner’s California novels and what they express about place, region, and community
December 2021, 192 pp., 6 x 9 8 Illustrations eBook 978-1-64769-057-1 Hardcover 978-1-64769-055-7 $95.00s Paper 978-1-64769-056-4 $29.95
As author of the “Wilderness Letter” and major awardwinning novels, histories, essays, and biographies, Wallace Stegner worked throughout his life to protect western lands, places, and peoples. His writing was and remains an inspiration and guide for countless people attempting to cultivate a sense of place in the American West while tacking their way through uncertain times. This book tells the story of Stegner and his family as they made a home just outside of Palo Alto, California, during its transition from the Valley of Heart’s Delight (known for its rolling hills and orchards) to Silicon Valley. In this thoughtful study of the novels Stegner wrote in California—including his Pulitzer Prize–winning Angle of Repose— readers are invited to consider with Stegner what the practice of place requires in the American West. Specialists in the literature and history of the American West will find new analyses of Stegner and his influential work. Other readers will be guided through Stegner’s work in concrete and accessible prose, and anyone who has longed for home and a sense of place will encounter a powerful, beautiful, and at times tragic attempt to build and preserve it. Matthew D. Stewart teaches humanities at The Ambrose School in Meridian, Idaho, and is associate editor at Front Porch Republic. He holds a PhD in history from Syracuse University. “Part field guide to Wallace Stegner's California novels, part hymn to Stegner's ideas of community and place, Matthew Stewart's graceful book asks what role the 20th-century California suburbs played in the author's famed geography of hope.” —Tara Penry, Past President, Western Literature Association
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Wallace Stegner’s Salt Lake City Robert C. Steensma Hardcover 978-0-87480-898-8 $29.95 Home Waters A Year of Recompenses on the Provo River George B. Handley eBook 978-1-60781-967-7 Paper 978-1-60781-023-0 $24.95
“Provocative, extraordinarily well researched, and especially thoughtful. Matthew Stewart’s study is a work of intellectual history, or if one wishes, a history of ideas. Through close, revealing readings of Stegner’s novels and stories about California, Stewart provides a path-breaking examination of Stegner’s thoughts, especially as they are related to such ideas as community, home, place, character, and sociocultural change.” —Richard W. Etulain, University of New Mexico
“Matthew Stewart is a historian who takes Stegner’s fiction seriously as a guide to his thought about historical and social questions. His book offers an important and valuable reexamination of this multifaceted figure in the West.” —William Handley, University of Southern California
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The Most Beautiful Place on Earth
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On Desert Shores
Archaeology and History of the Western Midriff Islands in the Gulf of California
Thomas Bowen
Illuminates the remarkably rich history of the western Midriff Islands from prehistoric times to the present
April 2022, 288 pp., 7 x 10 88 color illustrations, 13 b/w images eBook 978-1-64769-039-7 Hardcover 978-1-64769-038-0 $70.00s
Hot, arid, and uninhabited, the western Midriff Islands lie in the Gulf of California, surrounded by an oftentreacherous sea. Given these conditions, why would ancient people go there, and why would anybody go there today? Thomas Bowen addresses these questions in the first comprehensive history of these islands. Bowen draws on a wide range of sources, including the first archaeological field work ever conducted on the islands, written accounts dating back to the sixteenth century, oral histories of native people, contemporary interviews, and his own firsthand experiences. Among those cast in the islands’ historical drama are the Seri (Comcaac) people of Sonora, the extinct Cochimís of Baja California, Spanish explorers, Jesuit missionaries, pearl fishers, egg collectors, guano miners, hydrographers, cartographers, small-scale Mexican fishermen, recreational anglers, writers, photographers, ecotourists, shipwreck victims, and, most importantly, scientists. The final chapter documents the impact of this human activity on the islands’ ecosystems and examines conservation efforts now underway. Compelling and richly illustrated, this broadly based work provides a unique picture of these extraordinary islands. Thomas Bowen is emeritus professor at California State University, Fresno, and a research associate with the Southwest Center at the University of Arizona. His publications include Unknown Island (2000), The Record of Native People on Gulf of California Islands (2009), and Journal of a Voyage (2018), a translation of Federico Craveri’s account of his 1856 voyage in the Gulf. “Bowen’s excitement for good science and hard data, field adventure, and wide-ranging conservation brings it all together through his splendid storytelling and narrative, all backed by his careful field journals. And it is all quite infectious.” —Daniel W. Anderson, professor emeritus, Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology, University of California, Davis
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North America’s Galapagos The Historic Channel Islands Biological Survey Corinne Heyning Laverty eBook 978-1-60781-730-7 Paper 978-1-60781-729-1 $29.85 Island of Fogs Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Investigations of Isla Cedros, Baja California Matthew R. Des Lauriers eBook 978-1-60781-970-7 Hardcover 978-1-60781-007-0 $30.00
“From the very first pages, Bowen vividly paints a picture of this remote region of extreme beauty and isolation. Without recourse to equations or highly abstracted models, he deftly situates both the writing and the research behind it within robust bodies of cultural, natural, and historical theory. This work is of high importance in terms of both sheer volume and range of information about an understudied, underreported, and underrecognized region of North America.” —Matthew Des Lauriers, Department of Anthropology, California State University, San Bernardino
GEOLOGY
Exploring the Ancient Oceans of the Desert West
Frank DeCourten
A primer and guide to the Great Basin’s geological history
February 2022, 256 pp., 7 x 10 100 color Illustrations, 47 b/w illustrations eBook 978-1-64769-050-2 Paper 978-1-64769-049-6 $34.95
Many people appreciate the stunning vistas of the Great Basin desert; understanding the region’s geological past can provide a deeper way to know and admire this landscape. In The Great Basin Seafloor, Frank DeCourten immerses readers in a time when the Basin was covered by a vast ocean in which volcanoes exploded and sea life flourished. Written for a nontechnical audience, this book interprets the rock record left by more than 500 million years of oceanic activity, when mud and sand accumulated and solidified to produce today’s Great Basin across parts of modern Utah, Nevada, and California. DeCourten deciphers clues within exposed slopes and canyons to reconstruct the vanished seafloor and its volcanic events and examines fossils to reveal once-thriving ancient marine communities. Supplemental material is available online to serve as a field guide for readers wishing to explore this ancient ocean themselves as they travel through the region. Frank DeCourten is a field geologist and researcher who has designed and led geological excursions and symposia for numerous scientific and natural history organizations, including the National Park Service and the National Association of Geoscience Teachers. Prior to his retirement in 2018, he was professor of earth science at Sierra College in California and previously served as museum curator and assistant director of the Utah Museum of Natural History. His books include Dinosaurs of Utah, The Broken Land, and The Roadside Geology of Nevada. “This work is the most thorough and up-to-date treatment of the sedimentary rocks and associated geological events in the Great Basin published since DeCourten’s previous book, The Broken Land. The book will be useful to general readers interested in western U.S. geology and natural history, as well as to outdoor enthusiasts who explore the mountains and valleys of the region.” — William Parry, professor emeritus of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah
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Dinosaurs of Utah Frank DeCourten eBook 978-1-60781-265-4 Paper 978-1-60781-264-7 $34.95 The Geology of the Parks, Monuments, and Wildlands of Southern Utah Robert Fillmore paper 978-0-87480-652-6 $21.95
"Frank DeCourten leads us on a highly readable, engaging, and insightful geological and paleontological grand tour of major events and processes on Earth throughout Proterozoic and Paleozoic time, with a focus on the fossils and strata of the Great Basin." — Stephen M. Rowland, professor emeritus of Geology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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The Great Basin Seafloor
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People in a Sea of Grass Archaeology’s Changing Perspective on Indigenous Plains Communities
Edited by Matthew E. Hill Jr. and Lauren W. Ritterbush
Examines the intellectual foundation of Plains archaeology through new methods, theories, excavations, and documentary discoveries
September 2021, 224 pp., 7 x 10 33 Illustrations, 15 maps eBook 978-1-64769-021-2 Hardcover 978-1-64769- 020-5 $60.00s
Ninety years ago Great Plains archaeologists such as Waldo Wedel and William Duncan Strong made foundational contributions to American archaeology, enabling new discoveries, insights, and interpretations. This volume explores how twenty-first-century archaeologists have built upon, remodeled, and sometimes rejected the inferences of these earlier scholars with updated overviews and analyses. Contributors highlight how Indigenous Plains groups participated in large-scale social networks in which ideas, symbols, artifacts, and people moved across North America over the last 2,000 years. They also discuss cultural transformation, focusing on key demographic, economic, social, and ceremonial factors associated with change, including colonization and integration into the social and political economies of transatlantic societies. Cultural traditions covered include Woodland-era Kansas City Hopewell, late prehistoric Central Plains tradition, and ancestral and early historic Wichita, Pawnee and Arikara, Kanza, Plains Apache, and Puebloan migrants. As the first review of Plains archaeology in more than a decade, this book brings studies of early Indigenous peoples of the central and southern Plains into a new era. Matthew E. Hill Jr. is associate professor of anthropology at University of Iowa. His research focuses on issues of human-environmental interactions of Native peoples in the Great Plains. Lauren W. Ritterbush is professor of anthropology at Kansas State University. Her research focuses on indigenous and migrant farming and hunting societies in the central and northern Great Plains.
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Household Economy at Wall Ridge A Fourteenth-Century Central Plains Farmstead in the Missouri Valley Edited by Stephen C. Lensink, Joseph A. Tiffany, and Shirley J. Schermer eBook 978-1-60781-774-1 Hardcover 978-1-60781-773-4 $70.00s Plains Village Archaeology Bison Hunting Farmers in the Central and Northern Plains Edited by Stanley A. Ahler and Marvin Kay Hardcover 978-0-87480-905-3 $50.00s
“Each chapter reviews previous research and provides fresh interpretations or new data and methodologies. The contributors are all top-notch scholars in southern and central Great Plains archaeology. This is a strong volume that will be a clear contribution to Plains archaeology.” —Rob Bozell, Nebraska State Archeologist
“This volume grew out of a symposium honoring Waldo Wedel and is the first regional review of Plains archaeology in over 20 years. Wedel and his contemporaries established the theoretical foundations for modern Plains archaeology. The contributors critically examine our current understanding of the archaeology of the Great Plains using sites and interpretations that focus on Wedel’s major contributions. This book is a welcome addition to Plains archaeology.” —Joseph A. Tiffany, professor emeritus, Department of Archaeology, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
ARCHAEOLOGY/ANTHROPOLOGY
Edited by Emily Dale and Carolyn L. White
Explores place and placemaking in the American West through the archaeological study of the landscapes’ physical and cultural features
November 2021, 224 pp., 7 x 10 32 Illustrations, 14 maps eBook 978-1-64769-048-9 Hardcover 978-1-64769-047-2 $60.00s
Historical archaeologists explore landscapes in the American West through many lenses, including culture contact, colonialism, labor, migration, and identity. This volume sets landscape at the center of analysis, examining space (a geographic location) and place (the lived experience of a locale) in their myriad permutations. Divided into three thematic sections—the West as space, the West as community, and the West today—the book pulls together case studies from across the American West and incorporates multivocal contributions and perspectives from archaeology, anthropology, Indigenous studies, history, Latinx studies, geography, and material culture studies. Contributors tackle questions of how historical archaeologists theoretically and methodologically define the West, conveying the historical, mythological, and physical manifestations of placemaking. They confront issues of community and how diverse ethnic, racial, gendered, labor-based, and other demographic populations expressed their identities on and in the Western landscape. Authors also address the continued creation and re-creation of the West today, exploring the impact of the past on people in the present and its influence on modern conceptions of the American West. Emily Dale is a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Northern Arizona University. She was guest editor of a thematic issue of Kiva entitled “New Perspectives on the American Southwest: Historical Archaeology of the 1800s and 1900s.” Carolyn L. White holds the Mamie Kleberg Chair in Historic Preservation and is the director of the Anthropology Research Museum at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her most recent book is The Archaeology of Burning Man: The Rise and Fall of Black Rock City.
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Sex and Death on the Western Emigrant Trail The Biology of Three American Tragedies Donald Grayson eBook 978-1-60781-602-7 Paper 978-1-60781-601-0 $29.95 Bridging the Distance Common Issues of the Rural West David B. Danbom eBook 978-1-60781-456-6 Paper 978-1-60781-455-9 $30.00s
“A significant contribution to the field of Western archaeology and a valuable addition to any historical archaeology or history class focused on multi-variant storytelling, heritage debates, and histories of the American West.” — Katrina C. L. Eichner, assistant professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Idaho
“Highlights the complexities of practicing historical archaeology in the American West in the twenty-first century and addresses aspects of space and place. This volume does a good job of balancing the theoretical with archaeological interpretations. It also does a good job of including historical archaeologies of Native people alongside migrant and European American sites." —William White, assistant professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
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The Archaeology of Place and Space in the West
ARCHAEOLOGY/ANTHROPOLOGY
University of Utah Anthropological Papers No. 135
Western Ceramic Traditions
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Prehistoric and Historic Native American Ceramics of the Western U.S.
Edited by Suzanne Griset
Summarizes research and data about ceramics of the western U.S.
December 2021, 224 pp., 7 x 10 42 Illustrations, 19 maps eBook 978-1-64769-043-4 Hardcover 978-1-64769-042-7 $40.00s
List of Contributors Catherine Bailey, University of California, Los Angeles Stella D’Oro, Albion Environmental, Inc., Santa Cruz, CA Jelmer W. Eerkens, University of California, Davis Jeffrey R. Ferguson, University of Missouri Research Reactor Suzanne Griset, SWCA Environmental Consultants, Tucson, AZ Karen G. Harry, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Lynda Hylkema, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA Don Laylander, ASM Affiliates, Inc., Carlsbad, CA Carl P. Lipo, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY Chester Liwosz, Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project, Velarde, NM Sarah Peelo, Albion Environmental, Santa Cruz, CA Sachiko Sakai, California State University, Long Beach Jerry Schaefer, ASM Affiliates, Inc., Carlsbad, CA Christina Spellman, Albion Environmental, Inc., Santa Cruz, CA Spencer M. Steinberg, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Helen F. Wells, California State University, Los Angeles Brenna Wilkerson, Colorado Mesa University, Grand Junction
This volume is dedicated to studies of plainwares—the undecorated ceramics that make up the majority of prehistoric ceramic assemblages worldwide. Early analyses of ceramics focused on changes in decorative design elements to establish chronologies and cultural associations. With the development of archaeometric techniques that allow direct dating of potsherds and identification of their elemental composition and residues, plainwares now provide a new source of information about the timing, manufacture, distribution, and use of ceramics. This book investigates plainwares from the far west, stretching into the Great Basin and the northwestern and southwestern edges of Arizona. Contributors use and explain recent analytical methods, including neutron activation, electron microprobe analysis, and thin-section optical mineralogy. They examine native ceramic traditions and how they were influenced by the Spanish mission system, and they consider the pros and cons of past approaches to ware typology, presenting a vision of how plainware analysis can be improved by ignoring the traditional “typological” approach of early ceramicists working with decorated wares. This work provides a much-needed update to plainware studies, with new hypotheses and data that will help set the stage for future research. Suzanne Griset is an archaeologist, ethnographer, and ceramics analyst for SWCA Environmental Consultants in Tucson, Arizona. She has worked for numerous federal agencies and was formerly head of the Collections Division at the Arizona State Museum. She edited Pottery of the Great Basin and Adjacent Areas. “The applications and results of the variety of analytical methods reported in this volume are of substantial interest. The reader will be encouraged by the data to make use of these techniques. This work is important due to limited recent publications on current archaeological ceramic and analytic methods and results. It will invite future research.” — Sue Wade, archaeologist/historian, owner Heritage Resources, Associate State Archaeologist CA State Parks retired
“There is a general feeling in the ceramics community in southern California and western Arizona that, at least related to the Lower Colorado and its brown ware equivalents, research has stalled in its progress with identifying meaningful theories about how the pottery equates to the actual people. Two problems that have become more apparent in the last couple of years are those of typologies and chronologies. This volume throws significant light on these issues.” —Greg Seymour, research associate, Great Basin Institute
ARCHAEOLOGY/ETHNOHISTORY
Ethnographic Observations and Archaeological Interpretations
Edited by John Philip Carpenter and Matthew Pailes
Examines current issues in Borderlands archaeology while highlighting differences in how archaeologists use documentary data and interpret results
November 2021, 288 pp., 7 x 10 44 Illustrations, 10 maps eBook 978-1-64769-027-4 Hardcover 978-1-64769-023-6 $65.00s
What are the connections between past and present peoples in the U.S. Southwest and Northwest Mexico? How were the ancient societies that occupied this landscape interconnected? Contributors leverage diverse source materials rooted in classic ethnography, oral tradition, and historical documents to offer novel answers to these questions. Running throughout the discussions is a metanarrative that reflects the tensions between disciplines such as anthropology and history and the rapidly evolving dynamic between scholars and the Indigenous subjects of past and present research. With chapters written by scholars from the U.S. and Mexico, including Indigenous coauthors, Borderlands Histories offers diverse perspectives and illustrates the range of methods and interpretive approaches employed by some of the most respected and experienced names in the field of borderlands archaeology today. John Philip Carpenter is research professor at the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia—Centro INAH Hermosillo, Sonora. His research includes archaeology and enthnohistory projects in Arizona, California, Oregon, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah, as well as Chiapas, Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Sonora, and Zacatecas, Mexico. Matthew Pailes is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Oklahoma. He is currently collaborating with John Carpenter and Guadalupe Sánchez on long-term research in the Sierra Madre Occidental to compare material culture from multiple valleys to reconstruct the demographic and political history of the region.
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To the Corner of the Province The 1780 Ugarte-Rocha Sonoran Reconnaissance and Implications for Environmental and Cultural Change Edited by Deni J. Seymour and Oscar S. Rodriguez eBook 978-1-60781-621-8 Hardcover 978-1-60781-620-1 $40.00s Pottery Ethnoarchaeology in the Michoacán Sierra Michael J. Shott eBook 978-1-60781-623-2 Paper 978-1-6071-622-5 $45.00s
“This work is significant on several levels. First, while the region of interest is the U.S. Southwest – NW Mexico borderlands, the impact of these chapters is much wider, across time and space. Within the volume, the chapters illustrate the diversity of cultures, traditions, and material remains which connect broad types of data. The book should be of interest to archaeologists, historians, ethnohistorians, Native American studies scholars, ethnographers, and scholars in other related fields. It is a multidisciplinary work with broad implications.” —John Douglass, vice president of research and standards, Statistical Research, Inc.
“A timely contribution to a discussion of both diverse methods and application case studies. These essays feature both senior and emerging scholars who explore a variety of cases to illustrate the promise (and peril) of placing material culture analysis in conversation with the historical documentary record, and, less so, in contemporary discourse with the curated traditional knowledge of Indigenous descendants today.” —James F. Brooks, Gable Distinguished Chair in History, University of Georgia Research Professor in History & Anthropology
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Borderlands Histories
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Intrasite Spatial Analysis of Mobile and Semisedentary Peoples
Analytical Approaches to Reconstructing Occupation History
Edited by Amy E. Clark and Joseph A. M. Gingerich
Provides a much-needed update on studies and new methodologies for intrasite spatial analysis
January 2022, 240 pp., 7 x 10 52 Illustrations, 4 maps eBook 978-1-64769-045-8 Hardcover 978-1-64769-044-1 $60.00s
Describing the nature and meaning of artifact spatial patterning can be highly subjective, yet many patterns can be quantified to create general models that are comparable across time periods and geographic space. The authors employ various techniques in this endeavor, including large sample sizes, model-driven analyses of the ethnographic record, bone and lithic refitting, and a careful consideration of artifact attributes that elucidate spatial patterning. Such detailed analyses allow archaeologists to better interpret site formation processes and address large-scale anthropological questions. This volume includes studies that span archaeological and ethnographic contexts, from highly mobile Paleoindian foragers to semi-sedentary preagriculturalists of the Epipaleolithic and modern pastoralists in Mongolia. The authors hold that commonalities in human behavior lead to similar patterns in the organization and maintenance of space by people. They present a series of ideas and approaches to make it easier to recognize universals in human behaviors, which allow archaeologists to better compare intrasite spatial patterns. The book creates a baseline for new intrasite spatial analyses in the twenty-first century. Amy E. Clark is a college fellow and lecturer at Harvard University specializing in human behavioral evolution. Her work has been published in Evolutionary Anthropology, Current Anthropology, Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. Joseph A. M. Gingerich is associate professor of anthropology at Ohio University and a research associate at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. His most recent work in spatial analyses has been supported by the National Science Foundation and National Geographic. He is the editor of In the Eastern Fluted Point Tradition, volumes 1 and 2.
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In the Eastern Fluted Point Tradition Joseph A. M. Gingerich Vol 1 eBook 978-1-60781-233-3 Hardcover 978-1-60781-170-1 $65.00s Vol 2 eBook 978-1-60781-579-2 Hardcover 978-1-60781-578-5 $75.00s The First Rocky Mountaineers Coloradans before Colorado Marcel Kornfeld eBook 978-1-60781-263-0 Hardcover 978-1-60781-262-3 $35.00
“Clark and Gingerich provide an excellent range of papers that deal with one of the bread-and-butter topics in archaeology, spatial analysis. Their research is well-sourced, innovative, and analytically sound. This book should be useful for archaeologists working in many different time periods and contexts and could also be useful as a companion book for hunter-gatherer or quantitative methods courses.” —Shane Miller, associate professor, Department of Anthropology and Middle East Cultures, Mississippi State University
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The Grand Teton Reader Edited by Robert W. Righter
6x9 eBook 978-1-64769-032-8 Paper 978-1-64769-033-5 $19.95
An Indian Captive in the House of Brigham Young
Virginia Kerns In this remarkable and deeply felt book, Virginia Kerns uncovers the singular and forgotten life of a young Indian woman who was captured in 1847 in what was then Mexican territory. Sold to a settler, a son-in-law of Brigham Young, the woman spent the next thirty years as a servant to Young’s family. Sally, as they called her, lived in the shadows, largely unseen. She was later remembered as a “wild” woman made “tame” who happily shed her past to enter a new and better life in civilization. Drawing from a broad range of primary sources, Kerns retrieves Sally from obscurity and reconstructs her complex life before, during, and after captivity. This true story from the American past resonates deeply in the current moment, attentive as it is to killing epidemics and racial injustices. In telling Sally’s story, Kerns presents a new narrative of the American West. 6x9 eBook 978-1-64769-016-8 Hardcover 978-1-64769-011-3 $65.00s Paper 978-1-64769-015-1 $34.95
Western Lands, Western Voices Essays on Public History in the American West
Edited by Gregory E. Smoak Inspired by the fiftieth anniversary of the University of Utah’s American West Center, the oldest regional studies center in the United States, Western Lands, Western Voices explores the many dimensions of public history. This collection of thirteen essays is rooted in the realworld experiences of the authors and is the first volume to focus specifically on regional public history. Contributors include tribal government officials, state and federal historians, independent scholars and historical consultants, and academics. Distinguished historians of the American West and emerging voices that will shape publicly engaged scholarship in the years to come address community history and public interpretation, tribal sovereignty, and the importance of historical research for land management. The volume will be indispensable to researchers and general readers interested in museum studies, Native American studies, and public lands history and policy. 6x9 eBook 978-1-64769-035-9 Hardcover 978-1-64769-036-6 $70.00s Paper 978-1-64769-034-2 $35.00s
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Grand Teton National Park draws more than three million visitors annually in search of wildlife, outdoor adventure, solitude, and inspiration. This collection of writings showcases the park’s natural and human histories through stories of drama and beauty, tragedy and triumph. Editor Robert Righter has selected thirty-five contributors whose work takes readers from the Tetons’ geological origins to the time of Euro-American encroachment and the park’s politically tumultuous creation. Selections range from Laine Thom’s Shoshone legend of the Snake River and Owen Wister’s essay “Great God! I’ve Just Killed a Bear,” to Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson’s humorous yet fearful account of crossing the Snake River, and William Owen’s first attempt to climb the Grand Teton. Conservationists, naturalists, and environmentalists are also represented: Terry Tempest Williams chronicles her multiyear encounter with her “Range of Memory,” and Olaus and Mardy Murie recount the difficulties of “park-making” in an often-hostile human environment.
Sally in Three Worlds
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The Geoarchaeology of a Terraced Landscape From Aztec Matlatzinco to Modern Calixtlahuaca
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Aleksander Borejsza, Isabel Rodríguez López, Charles D. Frederick, and Michael E. Smith The toil of several million peasant farmers in Aztec Mexico transformed lakebeds and mountainsides into a checkerboard of highly productive fields. This book charts the changing fortunes of one Aztec settlement and its terraced landscapes from the twelfth to the twenty-first century. It also follows the progress and missteps of a team of archaeologists as they piece together this story. Exploiting the methodologies and techniques of several disciplines, the authors bring context to eight centuries of the region’s agrarian history, exploring the effects of the Aztec and Spanish Empires, reform, and revolution on the physical shape of the Mexican countryside and the livelihoods of its people. This well-illustrated and well-organized volume provides a step-by-step guide that can be applied to the study of terraced landscapes anywhere in the world. 8 1/2 x 11 Hardcover 978-1-64769-022-9 $85.00s
Patagonian Prehistory Retracing Inca Steps Human Ecology and Cultural Evolution in the Land of Giants
Adventures in Andean Ethnoarchaeology
Raven Garvey
Dean E. Arnold
Generally portrayed as a windswept wasteland of marginal use for human habitation, Patagonia is an unmatched testing ground for some of the world’s most important questions about human ecology and cultural change. In this volume, archaeologist Raven Garvey presents a critical synthesis of Patagonian prehistory, bringing an evolutionary perspective and unconventional evidence to bear on enduringly contentious issues in New World archaeology, including initial human colonization of the Americas, widespread depopulation between 8,000 and 4,000 years ago, and the transition from foraging to farming. Garvey’s novel hypotheses question common assumptions regarding Patagonia’s suitability for prehistoric hunter-gatherers. The broad trajectory of cultural change in Patagonia owes as much to feedback between population size and technology as to conditions in the rugged Patagonian outback itself.
Dean Arnold takes readers on a journey into the Andes, recounting the adventures of his 1960s research in the village of Quinua, Peru. Arnold’s quest to understand how contemporary pottery production reflected current Quinua society as well as its ancient Inca and pre-Inca past is one of the earliest studies in what later became known as ethnoarchaeology. The first-person narrative reveals the challenges of living and working in another culture and the many obstacles one can encounter while doing field research. Arnold shares how his feelings of frustration and perceived failure led him to refocus his project, a shift that ultimately led to an entirely new perspective on pottery production in the Andes. Masterfully weaving details about Peru’s geography, ecology, history, prehistory, and culture into his story, he also chronicles his change from small-town Midwesterner to a person of much broader vision, newly aware of his North American views and values.
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