Spring/Summer 2010 New Releases
The University of Utah Press Spring/Summer 2010
New Books Anthropology/Archaeology. . . . . . 1, 5, 6, 12, 15 Environment/Nature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Fiction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Geology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Literary Criticism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Middle East Studies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Mormon Studies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Western History/Regional. . . . . . . . . 3, 14-15
Publishing/Distribution Partners BYU Studies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Canyonlands Natural History Association. . 10-11 KUED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-9 2i3D Stereo Imaging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Utah State Capitol Preservation Board. . . . . . 7 On the Cover: Baker Village Owl Pendant, Courtesy of BLM Ely District Office, Nevada. Photo © François Gohier. Back Cover: Pilling Figurines, Courtesy of the College of Eastern Utah Prehistoric Museum. Photo © François Gohier.
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House of Mourning wins Deetz Award
Shannon Novak’s book House of Mourning: A Biocultural History of the Mountain Meadows Massacre (University of Utah Press 2008) has been selected as the winner of the 2010 Society for Historical Archaeology James Deetz Award. SHA President Lu Ann De Cunzo writes that House of Mourning won “because it makes a significant contribution to the professional literature,” and because “it is expected to garner the broadest interest among scholars from other disciplines and the public at large.” The award will be presented at the 2010 SHA conference.
Inaugural Fowler Prize Awarded Congratulations to Phil R. Geib for having his forthcoming monograph Foragers and Farmers of the Northern Kayenta Region: Excavations along the Navajo Mountain Road (University of Utah Press 2010) selected as the inaugural winner of the Don D. and Catherine S. Fowler Prize. Described as a “tour de force” by Don Fowler, Geib’s work uses thirty-three sites as an informative cross-section of prehistory from which Navajo Nation archaeologists have drawn new conclusions about subsistence, settlement, architecture, and other aspects of past lifeways. A detailed announcement is on page 5. The Don D. and Catherine S. Fowler Book Prize, a $3,000 cash award, is awarded annually to one book-length monograph in anthropology submitted for publication to the University of Utah Press.
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New Partnership As part of our mission to share and disseminate the widest variety of scholarship, the University of Utah Press is partnering with the College of Eastern Utah Prehistoric Museum to copublish Traces of Fremont: Society and Rock Art in Ancient Utah. The museum in Price, Utah, houses one of the most significant exhibits of Fremont culture and Utah prehistory in the nation, and its staff is actively involved in ongoing research in archaeology and paleontology.
Traces of Fremont
Society and Rock Art in Ancient Utah Text by Steven R. Simms, Photographs by François Gohier
Anthropology | Archaeology April 2010 | 9 x 10 | 120 images | 144 pp. | Paper | $24.95 | 978-1-60781-011-7
Related Titles Rock Art of Utah Polly Schaafsma Paper | $22.95 | 978-0-87480-435-5
Petroglyphs and Pictographs of Utah Vol. 1 Kenneth B. Castleton Paper | $24.95 | 978-0-87480-829-2
Steven R. Simms is a professor of anthropology at Utah State University. He is the author of Ancient Peoples of the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau. François Gohier grew up in the Basque country in southwest France. He is a professional photographer and lives in San Diego, California. Left: Ivie Creek near Emery, Utah. Photograph © François Gohier
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— Stephen H. Lekson, professor of anthropology and curator, University of Colorado Museum of Natural History
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Simms’s book is excellent! I really like his take on Fremont, I like the narrative descriptions of various Fremont settlements, and I like his treatment of rock art—balanced and scholarly without losing the interest and excitement of that astonishing Fremont medium.
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Fremont is a culture (ca. 300–1300 A.D.) first defined by archaeologist Noel Morss in 1928 based on characteristics unique to the area. Initially thought to be a simple socio-political system, recent reassessments of the Fremont assume a more complex society. This volume places Fremont rock art studies in this contemporary context. Author Steven Simms offers an innovative model of Fremont society, politics, and worldview using the principles of analogy and current archaeological evidence. Simms takes readers on a trip back in time by describing what a typical Fremont “hamlet” or residential area might have looked like a thousand years ago, including the inhabitants’ daily activities. François Gohier’s captivating photographs of Fremont art and artifacts offer an engaging complement to Simms’s text, aiding us in our understanding of the lives of these ancient people.
Sherman Alexie
A Collection of Critical Essays Edited by Jeff Berglund and Jan Roush
The University of Utah Press
Sherman Alexie is, by many accounts, the most widely read American Indian writer in the United States and likely in the world. A literary polymath, Alexie’s nineteen published books span a variety of genres and include his most recent National Book Award-winning The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Now, for the first time, a volume of critical essays is devoted to Alexie’s work both in print and on the big screen. Editors Jeff Berglund and Jan Roush have assembled twelve leading scholars of American Indian literature to provide new perspectives on a writer with his finger on the pulse of America. Interdisciplinary in their approach to Alexie’s work, these essays cover the writer’s entire career, and are insightful and accessible to scholars and lay readers alike. This volume is a worthy companion to the work of one of our nation’s most recognized contemporary voices.
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Jeff Berglund is an associate professor of English at Northern Arizona University. He is the author of Cannibal Fictions: American Explorations of Colonialism, Race, Gender, and Sexuality. Jan Roush is an associate professor of English at Utah State University. She is the author of Pulling Leather: Being the Early Recollections of a Cowboy on the Wyoming Range, 1884–1889.
Contributors Elizabeth Archuleta Arizona State University Susan Berry Brill de Ramírez Bradley University James H. Cox University of Texas at Austin Stephen F. Evans University of Kansas P. Jane Hafen University of Nevada, Las Vegas Philip Heldrich University of Washington, Tacoma Patrice Hollrah University of Nevada, Las Vegas
“The bar is raised. I believe this work will be seen as a role
Meredith K. James Eastern Connecticut State University
model for literary criticism of Native American fiction,
Janis Johnson University of Idaho
poetry, and film.” —Simon Ortiz, poet and professor of English at Arizona State University
Literary Criticism April 2010 | 6 x 9 | 350 pp. | 6 illustrations | Paper | $24.95 | 978-1-60781-008-7
Related Titles Surveying the Literary Landscapes of Terry Tempest Williams Kathleen Boardman, Gioia Woods, editors Paper | $19.95 | 978-0-87480-770-7
I, The Song A. L. Soens Paper | $19.95 | 978-0-87480-609-0
Angelica Lawson University of Montana Margaret O’Shaughnessey University of North Carolina Nancy J. Peterson Purdue University Lisa Tatonetti Kansas State University
Opening Zion
A Scrapbook of the National Park’s First Official Tourists John Clark and Melissa Clark
Author’s Collection /Used by permission Union Pacific Museum
“The Clarks seem to me to be among an elite group of modern artists who share a strong connection with the artists and designers who created those powerful national park images of the 1920s.” —Lyman Hafen, executive director, Zion Natural History Association
Related Titles Ghosts of Glen Canyon C. Gregory Crampton Paper | $29.95 | 978-0-87480-946-6
Utah: The National Parks John Howe, producer DVD | $19.95 | 978-0-87480-980-0
Melissa Clark is a master of scherenschnitte, or paper cutting. Her work is featured in A Century of Sanctuary: The Art of Zion National Park.
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Western History | Memoir April 2010 | 160 photos | 8 x 12 | 108 pp. | Paper | $19.95 | 978-1-60781-006-3
John Clark is author of the Motor Tales series and an avid scholar of Utah automobile history.
Spring/Summer 2010
When Melissa Clark purchased a box of old scrapbooks online, she knew only that she had bought something relating to the University of Utah and Zion Park. What came in the mail was much more than she had expected. Instead of random mementos, two albums arrived full of photographs and newspaper clippings dating to 1920 that document a trip made by six young women from the University of Utah into the newly formed Zion National Park. Part of a promotional campaign developed by the Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad to advertise its national park shuttle service, the women entered Zion Canyon as its first official tourists. When Melissa bought those timeworn scrapbooks she found a forgotten treasure: the opening of Zion. With text by John Clark, the scrapbooks are now the basis of a oneof-a-kind publication. Part fashion spread, part adventure guide, and all Utah cultural treasure, Opening Zion is a stunning visual record of the park. Remarkably detailed black-and-white photographs show the young adventurers scrambling over rocky outcrops, pondering the dizzying height of Zion’s sheer walls, and singing camp songs by the campfire. We are introduced anew to the “gigantic grandeur” of Zion National Park. As one of the women wrote, “One can think only beautiful thoughts amid such splendor.”
Geological Evolution of the Colorado Plateau of Eastern Utah and Western Colorado Robert Fillmore
Updated Edition
The University of Utah Press
Robert Fillmore’s clear, easy-to-read text documents spectacular features of the eastern Colorado Plateau, one of the most interesting and scenic geologic regions in the world. The area covered in detail stretches from the Book Cliffs to the deep canyons of the San Juan River area. The events that shaped this vast region are clearly described and include the most recent interpretations of ongoing geologic forces. The book also includes mile-by-mile road logs with explanations of the various features for most of the scenic roads in the region, including Arches National Park, Canyonlands National Park, and the Natural Bridges area.
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Robert Fillmore is professor of geology at Western State College of Colorado in Gunnison. He is the author of Geology of the Parks, Monuments, and Wildlands of Southern Utah.
“Fillmore strives to provide more currency, depth, and insight than most general books on Colorado Plateau natural history, while simultaneously utilizing the effective writing style of his previous books to inspire readers to learn more and to extend their exploration of this magnificent region.” —Frank DeCourten, Sierra College
Geology June 2010 | 6 illustrations | 7 x 10 | 350 pp. | Paper | $24.95 | 978-1-60781-004-9
Related Titles Geology of Utah’s Rivers
River Runners’ Guide to Utah And Adjacent Areas Gary C. Nichols Gary C. Nichols’s respected guide to Utah river running has been revised with new contact information for permissions and river use, making it the most up-todate volume of its kind. River Runners’ Guide to Utah includes instructions for all skill levels, and identifies danger areas and obstacles, making it the most comprehensive manual for navigating Utah’s rivers.
William T. Parry Paper | $19.95 | 978-0-87480-933-6
Traveler’s Guide to the Geology of the Colorado Plateau Donald L. Baars Paper | $25.00 | 978-0-87480-715-8
Recreation | Regional January 2010 | 15 color photographs 41 black-and-white photographs | 50 maps 6 x 9 Paper | $19.95 | 978-0-87480-725-7
Winner of the Don D. and Catherine S. Fowler Prize
Foragers and Farmers of the Northern Kayenta Region Excavations along the Navajo Mountain Road Phil R. Geib
available online Spring 2010 at UofUpress.com
Volume III: Basketmaker Site Descriptions Edited and assembled by Phil R. Geib, Kimberly Spurr, and Jim Collette Volume IV: Puebloan Site Descriptions Edited and assembled by Phil R. Geib, Kimberly Spurr, and Jim Collette Volume V: Analyses and Interpretations Edited and assembled by Phil R. Geib and Kimberly Spurr
Photograph by Catherine M. Cameron
Phil Geib has worked as an archaeologist for 30 years, focusing on the Colorado Plateau in southern Utah and northern Arizona. He is currently completing his PhD at the University of New Mexico. He is author of Glen Canyon Revisited, (UUAP 119, 1996).
“Provides by far the best data available so far on the chronology of Archaic and Basketmaker II occupations in the Four Corners area.” —William D. Lipe, professor emeritus of archaeology, Washington State University
“A tour de force.” —Don D. Fowler
Related Titles Southwest Archaeology In The Twentieth Century Linda Cordell and Donald Fowler, eds. Cloth | $45.00 | 978-0-87480-825-4
Anthropology | Archaeology April 2010 | 168 illustrations | 8½ x 11 | 416 pp. | Cloth | $70.00s | 978-1-60781-003-2
Chaco’s Northern Prodigies Paul F. Reed, editor Cloth | $55.00s | 978-0-87480-925-1
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Volume II: Archaic Site Descriptions Edited and assembled by Phil R. Geib, Kimberly Spurr, and Jim Collette
Spring/Summer 2010
Supplementary Volumes
Foragers and Farmers of the Northern Kayenta Region presents the results of a major archaeological excavation project on Navajo tribal land in the Four Corners area and integrates this new information with existing knowledge of the archaeology of the northern Kayenta region. The excavation of thirty-three sites provides a cross section of prehistory from which Navajo Nation archaeologists retrieved a wealth of information about subsistence, settlement, architecture, and other aspects of past lifeways. The project’s most important contributions involve the Basketmaker and Archaic periods, and include a large number of radiocarbon dates on high-quality samples. Dating back to the early Archaic period (ca. 7000 BC) and ranging forward through the Basketmaker components to the Puebloan period, this volume is a powerful record of ancient peoples and their cultures. Detailed supplementary data will be available on the University of Utah Press Web site upon publication of this summary volume.
Kinship, Language, and Prehistory
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values
Per Hage and the Renaissance in Kinship Studies
Volume 29
Edited by Doug Jones and Bojka Milicic
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A chronicle of the renaissance in kinship studies, these seventeen articles pay tribute to Per Hage, one of the founding fathers of the movement and long-time faculty member of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Utah. With mathematician Frank Harary, Hage pioneered the use of graph theoretical models in anthropology, a systematic analysis of diverse cognitive, social, and cultural components that provides a common technical vocabulary for the entire field. Anthropological studies have benefited from quantitative evaluation, particularly kinship, which is newly appreciated for its application to all social sciences. The chapters of this book, some original works by the contributors and some unpublished Hage material, attest to the importance of the continual study of kinship.
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Anthropology August 2010 | 44 images | 8½ x 11 | 350 pp. | Cloth | $70.00s | 978-1-60781-005-6
Contributors Pierre Bancel Association d’Etudes Linguistiques et Anthropologiques Préhistoriques, Paris John Bengtson Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory Giovanni Bennardo Northern Illinois University Koen Bostoen Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium; and Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Christopher Ehret University of California at Los Angeles Per Hage Department of Anthropology, University of Utah
David Jenkins Roundhouse Institute for Field Studies Douglas Jones University of Utah Ian Keen Australian National University David Kronenfeld University of California, Riverside Jeff Marck Australian National University Alain Matthey de l’Etang Association d’Etudes Linguistiques et Anthropologiques Préhistoriques, Paris Patrick McConvell Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra
Bojka Milicic University of Utah Jean-Georges Kamba Muzenga Institut Supérieur Pédagogique de Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo Dwight Read University of California, Los Angeles Merritt Ruhlen Stanford University Warren Shapiro Rutgers University
Edited by Suzan Young
Contents and Contributors Lisa Jardine University of London “The Dream of Democratic Culture” and “Is Anyone in Charge of Public Opinion?” Michael Tomasello Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology “Ontogenetic Origins of Human Altruism” and “Phylogenetic Origins of Human Collaboration”
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values were founded July 1, 1978, at Clare Hall, Cambridge University, by American scholar, industrialist, and philanthropist Obert Clark Tanner, to advance and reflect upon scholarly and scientific learning related to human values. The purpose embraces the entire range of physical, moral, artistic, intellectual, and religious values pertinent to the human condition, interest, behavior, and aspiration. Appointment as a Tanner Lecturer is a recognition of uncommon abilities and outstanding scholarly or leadership achievement. Volume 29 also includes an extensive and diverse series of lectures and panel discussions held at Brasenose College, Oxford, in honor of the five hundreth year since the founding of King’s Hall and Brasenose College.
Sari Nusseibeh Al-Quds University “Philosophical Reflections on the Israeli-Palestinian War” Marc Hauser Harvard University “The Seeds of Humanity” Jeremy Waldron New York University “Dignity and Rank” and “Law, Status, and Self-Control”
Philosophy June 2009 | 6 ¼ x 9 ½ | 280 pp. | Cloth $35.00s | 978-1-60781-019-3
Winner of the 2009 Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry
Transistor Rodeo Jon Wilkins
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until the sound of harp strings, plucked like an apple or a filling from the ashes of Jews. There is dust here and a rock.
The Restoration of the Utah State Capitol
“First off you need to know how much fun Jon Wilkins’s Transistor Rodeo is: a whole lot, a thousand afternoons of brainy, brawling, fragrant, dazzling microscopic daisies. Very few books deliver as much electricity per line, per poem, as this one does, and fewer still can sustain that charge until, crackling, imagination flashes and gives way to beauty. Whether prayer or sonnet, parable, love song, or theorem, or frequently more than one of these, a Wilkins poem ambles and darts, hesitates, notices its surroundings, changes direction, exults, and delivers us into an entirely new place. Are we changed by reading this? I think we are. Wilkins is an alchemist. Wilkins should be your alchemist.” —Ander Monson, poet and essayist
In my dreams I am tall as a state trooper, charged as a finger in winter, and my fear: staggering, ponderous as a giant with a theorem to prove. I send these vowels into the night like a monkey, sit quiet as a satellite dish, a cloud waiting for rain.
The annual Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry was inaugurated in 2003 to honor the late poet, a nationally recognized writer and former professor at the University of Utah, and is sponsored by the University of Utah Press and the University of Utah Department of English. Transistor Rodeo was selected as the 2009 prize-winning volume by judge Ander Monson, poet, essayist, author of The Available World and Vanishing Point, and editor of DIAGRAM.
Poetry April 2010 | 6 x 8 ½ | 72 pp. | Paper | $12.95 978-1-60781-002-5 Jon Wilkins is a professor at the Santa Fe Institute. His poetry has been published in Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Möbius, The Midday Moon, River King Poetry Supplement, Harvard Advocate, Georgia Poetry Review, Abbey, Chaffin Journal, and Moon Reader.
Judith E. McConkie In The Seven Lamps of Architecture, the famed Victorian art critic John Ruskin declared, “Watch an old building with anxious care, guard it as best you may.” Through a combination of riveting photos and descriptive history, Utah State Capitol curator Judith McConkie captures the anxious care that restored and preserved the Capitol building. The book begins with a personal introduction by the preservation project’s executive architect, David H. Hart, who guided the project for nearly a decade. The book features wonderful historic photographs of the Capitol’s early 20th century beginnings, and stunning pictures by graphic design artist Michael Dunn of the recent preservation and restoration. The history, art, and architecture of the building are eloquently presented to appeal to scholars, preservation enthusiasts, and Utah residents.
Architecture | Preservation | Utah Available | 90 color photographs | 22 black-and-white photographs 11 x 11 | 126 pp. | Cloth | $39.95 | 978-0-615-16880-7
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There is lichen and sunshine. Shadows roll across the valley like a stock car.
With Anxious Care
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Utah Serenade
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Photograph courtesy of Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
Wilderness The Great Debate
Producer John Howe explores the increasingly delicate imbalance between the landscape and national demands for energy, water, and other resource developments, interviewing key players from Sagebrush Rebels in Utah to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. Robert Redford discusses the western landscape, his passionate defense of its preservation, and his determination to confront those who advocate resource development. Narrated by Peter Coyote.
Environment | Current Affairs February 2010 | 60 minutes | DVD | $19.95 | 978-1-60781-014-8
This film sets aside the debate over the Utah landscape and offers a visual chronicle of the state’s unique geography. From national parks to rushing rivers to open range, this original KUED production is a beautifully photographed, high definition visual tribute to the beauty of Utah. Set to a score of classical music favorites, Utah Serenade follows previous KUED productions Yellowstone Serenade and Desert Serenade. Produced by John Howe.
Regional | Travel January 2010 | 60 minutes | DVD | $19.95 978-1-60781-016-2
The Alta Experience Celebrating the 70th anniversary of Alta Ski Resort, this new KUED documentary transports viewers to a mountain town with a history richer than its silver-mining past. This colorful glide down memory’s slopes features interviews with those who remember the first chairlift in Utah and the personalities who developed early powder-skiing techniques. Using archival footage, early photographs, and contemporary aerial footage, the program chronicles the generations who have carved fresh lines in Alta’s famous untracked snow. Produced by Joe Prokop.
Recreation | History | Skiing January 2010 | 60 minutes | DVD | $19.95 978-1-60781-017-9
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3-D Atlas of Salt Lake Valley’s Tri-Canyon Area Steven L. Richardson and Benjamin M. Richardson
Marking the 80th anniversary of the original Grand Teton National Park (est. 1929), KUED presents a documentary that explores the struggle behind the expansion of federally protected land in Teton County. The Jackson Hole Story takes a balanced look at efforts to promote as well as actions to stifle the enlarged Grand Teton National Park known to visitors today. The program also shows how the battle over public and private land shaped today’s Jackson Hole. Produced by KUED’s Joe Prokop and narrated by Babe Humphrey of the Bar J Wranglers band.
Producer Nancy Green explores the past, present, and extremely uncertain future of the Green River from the perspective of natural resources in the balance. Since J. W. Powell’s explorations and forecasts in the 19th century, the Green has been at the heart of the western experience and is arguably the birthplace of the modern environmental movement. It is also viewed as a critical component in blueprints for energy development and water diversion to serve exploding western populations.
Current Affairs | Environment January 2010 | 60 minutes | DVD | $19.95 978-1-60781-018-6
Divided Waters
Environment | Western History Available | 60 minutes | DVD | $19.95 978-1-60781-015-5
Steven L. Richardson and Benjamin M. Richardson are working on a series of 3-D atlases of Utah National Parks.
Geography Available | 44 color 3-D images | 2 pairs 3-D glasses | 12 x 9 50 pp. | Paper | $19.95 | 978-0-9825020-0-6
9 DVDs from KUED
Green River
Spring/Summer 2010
The Jackson Hole Story
The Tri-Canyon area of the Wasatch Mountains just southeast of Salt Lake City is popular year round for hiking, camping, rock climbing, biking, skiing, and snowboarding. This book is a detailed atlas covering an area of 216 square miles of these canyons, presented in a completely new way. Using anaglyphs to present three-dimensional data in a flat book, twenty-one maps provide a new view of the relief characteristic of one of Utah’s most beautiful areas. The photo spread provides two views of each area: a US Geological Survey topographic map on the right page and a color aerial photograph on the facing page, both converted into stunning 3-D. This atlas provides both a novel and useful resource for hikers, geologists, and lovers of the canyons—complete with 3-D glasses.
Canyonlands Natural History Association Sacred Images Winner of the 2009 Mountains and Plains Children’s Picture Book Award
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The Illuminated Desert By Terry Tempest Williams Art by Chloe Hedden
Canyonlands Natural History Association
The Illuminated Desert is a stunning dialogue in painting and prose by two daughters of the Colorado Plateau: Terry Tempest Williams and Chloe Hedden. This is more than an abecedarian, or alphabet book. It is an exquisite rendering of life in the red rock canyons of southern Utah and the natural history that evokes a poetry of place. The audience for this book is the audience of the desert itself, from children to adults who share in discovery and delight.
A Vision of Native American Rock Art Leslie Kellen and David Sucec with photography by Phillip Hyde, Craig Law, John Telford, and Tom Till Sacred Images: A Vision of Native American Rock Art brings together the talents of four Utah wilderness photographers and the storytelling skills of its indigenous peoples to present the visionary power of Utah rock art. Photographers Craig Law, John Telford, Tom Till, and Philip Hyde reveal prehistoric and historic rock art images on boulders, cliff faces, and overhangs. Philip Hyde was one of the primary contributors to the Sierra Club’s groundbreaking Exhibit Format Series. Craig Law received BFA and MFA degrees from Utah State University and is the recipient of the Oliver Award from the American Rock Art Research Association for his work on the BCS Project. John Telford has been photographing the landscape and environment for forty years.
Children Available | 10 x 13 | 20 pp. | Cloth | $21.95 | 978-0-93740-711-0
Tom Till has photographed rock art on every continent, including 2000-year-old cave art in India and 25,000-year-old art in Australia. Leslie Kelen is the founder and executive director of the Center for Documentary Arts in Salt Lake City.
Terry Tempest Williams has been a resident of Castle Valley, Utah, since 1998. She is the author of two children’s books, The Secret Language of Snow and Between Cattails. Her other books include Refuge; Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert; The Open Space of Democracy; and Finding Beauty in a Broken World.
David Sucec is a visual artist, independent curator, and director of the BCS Project, a nonprofit organization engaged in generating a photographic inventory of Barrier Canyon style rock art on the Colorado Plateau.
Chloe Hedden is a native of Castle Valley, Utah. She attended the Rhode Island School of Design and graduated with honors in illustration. Chloe thinks of light as visual poetry and wants to share her love of the desert by the only means she knows: her paintbrush. This is her first book.
American Indian | Photography | Archaeology Available | 60 illustrations | 10 x 11 | 112 pp. | Paper | $19.99 | 9-780-93740-713-4
Moab Classic Hikes Damian Fagan
Regional | Recreation Available | 40 illustrations | 5 x 7 | 132 pp. | Paper | $12.99 978-0-93740-710-3
Where God Put the West “TV you can make on the backlot, but for the big screen, the real dramas, you have to do it where God put the West.” —John Wayne
A fascinating compendium of photographs and memories of the cinematic legends who made movies and advertisements in the Moab-Monument Valley area.
Cinema | Western History Available | 350 illustrations | 8 ½ x 11 | 184 pp. | Paper | $17.99 9-780-93740-708-0
A must for anyone traveling in canyon country! A driving guide, planning guide, and photographic keepsake all rolled into one. This book highlights nineteen spectacular canyon country vistas which can be seen from your car or with a short, pleasant walk. Mileages and driving times are provided to help you explore at your own pace.
Cinema Southwest John A. Murray
Travel | Regional Available | XX images | 8 ½ x 11 | 48 pp. | Paper | $9.95 9-780-93740-700-4
The Towers of Hovenweep Ian Thompson Hovenweep National Monument protects six prehistoric, Puebloan-era villages spread over a twenty-mile expanse of mesa tops and canyons along the Utah-Colorado border. This book explores a story of community and change, from the first hunter-gatherers to the Ancestral Puebloans.
Archaeology Available | 35 illustrations | 6 x 9 | 48 pp | Paper | $7.99 9-780-93740-706-6
Cinema Southwest provides film buffs and casual moviegoers alike with the first comprehensive guide to filmmaking in the American Southwest. It is an invaluable reference book and trip planner, packed with interesting facts, and directions to the sites of your favorite movies.
Cinema | Western History Available | 30 illustrations | 9 ½ x 8 ½ | 164 pp. Paper | $21.95 | 9-780-93740-714-1
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Bette L. Stanton
David B. Williams and George H. Huey
Spring/Summer 2010
This guide to hikes in the Moab area concentrates on local favorites and “classic” routes. Forty full-color shaded-relief topographic maps accompany photographs and detailed descriptions of the forty routes.
Grand Views
Burned Palaces and Elite Residences of Aguateca Excavations and Ceramics
Edited by Takeshi Inomata and Daniela Triadan
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Takeshi Inomata is director of the Aguateca Archaeological Project and an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Arizona.
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Daniela Triadan is co-director of the Aguateca Archaeological Project and an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Arizona. She is also a research assistant with the Smithsonian Institute.
Contributors Erick Ponciano, Universidad de Valle Markus Eberl, Tulane University Estela Pinto, Universidad de San Carlos
The settlement of Aguateca, Guatemala, rapidly abandoned at the end of the Classic period (ca. AD 810), provides archaeological insight into the political, social, and economic lifestyle of Maya elite. Located at the southern end of the Petexabatún region, Aguateca is unique among Classic Maya sites, primarily as a result of its Pompeii-like level of preservation. Accompanied by clear and impressive illustrations, Burned Palaces and Elite Residences of Aguateca provides a summary of the meticulously documented excavations. While most ceramic reports in the Maya area focus on descriptions of types or classes of ceramics, the work of Takeshi Inomata and Daniela Triadan details the unique attributes and contexts of each vessel, leading to further understanding of life and social relations among the Maya. Burned Palaces and Elite Residences of Aguateca advances Maya archaeology by documenting the function of multiroomed masonry buildings and providing vivid models of daily life of the Classic Maya elite. This volume, one of a three-volume series, is the definitive report on Aguateca.
Anthropology | Archaeology March 2010 | 191 illustrations | 8½ x 11 | 360 pp. | Cloth | $60.00s 978-1-60781-001-8
The Archaeological Adventures of I. V. Jones Heidi Roberts The Archaeological Adventures of I.V. Jones, the new novel by Heidi Roberts, is the fictional retelling of an important time in U.S. archaeology through the eyes of a twenty-one-year-old archaeologist named I. V. Jones. Ivy, as her friends call her, is witness to and participant in the complicated world of Utah archaeology in the 1970s, a period out of which came field-changing cultural resources management. This entertaining book also presents a woman’s perspective on the demanding decisions involved in an archaeologist’s life. The Archaeological Adventures of I.V. Jones takes the reader into Ivy’s unique and memorable world, providing a true-to-life account of a “dig bum,” an aspiring archaeologist, and a woman trying to balance her professional and family life. Heidi Roberts has been a professional archaeologist since 1978 and is the founder and president of HRA Inc. She lives in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Fiction | Archaeology March 2010 | 6 x 9 | 288 pp. | Paper | $17.95 978-1-60781-009-4
To the Peripheries of Mormondom
Published by BYU Studies and The University of Utah Press
Hugh J. Cannon, edited by Reid L. Neilson
The Best of The Frontier Guardian and The Best of The St. Louis Luminary
The Apostolic Around-the-World Journey of David O. McKay, 1920–1921
First published in Kanesville, Iowa, in 1849, The Frontier Guardian was used by church leaders to help Mormons there focus on their ultimate westward goal. Yet the newspaper was much more than an ecclesiastical forum. Local, national, and international news was included along with information about the westward trek. The Frontier Guardian is a window into this way-station for westward emigration, illuminating the religious, social, economic, and political aspects of this frontier community. St. Louis was a major trailhead along the Mississippi River that attracted thousands of Mormons in the 1850s, where they set up shops, practiced their trades, and formed congregations. It was there that Erastus Snow published the St. Louis Luminary, a weekly newspaper featuring epistles from church leaders, doctrinal treatises in defense of Mormon practices—especially plural marriage—and news and letters from the Salt Lake Valley. Both books include a searchable DVD of all issues of all of the newspapers, complete with scholarly annotations. Susan Easton Black is professor of church history at Brigham Young University.
Mormon Studies August 2010 | 60 figures | 7 x 10 | 350 pp. | Cloth | $29.95 978-1-60781-010-0
Mormon Studies The Best of The Frontier Guardian | Available | 6 photos | 6 x 9 186 pp. | Paper | $19.95s | 978-0-8425-2740-81 The Best of The St. Louis Luminary | Ausust 2010 | 5 illustrations 6 x 9 | 192 pp. | Paper | $19.95s | 978-0-8425-2752-1
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Reid L. Neilson is an assistant professor of church history and doctrine at Brigham Young University. He is the author of Proclamation to the People: Nineteenth-Century Mormonism and the Pacific Basin Frontier.
Edited by Susan Easton Black
Spring/Summer 2010
Hugh J. Cannon (1870-1931) was traveling companion to apostle David O. McKay from 1920 to 1921.
The year-long fact-finding mission of apostle David O. McKay and his traveling companion Hugh J. Cannon to places historian Leonard J. Arrington has called the “geographic and organizational periphery” of Mormondom was one of the most significant moments of the twentieth century for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. While the contemporary LDS Church has grown to become a global presence, the early decades of the last century found missionaries struggling to gain converts abroad. Cannon’s rich and vivid account of his and McKay’s 61,646-mile around-the-world journey illustrates the roots of Mormonism’s globalization. The account is without doubt one of the more significant texts in the historical cannon of global Mormon studies. Reid L. Neilson annotates Cannon’s account, enriching the experience for scholarly and lay readers alike. Ancillary material, including the transcripts of Cannon’s letters to the Deseret News detailing the journey, the complete text of Cannon’s original journals (available for the first time ever), a collection of 60 photographs, maps, and illustrations culled from McKay’s own collection, as well as comprehensive lists of names and places, will be available digitally.
The Lady in the Ore Bucket
A History of Settlement and Industry in the Tri-Canyon Area of the Wasatch Mountains Charles L. Keller The University of Utah Press 14 Now in Paperback
“For those who draw inspiration from the magnificent Wasatch Mountains, this thoroughly researched and richly detailed history is a must. Keller takes us into the heart of the mountains to reveal a history as rich and colorful as any.” —Alan Kent Powell, Utah State Historical Society
Three Wasatch canyons—Mill Creek, Big Cottonwood, and Little Cottonwood— tantalize with what they suggest about the history of settlement in the canyons. Charles Keller has extracted a wealth of information to create The Lady in the Ore Bucket, a fascinating history of the lumber, mining, and hydropower industries built from the rich natural resources of the canyons. With more than six-dozen photographs and maps, the book will delight any reader with an interest in the magnificent canyons that open onto the modern Wasatch Front. Charles Keller is a retired engineer and an avid avocational historian. He lives in Salt Lake City.
Western History | Regional January 2010 | 88 illustrations | 13 maps 6 x 9 | 426 pp. | Paper | $24.95 978-1-60781-021-6
A Hole in the Ground with a Liar at the Top Fraud and Deceit in the Golden Age of American Mining Dan Plazak Coal, silver, gold. There is something about the allure of hidden treasure that puts a glint in people’s eyes. By gathering such familiar stories as that of Nevada’s infamous Comstock Lode with a succession of lesser-known scandals, Dan Plazak provides an entertaining and informative volume that delightfully investigates the history of mining frauds in the United States from the Civil War to World War I. Dan Plazak is a graduate of Michigan Tech and the Colorado School of Mining. He is a consulting geologist and engineer.
Western History January 2010 | 36 illustrations | 6 x 9 | 288 pp. | Paper | $19.95 | 978-1-60781-020-9
The Casas Grandes World
Gila Monster
Edited by Curtis F. Schaafsma and Carroll L. Riley
Facts and Folklore of America’s Aztec Lizard
This volume offers a reevaluation of the extent, history, and meaning of the great site and its far-reaching connections. It also considers influences on the Hohokam and peoples of west Mexico, positing the existence of a vast sphere of Casa Grandes cultural influence.
David E. Brown and Neil B. Carmony
—David Kirkpatrick, Human Systems Research, Las Cruces
Archaeology | Anthropology Available | 8½ x 11 | 304 pp. | Paper | $29.95s | 978-1-60781-000-1
David E. Brown is adjunct professor of biology, Arizona State University, and author of Vampiro and Biotic Communities of the Southwest. Neil E. Carmony, formerly a chemist with the U.S. Geological Survey, is coeditor (with David Brown) of several books about naturalists and adventurers.
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Tending the Talking Wire A Buck Soldier’s View of Indian Country, 1863-1866 Edited by William E. Unrau
Related Titles Sonoran Desert Life Gerald A. Rosenthal Paper | $27.95 | 978-0-615-18671-9
Borderland Jaguars William Unrau is professor emeritus of history at Wichita State University.
Western History | American Indian January 2010 | 24 illustrations | 6 x 9 | 382 pp. | Paper | $19.95 978-0-87480-352-5
David E. Brown and Carlos A. López González Paper | $19.95 | 978-0-87480-696-0
Desert Ecology John Sowell Paper | $17.95 | 978-0-87480-678-6
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Nature | Southwest January 2010 | 32 illustrations | 129 pp. | 6 x 9 Paper | $10.95 | 978-0-87480-600-7
Hervey Johnson’s letters offer a fascinating first-person account of the critical Indian War years on the high plains of eastern Wyoming during which a confederation of Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho Indians successfully defended their Powder River buffalo range.
Spring/Summer 2010
“This volume will be a standard reference used by students and scholars for years to come.”
Authors David Brown and Neil Carmony provide a well-illustrated, very readable account of the largest and only poisonous lizard in America. They discover tall tales, debunk myths, and reveal known biological and historical facts about this secretive creature of the Southwest, Heloderma suspectum.
The Turk in America The Creation of an Enduring Prejudice Justin A. McCarthy
The University of Utah Press 16 New Releases
In The Turk in America, historian Justin McCarthy seeks to explain the historical basis for American prejudice towards Turks in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The volume focuses on fraudulent characterizations of Turks, mostly stemming from an antipathy in Europe and America toward non-Christians, and especially Muslims. Spanning one hundred and fifty years, this history explores the misinformation largely responsible for the negative stereotypes of Turks during this period. Justin A. McCarthy is professor of history at the University of Louisville, Kentucky.
Middle East Studies August 2010 | 10 illustrations | 7 x 10 | 400 pp. | Paper | $39.95s | 978-1-60781-013-1
An Index to the History of the Patriarchs of the Coptic Church Lola Atiya The History of the Patriarchs of the Coptic Church is an extensive work, originally written in Arabic, and translated, edited, and published in English between 1904 and 1974. The history covers the genealogy of Christ, the martyrdom of Saint Mark, and the life of Cyril V, the 112th patriarch of the Coptic Church, among other topics. Lola Atiya prepared an exclusive index to the History. This five-sectioned index provides names of persons and groups, locations in Egypt, a complete list of churches, convents, monasteries, mosques, and synagogues mentioned in the text. A brief glance might suggest that The History of the Patriarchs of the Coptic Church is simply an ecclesiastical history. Rather, this important volume stands apart as an important record of twenty centuries of historical, social, and economic factors affecting Egypt and the greater Middle East. This comprehensive index makes that important work accessible to scholars and students. The late Lola Atiya was the wife of Dr. Aziz Atiya, founder the University of Utah’s Middle East Center and a prominent world scholar of early Christianity.
Middle East Studies March 2010 | 8½ x 11 | 150 pp. | Cloth | $39.95s | 978-1-60781-012-4
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