University Press of Colorado Fall/Winter Catalog by Utah State University Press

UNIVERSITY PRESS OF COLORADO and UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS Fall and Winter 2015

2015 marks the 50th anniversary of the University Press of Colorado. We’ve marked the occasion with new logos, a new website, and a new blog! Please visit www.upcolorado.com to see our new look. Be sure to friend us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter for the latest on special events taking place throughout the rest of the year!

Contents Fall/Winter 2015 Frontlist, 1–32 New in Paperback, 33–35 Order Information, 36

Subject Index Archaeology/Anthropology, 12–22, 33–34 Colorado, Utah & the West, 2, 4–8, 35 Composition, 23–32 Folklore Studies, 10–11 History, 2, 4, 6–9, 35 Literature, 5 Memoir, 2 Natural History, 1, 2 Poetry, 3

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The University Press of Colorado is a member of the Association of American University Presses. Utah State University Press is an imprint of the University Press of Colorado. The University Press of Colorado is a cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State University, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Regis University, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, Utah State University, and Western State Colorado University.

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A Chorus of Cranes The Cranes of North America and the World Paul A. Johnsgard Photographs by Thomas D. Mangelsen “Since long before medieval times cranes have been considered messengers of the gods, calling annually from on high to remind humans below of the passing years and of their own mortality. Now it is up to humans to take responsibility for controlling our own fate—and also to cry out to protect not only cranes but all the other wonderful creatures that share our increasingly fragile and threatened planetary ecosystem with us.” —Paul A. Johnsgard, from the acknowledgments

Accompanied by the stunning photography of Thomas D. Mangelsen, A Chorus of Cranes details the natural history, biology, and conservation issues surrounding the abundant sandhill crane and the endangered whooping crane in North America. Author Paul A. Johnsgard, one of the leading authorities on cranes and crane biology, describes the fascinating social behaviors, beautiful natural habitats, and grueling seasonal migrations that have stirred the hearts of people as far back as medieval times and garnered the crane a place in folklore and mythology across continents. Johnsgard has substantially updated and significantly expanded his 1991 work Crane Music, incorporating new information on the biology and status of these two North American cranes and providing abbreviated summaries on the other thirteen crane species of the world. The stories of these birds and their contrasting fates provide an instructive and moving history of bird conservation in North America. A Chorus of Cranes is a gorgeous and invaluable resource for crane enthusiasts, birders, natural historians, and conservationists alike.

P aul A. Johnsgard is Foundation Professor of Biological Sciences Emeritus at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska–Lincoln. His previous works include nearly seventy books, mostly reference works on bird groups and the ecology of Nebraska and the Great Plains. T homas D. Mangelsen is one of the world’s premier nature photographers. He was named BBC’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year in 1994 and One of the 100 Most Important People in Photography by American Photo magazine. His work is offered in eight MANGELSEN—Images of Nature galleries across the United States. November $29.95, Paperback, 9” x 12” ISBN: 9781607324362 $23.95, ebook E-ISBN: 9781607324379 208 pages 38 color photographs 41 figures

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Good Water Kevin Holdsworth “Told honestly, ruthlessly, told lyrically, told philosophically, consistently entertaining, sometimes inspiring, sometimes tragic, describing how people here, other ‘Good Waterites,’ have survived, or have not, or struggle to, in this ‘otherworldly’ place—Holdsworth’s stories unfold seamlessly, are interwoven with his presentation of serious environmental issues, issues with which he has been involved firsthand and which he speaks of from his own personal perspective.” —Carol Henrikson, Trinity College

In essays that combine memoir with biography of

“Holdsworth ranks among the West’s most distinctive voices.” —J ulianne Couch, author of Traveling the Power Line

Kevin Holdsworth is the author of Big Wonderful: Notes from Wyoming. His work has appeared in numerous periodicals, including Cimarron Review, Post Road, Creative Nonfiction, and Denver University Law Review. In 2009 he was awarded the Wyoming Arts Council creative writing fellowship for fiction. He lives with his wife Jennifer and son Chris in south-central and southern Utah.

place, Kevin Holdsworth creates a public history of the land he calls home: Good Water, Utah. The high desert of south-central Utah is at the heart of the stories he tells here—about the people, the “survivors and casualties” of the small, remote town—and is at the heart of his own story. Holdsworth also explores history at a personal level: how Native American history is preserved by local park officials; how Mormon settlers adapted to remote, rugged places; how small communities attract and retain those less likely to thrive closer to population centers; and how he became involved in local politics. He confronts the issues of land use and misuse in the West, from the lack of water to greed and corruption over natural resources, but also considers life’s simple pleasures like the value of scenery and the importance of occasionally tossing a horseshoe. Good Water’s depiction of modern-day Utah and exploration of friendships and bonding on the Western landscape will fascinate and entice readers in the West and beyond.

February $21.95, Paperback, 5½” x 8½” ISBN: 9781607324546 $17.95, ebook E-ISBN: 9781607324553 192 pages

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Poetry

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Tender the Maker Christina Hutchins Foreword by Cynthia Hogue

“Again and again in Christina Hutchins’s exquisite Tender the Maker, poems startle us into awareness of the overlooked, the nearly always invisible (such as a library’s unused dictionary), and the marvelous, those aspects of life that come under the rubric of ‘mystery,’ in all senses of the word. Hutchins combines a pitch-perfect and precise lyricism with a postmodern sensibility of language’s materiality.” —Cynthia Hogue, judge for the 2015 May Swenson Poetry Award 2015 May Swenson Poetry Award Winner Christina Hutchins teaches masters’ courses in poetry and philosophy at Berkeley’s Pacific School of Religion. Her poems have appeared in many magazines and anthologies, and she is the author of two chapbooks, Collecting Light and Radiantly We Inhabit the Air, which won a Robin Becker Prize. Her literary awards include the Missouri Review Editors’ Prize, the National Poetry Review Finch Prize, a James D. Phelan Literary Award, and two Barbara Deming Poetry Awards. She lives in Albany, California, where she was the city’s first poet laureate.

A Lamp Brighter than Foxfire

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Andrew S. Nicholson “Threaded throughout with Genesis, wherein Jacob wrestles an angel, this gorgeous debut collection builds a ladder firmly rooted here: in sun and earth; in varying and multiple shades of orange; in trials of father and son; in books and paintings; in abandoned casinos; in countries far from home; and/or in the sound of a door closing. Nicholson’s poems come from a man standing by himself, in what George Oppen called the ‘shipwreck of the singular,’ which includes everybody. I’m moved by the luminous generosity, the moral clarity of this work. A Lamp Brighter than Foxfire is news that will stay news.” —Claudia Keelan, author of The Devotion Field, Missing Her, and O, Heart Andrew S. Nicholson is assistant professor-in-residence at the University of Nevada, where he received his PhD as a Schaeffer Fellow in Poetry. He received his MFA from California College of the Arts. His poetry has appeared in Colorado Review, Witness, Tarpaulin Sky, and Eleven Eleven, and he has been an artist-inresidence at the Palazzo Rinaldi in Noepoli, Italy. Mountain West Poetry Series, Stephanie G’Schwind and Donald Revell, series editors

November $16.95, Paperback, 6½” x 8½” ISBN: 9781885635457 $13.95, ebook E-ISBN: 9781885635464 72 pages

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Herndon Davis Painting Colorado History, 1901–1962 Craig Leavitt and Thomas J. Noel “The Herndon Davis Collection in our Western History and Genealogy Department is one of our most prized treasures. Anyone dealing with major characters and/ or notable buildings in Colorado should check into Davis’s portraits and paintings of notable sites. In some cases Davis provides the only extant image of certain people and places. In hundreds of colorful paintings and drawings he adds impressively to our portrait gallery. The Denver Public Library is pleased to be a collaborator on this overdue book on one of our most popular and prolific artists.” —James X. Kroll , Manager, Western History and Genealogy Department, Denver Public Library C raig W. Leavitt is social media manager and research assistant at the Center for Colorado and the West at Auraria Library. A graduate of the Public History and Preservation MA Program at the University of Colorado at Denver, he is a former Koch Fellow at History Colorado and the current Center for Colorado and the West at Auraria Library Fellow. He has published in Colorado Heritage Magazine and the Historical Studies Journal, has served as chief editor of the Historical Studies Journal, and is coauthor of Colorado Newspapers: A History and Inventory, 1859–2000. Thomas J. Noel teaches history at the University of Colorado at Denver, where he is the director of Public History and Preservation and codirector of the Center for Colorado and the West. He is a columnist for the Denver Post, a former National Register reviewer for Colorado, and a former Denver Landmark commissioner. He appears regularly on Channel 9 (NBC) as Dr. Colorado and has authored or coauthored forty-four books on Colorado. February $34.95, Paperback, 8” x 10” ISBN: 9781607324195 $27.95, ebook E-ISBN: 9781607324201 296 pages 173 color photographs

erndon Davis, an artist and journalist, dedicated his life to depicting the major landmarks and personalities of Colorado in watercolor, oil, and pen and pencil. Best known for the Face on the Barroom Floor, the portrait of an alluring woman on the floor of the Teller House Hotel barroom in Central City, Colorado, Davis was a prolific artist whose murals, sketches, and portraits can be found all over the state, from the Sage Room of the Oxford Hotel on Seventeenth Street to the Denver Press Club poker room. Despite his numerous contributions, his work was never showcased or exhibited in the traditional manner. In this biography and first-ever collection featuring most of his life’s work, authors Craig Leavitt and Thomas J. Noel provide a detailed look into Davis’s life and career and include a catalog of almost 200 photographs of his work from Colorado and around the country. They also put his work into the broader context of the time through comparison with such contemporary Colorado artists as Muriel Sibell Wolle, Allen Tupper True, Charles Waldo Love, and Juan Menchaca. Published to coincide with the Denver Public Library’s 2016 exhibition—the only public display of Davis’s work to date—and bringing deserved attention to this overlooked figure, Herndon Davis: Painting Colorado History, 1901–1962 is an important contribution to Colorado’s cultural history. This book and the accompanying exhibit are sponsored by the Western History/Genealogy Department at the Denver Public Library. Publication originated and supported in part by Diane B. Wunnike.

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Western Weird Edited by Mark Todd

he 2015 theme for Manifest West’s annual anthology is “Western Weird.” The works in this collection reflect both myths and suspected truths about the part of the United States we call “the West.” But this year’s edition focuses entirely on the tradition of the strange. To borrow from Jeff VanderMeer’s definition for speculative fiction’s “New Weird,” this volume creates a new parallel genre for work that subverts the traditional romanticized ideas about place, playing with clichés about the West in order to put these elements to discomfiting, rather than consoling, ends. Topics included in this collection of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction range from the West’s numinous fascination with E.T., Bigfoot, and ghosts and its celebration of its indigenous fauna and deadly landscapes to its uncomfortable relationships with its own marginalized peoples and its unforgiving and sometimes violent traditions. The tone of these works ranges from light—even campy—to chilling, but all allow readers to gaze straight into the many faces of what makes the West a weird place. For the first time in the series, this volume includes solicited work as well as open submissions, including a number of established and award-winning writers and serving its mission by giving voice to brand-new writers.

C ontributors Bredt Bredthauer

Nathan Alling Long

Bartholomew Brinkman

Robert McB rearty

A my B runvand

Lance Nizami

George David Clark M ichael Luis Dauro Carol V. Davis Russell Davis Joe Di Buduo M ichael Engelhard Daniel Ervin M el Goldberg R. S. Gwynn A line Kaplan Don Kunz N ate Liederbach

Teresa M ilbrodt William Notter M arlene O lin C. R. Resetarits Kate Robinson Michaela Roessner David J. Rothman M att Schumacher Renée Thompson Wendy Videlock Vivian Wagner Kirby Wright

Ellaraine Lockie

Western Weird is the fourth volume in Western Press Books’ literary anthology series, Manifest West. The press, affiliated with Western State Colorado University, annually produces one anthology focused on Western regional writing.

Manifest West Series, Western Press Books, Mark Todd, editor

August $16.95, Paperback, 6” x 9” ISBN: 9781607324409 $13.95, ebook E-ISBN: 9781607324416 160 pages

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A Land Made from Water Appropriation and the Evolution of Colorado’s Landscape, Ditches, and Water Institutions Robert R. Crifasi “A tour de force on the development of Colorado’s water and water institutions.” —Charles W. Howe, professor emeritus, University of Colorado, Boulder

R obert R. Crifasi works in water management and planning and is an environmental scientist with more than twenty-five years of experience. He has served as the Water Resources Administrator for the City of Boulder’s Open Space and Mountain Parks Department, was on the board of directors of eleven ditch companies, and, as the president of several Boulder Valley ditches, was responsible for supervising all regular ditch operations.

Land Made from Water chronicles how the appropriation and development of water and riparian resources in Colorado changed the face of the Front Range—an area that was once a desert and is now an irrigated oasis suitable for the habitation and support of millions of people. This comprehensive history of human intervention in the Boulder Creek and Lefthand Creek valleys explores the complex interactions between environmental and historical factors to show how thoroughly the environment along the Front Range is a product of human influence. Author Robert Crifasi examines the events that took place in nineteenth-century Boulder County, Colorado, and set the stage for much of the water development that occurred throughout Colorado and the American West over the following century. Settlers planned and constructed ditches, irrigation systems, and reservoirs; initiated the seminal court decisions establishing the appropriation doctrine; and instigated war to wrest control of the region from the local Native American population. Additionally, Crifasi places these river valleys in the context of a continent-wide historical perspective. By examining the complex interaction of people and the environment over time, A Land Made from Water links contemporary issues facing Front Range water users to the historical evolution of the current water management system and demonstrates the critical role people have played in creating ecosystems that are often presented to the public as “natural” or “native.” It will appeal to students, scholars, professionals, and general readers interested in water history, water management, water law, environmental management, political ecology, or local natural history.

October $50.00s, Hardcover, 6” x 9” ISBN: 9781607323679 $40.00, ebook E-ISBN: 9781607323822 440 pages 88 figures

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Epiphany in the Wilderness Hunting, Nature, and Performance in the Nineteenth-Century American West Karen R. Jones “A compelling, multifaceted analysis of the importance of the West—and its taming—in our national narrative.” —J an E. Dizard, Charles Hamilton Houston Professor of American Culture, Amherst College

hether fulfilling subsistence needs or featured in stories of grand adventure, hunting loomed large in the material and the imagined landscape of the nineteenthcentury West. Epiphany in the Wilderness explores the social, political, economic, and environmental dynamics of hunting on the frontier in three “acts,” using performance as a trail guide and focusing on the production of a “cultural ecology of the chase” in literature, art, photography, and taxidermy. Using the metaphor of the theater, Jones argues that the West was a crucial stage that framed the performance of the American character as an independent, resourceful, resilient, and rugged individual. The leading actor was the all-conquering masculine hunter hero, the sharpshooting man of the wilderness who tamed and claimed the West with each provident step. Women were also a significant part of the story, treading the game trails as plucky adventurers and resilient homesteaders and acting out their exploits in autobiographical accounts and stage shows. Epiphany in the Wilderness informs various academic debates surrounding the frontier period, including the construction of nature as a site of personal challenge, gun culture, gender adaptations and the crafting of the masculine wilderness hero figure, wildlife management and consumption, memorializing and trophytaking, and the juxtaposition of a closing frontier with an emerging conservation movement.

Karen R. Jones is a historian of the American West with particular interests in nineteenth-century cultural and environmental history. Her books include Wolf Mountains: The History of Wolves along the Great Divide, The Invention of the Park, and The American West: Competing Visions. She was awarded the James Bradley Fellowship at the Montana Historical Society for her research on hunting and conservation in late nineteenth-century Montana and has earned fellowships at the Autry National Center and the Buffalo Bill Historical Center for projects on horses and war in the nineteenth century and on taxidermy and the “afterlife” of hunted animals. January $55.00s, Hardcover, 6” x 9” ISBN: 9781607323976 $44.00, ebook E-ISBN: 9781607323983 360 pages 13 figures

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Making the White Man’s West Whiteness and the Creation of the American West Jason E. Pierce

he West, especially the Intermountain states, ranks among the whitest places in America, but this fact obscures the more complicated history of racial diversity in the region. In Making the White Man’s West, author Jason E. Pierce argues that since the time of the Louisiana Purchase, the American West has been a racially contested space. Using a nuanced theory of historical “whiteness,” he examines why and how AngloAmericans dominated the region for a 120-year period. In the early nineteenth century, critics like Zebulon Pike and Washington Irving viewed the West as a “dumping ground” for free blacks and Native Americans, a place where they could be segregated from the white communities east of the Mississippi River. But as immigrant populations and industrialization took hold in the East, white Americans began to view the West as a “refuge for real whites.” The West had the most diverse population in the nation with substantial numbers of American Indians, Hispanics, and Asians, but Anglo-Americans could control these mostly disenfranchised peoples and enjoy the privileges of power while celebrating their presence as providing a unique regional character. From this came the belief in a White Man’s West, a place ideally suited for “real” Americans in the face of changing world. The first comprehensive study to examine the construction of white racial identity in the West, Making the White Man’s West shows how these two visions of the West—as a racially diverse holding cell and a white refuge—shaped the history of the region and influenced a variety of contemporary social issues in the West today. Jason E. Pierce is associate professor of history at Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas. J anuary $45.00s, Hardcover, 6” x 9” ISBN: 9781607323952 $36.00, ebook E-ISBN: 9781607323969 312 pages 12 figures

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The Polygamy Question Edited by Janet Bennion and Lisa Fishbayn Joffe

he practice of polygamy occupies a unique place in North American history and has had a profound effect on its legal and social development. The Polygamy Question explores the ways in which indigenous and immigrant polygamy have shaped the lives of individuals, communities, and the broader societies that have engaged with it. The book also considers how polygamy challenges our traditional notions of gender and marriage and how it might be effectively regulated to comport with contemporary notions of justice. The contributors to this volume—scholars of law, anthropology, sociology, political science, economics, and religious studies—disentangle diverse forms of polygamy and polyamory practiced among a range of religious and national backgrounds including Mormon and Muslim. They chart the harms and benefits these models have on practicing women, children, and men, whether they are independent families or members of coherent religious groups. Contributors also address the complexities of evaluating this form of marriage and the ethical and legal issues surrounding regulation of the practice, including the pros and cons of legalization. Plural marriage is the next frontier of North American marriage law and possibly the next civil rights battlefield. Students and scholars interested in polygamy, marriage, and family will find much of interest in The Polygamy Question.

C ontributors Kerry A brams

M elanie Heath

M artha B ailey

Debra Majeed

Lori B eaman

Rose M c Dermott

Janet B ennion

S arah Song

Jonathan Cowden

M aura Irene S trassberg

Shoshana Grossbard

Janet Bennion is professor of anthropology at Lyndon State College in Vermont. She is the author of four previous books on polygamous societies including her most recent, Polygamy in Primetime. Lisa Fishbayn Joffe is director of the Project on Gender, Culture, Religion, and the Law at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute of Brandeis University and coeditor of the Brandeis Series on Gender, Culture, Religion, and the Law. November $31.95s, Paperback, 6” x 9” ISBN: 9780874219807 $25.95, ebook E-ISBN: 9780874219975 288 pages 18 figures

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Pole Raising and Speech Making Modalities of Swedish American Summer Celebration Jennifer Eastman Attebery

In Pole Raising and Speech Making, author Jennifer

Jennifer Eastman Attebery is professor of English at Idaho State University, where she teaches folklore and also chairs the Department of English and Philosophy. She has twice enjoyed sojourns in Sweden, in 1988 as a Fulbright Senior Scholar at University of Gothenburg and in 2011 as the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies at Uppsala University. Attebery is the author of Up in the Rocky Mountains: Writing the Swedish Immigrant Experience. Her studies of Swedish culture in the Rocky Mountain West have also been published in Scandinavian Studies and Swedish American Historical Quarterly. October $39.95s, Hardcover, 6” x 9” ISBN: 9780874219982 $19.95, ebook E-ISBN: 9780874219999 208 pages 17 figures

Eastman Attebery focuses on the beginnings of the traditional Scandinavian Midsummer celebration and the surrounding spring-to-summer seasonal festivities in the Rocky Mountain West during the height of Swedish immigration to the area—1880–1917. Combining research in folkloristics and history, Attebery explores various ways that immigrants blended traditional Swedish Midsummer-related celebrations with local civic celebrations of American Independence Day on July 4 and the Mormons’ Pioneer Day on July 24. Functioning as multimodal observances with multiple meanings, these holidays represent and reconsider ethnicity and panethnicity, sacred and secular relationships, and the rural and the urban, demonstrating how flexible and complex traditional celebrations can be. Providing a wealth of detail and information surrounding little-studied celebrations and valuable archival and published primary sources—diaries, letters, speeches, newspaper reports, and images—Pole Raising and Speech Making is proof that non-English immigrant culture must be included when discussing “American” culture. It will be of interest to scholars and graduate students in ethnic studies, folklore, ritual and festival studies, and Scandinavian American cultural history.

Ritual, Festival, and Celebration Series, editor Jack Santino

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The Folkloresque Reframing Folklore in a Popular Culture World Edited by Michael Dylan Foster and Jeffrey A. Tolbert “I can envision The Folkloresque functioning as a manifesto that enables folklorists to join conversations about contemporary culture that we should have been a part of right along. . . . At stake, perhaps, is nothing less than the revitalization and reintegration of an increasingly marginalized discipline.” —Russell Frank , Pennsylvania State University

his volume introduces a new concept to explore the dynamic relationship between folklore and popular culture: the “folkloresque.” With “folkloresque,” Foster and Tolbert name the product created when popular culture appropriates or reinvents folkloric themes, characters, and images. Such manufactured tropes are traditionally considered outside the purview of academic folklore study, but the folkloresque offers a frame for understanding them that is grounded in the discourse and theory of the discipline. Fantasy fiction, comic books, anime, video games, literature, professional storytelling and comedy, and even popular science writing all commonly incorporate elements from tradition or draw on basic folklore genres to inform their structure. Through three primary modes—integration, portrayal, and parody—the collection offers a set of heuristic tools for analysis of how folklore is increasingly used in these commercial and mass-market contexts. The Folkloresque challenges disciplinary and genre boundaries; suggests productive new approaches for interpreting folklore, popular culture, literature, film, and contemporary media; and encourages a rethinking of traditional works and older interpretive paradigms.

C ontributors Trevor J. Blank

Carlea Holl-J ensen

Chad Buterbaugh

Greg Kelley

Bill Ellis

Paul M anning

Tim Evans

Daniel Peretti

M ichael Dylan Foster

Gregory Schrempp Jeffrey A. Tolbert

Michael Dylan Foster is associate professor of folklore and East Asian languages and cultures at Indiana University. He is the author of Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yōkai, The Book of Yōkai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore, and numerous articles on folklore, literature, and media. Jeffrey A. Tolbert is a PhD candidate in folklore at Indiana University. His research focuses on supernatural belief, and his dissertation examines belief and the landscape in contemporary Ireland. His broader research interests include folklore and popular culture, especially video games, and supernatural traditions in new/digital media, such as the Slender Man Internet phenomenon. November $27.95s, Paperback, 6” x 9” ISBN: 9781607324171 $21.95, ebook E-ISBN: 9781607324188 272 pages 4 figures

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The Myth of Quetzalcoatl Religion, Rulership, and History in the Nahua World Alfredo López Austin With Guilhem Olivier Translated by Russ Davidson Foreword by Davíd Carrasco

“Mesoamericanists from a variety of fields already recognize the importance of this book and the role it has played in the revitalization of research in their specialized areas of study. López Austin is a master in the field.” —Alan Sandstrom, Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne

Alfredo López Austin is emeritus researcher and professor of history at the Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. A specialist in Mesoamerican history and culture, he is best known for his extensive writings on and investigations into the belief systems and religion of pre-Columbian and conquest-era indigenous cultures in Mexico. R uss Davidson is curator emeritus of Latin American and Iberian collections and professor emeritus of librarianship at the University of New Mexico. October $32.95s, Paperback, 6” x 9” ISBN: 9781607323907 $25.95, ebook E-ISBN: 9781607323990 264 pages 7 figures

he Myth of Quetzalcoatl is a translation of Alfredo López Austin’s 1973 book Hombre-Dios: Religión y politica en el mundo náhuatl. Despite its pervasive and lasting influence on the study of Mesoamerican history, religion in general, and the Quetzalcoatl myth in particular, this work has not been available in English until now. The importance of Hombre-Dios and its status as a classic arise from its interdisciplinary approach, creative use of a wide range of source material, and unsurpassed treatment of its subject—the nature and content of religious beliefs and rituals among the native populations of Mesoamerica and the manner in which they fused with and helped sanctify political authority and rulership in both the pre- and post-conquest periods. Working from a wide variety of previously neglected documentary sources, incorporating myth, archaeology, and the ethnography of contemporary Native Americans including non-Nahua peoples, López Austin traces the figure of Quetzalcoatl as a “ManGod” from pre-conquest times, while Russ Davidson’s translator’s note, Davíd Carrasco’s foreword, and López Austin’s introduction place the work within the context of modern scholarship. López Austin’s original work on Quetzalcoatl is a pivotal work in the field of anthropology, and this longoverdue English translation will be of significance to historians, anthropologists, linguists, and serious readers interested in Mesoamerica.

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Indigenous Bodies, Maya Minds Religion and Modernity in a Transnational K’iche’ Community C. James MacKenzie “A moving and intellectually stimulating contribution to Mesoamerican studies, as well as a meaningful contribution for those interested in the nature of community in the continuing effort by scholars to come to terms with modernity. Scholars, students, and perhaps even some policy makers will find much of interest in the work, and it sets a comparative baseline for other studies in the region in a way that few works have done in recent years.” —Matthew Samson, Davidson College

Indigenous Bodies, Maya Minds examines tension

and conflict over ethnic and religious identity in the K’iche’ Maya community of San Andrés Xecul in the Guatemalan Highlands and considers how religious and ethnic attachments are sustained and transformed through the transnational experiences of locals who have migrated to the United States. Author C. James MacKenzie explores the relationship among four coexisting religious communities within Highland Maya villages in contemporary Guatemala—costumbre, traditionalist religion with a shamanic substrate; “Enthusiastic Christianity,” versions of Charismaticism and Pentecostalism; an “inculturated” and Mayanized version of Catholicism; and a purified and antisyncretic Maya Spirituality—with attention to the modern and nonmodern worldviews that sustain them. He introduces a sophisticated set of theories to interpret both traditional religion and its relationship to other contemporary religious options, analyzing the relation among these various worldviews in terms of the indigenization of modernity and the various ways modernity can be apprehended as an intellectual project or an embodied experience. Indigenous Bodies, Maya Minds investigates the way an increasingly plural religious landscape intersects with ethnic and other identities. It will be of interest to Mesoamerican and Mayan ethnographers, as well as students and scholars of cultural anthropology, indigenous cultures, globalization, and religion. IMS Monograph Series, Copublished with the Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, State University of New York at Albany

“Of critical must-read importance to anyone seeking to understand the role of religion in the responses of traditional peoples and communities to globalization and modernity.” —Garrett Cook, Baylor University

C. James MacK enzie is associate professor in the Anthropology Department at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta. He has conducted research on religious, political, and economic change in San Andrés Xecul, Guatemala, since 1999. His work has been published in Anthropologica, Nova Religio, Anthropos, and Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, among others. December $75.00s, Hardcover, 6” x 9” ISBN: 9781607323938 $60.00, ebook E-ISBN: 9781607323945 408 pages 27 figures

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Voices from Vilcabamba Accounts Chronicling the Fall of the Inca Empire Brian S. Bauer, Madeleine Halac-Higashimori, and Gabriel E. Cantarutti

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tion, Voices from Vilcabamba examines the fall of the Inca Empire in unprecedented detail. Containing English translations of seven major documents from the Vilcabamba era (1536–1572), this volume presents an overview of the major events that occurred in the Vilcabamba region of Peru during the final decades of Inca rule. Brian S. Bauer, Madeleine Halac-Higashimori, and Gabriel E. Cantarutti have translated and analyzed seven documents, most notably Description of Vilcabamba by Baltasar de Ocampo Conejeros and a selection from Martín de Murúa’s General History of Peru, which focuses on the fall of Vilcabamba. Additional documents from a range of sources that include Augustinian investigations, battlefield reports, and critical eyewitness accounts are translated into English for the first time. With a critical introduction on the history of the region during the Spanish Conquest and introductions to each of the translated documents, the volume provides an enhanced narrative on the nature of EuropeanAmerican relations during this time of important cultural transformation. Brian S. Bauer is professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago and an adjutant curator at the Field Museum. He has published more than a dozen books on Andean prehistory and is particularly well known for his work on the Incas. Madeleine Halac-Higashimori is a PhD candidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Gabriel E. Cantarutti is a PhD candidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago. March $28.95s, Paperback, 6” x 9” ISBN: 9781607324256 $22.95, ebook E-ISBN: 9781607324263 264 pages 21 figures

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Heritage Keywords Rhetoric and Redescription in Cultural Heritage Edited by Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels and Trinidad Rico “An important contribution to this newly emerging interdisciplinary field.” —Rodney Harrison, University College of London

“A diverse array of approaches to the central concepts and issues in the field of heritage, which, taken together, offers compelling and valuable commentary.” —Lena Mortensen , University of Toronto

ituated at the intersection of scholarship and practice, Heritage Keywords positions cultural heritage as a transformative tool for social change. This volume unlocks the persuasive power of cultural heritage—as it shapes experiences of change and crafts present and future possibilities from historic conditions—by offering new ways forward for cultivating positive change and social justice in contemporary social debates and struggles. It draws inspiration from deliberative democratic practice, with its focus on rhetoric and redescription, to complement participatory turns in recent heritage work. Through attention to the rhetorical edge of cultural heritage, contributors to this volume offer innovative reworkings of critical heritage categories. Each of the fifteen chapters examines a key term from the field of heritage practice—authenticity, civil society, cultural property, cultural diversity, democratization, difficult heritage, discourse, equity, intangible heritage, memory, natural heritage, place, risk, rights, and sustainability— to showcase the creative potential of cultural heritage as it becomes mobilized within a wide array of social, political, economic, and moral contexts. This highly readable collection will be of interest to students, scholars, and professionals in heritage studies, cultural resource management, public archaeology, historic preservation, and related cultural policy fields.

C ontributors Jeffrey A dams

Gabriel M oshenska

M elissa F. Baird

Regis Pecos

A lexander Bauer

Robert Preucel

M alcolm A. Cooper

Trinidad Rico

A nna Karlström

Cecelia Rodéhn

Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels

Joshua Samuels

Paul J. Lane

Sigrid Van der Auwera

A licia Ebbitt Mc Gill

Klaus Zehbe

Kathryn L afrenz Samuels is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Maryland, and her research examines cultural heritage in the transnational sphere: within international economic development, democracy promotion, human rights, and global climate change. She is coeditor of Cultures of Contact: Archaeology, Ethics, and Globalization and Making Roman Places: Past and Present. Trinidad R ico is assistant professor of anthropology at Texas A&M University at Qatar. Her broad research interests include critical heritage theory, the construction of risk and expertise, and the mobilization of Islamic values in cultural heritage. She is coeditor of Cultural Heritage in the Arabian Peninsula: Debates, Discourses, and Practices. September $36.95s, Paperback, 6” x 9” ISBN: 9781607323839 $29.95, ebook E-ISBN: 9781607323846 320 pages, 18 figures

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Surplus The Politics of Production and the Strategies of Everyday Life Edited by Christopher T. Morehart and Kristin De Lucia “This will be an influential volume for years to come.” —Elliot Abrams , Ohio University

Contributors Douglas J. B olender James A. Brown Cathy L. Costin Kristin De Lucia Timothy Earle

Christopher T. M orehart Neil L. Norman Ann B. Stahl Victor D. Thompson T. L. Thurston

John E. Kelly Heather M. L. Miller

E. Christian Wells

Christopher R. M oore

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he concept of surplus captures the politics of production and also conveys the active material means by which people develop the strategies to navigate everyday life. Surplus: The Politics of Production and the Strategies of Everyday Life examines how surpluses affected ancient economies, governments, and households in civilizations across Mesoamerica, the Southwest United States, the Andes, Northern Europe, West Africa, Mesopotamia, and eastern Asia. A hallmark of archaeological research on sociopolitical complexity, surplus is central to theories of political inequality and institutional finance. This book investigates surplus as a macro-scalar process on which states or other complex political formations depend and considers how past people—differentially positioned based on age, class, gender, ethnicity, role, and goal—produced, modified, and mobilized their social and physical worlds. Placing the concept of surplus at the forefront of archaeological discussions on production, consumption, power, strategy, and change, this volume reaches beyond conventional ways of thinking about top-down or bottom-up models and offers a comparative framework to examine surplus, generating new questions and methodologies to elucidate the social and political economies of the past. C hristopher T. Morehart is assistant professor at Arizona State University and specializes in the political economy and historical ecology of Mesoamerica. His current research centers on the long-term historical and political ecology of the northern Basin of Mexico, combining archaeology, ecology, geology, botany, history, and ethnography. He also collaborates as an ethnobotanist on archaeological projects in Lowland Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and the southeastern United States. K ristin De Lucia is assistant professor at Weber State University and specializes in household archaeology and the Aztecs. Her research in central Mexico focuses on households and how the daily practices of commoners influence the development of broader political economies and social systems.

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Memory Traces Analyzing Sacred Space at Five Mesoamerican Sites Edited by Cynthia Kristan-Graham and Laura M. Amrhein

In Memory Traces, art historians and archaeologists

come together to examine the nature of sacred space in Mesoamerica. Through five well-known and important centers of political power and artistic invention in Mesoamerica— Tetitla at Teotihuacan, Tula Grande, the Mound of the Building Columns at El Tajín, the House of the Phalli at Chichén Itzá, and Tonina—contributors explore the process of recognizing and defining sacred space, how sacred spaces were viewed and used both physically and symbolically, and what theoretical approaches are most useful for art historians and archaeologists seeking to understand these places. Memory Traces acknowledges that the creation, use, abandonment, and reuse of sacred space have a strongly recursive relation to collective memory and meanings linked to the places in question and reconciles issues of continuity and discontinuity of memory in ancient Mesoamerican sacred spaces. It will be of interest to students and scholars of Mesoamerican studies and material culture, art historians, architectural historians, and cultural anthropologists.

C ontributors Laura M. Amrhein

Keith M. Prufer

Nicholas P. Dunning

Matthew H. Robb

Rex Koontz

Patricia J. S arro

Cynthia Kristan-Graham

Kaylee S pencer

M atthew G. Looper

Linnea Wren

Travis Nygard

Eric Weaver

C ynthia K ristan-Graham has taught art history at the Atlanta College of Art and Auburn University. Laura M. Amrhein is associate professor of art history at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock. October $65.00s, Hardcover, 6” x 9” ISBN: 9781607323761 $52.00, ebook E-ISBN: 9781607323778 264 pages 62 figures

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Mixtec Evangelicals Globalization, Migration, and Religious Change in a Oaxacan Indigenous Group Mary I. O’Connor

Mary I. O’Connor is associate researcher at the Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has received two Fulbright fellowships for teaching in Mexico. She was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for US-Mexico Studies at the University of California, San Diego, and has received two Fulbright-Hays grants for faculty research as well as numerous grants from agencies within the University of California system.

ixtec Evangelicals is a comparative ethnography of four Mixtec communities in Oaxaca, detailing the process by which economic migration and religious conversion combine to change the social and cultural makeup of predominantly folk-Catholic communities. The book describes the effects on the home communities of the Mixtecs who travel to northern Mexico and the United States in search of wage labor and return having converted from their rural Catholic roots to Evangelical Protestant religions. O’Connor identifies globalization as the root cause of this process. She demonstrates the ways that neoliberal policies have forced Mixtecs to migrate and how migration provides the contexts for conversion. Converts challenge the set of customs governing their Mixtec villages by refusing to participate in the Catholic ceremonies and social gatherings that are at the center of traditional village life. The home communities have responded in a number of ways—ranging from expulsion of converts to partial acceptance and adjustments within the village—depending on the circumstances of conversion and number of converts returning. Presenting data and case studies resulting from O’Connor’s ethnographic field research in Oaxaca and various migrant settlements in Mexico and the United States, Mixtec Evangelicals explores this phenomenon of globalization and observes how ancient communities are changed by their own emissaries to the outside world. Students and scholars of anthropology, Latin American studies, and religion will find much in this book to inform their understanding of globalization, modernity, indigeneity, and religious change.

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Political Strategies in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica Edited by Sarah Kurnick and Joanne Baron

olitical authority contains an inherent contradiction. Rulers must reinforce social inequality and bolster their own unique position at the top of the sociopolitical hierarchy, yet simultaneously emphasize social similarities and the commonalities shared by all. Political Strategies in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica explores the different and complex ways that those who exercised authority in the region confronted this contradiction. New data from a variety of well-known scholars in Mesoamerican archaeology reveal the creation, perpetuation, and contestation of politically authoritative relationships between rulers and subjects and between nobles and commoners. The contributions span the geographic breadth and temporal extent of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica—from Preclassic Oaxaca to the Classic Petén region of Guatemala to the Postclassic Michoacán—and the contributors weave together archaeological, epigraphic, and ethnohistoric data. Grappling with the questions of how those exercising authority convince others to follow and why individuals often choose to recognize and comply with authority, Political Strategies in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica discusses why the study of political authority is both timely and significant, reviews how scholars have historically understood the operation of political authority, and proposes a new analytical framework to understand how rulers rule.

C ontributors Sarah B. Barber

A rthur A. Joyce

Joanne Baron

Sarah Kurnick

Christopher S. B eekman

Carlo J. Lucido

Jeffrey B rzezinski

T atsuya Murakami

Bryce Davenport Charles Golden Takeshi Inomata

Simon Martin Helen P erlstein P ollard Víctor Salazar Chávez

Sarah Kurnick is Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Colorado Boulder and codirector of the Proyecto Arqueológico Punta Laguna. She has received research grants from the National Science Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, and the Gerda Henkel Foundation, among other organizations. Joanne Baron lectures in anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and is a consulting scholar at the Penn Museum. Her work has been supported by grants from the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the National Geographic Society. January $60.00s, Hardcover, 6” x 9” ISBN: 9781607324157 $48.00, ebook E-ISBN: 9781607324164 288 pages 36 figures

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Human Adaptation in Ancient Mesoamerica Empirical Approaches to Mesoamerican Archaeology Edited by Nancy Gonlin and Kirk D. French

Contributors Elliot M. Abrams

Don S. Rice

Christopher J. Duffy

Prudence M. Rice

Susan T oby Evans

Rebecca Storey

Kirk D. French

Kirk Damon Straight

Ann Corinne Freter

David Webster

Nancy Gonlin

Stephen L. W hittington

George R. Milner Zachary Nelson Deborah L. Nichols David M. Reed

Randolph J. Widmer John D. Wingard W. Scott Zeleznik

his volume explores the dynamics of human adaptation to social, political, ideological, economic, and environmental factors in Mesoamerica and includes a wide array of topics, such as the hydrological engineering behind Teotihuacan’s layout, the complexities of agriculture and sustainability in the Maya lowlands, and the nuanced history of abandonment among different lineages and households in Maya centers. The authors aptly demonstrate how culture is the mechanism that allows people to adapt to a changing world, and they address how ecological factors, particularly land and water, intersect with nonmaterial and material manifestations of cultural complexity. Contributors further illustrate the continuing utility of the cultural ecological perspective in framing research on adaptations of ancient civilizations. This book celebrates the work of Dr. David Webster, an influential Penn State archaeologist and anthropologist of the Maya region, and highlights human adaptation in Mesoamerica through the scientific lenses of anthropological archaeology and cultural ecology.

Nancy Gonlin is chair of the Department of Anthropology at Bellevue College in Bellevue, Washington, where she was awarded the Margin of Excellence Award in 2012. She is coeditor of Commoner Ritual and Ideology in Ancient Mesoamerica and Ancient Households of the Americas and coauthor of Copán: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Maya Kingdom.

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Kirk D. French is lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University. His research focuses on complex societies in Mesoamerica and relies on an analytical approach to better understand human adaptations to environmental change through a combination of field-based archaeology, watershed modeling, and documentary film.

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Classic Maya Polities of the Southern Lowlands Integration, Interaction, Dissolution Edited by Damien B. Marken and James L. Fitzsimmons “A valuable contribution to the Mesoamerican literature and to the study of ancient political processes in general.” —Edward Schortman, J. Kenneth Smail Professor of Anthropology at Kenyon College

Classic Maya Polities of the Southern Lowlands investi-

gates Maya political and social structure in the southern lowlands, assessing, comparing, and interpreting the wide variation in Classic period Maya polity and city composition, development, and integration. Traditionally, discussions of Classic Maya political organization have been dominated by the debate over whether Maya polities were centralized or decentralized. With new, largely unpublished data from several recent archaeological projects, this book examines the premises, strengths, and weaknesses of these two perspectives before moving beyond this long-standing debate and into different territory. The volume examines the articulations of the various social and spatial components of Maya polity— the relationships, strategies, and practices that bound households, communities, institutions, and dynasties into enduring (or short-lived) political entities. By emphasizing the internal negotiation of polity, the contributions provide an important foundation for a more holistic understanding of how political organization functioned in the Classic period.

C ontributors Francisco Estrada Belli

Damien B. Marken

James L. Fitzsimmons

T imothy M urtha

Sarah E. Jackson Caleb Kestle Brigitte Kovacevich A llan Maca

J ames M eierhoff Cynthia Robin A lexandre Tokovinine A ndrew Wyatt

Damien B. Marken is instructor in the Department of Anthropology at Bloomsburg University and editor of the book Palenque: Recent Investigations at the Classic Maya Center. James L. Fitzsimmons is associate professor of anthropology at Middlebury College and author or editor of four books, including Living with the Dead: Mortuary Ritual in Mesoamerica. November $65.00s, Hardcover, 6” x 9” ISBN: 9781607324126 $52.00, ebook E-ISBN: 9781607324133 272 pages 54 figures

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Manufactured Light Mirrors in the Mesoamerican Realm Edited by Emiliano Gallaga and Marc G. Blainey “This book fills a theoretical and analytical gap in our understanding of Mesoamerican lifeways and world views and is necessary for any Mesoamerican archaeologist who wishes to consider the entirety of the archaeological record.” —Zachary Hruby , Northern Kentucky University

Contributors Marc G. Blainey

Achim Lelgemann

Thomas Calligaro

J osé J. Lunazzi

Carrie L. Dennett

J ohn J. M cGraw

Emiliano Gallaga

Emiliano M elgar

Julie Gazzola

J oseph M ountjoy

Sergio Gómez Chávez

Reyna Solis

Olivia Kindl

Karl Taube

Brigitte Kovacevich

E miliano Gallaga is a Mexican archaeologist interested in northwest Mexico and experimental and historical archaeology. He is the director of the Escuela de Antropología e Historia del Norte de México (EAHNM) INAH, Chihuahua. Marc G. Blainey is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto. His research and publications bridge the anthropology of religion, medical anthropology, cognitive archaeology, and consciousness studies.

omplex and time-consuming to produce, pyrite mirrors stand out among Prehispanic artifacts for their aesthetic beauty, their symbolic implications, and the complexity and skill of their assembly. Manufactured Light presents the latest archaeological research on these items, focusing on the intersection of their significance and use and on the technological aspects of the manufacturing processes that created them. The volume covers the production, meaning, and utilization of pyrite mirrors in various Mesoamerican communities. Chapters focus on topics such as experimental archaeology projects and discussions of workshops in archaeological contexts in the Maya, Central Mexico, and northwest Mexico regions. Other chapters concentrate on the employment and ideological associations of these mirrors in Prehispanic times, especially as both sacred and luxury items. The final chapters address continuities in the use of mirrors from Prehispanic to modern times, especially in contemporary indigenous communities, with an emphasis on examining the relationship between ethnographic realities and archaeological interpretations. While the symbolism of these artifacts and the intricacy of their construction have long been recognized in archaeological discussions, Manufactured Light is the first synthesis of this important yet under-studied class of material culture. It is a must-read for students and scholars of Mesoamerican archaeology, ethnography, religion, replicative experimentation, and lithic technology.

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Composition in the Age of Austerity Edited by Nancy Welch and Tony Scott “Composition in the Age of Austerity is a book that is needed now. The problems we compositionists face are myriad, and economic ‘austerity’ measures are taking their toll. To put it simply: writing teachers need help. This book is an important attempt to offer it.” —Claude M. Hurlbert, University of Pennsylvania

In the face of the gradual saturation of US public edu-

cation by the logics of neoliberalism, educators often find themselves at a loss to respond, let alone resist. Through state defunding and many other “reforms” fueled by austerity politics, a majority of educators are becoming casual labor in US universities while those who hang onto secure employment are pressed to act as self-supporting entrepreneurs or do more with less. Focusing on the discipline of writing studies, this collection addresses the sense of crisis that many educators experience in this age of austerity. The chapters in this book chronicle how neoliberal political economy shapes writing assessments, curricula, teacher agency, program administration, and funding distribution. Contributors also focus on how neoliberal political economy dictates the direction of scholarship, because the economic and political agenda shaping the terms of work, the methods of delivery, and the ways of valuing and assessing writing also shape the primary concerns and directions of scholarship. Composition in the Age of Austerity offers critical accounts of how the restructuring of higher education is shaping the daily realities of composition programs. The book documents the effects and implications of the current restructuring, examines how cherished rhetorical ideals actually leave the field unprepared to respond intelligibly in this national conversation, and establishes points of departure for collective response.

Nancy Welch is professor of English at the University of Vermont, where she helped to found the faculty union and is active in region-wide labor solidarity. Among her books are Living Room: Teaching Public Writing in a Privatized World and The Road from Prosperity: Stories. Tony Scott is associate professor of writing and rhetoric and director of undergraduate studies in the Writing Program at Syracuse University. He is the author of Dangerous Writing: Understanding the Political Economy of Composition and coeditor of Tenured Bosses and Disposable Teachers. March $27.95s, Paperback, 6” x 9” ISBN: 9781607324447 $21.95, ebook E-ISBN: 9781607324454 240 pages

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Crossing Borders, Drawing Boundaries The Rhetoric of Lines across America Edited by Barbara Couture and Patti Wojahn “Exceptionally well conceived and enormously rewarding . . . theoretically smart and remarkably grounded and readable.” —Nancy Welch, University of Vermont

Contributors Andrea Alden

José A. Montelongo

Cori Brewster

Karen P. Peirce

Robert B rooke

Jonathan P. Rossing

Randolph Cauthen

Susan A. Schiller

Jennifer Clifton

Christopher S chroeder

Barbara Couture Vanessa Cozza Anita C. Hernández Roberta J. Herter Judy Holiday Elenore Long

Tricia C. Serviss Mónica Torres Kathryn Valentine Victor Villanueva Patti Wojahn

Barbara Couture consults for the Collaborative Brain Trust and the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities. She received the 2000 CCCC Outstanding Book Award and was awarded the distinction of Fellow of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing in 2010. P atti Wojahn is associate professor at New Mexico State University. She researches borders challenging communication and growth in various contexts: within online technologies, within transitions among languages, and within diverse disciplinary fields.

ith growing anxiety about American identity fueling debates about the nation’s borders, ethnicities, and languages, Crossing Borders, Drawing Boundaries provides a timely and important rhetorical exploration of divisionary bounds that divide an Us from a Them. The concept of “border” calls for attention, and the authors in this collection respond by describing it, challenging it, confounding it, and, at times, erasing it. Motivating us to see anew the many lines that unite, divide, and define us, the essays in this volume highlight how discourse at borders and boundaries can create or thwart conditions for establishing identity and admitting difference. Each chapter analyzes how public discourse at the site of physical or metaphorical borders presents or confounds these conditions and, consequently, effective participation— a key criterion for a modern democracy. The settings are various, encompassing vast public spaces such as cities and areas within them; the rhetorical spaces of history books, museum displays, activist events, and media outlets; and the intimate settings of community and classroom conversations. Crossing Borders, Drawing Boundaries shows how rich communication can be when diverse cultures intersect and create new opportunities for human connection, even while different populations, cultures, age groups, and political parties adopt irreconcilable positions. It will be of interest to scholars in rhetoric and literacy studies and students in rhetorical analysis and public discourse.

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Genre and the Performance of Publics Edited by Anis Bawarshi and Mary Jo Reiff “There currently doesn’t exist a collection with this breadth of scope and subject matter.” —Carol B erkenkotter , University of Minnesota

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on how genres mediate social activities within workplace and academic settings. Genre and the Performance of Publics moves beyond institutional settings to explore public contexts that are less hierarchical, broadening the theory of how genres contribute to the interconnected and dynamic performances of public life. Chapters examine how genres develop within publics and how genres tend to mediate performances in public domains, setting up a discussion between public sphere scholarship and rhetorical genre studies. The volume extends the understanding of genres as not only social ways of organizing texts or mediating relationships within institutions but as dynamic performances themselves. By exploring how genres shape the formation of publics, Genre and the Performance of Publics brings rhetoric/composition and public sphere studies into dialogue and enhances the understanding of public genre performances in ways that contribute to research on and teaching of public discourse. A nis Bawarshi is professor and associate chair of the English Department at the University of Washington. He is the author or coauthor of several books and articles on rhetoric and composition studies, rhetorical genre studies and uptake, and writing knowledge transfer. Mary Jo R eiff is professor of English at the University of Kansas. She has authored or coauthored various books and articles on writing knowledge transfer, audience theory, public rhetoric, critical ethnography, and rhetorical genre studies. March $27.95s, Paperback, 6” x 9” ISBN: 9781607324423 $21.95, ebook E-ISBN: 9781607324430 224 pages

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Microhistories of Composition Edited by Bruce McComiskey “It’s good. Really good . . . A valuable addition to the modern history of the field.” —Shane B orrowman , University of Montana

Contributors Cheryl E. Ball

Annie S. Mendenhall

Suzanne B ordelon

Kendra M itchell

Jacob Craig

Louise Wetherbee Phelps

Matt Davis Douglas Eyman Brian Gogan

Kelly Ritter David S tock

David Gold Neal Lerner Christine M artorana Bruce M cComiskey Josh Mehler

Antony N. Ricks

Kathleen B lake Y ancey Bret Zawilski James T. Zebroski

Bruce McComiskey specializes in rhetoric and composition, classical rhetoric, and professional writing at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His publications include Teaching Composition as a Social Process, Dialectical Rhetoric, Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric, the edited collection English Studies: An Introduction to the Disciplines, and the coedited collection City Comp: Identities, Spaces, Practices.

riting studies has been dominated throughout its history by grand narratives of the discipline, but in this volume Bruce McComiskey begins to explore microhistory as a way to understand, enrich, and complicate how the field relates to its past. Microhistory investigates the dialectical interaction of social history and cultural history, enabling historians to examine uncommon sites, objects, and agents of historical significance overlooked by social history and restricted to local effects by cultural history. This approach to historical scholarship is ideally suited for exploring the complexities of a discipline like composition. Through an introduction and eleven chapters, McComiskey and his contributors—including major figures in the historical research of writing studies, such as Louise Wetherbee Phelps, Kelly Ritter, and Neal Lerner—develop focused narratives of particular significant moments or themes in disciplinary history. They introduce microhistorical methodologies and illustrate their application and value for composition historians, contributing to the complexity and adding momentum to the emerging trend within writing studies toward a richer reading of the field’s past and future. Scholars and historians of both composition and rhetoric will appreciate the fresh perspectives on institutional and disciplinary histories and larger issues of rhetorical agency and engagement enacted in writing classrooms that are found in Microhistories of Composition.

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The Problem with Education Technology (Hint: It’s Not the Technology) Ben Fink and Robin Brown

ducation is in crisis—at least, so we hear. And at the center of this crisis is technology. New technologies like computer-based classroom instruction, online K–12 schools, MOOCs (massive open online courses), and automated essay scoring may be our last great hope— or the greatest threat we have ever faced. In The Problem with Education Technology, Ben Fink and Robin Brown look behind the hype to explain the problems—and potential—of these technologies. Focusing on the case of automated essay scoring, they explain the technology, how it works, and what it does and doesn’t do. They explain its origins, its evolution (both in the classroom and in our culture), and the controversy that surrounds it. Most significantly, they expose the real problem—the complicity of teachers and curriculum-builders in creating an education system so mechanical that machines can in fact often replace humans—and how teachers, students, and other citizens can work together to solve it. Offering a new perspective on the change that educators can hope, organize, and lobby for, The Problem with Education Technology challenges teachers and activists on “our side,” even as it provides new evidence to counter the profit-making, labor-saving logics that drive the current push for technology in the classroom.

Ben Fink taught writing at the University of Minnesota and now directs theater, writing, and community engagement programs at Appel Farm Arts and Music Center in rural southern New Jersey. He is an active participant in the Imagining America network, a national organization of artists and humanists in public life. Robin Brown is Morse-Alumni Distinguished Professor at the University of Minnesota. His career has focused on the multiple interrelationships of rhetoric, science, technology, politics, and identity and an ongoing theoretical and practical investigation into how humane academic cultures might be structured and managed. February $6.99s, Paperback, 4½” x 7” ISBN: 9781607324461 $4.99, ebook E-ISBN: 9781607324478 46 pages

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Reclaiming Accountability Improving Writing Programs through Accreditation and Large-Scale Assessments Edited by Wendy Sharer, Tracy Ann Morse, Michelle F. Eble, and William P. Banks

Contributors Linda Adler -Kassner William P. Banks

Susan Miller-Cochran

Remica Bingham-Risher

Cindy Moore Tracy Ann M orse

Melanie Burdick

Joyce M agnotto Neff

Polina Chemishanova

Karen Nulton

Malkiel Choseed

Peggy O’Neill

Kyle Christiansen

Jessica P arker

Angela Crow

Mary Rist

Maggie Debelius

Rochelle Rodrigo

Michelle F. Eble

Tulora Roeckers

Jonathan Elmore

Shirley K. Rose

Lorna Gonzalez

Iris M. Saltiel

Angela Green

Wendy S harer

Jim Henry

Terri Van Sickle

Ryan Hoover

Jane Chapman V igil

Rebecca Ingalls

David M. Weed

Cynthia Miecznikowski

February $29.95s, Paperback, 6” x 9” ISBN: 9781607324348 $23.95, ebook E-ISBN: 9781607324355 344 pages

eclaiming Accountability brings together a series of critical case studies of writing programs that have planned, implemented, and/or assessed the impact of large-scale accreditation-supported initiatives. The book reimagines accreditation as a way to leverage institutional or program change. Contributions to the volume are divided into three parts. Part 1 considers how specialists in composition and rhetoric can work most productively with accrediting bodies to design assessments and initiatives that meet requirements while also helping those agencies to better understand how writing develops and how it can most effectively be assessed. Parts 2 and 3 present case studies of how institutions have used ongoing accreditation and assessment imperatives to meet student learning needs through programmatic changes and faculty development. They provide concrete examples of productive curricular (part 2) and instructional (part 3) changes that can follow from accreditation mandates while providing guidance for navigating challenges and pitfalls that WPAs may encounter within shifting and often volatile local, regional, and national contexts. In addition to providing examples of how others in the profession might approach such work, Reclaiming Accountability addresses assessment requirements beyond those in the writing program itself. It will be of interest to department heads, administrators, writing program directors, and those involved with writing teacher education, among others.

Wendy Sharer , Tracy Ann Morse, Michelle F. Eble, and William P. Banks are writing faculty at East Carolina University. When their program facing reaccreditation in 2013, they chose to address the process as an opportunity to garner institutional support for revisions to their composition and writing across the curriculum programs.

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Relocating Authority Japanese Americans Writing to Redress Mass Incarceration Mira Shimabukuro “A significant, often beautifully written book . . . Relocating Authority will make an important contribution to the field.” —J ohn Duffy, University of Notre Dame

elocating Authority examines the ways Japanese Americans have continually used writing to respond to the circumstances of their community’s mass imprisonment during World War II. Using both Nikkei cultural frameworks and community-specific history for methodological inspiration and guidance, Mira Shimabukuro shows how writing was used privately and publicly to individually survive and collectively resist the conditions of incarceration. Examining a wide range of diverse texts and literacy practices such as diary entries, note-taking, manifestos, and multiple drafts of single documents, Relocating Authority draws upon community archives, visual histories, and Asian American history and theory to reveal the ways writing has served as a critical tool for incarcerees and their descendants. Incarcerees not only used writing to redress the “internment” in the moment but also created pieces of text that enabled and inspired further redress long after the camps had closed. Relocating Authority highlights literacy’s enduring potential to participate in social change and assist an imprisoned people in relocating authority away from their captors and back to their community and themselves. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of ethnic and Asian American rhetorics, American studies, and anyone interested in the relationship between literacy and social justice.

The George and Sakaye Nikkei Aratani in the Americas Series, Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, general editor

Mira S himabukuro is lecturer in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at University of Washington, Bothell, where she teaches courses on the politics of language, literacy, and writing. Her creative work has been published in such journals as CALYX, Bamboo Ridge Quarterly, and Raven Chronicles, while her scholarship can be found in College English and Representations: Doing Asian American Rhetoric. December $26.95s, Paperback, 6” x 9” ISBN: 9781607324003 $21.95, ebook E-ISBN: 9781607324010 248 pages 6 figures

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Repurposing Composition Feminist Interventions for a Neoliberal Age Shari J. Stenberg “Insightful, well-written, and a valuable contribution to feminist rhetoric and composition, especially feminist writing pedagogy and feminist writing program administration.” —Elizabeth Flynn, Michigan Technological University

In Repurposing Composition, Shari J. Stenberg responds

to the increasing neoliberal discourse of academe through the feminist practice of repurposing. In doing so, she demonstrates how tactics informed by feminist praxis can repurpose current writing pedagogy, assessment, public engagement, and other dimensions of writing education. Stenberg disrupts entrenched neoliberalism by looking to feminism’s long history of repurposing “neutral” practices and approaches to the rhetorical tradition, the composing process, and pedagogy. She illuminates practices of repurposing in classroom moments, student writing, and assessment work, and she offers examples of institutions, programs, and individuals that demonstrate a responsibility approach to teaching and learning as an alternative to top-down accountability logic. Repurposing Composition is a call for purposes of work in composition and rhetoric that challenge neoliberal aims to emphasize instead a public-good model that values difference, inclusion, and collaboration.

Shari J. Stenberg is associate professor of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She is the author of Composition Studies through a Feminist Lens and Professing and Pedagogy: Learning the Teaching of English. September $22.95s, Paperback, 6” x 9” ISBN: 9780874219913 $17.95, ebook E-ISBN: 9781607323884 176 pages

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Survivance, Sovereignty, and Story Teaching American Indian Rhetorics Edited by Lisa King, Rose Gubele, and Joyce Rain Anderson “Survivance, Sovereignty, and Story is a necessary call for pedagogical change in the way students learn about native peoples. For too long, teachers have relied on colonial narratives to explain native histories and cultures instead of incorporating native expressions of survivance into their curriculums. The important collection assembled by King, Gubele, and Anderson offers classroom strategies on how to combat cultural appropriations and stereotypes. By using a spectrum of native rhetorics—art, song, oral testimonies, literature, and activist commentary—indigenous voices and perspectives can be placed at the forefront of teaching about indigenous realities.” —Devon Mihesuah, Cora Lee Beers Price Professor, University of Kansas

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ereignty and of the diversity of Native American communities, Survivance, Sovereignty, and Story offers a variety of ways to teach and write about indigenous North American rhetorics. These essays introduce indigenous rhetorics, framing both how and why they should be taught in US university writing classrooms. Contributors promote understanding of American Indian rhetorical and literary texts and the cultures and contexts within which those texts are produced. Chapters also supply resources for instructors, promote cultural awareness, offer suggestions for further research, and provide examples of methods to incorporate American Indian texts into the classroom curriculum. Survivance, Sovereignty, and Story provides a decolonized vision of what teaching rhetoric and writing can be and offers a foundation to talk about what rhetoric and pedagogical practice can mean when examined through American Indian and indigenous epistemologies and contemporary rhetorics.

C ontributors Joyce Rain A nderson

Lisa King

Resa Crane B izzaro

Kimberli Lee

Qwo-Li Driskill

Malea D. Powell

Janice Gould

A ndrea R iley-M ukavetz

Rose Gubele A ngela Haas Jessica Safran H oover

Gabriela Raquel Ríos Sundy Watanabe

Lisa K ing is assistant professor in the English Department at the University of Tennessee. Rose Gubele is director of freshman composition and assistant professor of English at the University of Central Missouri. Joyce Rain Anderson is associate professor of English and faculty associate for the Pine Ridge Partnership at Bridgewater State University. November $24.95s, Paperback, 6” x 9” ISBN: 9780874219951 $19.95, ebook E-ISBN: 9780874219968 240 pages

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Tutoring Second Language Writers Edited by Shanti Bruce and Ben Rafoth “A valuable contribution to the training of new and experienced tutors as they navigate the complexities of working with the more global, linguistically diverse student populations that are part of today’s colleges and universities.” —Christina Ortmeier -Hooper, University of New Hampshire

Tutoring Second Language Writers, a complete update

Contributors Jocelyn Amevuvor

Glenn Hutchinson

Rebecca Day Babcock

Pei-Hsun Emma Liu

Valerie M. Balester

Bobbi Olson

Shanti Bruce

Pimyupa W. Praphan

Frankie Condon

Ben Rafoth

Michelle Cox

Jose L. Reyes M edina

Jennifer Craig

Guiboke Seong

Kevin Dvorak

Elizabeth (Adelay) Witherite

Paula Gillespie

December $26.95s, Paperback, 6” x 9” ISBN: 9781607324065 $21.95, ebook E-ISBN: 9781607324140 288 pages

of Bruce and Rafoth’s 2009 ESL Writers, is a guide for writing center tutors that addresses the growing need for tutors who are better prepared to work with the increasingly international population of students seeking guidance at the writing center. Drawing upon philosopher John Dewey’s belief in reflective thinking as a way to help build new knowledge, the book is divided into four parts. Part 1: Actions and Identities is about creating a proactive stance toward language difference, thinking critically about labels, and the mixed feelings students may have about learning English. Part 2: Research Opportunities demonstrates writing center research projects and illustrates methods tutors can use to investigate their questions about writing center work. Part 3: Words and Passages offers four personal stories of inquiry and discovery, and Part 4: Academic Expectations describes some of the challenges tutors face when they try to help writers meet readers’ specific expectations. Advancing the conversations tutors have with one another and their directors about tutoring second language writers and writing, Tutoring Second Language Writers engages readers with current ideas and issues that highlight the excitement and challenge of working with those who speak English as a second or additional language.

Shanti Bruce is associate professor and writing program administrator at Nova Southeastern University, where she earned the Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award. She coedited ESL Writers: A Guide for Writing Center Tutors and Creative Approaches to Writing Center Work, both honored by the International Writing Centers Association with its Outstanding Scholarship Award for Best Book/Major Work. Ben Rafoth is Distinguished University Professor and director of the writing center at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where he also teaches graduate courses in the composition and TESOL program. He is the editor of A Tutor’s Guide: Helping Writers One to One and coeditor of ESL Writers: A Guide for Writing Center Tutors.

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Kukulcan’s Realm Urban Life at Ancient Mayapán Marilyn A. Masson and Carlos Peraza Lope “Kukulcan’s Realm is quite simply the best study of an archaeological site in northern Yucatan to have appeared in the past thirty years. The careful work by the authors opens a surprising number of new vistas on Mayapán’s organization, function, and development. Deploying the full range of modern archaeological tools it provides a rich and complex picture of this ancient capital, in the process setting a new standard for archaeological reporting.” —William Ringle, Davidson College New in Paperback

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Aztec Philosophy

Marilyn A. Masson is professor of anthropology at the University of Albany, State University of New York, and codirector of the Economic Foundations of Mayapán Project. C arlos P eraza Lope is project director with Mexico’s Instituto Nacional de Antropoloġa in Mrida, Yucatán, and codirector of the Economic Foundations of Mayapán Project. August $39.95s, Paperback, 6” x 9” ISBN: 9781607324270 $31.95, ebook E-ISBN: 9781607323204 688 pages 156 figures

Understanding a World in Motion James Maffie “In this comprehensive study, James Maffie offers much more than an introduction to Aztec philosophy. For the reader unfamiliar with the Náhuatl-speaking people of the Central Valley of Mexico, Aztec Philosophy offers a close examination of Nahua life, thought, and culture; for the anthropologist and Mesoamericanist, it offers a philosophical lens through which to examine and evaluate standard interpretations of Aztec life and society; for the student of philosophy, it reconstructs a systematic and coherent worldview and provides enough material to pursue graduate-level research; and for any reader, it is a model of how to bring multiple disciplines to bear on a topic that is beyond the scope of any one discipline.” —Robert Eli Sanchez, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews New in Paperback

James Maffie is a visiting associate professor in the Department of Philosophy and affiliate of the Latin American Studies Program at the University of Maryland. September $34.95s, Paperback, 6” x 9” ISBN: 9781607324614 $27.95, ebook E-ISBN: 9781607322238 608 pages

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The Arapaho Language Andrew Cowell and Alonzo Moss Sr. “The combined efforts of Andrew Cowell and Alonzo Moss have not only produced a very important work on the Arapaho language but also a work that may be the most comprehensive grammatical analysis of Arapaho in print. While the book will be of substantial interest to linguists studying Algonquin languages, particularly those spoken in the plains, Cowell and Moss have put together a work that can also be useful for students hoping to learn Arapaho.” Andrew Cowell is a professor of linguistics at the University of Colorado. Alonzo Moss Sr. is a native speaker of Arapaho from Wyoming who has worked extensively to teach and document the language on the Wind River Reservation. December $34.95s, Paperback, 6” x 9” ISBN: 9781607324645 $27.95, ebook E-ISBN: 9780870819940 540 pages

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The Social Experience of Childhood in Ancient Mesoamerica Edited by Traci Ardren and Scott R. Hutson

T raci A rdren is professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Miami. Scott R. Hutson is associate professor in anthropology and international studies at the University of Kentucky.

“This book fills a clear gap in our knowledge concerning children and childhood in the pre-contact period. The essays cover many regions of Mesoamerica, although they focus on the Maya and Nahua. Taken as a whole, these are fascinating glimpses of children and childhood and serve well to both summarize much of the current research and to provide a point of departure for future research.” —J ohn F. Schwaller, State University of New York, Albany New in Paperback

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Mercury and the Making of California Mining, Landscape, and Race, 1840–1890 Andrew Scott Johnston “An outstanding contribution to our understanding of the history of the mercury industry in California and how it changed the development of California and the American West.” —Donald L. Hardesty , Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of Nevada, Reno New in Paperback Mining the American West Series, Duane A. Smith, Robert A. Trennert, and Liping Zhu, general editors

A ndrew Scott Johnston holds a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley, and is an associate professor in the Department of Architecture at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou, China. O ctober $22.95, Paperback, 6” x 9” ISBN: 9781607324621 $17.95s, ebook E-ISBN: 9781607322436 296 pages

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Jeannette Rankin A Political Woman James J. Lopach and Jean A. Luckowski “A balanced, warts-and-all biography of the woman who not only paved the way to Congress for others but was a kingpin (is there such a thing as a queenpin?) of Montana’s suffrage movement. Authors Lopach and Luckowski ably flesh out the profile of a flinty, resourceful politician, for whom the ends often justified the means.” —H istory Wire

“The most comprehensive examination yet of Rankin’s complex personality, circumstances, and personal and political choices. . . . Readers will appreciate the complex personality that emerges from these pages.” —O regon Historical Quarterly

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