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Contents

Spring/Summer 2015 Frontlist, 1–22 New in Paperback, 23

Order Information, 24

Subject Index

Archaeology, Anthropology, 8–13, 23 Colorado, Utah & the West, 1, 2, 4 Folklore Studies, 7 History, 2, 4, 5, 13 Memoir, 4

Natural History, 6 Poetry, 3 Travel, 1

Writing Studies, 14–22

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© Watercolors by George Hoshida, from Taken from the Paradise Isle (page 4)

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Ways to the West How Getting Out of Our Cars Is Reclaiming America’s Frontier Tim Sullivan “A fascinating read that gives new insight into the transportation evolution that is now taking place across this region.”

—Wesley Marshall, University of Colorado, Denver

In Ways to the West, Tim Sullivan embarks on a

car-less road trip through the Intermountain West, exploring how the region is taking on what may be its greatest challenge: sustainable transportation. Combining personal travel narrative, historical research, and his professional expertise in urban planning, Sullivan takes a critical yet optimistic and often humorous look at how contemporary Western cities are making themselves more hospitable to a life less centered on the personal vehicle.

The modern West was built by the automobile, but so much driving has jeopardized the West’s mystic hold on the American future. At first, automobility heightened the things that made the West great, but love became dependence, and dependence became addiction. Via his travels by bicycle, bus, and train through Las Vegas, Phoenix, Denver, Boise, Salt Lake City, and Portland, Sullivan captures the modern transportation evolution taking place across the region and the resulting ways in which contemporary Western communities are reinterpreting classic American values like mobility, opportunity, adventure, and freedom.

Finding a West created, lost, and reclaimed, Ways to the West will be of great interest to anyone curious about sustainable transportation and the history, geography, and culture of the American West.

“This book should be read by every planner, transportation engineer, city commissioner, councilman, mayor, economic development director, and developer.”

—John Inglish, former CEO, Utah Transit Authority

Tim Sullivan is a city planner, urban designer, and writer whose professional focus is the reshaping of cities and communities through alternative transportation planning. He is the author of No Communication with the Sea: Searching for an Urban Future in the Great Basin. He lives in Salt Lake City with his wife and two children.

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The Denver Artists Guild Its Founding Members; An Illustrated History Stan Cuba Foreword by Hugh Grant Introduction by Cynthia Jennings

In 1928, the newly organized Denver Artists Guild

Vance Kirkland, Red Mountain, 1947.

Watercolor, casein and gouache.

Courtesy Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art.

Stan Cuba, a graduate of Columbia University in New York, is associate curator of the Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art in Denver. In addition to curating and writing catalogs for many exhibits of regional art, he has written John F. Carlson and Artists of the Broadmoor Academy and coauthored The Art of Charles Partridge Adams, The Colorado Book, and Pikes Peak Vision: The Broadmoor Art Academy, 1919–1945.

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held its inaugural exhibition in downtown Denver.

Little did the participants realize that their initial effort would survive the Great Depression and World War II—and then outlive all of the group’s fifty-two charter members.

The guild’s founders worked in many media and pursued a variety of styles. In addition to the oils and watercolors one would expect were masterful pastels by Elsie Haddon Haynes, photographs

by Laura Gilpin, sculpture by Gladys Caldwell Fisher and Arnold Rönnebeck, ceramics by Anne Van Briggle Ritter and Paul St. Gaudens, and collages by Pansy Stockton. Styles included realism, impressionism, regionalism, surrealism, and abstraction. Murals by Allen True, Vance Kirkland, John E. Thompson, Louise Ronnebeck, and others graced public and private buildings—secular and religious—in Colorado and throughout the United States. The guild’s artists didn’t just contribute to the fine and decorative arts of Colorado; they enhanced the national reputation of the state.

Then, in 1948, the Denver Artists Guild became the stage for a great public debate pitting traditional against modern. The twenty-year-old guild split apart as modernists bolted to form their own group, the Fifteen Colorado Artists. It was a seminal moment: some of the guild’s artists became great modernists, while others remained great traditionalists.

Enhanced by period photographs and reproductions of the founding members’ works, The Denver Artists Guild chronicles a vibrant yet overlooked chapter of Colorado’s cultural history. The book includes a walking tour of guild members’ paintings and sculptures viewable in Denver and elsewhere in Colorado, by Leah Ness and author Stan Cuba.

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Supplice T. Zachary Cotler “In T. Zachary Cotler’s Supplice, humanism’s dialectic is itself a primary form of torture. Working inside the circuitry of thesis-antithesis, self-other, the poems collected here answer ’no’ to Keats’s questions in ’Ode on a Grecian Urn,’ confessing ’that truth / is beauty isn’t true.’ In a world become word, ’the eternal present eternally fails / to be trapped,’ and our poet-pilgrim is bound by dueling via negativa that chart the passage of d’ailleurs or elsewhere, where he finds history has located meaning’s trajectory. A not-ready-for-remnant-sonnet sequence as chilling as it is tutelary.”

—Claudia Keelan, final judge

Winner of the 2014 Colorado Prize for Poetry T. Zachary Cotler is the author of two books of poetry, House with a Dark Sky Roof and Sonnets to the Humans; a novel, Ghost at the Loom; and a critical monograph, Elegies for Humanism.

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The Verging Cities Natalie Scenters-Zapico

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rom undocumented men named Angel to angels falling from the sky, Natalie Scenters-Zapico’s gripping debut collection, The Verging Cities, is filled with explorations of immigration and marriage, narco-violence and femicide, and angels in the domestic sphere. Deeply rooted along the US-Mexico border in the sister cities of El Paso, Texas, and Cd. Juarez, Chihuahua, these poems give a brave new voice to the ways in which international politics affect the individual. Composed in a variety of forms, from sonnet and epithalamium to endnotes and field notes, each poem distills violent stories of narcos, undocumented immigrants, border patrol agents, and the people who fall in love with each other and their traumas.

Natalie Scenters-Zapico is from the sister cities of El Paso, Texas, United States, and Cd. Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico.

Her poems have appeared in journals including The Believer, American Poets, Prairie Schooner, West Branch, and Palabra.

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Mountain West Poetry Series Stephanie G’Schwind & Donald Revell, Series Editors

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Taken from the Paradise Isle The Hoshida Family Story Edited by Heidi Kim Foreword by Franklin Odo

“From the Obatas to Hatsuko Mary Higuchi, Japanese American artists depicted their lives in American concentration camps as they sought to express the sorrows engendered by incarceration. All this and more is captured by Heidi Kim’s marvelous selection of George Hoshida’s artwork and correspondence in Taken from the Paradise Isle, which poignantly documents George’s desperate attempts to keep his family intact.”

—Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, Asian American Studies, UCLA

The George and Sakaye Aratani Nikkei in the Americas Series Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, General Editor

Heidi Kim is assistant professor of English and comparative literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has published essays on the food policies of the Japanese American incarceration camps and the legacy of Korematsu v. United States and regularly teaches courses devoted to the history and literature of Japanese American incarceration.

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Crafted from George Hoshida’s diary and mem-

oir, as well as letters faithfully exchanged with his wife Tamae, Taken from the Paradise Isle is an intimate account of the anger, resignation, philosophy, optimism, and love with which the Hoshida family endured their separation and incarceration during World War II. George and Tamae Hoshida and their children were an American family of Japanese ancestry who lived in Hawai’i. In 1942, George was arrested as a “potentially dangerous alien” and interned in a series of camps over the next two years. Meanwhile, forced to leave her handicapped eldest daughter behind in a nursing home in Hawai’i, Tamae and three daughters, including a newborn, were incarcerated at the Jerome Relocation Center in Arkansas. George and Tamae regularly exchanged letters during this time, and George maintained a diary including personal thoughts, watercolors, and sketches. In Taken from the Paradise Isle these sources are bolstered by extensive archival documents and editor Heidi Kim’s historical contextualization, providing a new and important perspective on the tragedy of the incarceration as it affected Japanese American families in Hawai’i.

This personal narrative of the Japanese American experience adds to the growing testimony of memoirs and oral histories that illuminate the emotional, psychological, physical, and economic toll suffered by Nikkei as the result of the violation of their civil rights during World War II.

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Leaders of the Mexican American Generation Biographical Essays Edited by Anthony Quiroz Foreword by Arnoldo De León

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eaders of the Mexican American Generation explores the lives of a wide range of influential members of the US Mexican American community between 1920 and 1965 who paved the way for major changes in their social, political, and economic status within the United States.

Including feminist Alice Dickerson Montemayor, San Antonio attorney Gus García, civil rights activist and scholar Ernesto Galarza, the subjects of these biographies include some of the most prominent idealists and actors of the time. Whether debating in a court of law, writing for a major newspaper, producing reports for governmental agencies, organizing workers, holding public office, or otherwise shaping space for the Mexican American identity in the United States, these subjects embody the core values and diversity of their generation.

More than a chronicle of personalities who left their mark on Mexican American history, Leaders of the Mexican American Generation cements this community as a major player in the history of activism and civil rights in the United States. It is a rich collection of historical biographies that will enlighten and enliven our understanding of Mexican American history.

Contributors Carl Allsup

Laura Muñoz

Patrick J. Carroll

Julie Leininger Pycior

Kenneth C. Burt Maria Eugenia Cotera

Richard A. García

Michelle Hall Kells Thomas H. Kreneck

Cynthia E. Orozco

Anthony Quiroz Vicki Ruiz

Emilio Zamora

Anthony Quiroz is professor of history at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi. He is the author of Claiming Citizenship: Mexican Americans in Victoria, Texas.

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Transient Landscapes Insights on a Changing Planet Ellen Wohl

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andscape—the unique combination of landforms, plants, animals, and weather that compose any natural place—is inherently transient. Each essay in Transient Landscapes introduces this idea of a constantly metamorphosing global landscape, revealing how to see the ubiquity of landscape transience, both that which results through Earth’s natural environmental and climatological processes and that which comes from human intervention.

The essays are grouped by type of environmental change: long-term, large-scale transformation driven by geologic forces such as tectonic uplift and volcanism; natural variability at shorter time scales, such as seasonal flooding; and modifications resulting from human activities, such as timber harvest, land drainage, and pollution. Each essay is set in a unique geographic location—including such diverse places as New Zealand, Northern California, Costa Rica, and the Scottish Highlands— and is largely drawn from Wohl’s personal experience researching in the field.

A combination of travel writing, nature writing, and science writing, Transient Landscapes is a beautiful and thoughtful journey through the natural world.

Ellen Wohl teaches geology at Colorado State University. She is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the Geological Society of America and a Fulbright Fellow. She has received the G. K. Gilbert Award from the Association of American Geographers and the Kirk Bryan Award from the Geological Society of America and has written nine books including Wide Rivers Crossed and Island of Grass.

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Practically Joking Moira Marsh “An exemplary study—brimming with frequently hilarious and occasionally harrowing examples— challenging received notions that practical jokes are invariably simple, crude, and cruel. Practically Joking is the definitive word on a vibrant, ubiquitous, complicated, and profoundly human phenomenon.”

—James P. Leary, University of Wisconsin

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n Practically Joking, the first full-length study of the practical joke, Moira Marsh examines the value, artistry, and social significance of this ancient and pervasive form of vernacular expression.

Though they are sometimes dismissed as the lowest form of humor, practical jokes come from a lively tradition of expressive play. They can reveal both sophistication and intellectual satisfaction, with the best demanding significant skill and talent not only to conceive but also to execute. Practically Joking establishes the practical joke as a folk art form subject to critical evaluation by both practitioners and audiences, operating under the guidance of local aesthetic and ethical canons.

Marsh studies the range of genres that pranks comprise; offers a theoretical look at the reception of practical jokes based on “benign transgression”— a theory that sees humor as playful violation—and uses real-life examples of practical jokes in context to establish the form’s varieties and meanings as an independent genre, as well as its inextricable relationship with a range of folklore forms. Scholars of folklore, humor, and popular culture will find much of interest in Practically Joking.

Moira Marsh is the subject librarian for anthropology, sociology, folklore, and comparative literature at the Indiana University Bloomington Libraries. She holds a PhD in folklore from Indiana University, and her research on practical jokes, cross-cultural approaches to laughter, and humor theory has been published in folklore journals, textbooks, and encyclopedias.

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Thiefing a Chance Factory Work, Illicit Labor, and Neoliberal Subjectivities in Trinidad Rebecca Prentice

When an IMF-backed program of liberalization

“Thiefing a Chance takes readers on an eye-opening adventure inside a Trinidadian garment factory where women display ingenuous and often cooperative ways to make garments for their own clients alongside their legitimate work. In this innovative ethnographic work, Prentice uses lively stories and robust cultural theory to broaden and deepen our understanding of both the forms and meaning of Caribbean cunning and pride.”

—Katherine E. Browne Colorado State University, author of Creole Economics

Rebecca Prentice is a lecturer in anthropology at the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK. Her research on garment workers in Trinidad was funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Economic and Social Research Council (UK), and the Royal Anthropological Institute.

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opened Trinidad’s borders to foreign ready-made apparel, global competition damaged the local industry and unraveled worker entitlements and expectations but also presented new economic opportunities for engaging the “global” market.

This fascinating ethnography explores contemporary life in the Signature Fashions garment factory, where the workers attempt to exploit gaps in these new labor configurations through illicit and informal uses of the factory, a practice they colloquially refer to as “thiefing a chance.”

Drawing on fifteen months of fieldwork, author Rebecca Prentice combines a vivid picture of factory life, first-person accounts, and anthropological analysis to explore how economic restructuring has been negotiated, lived, and recounted by women working in the garment industry during Trinidad’s transition to a neoliberal economy.

Through careful social coordination, the workers “thief” by copying patterns, taking portions of fabric, teaching themselves how to operate machines, and wearing their work outside the factory. Even so, the workers describe their “thiefing” as a personal, individualistic enterprise rather than a form of collective resistance to workplace authority.

By making and taking furtive opportunities, they embrace a vision of themselves as enterprising subjects while actively complying with the competitive demands of a neoliberal economic order.

Prentice presents the factory not as a stable institution but instead as a material and social space in which the projects, plans, and desires of workers and their employers become aligned and misaligned, at some moments in deep harmony and at others in rancorous conflict. Arguing for the productive power of the informal and illicit, Thiefing a Chance contributes to anthropological debates about the very nature of neoliberal capitalism and will be of great interest to undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty in anthropology, labor studies, Caribbean studies, and development studies.

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The Ecology of Pastoralism Edited by P. Nick Kardulias

In The Ecology of Pastoralism, diverse contributions

from archaeologists and ethnographers address pastoralism’s significant impact on humanity’s basic subsistence and survival, focusing on the network of social, political, and religious institutions existing within various societies dependent on animal husbandry.

Pastoral peoples, both past and present, have organized their relationships with certain animals to maximize their ability to survive and adapt to a wide range of conditions over time. Contributors show that despite differences in landscape, environment, and administrative and political structures, these societies share a major characteristic— high flexibility. Based partially on the adaptability of various domestic animals to difficult environments and partially on the ability of people to establish networks allowing them to accommodate political, social, and economic needs, this flexibility is key to the survival of complex pastoral systems and serves as the connection among the varied cultures in the volume.

In The Ecology of Pastoralism, a variety of case studies from a broad geographic sampling uses archaeological and contemporary data and offers a new perspective on the study of pastoralism, making this volume a valuable contribution to current research in the area.

Contributors Claudia Chang

Michelle Negus Cleary

Thomas D. Hall

Erik G. Johannesson P. Nick Kardulias

Nikolay Kradin

Lawrence A. Kuznar Mark Moritz

Mark T. Shutes

Homayun Sidky

P. Nick Kardulias is professor of anthropology and sociology and chair of the archaeology program at the College of Wooster. He also serves as associate director of the Athienou Archaeological Project in Cyprus and co-PI of the Ashland/Wooster/ Columbus Archaeological and Geological Consortium in Ohio.

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Subjects and Narratives in Archaeology Edited by Ruth M. Van Dyke and Reinhard Bernbeck “Subjects and Narratives in Archaeology will prove invaluable not only to new generations of scholars trying to find ways to keep archaeology relevant to a rapidly changing world but also to anyone teaching a class on topics such as professional ethics, archaeological writing, and archaeology and its place in society.”

—Anne Porter, James Madison University

Seeking to move beyond the customary limits of Contributors Doug Bailey

Mary Praetzellis

James G. Gibb

Jonathan T. Thomas

Reinhard Bernbeck Isaac Gilead

Sarah M. Nelson Mark Pluciennik Sarah Pollock

Adrian Praetzellis

Melanie Simpkin Ruth Tringham

Judy Tuwaletstiwa

Phillip Tuwaletstiwa Ruth M. Van Dyke

Ruth M. Van Dyke is professor of anthropology at Binghamton University, SUNY. She directs projects on the Chaco landscape in northwest New Mexico and on historic Alsatian immigration in Texas.

Reinhard Bernbeck is professor at the Institute for Near Eastern Archaeology at Freie Universität Berlin. He codirects multi-year excavation projects at Monjukli Depe in Turkmenistan and at Tempelhof Airport in Berlin.

archaeological prose and representation, Subjects and Narratives in Archaeology presents archaeology in a variety of nontraditional formats. The volume demonstrates that visual art, creative nonfiction, archaeological fiction, video, drama, and other artistic pursuits have much to offer archaeological interpretation and analysis.

Chapters in the volume are augmented by narrative, poetry, paintings, dialogues, online databases, videos, audio files, and slideshows. The work will be available in print and as an enhanced ebook that incorporates and showcases the multimedia elements in archaeological narrative. While exploring these new and not-so-new forms, the contributors discuss the boundaries and connections between empirical data and archaeological imagination.

Both a critique and an experiment, Subjects and Narratives in Archaeology addresses the goals, advantages, and difficulties of alternative forms of archaeological representation. Exploring the idea that academically sound archaeology can be fun to create and read, the book takes a step beyond the boundaries of both traditional archaeology and traditional publishing.

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Cosmology, Calendars, and Horizon-Based Astronomy in Ancient Mesoamerica Edited by Anne S. Dowd and Susan Milbrath Foreword by E. C. Krupp

“An excellent snapshot of the value of cultural astronomy to interpretations of ancient Mesoamerican cultures.”

—Arlen F. Chase, University of Central Florida

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Cosmology, Calendars, and Horizon-Based Astronomy

in Ancient Mesoamerica is an interdisciplinary tour de force that establishes the critical role astronomy played in the religious and civic lives of the ancient peoples of Mesoamerica. Providing extraordinary examples of how Precolumbian peoples merged ideas about the cosmos with those concerning calendar and astronomy, the volume showcases the value of detailed examinations of astronomical data for understanding ancient cultures.

The volume is divided into three sections: investigations into Mesoamerican horizon-based astronomy, the cosmological principles expressed in Mesoamerican religious imagery and rituals related to astronomy, and the aspects of Mesoamerican calendars related to archaeoastronomy. It also provides cutting-edge research on diverse topics such as records of calendar- and horizon-based astronomical observation, Mesoamerican codices (like the Dresden and Borgia codices), iconography of burial assemblages, architectural alignment studies, urban planning, and counting or measuring devices.

Contributors—who are among the most respected in their fields—explore new dimensions in Mesoamerican timekeeping and skywatching in the Olmec, Maya, Teotihuacan, Zapotec, and Aztec cultures. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of anthropology, archaeology, art history, and astronomy.

Contributors

Anthony F. Aveni

David A. Freidel

Victoria R. Bricker

E. C. Krupp

Harvey M. Bricker John B. Carlson Flora Simmons Clancy

Clemency Coggins Anne S. Dowd

Ronald K. Faulseit

John Justeson

Susan Milbrath

Prudence M. Rice Michelle Rich Ivan šprajc

Gabrivelle Vail

Anne S. Dowd is principal archaeologist at ArchæoLOGIC USA and winner of the Eben Demarest Trust Award for excellence in archaeology (1998), Brown University’s Watson Smith Prize Honorable Mention (1998), the Geochron Research Award (1996), and the Daryle Bogenreif Award (2010).

Susan Milbrath is curator of Latin American art and archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History and an affiliate professor of anthropology at the University of Florida. She is the author of Star Gods of the Maya and Heaven and Earth in Ancient Mexico.

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Ancient Zapotec Religion An Ethnohistorical and Archaeological Perspective Michael Lind “An excellent, impressive piece of scholarship . . . a valuable resource for scholars and students alike.”

—Sarah B. Barber, University of Central Florida

Ancient Zapotec Religion is the first comprehen-

Michael Lind was an anthropology professor at Santa Ana College in the 1970s and at the Universidad de las Américas in Mexico in the early 1980s.

In 1984 he became a bilingual science teacher in the Santa Ana Unified School District, where he remained until his retirement in 2004. He is coauthor of The Lords of Lambityeco.

sive study of Zapotec religion as it existed in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca on the eve of the Spanish Conquest. Author Michael Lind brings a new perspective, focusing not on underlying theological principles but on the material and spatial expressions of religious practice.

Using sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish colonial documents and archaeological findings related to the time period leading up to the Spanish Conquest, he presents new information on deities, ancestor worship and sacred bundles, the Zapotec cosmos, the priesthood, religious ceremonies and rituals, the nature of temples, the distinctive features of the sacred and solar calendars, and the religious significance of the murals of Mitla— the most sacred and holy center. He also shows how Zapotec religion served to integrate Zapotec city-state structure throughout the valley of Oaxaca, neighboring mountain regions, and the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.

Ancient Zapotec Religion is the first in-depth and interdisciplinary book on the Zapotecs and their religious practices and will be of great interest to archaeologists, epigraphers, historians, and specialists in Native American, Latin American, and religious studies.

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Bridging the Gaps Integrating Archaeology and History in Oaxaca, Mexico; A Volume in Memory of Bruce E. Byland Edited by Danny Zborover and Peter Kroefges

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ridging the Gaps: Integrating Archaeology and History in Oaxaca, Mexico does just that: it bridges the gap between archaeology and history of the Precolumbian, Colonial, and Republican eras of the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, a cultural area encompassing several of the longest-enduring literate societies in the world.

Fourteen case studies from an interdisciplinary group of archaeologists, anthropologists, ethnohistorians, and art historians consciously compare and contrast changes and continuities in material culture before and after the Spanish conquest, in Prehispanic and Colonial documents, and in oral traditions rooted in the present but reflecting upon the deep past. Contributors consider both indigenous and European perspectives while exposing and addressing the difficulties that arise from the application of this conjunctive approach.

Inspired by the late Dr. Bruce E. Byland’s work in the Mixteca, which exemplified the union of archaeological and historical evidence and inspired new generations of scholars, Bridging the Gaps promotes the practice of integrative studies to explore the complex intersections between social organization and political alliances, religion and sacred landscape, ethnic identity and mobility, colonialism and resistance, and territoriality and economic resources.

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Bruce E. Byland

Bas van Doesburg

John M. D. Pohl

Viola König

Emmanuel Posselt Santoyo

Michael Lind

Ronald Spores

Geoffrey G. McCafferty

Andrew Workinger

Peter Kroefges

Adam Sellen

Carlos Rincón Mautner

Stephen L. Whittington

Sharisse D. McCafferty

Danny Zborover Judith F. Zeitlin

Liana I. Jiménez Osorio

Danny Zborover is a research associate at the Center for US-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego.

Peter Kroefges is a professor-researcher at the Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, San Luis Potosí, Mexico.

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Hospitality and Authoring An Essay for the English Profession Richard Haswell and Janis Haswell “The subject has received so little attention in the field that many compositionists have not heard of the traditional motif and practice. The Haswells’ treatment is not only the best and most complete on the subject in the field, it is the only book on the subject in the field.”

—Rosemary Winslow, Catholic University of America

Hospitality and Authoring, a sequel to the Haswells’

Richard Haswell retired as Haas Professor of English at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi in 2008 and previously spent twenty-nine years at Washington State University, where he directed the composition program and the cross-campus writing-assessment program. He has authored and coedited six other books.

2010 volume Authoring, attempts to open the path for hospitality practice in the classroom, making a strong argument for educational use and offering an initial map of the territory for teachers and authors.

Hospitality is a social and ethical relationship not only between host and guest but also between writer and reader or teacher and student.

Hospitality initiates, maintains, and completes acts of authoring. This extended essay explores the ways that a true hospitable classroom community can be transformed through assigned reading, oneon-one conferencing, interpretation, syllabus, reading journals, topic choice, literacy narrative, writing centers, program administration, teacher training, and many other passing habitations.

Hospitality and Authoring strives to offer a few possibilities of change to help make college an institution where singular students and singular teachers create a room to learn with room to learn.

Janis Haswell is professor emerita of English at Texas A&M University– Corpus Christi. She is the author and coauthor of five books and more than thirty articles in literature and composition.

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Very Like a Whale The Assessment of Writing Programs Edward M. White, Norbert Elliot, and Irvin Peckham “This book will not merely be significant. It will be required reading for any WPA and for anyone preparing to become a WPA. Moreover, it will raise the level of awareness of and uses for statistical data in our field.”

—William Condon, Washington State University

Written for those who design, redesign, and assess writing programs, Very Like a Whale is an intensive discussion of writing program assessment issues.

Taking its title from Hamlet, the book explores the multifaceted forces that shape writing programs and the central role these programs can and should play in defining college education.

Given the new era of assessment in higher education, writing programs must provide valid evidence that they are serving students, instructors, administrators, alumni, accreditors, and policymakers. This book introduces new conceptualizations associated with assessment, making them clear and available to those in the profession of rhetoric and composition/writing studies. It also offers strategies that aid in gathering information about the relative success of a writing program in achieving its identified goals.

Philosophically and historically aligned with quantitative approaches, White, Elliot, and Peckham use case study and best-practice scholarship to demonstrate the applicability of their innovative approach, termed Design for Assessment (DFA). Well grounded in assessment theory, Very Like a Whale will be of practical use to new and seasoned writing program administrators alike, as well as to any educator involved with the accreditation process.

Edward M. White is emeritus professor of English who held positions at California State University, San Bernardino, and the University of Arizona.

Norbert Elliot is professor emeritus of English at New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Irvin Peckham is professor of rhetoric and composition at Drexel University, where he directs the writing program.

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Still Life with Rhetoric A New Materialist Approach for Visual Rhetorics Laurie E. Gries

In Still Life with Rhetoric, Laurie Gries forges con-

nections among new materialism, actor network theory, and rhetoric to explore how images become rhetorically active in a digitally networked, global environment. Rather than study how an alreadymaterialized “visual text” functions within a specific context, Gries investigates how images often circulate and transform across media, genre, and location at viral rates. A four-part case study of Shepard Fairey’s now iconic Obama Hope image elucidates how images reassemble collective life as they actualize in different versions, enter into various relations, and spark a firework of activity across the globe.

While intent on tracking the rhetorical life of a single, multiple image, Still Life with Rhetoric is most concerned with studying rhetoric in motion.

To account for an image’s widespread circulation and emergent activities, Gries introduces iconographic tracking—a digital research method for tracing an image’s divergent rhetorical becomings.

Yet Gries also articulates a dynamic set of theoretical principles for studying rhetoric as a distributed, generative, and unforeseeable event that is applicable beyond the study of visual rhetoric. With an eye toward futurity—the strands of time beyond a thing’s initial moment of production and delivery— Still Life with Rhetoric intends to be taken up by those interested in visual rhetoric, research methods, and theory.

Laurie E. Gries is assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Florida, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses focused on writing, rhetoric, theory, and new media.

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Naming What We Know Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies Edited by Linda Adler-Kassner and Elizabeth Wardle

Naming What We Know examines the core prin-

ciples of knowledge in the discipline of writing studies using the lens of “threshold concepts”— concepts that are critical for epistemological participation in a discipline. The first part of the book defines and describes thirty-seven threshold concepts of the discipline in entries written by some of the field’s most active researchers and teachers, all of whom participated in a collaborative wiki discussion guided by the editors. These entries are clear and accessible, written for an audience of writing scholars, students, and colleagues in other disciplines and policy makers outside the academy.

Contributors describe the conceptual background of the field and the principles that run throughout practice, whether in research, teaching, assessment, or public work around writing. Chapters in the second part of the book describe the benefits and challenges of using threshold concepts in specific sites—first-year writing programs, WAC/WID programs, writing centers, writing majors—and for professional development to present this framework in action.

Naming What We Know opens a dialogue about the concepts that writing scholars and teachers agree are critical and about why those concepts should and do matter to people outside the field.

Contributors

Linda Adler-Kassner

Andrea A. Lunsford

Cheryl E. Ball

Paul Kei Matsuda

Chris M. Anson

Charles Bazerman Collin Brooke Allison Carr

Colin Charlton Doug Downs

Dylan B. Dryer John Duffy

Heidi Estrem

Jeffrey T. Grabill

Bill Hart-Davidson Bradley Hughes Asao B. Inoue Ray Land

Neal Lerner

John Majewski

Rebecca Nowacek Peggy O’Neill

Liane Robertson Kevin Roozen Shirley Rose

David R. Russell J. Blake Scott Tony Scott

Kara Taczak

Howard Tinberg

Victor Villanueva Elizabeth Wardle Kathleen Blake Yancey

Linda Adler-Kassner is professor of writing and director of the writing program at University of California, Santa Barbara.

Elizabeth Wardle is professor and department chair of writing and rhetoric at the University of Central Florida.

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Dialectical Rhetoric Bruce McComiskey “What the author proposes here is not found anywhere else, and his development of a third dialectic—that is, an entirely new model for understanding dialectic— well, this is not mere appropriation; this is theory making.”

—Frank Farmer, University of Kansas, author of After the Public Turn and Saying and Silence

In Dialectical Rhetoric, Bruce McComiskey argues

Bruce McComiskey specializes in rhetoric and composition, classical rhetoric, and professional writing at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

His most recent publications include Teaching Composition as a Social Process, Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric, a coedited collection titled City Comp: Identities, Spaces, Practices, and the edited collection English Studies: An Introduction to the Disciplines.

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that the historical conflict between rhetoric and dialectic can be overcome in ways useful to both composition theory and the composition classroom.

Historically, dialectic has taken two forms in relation to rhetoric. First, it has been the logical development of linear propositions leading to necessary conclusions, a one-dimensional form that was the counterpart of rhetorics in which philosophical, metaphysical, and scientific truths were conveyed with as little cognitive interference from language as possible. Second, dialectic has been the topical development of opposed arguments on controversial issues and the judgment of their relative strengths and weaknesses, usually in political and legal contexts, a two-dimensional form that was the counterpart of rhetorics in which verbal battles over competing probabilities in public institutions revealed distinct winners and losers.

The discipline of writing studies is on the brink of developing a new relationship between dialectic and rhetoric, one in which dialectics and rhetorics mediate and negotiate different arguments and orientations that are engaged in any rhetorical situation. This new relationship consists of a three-dimensional hybrid art called “dialectical rhetoric,” whose method is based on five topoi: deconstruction, dialogue, identification, critique, and juxtaposition. Three-dimensional dialectical rhetorics function effectively in a wide variety of discursive contexts, including digital environments, since they can invoke contrasts in stagnant contexts and promote associations in chaotic contexts. Dialectical Rhetoric focuses more attention on three-dimensional rhetorics from the rhetoric and composition community.

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Transiciones Pathways of Latinas and Latinos Writing in High School and College Todd Ruecker “This is a work that clearly needs to be published— needs to be heard.”

—Anne Marie Hall, University of Arizona

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ransiciones is a thorough ethnography of seven Latino students in transition between high school and community college or university. Data gathered over two years of interviews with the students, their high school English teachers, and their writing teachers and administrators at postsecondary institutions reveal a rich picture of the conflicted experience of these students as they attempted to balance the demands of schooling with a variety of personal responsibilities.

Todd Ruecker explores the disconnect between students’ writing experiences in high school and higher education and examines the integral role that writing plays in college.

Considering the almost universal requirement that students take a writing class in their critical first year of college, he contends that it is essential for composition researchers and teachers to gain a fuller understanding of the role they play in supporting and hindering Latina and Latino students’ transition to college.

Arguing for situating writing programs in larger discussions of high school / college alignment, student engagement, and retention, Transiciones raises the profile of what writing programs can do, while calling composition teachers, administrators, and scholars to engage in more collaboration across the institution, across institutions, and across disciplines to make the transition from high school to college writing more successful for this important group of students.

Todd Ruecker is assistant professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of New Mexico.

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Assessing the Teaching of Writing Twenty-First Century Trends and Technologies Edited Amy E. Dayton “The writers and editor draw from various disciplines, are sophisticated in their understanding and use of data, and are wise to the complexity of their subject.

Every reader of this substantial book will experience the goal of the collection, to foster new ways of thinking about teacher evaluation.”

—Edward M. White, author of Teaching and Assessing Writing

Although fraught with politics and other perils, Contributors Paul Anderson

Amy Goodburn

Nichole Bennett-Bealer

Brian Jackson

Chris M. Anson

Kara Mae Brown Amy E. Dayton

Meredith DeCosta Kim Freeman

Chris W. Gallagher Robert M. Gonyea

Amy C. Kimme Hea Deborah Minter Cindy Moore

Gerald Nelms

Charles Paine Duane Roen

Edward M. White

“This collection adds substantially to the conversation about instructional assessment.”

—Patricia Lynne, author of Coming to Terms: A Theory of Writing Assessment

Amy E. Dayton is associate professor of English at the University of Alabama.

Her research interests include historiography, community literacy, language attitudes, literacy in literature, assessment/teacher training, composition theory/pedagogy, and models and methods for community outreach.

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teacher evaluation can contribute in important, positive ways to faculty development at both the individual and the departmental levels. Yet the logistics of creating a valid assessment are complicated. Inconsistent methods, rater bias, and overreliance on student evaluation forms have proven problematic. The essays in Assessing the Teaching of Writing demonstrate constructive ways of evaluating teacher performance, taking into consideration the immense number of variables involved.

Contributors to the volume examine a range of fundamental issues, including the political context of declining state funds in education; growing public critique of the professoriate and demands for accountability resulting from federal policy initiatives like No Child Left Behind; the increasing sophistication of assessment methods and technologies; and the continuing interest in the scholarship of teaching. The first section addresses concerns and advances in assessment methodologies, and the second takes a closer look at unique individual sites and models of assessment. Chapters collectively argue for viewing teacher assessment as a rhetorical practice.

Fostering new ways of thinking about teacher evaluation, Assessing the Teaching of Writing will be of great interest not only to writing program administrators but also to those concerned with faculty development and teacher assessment outside the writing program.

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Keywords in Writing Studies Edited by Paul Heilker and Peter Vandenberg “Anybody reading the collection will come away with fresh insights about how our field has assembled itself, where it has come from and where it now seems to be headed. I imagine that the book will be used in many graduate-level introductions to the field and also by individual readers, who will treat it as something midway between a helpful reference tool and a professional mandala.”

—Kurt Spellmeyer, Rutgers University

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eywords in Writing Studies is an exploration of the principal ideas and ideals of an emerging academic field as they are constituted by its specialized vocabulary. A sequel to the 1996 work Keywords in Composition Studies, this new volume traces the evolution of the field’s lexicon, taking into account the wide variety of theoretical, educational, professional, and institutional developments that have redefined it over the past two decades.

Contributors address the development, transformation, and interconnections among thirty-six of the most critical terms that make up writing studies. Looking beyond basic definitions or explanations, they explore the multiple layers of meaning within the terms that writing scholars currently use, exchange, and question. Each term featured is a part of the general disciplinary parlance, and each is a highly contested focal point of significant debates about matters of power, identity, and values. Each essay begins with the assumption that its central term is important precisely because its meaning is open and multiplex.

Keywords in Writing Studies reveals how the key concepts in the field are used and even challenged, rather than advocating particular usages and the particular vision of the field that they imply. The volume will be of great interest to both graduate students and established scholars.

Contributors Steven Accardi

Steve Parks

A. Suresh Canagarajah

Katrina M. Powell

Anis Bawarshi

Jennifer Clary-Lemon Amy Devitt

Dylan B. Dryer Cynthia Fields Paul Heilker

Johndan Johnson-Eilola

Kelly Pender Paul Prior

Carolyn Rude

Stuart A. Selber Cynthia L. Selfe

Lorin Shellenberger Jason Swarts

Christine M. Tardy Chris Thaiss

Kathy Kerr

KT Torrey

Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson

Christian R. Weisser

Mark Longaker

Melanie Yergeau

Karen Kopelson

Peter Vandenberg

Julie Lindquist

Kathleen Blake Yancey

Tim Mayers

Morris Young

Paul Heilker is associate professor in the Department of English at Virginia Tech.

Peter Vandenberg is professor and chair of the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse at DePaul University.

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Writing Majors Eighteen Program Profiles Edited by Greg Giberson, Jim Nugent, and Lori Ostergaard

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he writing major is among the most exciting scenes in the evolving American university. Writing Majors is a collection of firsthand descriptions of the origins, growth, and transformations of eighteen different programs. The chapters provide useful administrative insight, benchmark information, and even inspiration for new curricular configurations from a range of institutions.

A practical sourcebook for those who are building, revising, or administering their own writing majors, this volume also serves as a historical archive of a particular instance of growth and transformation in American higher education. Revealing bureaucratic, practical, and institutional matters as well as academic ideals and ideologies, each profile includes sections providing a detailed program review and rationale, an implementation narrative, and reflection and prospection about the program.

Documenting eighteen stories of writing major programs in various stages of formation, preservation, and reform and exposing the contingencies of their local and material constitution, Writing Majors speaks as much to the “how to” of building writing major programs as to the larger “what,” “why,” and “how” of institutional growth and change.

Jim Nugent is associate professor in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric at Oakland University.

Lori Ostergaard is associate professor and director of first-year writing in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric at Oakland University.

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“With a quiet seriousness and unpretentious manner, Archaeological Approaches to Market Exchange in Ancient Societies resets the terms of research on the topic of market exchange . . . this coming-of-age book hopefully marks a new intellectual independence and spirit of innovation within the discipline.”

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Christopher P. Garraty is a senior ceramic analyst at Statistical Research, Inc. Barbara L. Stark is a professor of anthropology at the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University.

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