Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Talking with the Clay: The Art of Pueblo Pottery in the 21st Century, 20th Anniversary Revised Edition When you hold a Pueblo pot in your hands, you feel a tactile connection through the clay to the potter and to centuries of tradition. You will find no better guide to this feeling than Talking with... $19.95 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press The Anthropology of War This edited collection contains important new material on the origins and role of warfare in ? oetribal? � societies. The chapters focus on a number of basic research issues, including war and... $28.72 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press The Archaeology of Colonial Encounters: Comparative Perspectives Colonialism and its legacies have emerged as one of the most important research topics in anthropology. Indeed, we now understand that colonialism gave rise to and shaped the discipline. However, the... $44.76 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press The Empire of Things: Regimes of Value and Material Culture Representing a new wave of thinking about material culture studies-a topic long overdue for reevaluation-the essays in this volume take a fresh look at the relationship between material culture and... $33.26 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press The Evolution of Human Life History Human beings may share 98 percent of their genetic makeup with their nonhuman primate cousins, but they have distinctive life histories. When and why did these uniquely human patterns evolve? To... $44.76 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Sale 9% Quick view School for Advanced Research Press The Flow of Power: Ancient Water Systems and Landscapes A major contribution to one of the central themes in social theory, this book integrates multiple case studies of the relationship between water control and social organization. Substantial in... $34.95 $31.82 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press The Futures of Our Pasts: Ethical Implications of Collecting Antiquities in the Twenty-First Century Ownership of "the past"--a concept invoking age-old struggles to possess and control ancient objects--is an essential theme in understanding our global cultural heritage. Beyond ownership, however,... $36.71 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Sale 8% Quick view School for Advanced Research Press The Great Basin: People and Place in Ancient Times This book is about a place, the Great Basin of western North America, and about the lifeways of Native American people who lived there during the past 13,000 years. The authors highlight the... $29.95 $27.60 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Sale 8% Quick view School for Advanced Research Press The Hohokam Millennium For a thousand years they flourished in the arid lands now part of Arizona. They built extensive waterworks, ballcourts, and platform mounds, made beautiful pottery and jewelry, and engaged in... $29.95 $27.60 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press The Origins of Maya Civilization The contributors to this book scrutinize the data, survey external influences on the early Maya, and consider economics, ecology, demography, and warfare - as well as social and ideological factors -... $29.87 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Sale 8% Quick view School for Advanced Research Press The Peopling of Bandelier: New Insights from the Archaeology of the Pajarito Plateau Few visitors to the stunning Frijoles Canyon at Bandelier National Monument realize that its depths embrace but a small part of the archaeological richness of the vast Pajarito Plateau west of Santa... $29.95 $27.60 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Sale 6% Quick view School for Advanced Research Press The Santa Fe Fiesta, Reinvented: Staking Ethno-Nationalist Claims to a Disappearing Homeland The Santa Fe Fiesta, Reinvented adds a new perspective on the controversial identity formation of New Mexico's Hispanos. Through close readings of canonical texts by New Mexican historian Fray... $24.95 $23.37 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press The Seductions of Community: Emancipations, Oppressions, Quandaries The concept of "community" is ubiquitous in the way we talk and think about life in the twenty-first century. Political and economic projects from rain forest conservation to urban empowerment zones... $44.76 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Sale 9% Quick view School for Advanced Research Press The Work of Sovereignty: Tribal Labor Relations and Self-Determination at the Navajo Nation Who is shaping the future of economic development in Indian Country? Who has a say in tribal economic growth and who benefits? What role do American Indian workers play in shaping how tribal... $34.95 $31.82 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Things in Motion: Object Itineraries in Anthropological Practice Complementing the concept of object biography, the contributors to this volume use the complex construct of "itineraries" to trace the places in which objects come to rest or are active, the routes... $50.51 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Tikal: Dynasties, Foreigners, and Affairs of State: Advancing Maya Archaeology New insights from the Tikal excavations and epigraphic breakthroughs suggest that a thriving marketplace existed in the center of the city, that foreigners comprised a significant element of its... $44.76 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Uruk Mesopotamia and Its Neighbors: Cross-Cultural Interactions in the Era of State Formation In Uruk Mesopotamia and Its Neighbors, ten field and theoretical archaeologists working in the area today offer an overview and analysis of new data and interpretations for Greater Mesopotamia during... $44.76 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view School for Advanced Research Press Vital Relations: Modernity and the Persistent Life of Kinship For more than 150 years, theories of social evolution, development, and modernity have been unanimous in their assumption that kinship organizes simpler, "traditional," pre-state societies but not... $50.51 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart