The University of Utah Press
SPRING/SUMMER 2025
Archaeology/Anthropology 8-12
Biography 5
Indigenous Studies 8
Memoir 1, 4
Mormon Studies 5
Nature & Environment 1-3
Poetry 7
Religious Studies 5
Sustainability 6
Utah History 4-5
Western History 2
Distribution Partners 13
Featured Backlist 14-16
June 2025, 226 pp, 5.5 x 8.5
eBook 978-1-64769-227-8
Paper 978-1-64769-226-1 $24.95
Also of Interest
Interwoven
Junipers and the Web of Being
Kristen Rogers-Iversen
978-1-60781-591-4 $24.95
We Aspired
The Last Innocent Americans
Pete Sinclair
978-1-60781-565-5 $19.95
NATURE & ENVIRONMENT/MEMOIR
The Mountain
Journeys in High Places
Robin Patten
Exploring the complex kinship between mountains and human thought, traditions, and ways of being
Mountains have always captured the human imagination. The Mountain takes readers into higher realms, exploring the complex kinship between mountains and human thought, traditions, and ways of being. Told through the author’s own journeys, the narrative ranges across cultures, often with iconic naturalists, to consider how varied ideas and experiences relate to mountains—from sacred to scientific, romantic to places of retreat, to simply home—and are all facets of the same intricate topography.
No matter where one starts on the spectrum of understanding, an intimate encounter with a mountain leads to a broader perspective. High places create a simultaneous humbleness at our human insignificance and a sense of belonging within the greater world. That quality of belonging, and the associated commitment to caring for the planet, has never been more important than it is today.
A freelance writer, naturalist, and teacher, Robin Patten has spent years exploring and writing about some of the world’s great mountains. She received the John Burroughs Nature Essay Award for “The Carcass Chronicle.” Her writing has appeared in the Guardian and the Georgia Review, among others.
“This book combines beautiful nature writing with scientific observations to overcome the dichotomy between feelings and rational thought, to encourage a more comprehensive and deeply felt experience of the natural world.”
—Edwin Bernbaum, author of Sacred Mountains of the World
March 2025, 288 pp, 6 x 9 15 illustrations, 1 map
eBook 978-1-64769-193-6
Paper 978-1-64769-192-9 $29.95
NATURE & ENVIRONMENT/WESTERN HISTORY
Southwestern National Monuments
Frank Pinkley and the Rise of the National Park System Will Moore
Detailing an essential and often unacknowledged arm of the burgeoning National Park Service
“The eloquent Will Moore has provided us with a much-needed history of America’s outstanding southwestern national monuments. Moore takes us back to the wild and woolly early days of Canyon de Chelly, Bandelier, Walnut Canyon, and two dozen other sites when they were managed by a lone part-time employee with little pay or resources. It’s an excellent history, both of the Indigenous people who knew the sites as home, and the rangers charged with keeping vandals and pot hunters at bay.”
—Steve Kemp, author of An Exaltation of Parks: John D. Rockefeller Jr.’s Crusade to Save America’s Wonderlands
“An engaging discussion of the little-known, often quirky, but highly dedicated individuals who watched over some of our most important national monuments through a period of benign neglect by the federal government. A fine addition to the literature of our national park system.”
—Frederick H. Swanson, author of Wonders of Sand and Stone: A History of Utah’s National Parks and Monuments
This volume uncovers the little-known legacy of Frank Pinkley, the first superintendent of the Southwestern National Monuments (SWNM)—a unique National Park Service unit established in 1923. Pinkley’s leadership and innovative approach helped protect and develop thirty diverse monuments, ranging from Montezuma Castle to White Sands, linked by miles of rough roads and united by their historical, archaeological, and natural significance. Drawing on SWNM Monthly Reports and other archived sources, Will Moore reconstructs the stories behind these monuments and their contributions to the nascent national park system. From the pioneering all-Navajo Mobile Unit of the Civilian Conservation Corps to visionary work in visitor education, Pinkley and his team helped to set a course for the protection of American landscapes. Southwestern National Monuments is essential reading for anyone passionate about America’s natural heritage and national parks.
Will Moore, now retired from the Arizona Education Association, serves as a winter-season volunteer at Tonto National Monument in Arizona. His work has appeared in the Journal of Arizona History and on the National Parks Conservation Association website.
Also of Interest
Wonders of Sand and Stone A History of Utah’s National Parks and Monuments
Frederick H. Swanson
978-1-60781-765-9 $59.95 978-1-60781-766-6 $34.95
Stories from Grand Canyon History
Don Lago
978-1-60781-314-9 $19.95
of Refuge and Resistance
Andrew Gulliford
978-1-64769-077-9 $29.95
Canyon of Dreams
Bears Ears Landscape
March 2025, 336 pp, 6 x 9
eBook 978-1-64769-225-4
Hardcover 978-1-64769-223-0 $70.00s
Paper 978-1-64769-224-7 $29.95
“A significant contribution to understanding the history of national parks, the importance of philanthropic giving to their conservation and development, and the history of John Rockefeller Jr.”
—Jonathan Foster, Great Basin College
An Exaltation of Parks
John D. Rockefeller Jr.’s Crusade to Save America’s Wonderlands
Steve Kemp
Uncovering the partnership that saved America’s natural treasures
America’s national parks are facing unprecedented challenges. With visitation pressures mounting and the National Park Service struggling to keep up, writer and former park ranger Steve Kemp looks toward one exceptionally effective historical example of conservation philanthropy and park building—the collaboration between John D. Rockefeller Jr. and NPS legends Stephen Mather, Horace Albright, and Arno Cammerer.
An Exaltation of Parks reveals the inspiring story of this collaboration, showing how the partnership transformed some of America’s most cherished national parks, including Acadia, Grand Teton, Great Smoky Mountains, Yellowstone, and Yosemite. It recounts Rockefeller’s lifelong dedication to conservation, digging into his own pockets and toiling as a volunteer to achieve his goals for converting private land into public use. Bringing to life the history and significance of America’s most magnificent landscapes, this volume is both a tribute to past conservation victories and a call to action for the future, emphasizing the need for continued vigilance to preserve these national treasures for generations to come.
Steve Kemp is a former seasonal ranger in Yellowstone and Denali and served as publications director for the Great Smoky Mountains Association. He has written for National Parks, Outside, Outdoor Life, and Smokies Life Journal, and is the author of Trees of the Smokies and Great Smoky Mountains Simply Beautiful.
Also of Interest
978-1-64769-033-5
978-1-60781-418-4
Florence R. Shepard and Susan March
978-1-60781-512-9 $29.95
Rediscovering National Parks in the Spirit of John Muir
Michael Frome
$24.95
The Grand Teton Reader Edited by Robert W. Righter
$19.95
Saving Wyoming’s Hoback
The Grassroots Movement that Stopped Natural Gas Development
March 2025, 248 pp, 5.5 x 8.5
12 b&w illustrations and 2 color maps
eBook 978-1-64769-215-5
Paper 978-1-64769-214-8 $24.95
Also of Interest
A Kennecott Story
Three Mines, Four Men, and One Hundred Years, 1897-1997
Charles Caldwell Hawley
978-1-60781-370-5 $30.00
The Lady in the Ore Bucket A History of Settlement and Industry in the Tri-Canyon Area of the Wasatch Mountains
Charles L. Keller
978-1-60781-021-6 $29.95
MEMOIR/UTAH HISTORY
The Last Miner
A Memoir of Alta’s Final Mining Explorations
Dick Fluehe with Dan Schilling
Explore Utah’s legendary lost and hidden silver mines with the last miner
The Last Miner is a captivating memoir chronicling the final days of mining exploration in Utah’s legendary Little Cottonwood Canyon during the 1950s. Through the eyes of Dick Fluehe, the last living miner to traverse these haunted, silver-laden tunnels, readers are immersed in a forgotten world beneath the internationally renowned Alta and Snowbird ski areas. With a knowledge as deep as the mines themselves, Dick recounts tales of collapsed shafts, gloriously jeweled stopes, and colorful personalities such as “Swingin’ Door,” “Slick,” and “The Bull,” who lived and died pursuing ore.
Edited by New York Times bestselling author Dan Schilling, The Last Miner offers a unique, firsthand account of the treacherous, adventurous, and humorous lives of mid-century miners. Both thrilling and insightful, this memoir is the mining equivalent of a float down the Mississippi with Mark Twain and an unprecedented insight into the history of American West mining.
After his initial subterranean foray, Dick Fluehe continued to explore Alta’s mines even as he worked in the heavy trucking industry over a long career. He lives in Murray, Utah.
Dan Schilling is a New York Times bestselling author and thirty-year special operations veteran of the U.S. military. He and his wife Julie call Alta home.
“Authentic, informative, and readable, this book will be widely enjoyed by general readers, mining historians, and industrial archaeologists alike.”
—Seth Button, Logan Simpson
May 2025, 304 pp, 6 x 9 39 illustrations
eBook 978-1-64769-220-9
Hardcover 978-1-64769-218-6 $85.00s
Paper 978-1-64769-219-3 $29.95
Also of Interest
The Women A Family Story
Kerry William Bate
978-1-60781-516-7 $39.95
A Frontier Life
Jacob Hamblin, Explorer and Indian Missionary
Todd M. Compton
978-1-60781-234-0 $24.95
The Life and Times of John Steele
Mormon Kingdom Builder
Kerry William Bate
From radical reformer to Mormon pioneer and mystic
Among the founders of Salt Lake City, Parowan, and Las Vegas, and an explorer of Zion National Park and the Grand Canyon, John Steele’s legacy is etched across the American West. The Life and Times of John Steele follows the remarkable journey of this Irish-born convert to Mormonism from his birth into scarcity through his final days in Kanarraville, Utah.
A fervent believer in utopian ideals, Steele sought to build an egalitarian Kingdom of Christ in the last days, becoming a key figure in early Utah history. His multifaceted roles—missionary, city founder, militia major, justice of the peace, and self-taught doctor using folk medicine, charms, and the occult—make his story unique. This meticulously researched biography offers new insights into pivotal events such as the Mountain Meadows Massacre and the communal economics of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, drawing from Steele’s extensive personal diaries and papers to bring his complex, colorful life and times to light.
Kerry William Bate’s work has appeared in Utah Historical Quarterly, Oral History Review, American Genealogist, Utah Holiday, Sunstone, and Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. He has authored or co-authored four books, including The Women: A Family Story
“Beautifully written. The author has a gift for finding moments of unique interest in Steele’s life and writings, and expressing these moments insightfully. This is one of the great Latter-day Saint biographies.”
— Todd Compton, independent historian, author of A Frontier Life: Jacob Hamblin, Explorer and Indian Missionary
March 2025, 32 pp., 5.5 x 8.5 7 illustrations
eBook 978-1-64769-246-9
Paper 978-1-64769-245-2 $7.95
Also of Interest
Law and the Living Colorado River
Robert W. Adler
978-1-64769-148-6 $7.95
Managing Climate Risks in Resilient Cities
Lawrence Susskind
978-1-60781-563-1 $7.95
SUSTAINABILITY
Our Energy Future
Lincoln Davies
Wallace Stegner Lecture
One of the greatest challenges of our time is the transition to clean energy. As climate change disrupts natural and human systems, a successful clean energy transition offers hope to a world upended by an overreliance on carbonbased fossil fuels.
In Our Energy Future, Lincoln Davies shines a bright light on the challenges the transition presents, including energy equity, political partisanship, the need for holistic solutions, and adaptability in the face of change. Our Energy Future makes the case for why the United States’ current transition to clean energy provides our world with something we so desperately need today: hope.
Lincoln Davies is a member of the law faculty at the University of Utah S. J. Quinney College of Law, where he is also executive director for energy, resource, and environment programs and co-director of the Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment.
August 2025, 76 pp., 6 x 8.5
eBook 978-1-64769-233-9
Paper 978-1-64769-232-2 $16.95
Also of Interest
B/RDS
Béatrice Szymkowiak
eBook 978-1-64769-118-9
Paper 978-1-64769-115-8 $16.95
Two Signatures
Sara Ellen Fowler
eBook 978-1-64769-187-5
Paper 978-1-64769-186-8 $16.95
POETRY
Estate Sale
Dan Murphy
Foreword by Ange Mlinko
Winner of the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry
In a house full of stanzas found in Estate Sale, Dan Murphy opens the door on the objects of his life: accumulated experience and imagination, trauma, personal and political history, inheritances that subtly unearth the forces of the world. Loss becomes a possession, language an act of reclamation, and form appears as the wearing of a dead man’s clothes. One poem reminds us “that things exist, even when out of sight.” In these poems, meaning is found, then, in the search for meaning, refuge in the search for refuge.
A former tradesman, Dan Murphy teaches creative writing and literature in Greater Boston. His individual poems have appeared in national and international literary journals. He lives with his wife, their two daughters, and a dog on a modest “estate.”
“Early in Dan Murphy’s elegiac debut, Estate Sale, the poet writes: ‘There is only so much sweetness / in this world. I kiss and kiss and it’s gone.’ Haunted by the inevitable grief we all must bear, these poems chart the relationship between what we’ve lost and our attempts to hold on. Here, the names of the dead become a talisman for the living, reminding us that what can be recollected can be savored, a moment of sweetness on the tongue. A cosmology of loss, container for the ineffable, Estate Sale is a lovely trove of ‘all the words we’ve never spoken.’”
—Natasha Trethewey, 19th poet laureate
“In Estate Sale Dan Murphy combines the gifts of the story teller, the singer, and the painter. Listen to these three lines, look at the details, and realize how much is happening: ‘A man standing alone at the lake’s edge / sees himself shuddering in water / when wind blows through the trees.’ This heartfelt book gives the pleasures of poetry with rare clarity and abundance.”
—Robert Pinsky, author of Proverbs of Limbo
“This book of lyric poems should get its author a film deal. Murphy’s poems are that textured, vivid, supenseful, stylish. This is a remarkable debut.”
—Dan Chiasson, author of The Math Campers
“Dan Murphy is a poet haunted by absences and the unsaid, across borders, form, languages (Irish and English). He offers us these powerful testaments of a hard life lived. Like its title, this book is full of the hidden and found, the remembered and forgotten: a motley catalogue of lamentations: a coke bottle, a painting by Salvador Dalí, boxing glove musk, even the repo man! Together they proffer words which claim no single nation except perhaps grandfathers who work the peat, a sparrow who dances on a saucer of ice, ghosts who whisper, ‘a bit of despair.’’”
—Sean Thomas Dougherty, author of Death Prefers the Minor Keys
September 2025, 240 pp, 6 x 9
3 b&w illus., 17 color illus.
eBook 978-1-64769-235-3
Hardcover 978-1-64769-234-6 $90.00s
Paperback 978-1-64769-236-0 $34.95
Also of Interest
Stories Find You, Places Know Yup’ik Narratives of a Sentient World
Holly Cusack-McVeigh
978-1-60781-582-2 $24.95
Retracing Inca Steps Adventures in Andean Ethnoarchaeology
Dean E. Arnold
978-1-64769-024-3 $34.95
ANTHROPOLOGY/FOLKLORE/ETHNOGRAPHY
When the Earth Was New
Memory, Materiality, and the Numic Ritual Life Cycle
Alex K. Ruuska
Explores the value of oral traditions and challenges entrenched beliefs about ethnogenesis in the Great Basin
In When the Earth Was New, Alex K. Ruuska explores riveting multigenerational memories of Numic-speaking communities that may extend back to the late Pleistocene. These diverse oral traditions describe geological, climatic, and ecological events that occurred over thousands of years and were passed down across many generations. Through the examination of place-based memories and the architecture of Numic knowledge, Ruuska demonstrates convergences of oral traditions, ethnography, ethnohistory, archaeology, and geology.
When the Earth Was New critically compares and considers multiple forms of knowledge that contribute to overlapping as well as disparate understandings of both recent and distant pasts in the regions of California, the Great Basin, and the Colorado Plateau. It works at balancing key themes in these regions’ histories within a more holistic framework, exploring ancient and modern strands of knowledge with the assistance of twenty-four Tribes and Consolidated Organizations.
Alex K. Ruuska specializes in ethnoarchaeology, oral traditions, sociocultural anthropology, collective healing, and Tribal engagement and consultation with Indigenous populations throughout North America. She is the founder and director of R. Haus Institute, LLC, an educational and healing institute committed to simple living and sustainable futures.
“This book is a treasure that bridges the gap between Indigenous and conventional academic discourse, particularly critical in a time of increasing Native American participation in matters of historic and cultural preservation.”
— David Hurst Thomas, American Museum of Natural History
September 2025, 280 pp, 8.5 x 10 9 b&w illus., 209 color illus.
eBook 978-1-64769-231-5
Hardcover 978-1-64769-230-8 $90.00s
Paperback 978-1-64769-247-6 $44.95
Also of Interest
Rock Art of Utah
Polly Schaafsma
978-0-87480-435-5 $22.95
Traces of Fremont Society and Rock Art in Ancient Utah
Steven R. Simms
978-1-60781-011-7 $34.95
ARCHAEOLOGY
Talking to the Rain
Paintings and Carvings on Stone in Chihuahuan Desert
Landscapes
Text by Polly Schaafsma, photographs by François Gohier
Explores ancient dialogue between desert farmers and the cosmos
In this visually stunning volume, Polly Schaafsma, leading authority on pre-Hispanic Indian rock imagery and kiva murals of the greater American Southwest, provides an insightful journey into the petroglyphs and rock paintings of the Jornada Mogollon farmers in southern New Mexico’s lower Chihuahuan Desert.
Talking to the Rain defines the Rio Grande Tradition, emphasizing the foundational Jornada Style as exemplified by its Mimbres-like imagery as well as its diverse and complex rain-making symbolism. By examining visual metaphors of cosmology and place-making, the book reveals an ancient dialogue between farmers and the cosmos that places rain for crops as its central concern. Exceptional color photographs by François Gohier invite readers to experience the landscapes and locations selected for creating these images. Both scholarly and accessible, Talking to the Rain offers a fresh perspective on cultural landscapes and the profound connections between people, art, and environment, making it essential for understanding Southwest cultural history.
Polly Schaafsma is an archaeologist with a specialty in ancient Native American rock art and kiva murals. She has published ten books and monographs and many journal articles and book chapters. She is the recipient of numerous awards as well as honorary degrees from the University of Colorado and the University of New Mexico.
A professional photographer for the past five decades, François Gohier was the sole photographer for Steven Simms’s book Traces of Fremont. François is a member of the American Rock Art Research Association, the Utah Rock Art Research Association, and the San Diego Rock Art Association. In 2015 he was presented with the Oliver Award from the ARARA for “Excellence in the Art & Science of Rock Art Photography.”
“This work adds to Schaafsma’s rich record of informing the larger public—in addition to field archaeologists and members of the academy—about the significance of Native American rock art and lifeways, in a sensitive and meaningful manner.”
— Jamie Hampson, University of Exeter
“Talking to the Rain is a much-needed contribution that will be of great interest to both archaeologists and rock art researchers, and to the general public as well.”
—Myles Miller, Versar
August 2025, 408 pp., 7 x 10 66 b&w illustrations, 19 tables eBook 978-1-64769-222-3 Hardcover 978-1-64769-221-6 $85.00s
Also of Interest
The Chaco Handbook
An Encyclopedic Guide
R. Gwinn Vivian and Bruce Hilpert
978-1-60781-195-4 $19.95
The Architecture of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Edited by Stephen H. Lekson
978-0-87480-948-0 $29.95
ARCHAEOLOGY
Capturing Water
Puebloan Resilience and Agricultural Sustainability in Chaco Canyon
R. Gwinn Vivian and Samantha G. Fladd
An esteemed archaeologist’s lifetime of work on water use in Chaco Canyon
The ability of the inhabitants of Chaco Canyon to sustain themselves through farming in an arid environment has long been a topic of debate among scholars. Building upon the work of his father, Gordon, R. Gwinn Vivian dedicated his lifetime of archaeological work to investigating water management and practices at Chaco. These efforts provide compelling evidence of the extensive use of canal irrigation systems and other water management techniques employed by the Ancestral Puebloan people by the ninth century and continuing through recent periods by Navajo farmers. Rich with archaeological data, ethnographic evidence, maps, and photographs, this volume challenges longstanding assumptions about Chaco Canyon’s agricultural potential. By highlighting the adaptability and ingenuity of the canyon’s early inhabitants, the book offers a fresh perspective on the role of water management in the development of Chaco Canyon as a sociopolitical center in the northern Southwest.
R. Gwinn Vivian was curator emeritus at the Arizona State Museum in Tucson. His extensive works on Chaco Canyon include The Chacoan Prehistory of the San Juan Basin; Wooden Ritual Artifacts from Chaco Canyon, New Mexico; and The Chaco Handbook: An Encyclopedic Guide
Samantha G. Fladd is assistant professor of anthropology and director of the Museum of Anthropology at Washington State University. Her work has appeared in several edited collections, including The Continuous Path: Pueblo Movement and the Archaeology of Becoming, and Birds of the Sun: Macaws and People in the U.S. Southwest and Mexican Northwest
“This volume on Chacoan water control systems documents unpublished research by Gordon Vivian, followed by that of Gwinn Vivian and associates, and is updated by more recent projects carried out by numerous colleagues. It is a significant contribution that will aid our understanding of the complexity of ancestral Puebloan social organization through time.”
— Frances Joan Mathien, University of New Mexico and volunteer, Chaco Culture National Historical Park
July 2025, 348 pp, 7 x 10 36 b&w illus., 47 color illus., 36 tables eBook 978-1-64769-229-2 Hardcover 978-1-64769-228-5 $80.00s
Also of Interest
Mogollon Communal Spaces and Places in the Greater American Southwest
Edited by Robert J. Stokes, Katherine A. Dungan, and Jakob W. Sedig 978-1-64769-125-7 $75.00s
The Archaeology of Place and Space in the West
Edited by Emily Dale and Carolyn L. White 978-1-64769-047-2 $60.00s
ARCHAEOLOGY
The Urban Questions
Interdisciplinary and Multiscalar Approaches to Investigating the Ancient Mesoamerican City
Edited by Lisa Johnson and Arianna Campiani
Connecting community, infrastructure, and expansion in ancient Mesoamerica
This groundbreaking volume presents a fresh and comprehensive look at the urban development of Mesoamerican cities. Moving beyond traditional methods, The Urban Questions adopts a dynamic, multidisciplinary approach to understanding the complexity and diversity of ancient settlements. By examining urbanism at multiple scales— from individual events to households, neighborhoods, and entire regions—it offers a nuanced view of how these cities evolved over time.
Contributors explore key themes such as community identity, infrastructure management, and the intersection of social, political, and economic processes. Rich in both spatial and material analysis, the chapters provide insights into the lived experience of ancient Mesoamerican inhabitants and the gradual expansion of their cities. With innovative archaeological methodologies and theoretical frameworks, this volume is an essential resource for scholars of Mesoamerican studies, archaeology, and urban history, shedding new light on the dynamic nature of ancient cities.
Lisa M. Johnson is assistant professor-in-residence at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She is a co-editor and author of Materializing Ritual Practices.
Arianna Campiani is assistant professor at Sapienza University of Rome. She is the co-author of Palenque
July 2025, 192 pp., 6 x 9
35 b&w illus., 8 color illus., 23 tables
eBook 978-1-64769-217-9
Hardcover 978-1-64769-216-2 $70.00s
Paper 978-1-64769-213-1 $35.00s
Also of Interest
Zooarchaeology and Field Ecology
A Photographic Atlas
Jack M Broughton and Shawn D. Miller
978-1-60781-485-6 $45.00s
Zooarchaeology and Conservation Biology
Edited by Lee Lyman & Kenneth P. Cannon
978-0-87480-801-8 $40.00s
Archaeology
Zooarchaeology Beyond Human Subsistence
Edited by Gillian L. Wong and Amy Milson Klemmer
Exploring facets of human-animal relationships beyond food
In this dynamic volume, Gillian L. Wong and Amy Milson Klemmer present seven groundbreaking chapters that delve into the diverse ways humans have interacted with animals in the past, as revealed through archaeological research into animal remains. Zooarchaeology Beyond Human Subsistence explores a wide range of topics, from the role of animals in trade to their influence on cultural development and the shared spaces humans and animals occupied. The studies also highlight the importance of community engagement, showcasing collaborations between archaeologists and heritage communities.
Ideal for professionals and enthusiasts in archaeology, anthropology, zoology, biology, ecology, history, and beyond, this book offers a fresh perspective on zooarchaeology, emphasizing human-animal bonds, trade, ritual, and environmental impacts. With Spanish-language translations for chapters on South America, this volume invites a broader audience to explore the intricate web of human-animal interactions throughout history, offering insights far beyond mere subsistence.
Gillian Wong is an anthropological archaeologist at the University of Texas at El Paso and an affiliated researcher at the University of Tübingen.
Amy Milson Klemmer is a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
“These chapters, wide ranging in their methodological, theoretical, thematic, and regional foci, provide a solid review of the potential zooarchaeological analyses have to explore questions about the human past.”
— Anneke Janzen, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Available now
697 pp., 125 illustrations
7.5 x 10.5
Paper 978-949847-47-5 $75.00s
Other volumes from NWAF
Distribution
Partner New from New World Archaeology Foundation
Chronicles of the New World Archaeological Foundation, 1952–1961
John E. Clark
Chronicles of the New World Archaeological Foundation, 1952-1961 was written to honor 70 years of the New World Archaeology Foundation’s (NWAF) existence. Paper 88 presents the inception of the NWAF in 1952 and its operation as a non-profit research foundation before it was incorporated into Brigham Young University (BYU) in 1961; it looks at events—and intents—behind the research published in the NWAF Papers series. The chronicles are primarily based on letters to and from the field. Letters are quoted throughout to allow past principal players to speak in their own voice and let their unique personalities and prejudices shine through. These initial players, in the face of frequent frustrations and diverse distractions, performed and published some useful research in southern Mesoamerica, particularly Chiapas, Mexico, during the foundation’s first decade.
Chiapa de Corzo, Mound 17
Comparative Analysis of a Salvage Excavation, Paper Number 80
Thomas A. Lee Jr., John Clark
978-1-94984-734-5 $20.00
The Archaeological Salvage of Mound 15, Chiapa de Corzo, Mexico Paper Number 81
Darlene Glauner, Suzanne Herman, John E. Clark
978-1-94984-724-6 $35.00
Excavations at Mound 3, Chiapa de Corzo, Chiapas, Mexico Paper Number 85
John E. Clark, et al.
978-1-94984-743-7 $80.00
Excavations in and around Mound 1, Chiapa de Corzo, Chiapas, Mexico Paper Number 87
Edited by John E. Clark
978-1-94984-746-8 $150.00
NEW IN PAPERBACK
Mediated Mormons
Shifting Religious Identities in the Digital Age
Rosemary Avance
In the early- to mid-2010s, Mitt Romney’s presidential candidacy, the hit Broadway musical The Book of Mormon, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ “I’m a Mormon” media campaign brought critical media attention to Mormonism. In this first lengthy treatment of Mormon identities as they intersect with their religious institution, the internet, and modernity during the so-called “Mormon Moment,” Rosemary Avance explores how LDS stakeholders challenged traditional notions of what it means to be Mormon, vying for control of their own public narratives.
Mediated Mormons uses a case study approach to consider various iterations of Mormon identity as presented by church authorities, faithful members, the secular media, and heterodox and former adherents. These often-conflicting perspectives challenge traditional models of LDS authority, dismantling a monolithic view of Mormons and offering a window into processes of social activism and institutional change in the internet era.
eBook 978-1-64769-207-0
Hardcover 978-1-64769-205-6 $75.00s Paper 978-1-64769-206-3 $29.95
A Million Miles
My Peace Corps Journey
Jody
Olsen
When Jody Olsen enlisted as a Peace Corps volunteer in Tunisia in 1966, she was fleeing familial tragedy and the stifling societal norms of her Salt Lake City upbringing. However, her service in Tunisia upended her religious and cultural beliefs and propelled her into a six-decade career with the Peace Corps, culminating in her directorship of the agency.
Olsen’s captivating memoir, A Million Miles, reveals the personal and professional challenges she faced throughout her career, which spanned the Reagan era, 9/11, and the Trump administration. She writes candidly about her struggles as a woman in leadership, as well as personal hardships such as the sudden death of her brother and her emotionally difficult divorce after her husband’s coming out. This memoir is a sharp, vulnerable portrait, a testament to the transformative power of leadership and self-discovery.
eBook 978-1-64769-198-1
Hardcover 978-1-64769-185-1 $44.95 Paper 978-1-64769-197-4 $24.95
Wild Forest Home
Stories of Conservation in the Pacific Northwest
Betsy L. Howell
Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, Betsy L. Howell spent her childhood exploring and thriving in old-growth coniferous forests. In the summer of 1986, she volunteered in Mt. Hood National Forest, surveying northern spotted owls. That summer position turned into three decades as a wildlife biologist with the U.S. Forest Service during a time of tremendous change within the agency.
The twenty-five essays in Wild Forest Home chronicle Howell’s career and personal experiences studying the wildlife of the Pacific Northwest. Howell toiled on fire crews, searched for rare species, helped to monitor fishers reintroduced to the Olympic Peninsula, tested amphibians for deadly diseases, became a writer, and mourned the deaths of her parents. This captivating memoir seamlessly blends story and science to reveal a unique portrait of the struggles and joys of one wildlife biologist.
eBook 978-1-64769-195-0 Paper 978-1-64769-194-3 $24.95
A Watershed Moment
The American West in the Age of Limits
Edited by Robert Frodeman, Evelyn Brister, & Luther Propst
The American West is often portrayed as a place of rugged, unending landscapes presenting us with boundless opportunities. But the land is more fragile and resources more finite than popular perceptions acknowledge. This collection of essays, A Watershed Moment, reveals tensions between a culture of economic growth and personal freedom and the ecological, economic, and social constraints set by community values and the land itself. As Westerners and their communities come up against these limits, the volume editors highlight issues of sustainability endemic to the region and to the nation as a whole.
The volume presents practical approaches to land use, land management, and community planning that are motivated by philosophical views on justice, quality of life, and sustainability in the American West. The contributors are from a variety of backgrounds and perspectives. The result is a compelling vision of place-based, policy-oriented sustainability across the West.
eBook 978-1-64769-204-9
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Sustainability for the Forgotten
Gary E. Machlis
Sustainability for the Forgotten is an incendiary book that confronts the history, policies, and practices of sustainability. It interrogates the usefulness of current sustainability approaches for the poorest of the poor, the chronic underclass, victims of natural disasters, refugees, the oppressed, and asks, how can we do better? With examples that range from the coffeelands of El Salvador to the coal country of American Appalachia, from the streets of Detroit to refugee camps in Greece and the upscale metro centers of the affluent, sustainability is examined with a critical eye and with an emphasis on insuring that the forgotten are heard.
At once well-researched and passionate, wide-ranging and sharply focused, Sustainability for the Forgotten is unlike any other book on the sustainability movement. Written with a distinctive voice that is reasoned, unflinching, and often poetic, the book challenges the sustainability movement to follow "a just and necessary path." The result is a provocative statement on the future of sustainability and a call to action that is ultimately hopeful.
eBook 978-1-64769-168-4
Hardcover 978-1-64769-166-0 $70.00s
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Sustainable Capitalism
Essential Work for the Anthropocene
Edited by Inara Scott
Capitalism has been linked to climate change, racism and slavery, wealth inequality, and the decline of democracy. At the same time, capitalism may have been instrumental in lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, facilitating vast technological innovations, and improving standards of living across the globe. As climate change accelerates and the world is threatened with existential crises, we must ask: Is capitalism incompatible with sustainability? While this question is as complex and urgent as it is resistant to simple answers, the contributors to this volume make the case that a more sustainable capitalism is within our reach. Topics in the volume range from an analysis of the foundations and definition of capitalism to the specific regulatory mechanisms that may be necessary to rein in its current, unsustainable trajectory. This book is essential reading for anyone concerned about the path we are on and how we might improve the lives of people around the globe.
eBook 978-1-64769-176-9
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Red Rock & Rawhide
Ranching in the Grand Staircase, Escalante Canyons, and Arizona Strip Country
Jerry D. Spangler & Mark E. DeGiovanni Miller
The red rock country of southern Utah, though used for many things, has for more than a century been synonymous with livestock ranching. Federal ownership and management of public lands there have led generations of socially isolated ranchers to mistrust federal officials and exhibit outright hostility toward environmentalists intent on removing livestock from the range, culminating in fierce rhetoric over the future of the American West.
Today, the relatively few cattle ranchers who continue to operate in southern Utah are part of a complex political and social mix of peoples and interests, as Indigenous nations, environmentalists, politicians, and tourists all have differing positions on land use in the region. In Red Rock and Rawhide, Jerry D. Spangler and Mark E. DeGiovanni Miller provide the first comprehensive examination of the history of livestock grazing in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
eBook 978-1-64769-124-0
Paperback 978-1-64769-123-3 $39.95
Ten Steps for Recording Pictographs & Petroglyphs
Methods and Technologies
Lawrence Loendorf & Nancy Medaris Stone
Pictograph and petroglyph sites, commonly identified as sacred by Indigenous communities, offer the potential of great insight into past belief systems and ritual activities if carefully recorded. In Ten Steps for Recording Pictographs and Petroglyphs, Lawrence Loendorf and Nancy Medaris Stone present their thorough and systematic ten-step guide to recording not just the imagery itself, but also the entire site amid which it is set.
Despite having survived for thousands of years, erosion, decay, and even vandalism are all threats to these important cultural sites. A field session involving documentation might be the only opportunity to record these unique and significant images. The ten steps laid out here offer a general overview of current best practices to maintain a scientific and professional documentation program.
eBook 978-1-64769-191-2
Paper 978-1-64769-190-5 $34.95
The Monumental Andes
Geology, Geography, and Ancient Cultures in the Peruvian Andes
Roseanne Chambers
When geologist Roseanne Chambers made her first visit to Machu Picchu in 2006, it sparked a deep fascination with the geology and culture of the Peruvian Andes. Amid the plethora of information available about the Andes Mountains, as well as the Incas and their ancestors, she was unable to find a book that specifically traced the geologic history of that landscape and how this history shaped ancient Andean societies. Consequently, she decided to write that book herself. At once approachable and informative, The Monumental Andes tells the history of the lofty mountains and civilizations that characterize the Central Andes. The book explores many interconnected aspects of ancient Andean life. From earthquake-resistant structures to shrines on the tops of active volcanoes, ancient Andeans left behind relics that amaze and inspire today.
eBook 9781647691738
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