Sale 6% Quick view School for Advanced Research Press M?? Que Un Indio (More Than an Indian): Racial Ambivalence and Neoliberal Multiculturalism in Guatemala M?s que un indio: "More than an Indian." Two decades ago, the phrase expressed a common-sense prescription for upward mobility in a racist society: to better themselves, Indians had to abandon their... $24.95 $23.37 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Making Disasters: Climate Change, Neoliberal Governance, and Livelihood Insecurity on the Mongolian Steppe Although extreme winter events have always threatened herders on the Central Asian steppe, the frequency and severity of these disasters have increased since Mongolia's transition from a socialist... $36.71 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Sale 12% Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Medieval Mississippians: The Cahokian World Medieval Mississippians, the eighth volume in the award-winning Popular Archaeology Series, introduces a key historical period in pre-Columbian eastern North America--the "Mississippian" era--via a... $59.95 $52.94 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Memory Work: Archaeologies of Material Practices Memory making is a social practice that links people and things together across time and space and ultimately has material consequences. The intersection of matter and social practice becomes... $44.76 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
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Sale 9% Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Model-Based Archaeology of Socionatural Systems How should archaeologists and other social scientists tackle the big and little questions about change in socionatural systems? Although fieldwork is certainly the place to start, it alone is not... $34.95 $31.82 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Nature, Science, and Religion: Intersections Shaping Society and the Environment This book is about the complicated and provocative ways nature, science, and religion intersect in real settings where people attempt to live in harmony with the physical environment. Scholars of... $44.76 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Navajos in the Catholic Church Records of New Mexico, 1694-1875, Third Edition In the past, the history of many Indian nations was murky and dim, written in large part by outsiders unfamiliar with the peoples and their cultures. Though that has changed today as Native peoples... $27.57 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Navigating the Margins: Gender, Women's Work, & Politics in a Globalizing World As "globalization" moves rapidly from buzzword to clich?, evaluating the claims of neoliberal capitalism to empower and enrich remains urgently important. The authors in this volume employ feminist,... $44.76 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press New Landscapes of Inequality: Neoliberalism and the Erosion of Democracy in America The twenty-first century opened with a rapidly growing array of markers of human misery: endemic warfare, natural disasters, global epidemics, climate change. Behind the dismal headlines are a series... $39.01 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press No Deal!: Indigenous Arts and the Politics of Possession No Deal! encompasses a diverse group of artists, curators, art historians, and anthropologists from Australia and North America in order to investigate social relations of possession through the... $44.76 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press One State, Many Nations: Indigenous Rights Struggles in Ecuador The Z?para are one of the smallest Indigenous nationalities in Ecuador, with roughly two hundred members, most of whom live along the Conambo and Pindoyacu rivers in Pastaza province. The Z?para... $39.01 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
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Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Our Indian Princess: Subverting the Stereotype Are images and representations central to understanding Native Americans? How do Native artists, as producers of visual culture, respond to what art critic Lucy Lippard has called "the overwhelming... $39.01 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Our Lives: Collaboration, Native Voice, and the Making of the National Museum of the American Indian In 2004 the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) opened to the general public. This book, in the broadest sense, is about how that museum became what it is today. For many Native... $39.01 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Sale 8% Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Painting the Underworld Sky: Cultural Expression and Subversion in Art "How have we come to this place, this cold, hard, killing ground? How have we come to this fourth world, a world of violence, darkness, greed, lack of compassion for human life, punctuated with brief... $29.95 $27.60 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Pharmaceutical Self: The Global Shaping of Experience in an Age of Psychopharmacology This book addresses a critical contemporary issue--the worldwide proliferation of pharmaceutical use. The contributors explore questions such as: How are culturally constituted selves transformed by... $44.76 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Pluralizing Ethnography: Comparison and Representation in Maya Cultures, Histories, and Identities This volume brings together eight Maya specialists and a prominent anthropological theorist as discussant to assess the contrasting historical circumstances and emerging cultural futures of Maya in... $33.26 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Postcolonial Archaeologies in Africa Africa, the birthplace of humanity, offers an untold wealth of information about the human past--untold because of severe limits on archaeological research there. This volume pulls the veil from... $44.76 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Reassembling the Collection: Ethnographic Museums and Indigenous Agency Reassembling the Collection presents innovative approaches to the study of historical and contemporary engagements between museums and the various individuals and communities who were (and are)... $44.76 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Remaking Life and Death: Toward an Anthropology of the Biosciences The boundaries of life now occupy a place of central concern among biological anthropologists. Because of the centrality of the modern biological definition of life to Euro-American medicine and... $39.01 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Remapping Bolivia: Resources, Territory, and Indigeneity in a Plurinational State The 2005 election of Evo Morales to the presidency of Bolivia marked a critical moment of transformation--a coca farmer and peasant union leader became the first indigenous president in the history... $44.76 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Roosters at Midnight: Indigenous Signs and Stigma in Local Bolivian Politics Bolivia is a nation energetically confronting stubborn legacies of second-class citizenship as part of their historic process of political transformation, which began in early 2000 and culminated in... $44.76 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Roots of Conflict: Soils, Agriculture, and Sociopolitical Complexity in Ancient Hawai'i Roots of Conflict presents the efforts of a team of social and natural scientists to understand the complex, systemic linkages between land, climate, crops, human populations, and their cultural... $39.01 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Shape of Script: How and Why Writing Systems Change This book builds on earlier projects about the origins and extinctions of script traditions throughout the world in an effort to address the fundamental questions of how and why writing systems... $44.76 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Shipwreck Anthropology "Shipwrecks are part of the legitimate domain of anthropology and can produce results that are as significant for our ability to explain variability in human behavior as any other kind of... $22.98 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Small Worlds: Method, Meaning, and Narrative in Microhistory Growing unease with grand theories of modernization and global integration brought twelve scholars from four disciplines to the School for Advanced Research for an experiment with the research genre... $39.01 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Street Economies in the Urban Global South This book focuses on the economic, political, social, and cultural dynamics of street economies across the urban Global South. Although contestations over public space have a long history, Street... $50.51 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Structure and Process in Latin America: Patronage, Clientage, and Power Systems This book provides analysis of social anthropology and approaches to the study of patronage and clientage from work done in Latin America in the late 1960s. Essays include discussions on topics as... $22.98 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Sustaining Thought: Thirty Years of Cookery at the School for Advanced Research Delicious meals served in the School for Advanced Research's famed Douglas W. Schwartz Seminar House fuel the critical and creative thinking that goes into many of our books. Now you have the chance... $19.95 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart