Authors:John,Jr. Collier, Malcolm Collier,
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Keywords: method, research, photography, anthropology, visual
Number of Pages: 266
Published: 1986-10-01
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0826308996
ISBN-13: 9780826308993

First published in 1967, Visual Anthropology has become a classic in its field, invaluable not only for anthropologists but for anyone using photography, film, and video to understand human behavior and culture. This completely revised and expanded edition brings the technical information up to date and includes the insights the Colliers have gained from nearly thirty-five additional years of collective teaching and research experience since the first edition.

Author: Herbert S. Klein
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Keywords: colonial, mexico, peru, bolivia, expenditures, income, finances, spanish, empire, royal, american
Number of Pages: 221
Published: 1998-02
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0826318320
ISBN-13: 9780826318329

This volume is the first to use treasury records to analyze and interpret the evolution of royal income and expenditure in Mexico, Peru, and Bolivia during the eighteenth century. These official statistics are invaluable for defining the economic evolution of Spanish America. Understanding the economic history of these key regions helps delineate long-term trends in everything from government revenues and expenditures to the growth and decline of regional economies.   The records Klein taps were the king’s private source of information and his guarantee that his taxes were being c

Author: Keith H. Basso
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Keywords: among, western, apache, language, landscape, sits, places, wisdom
Number of Pages: 191
Published: 1996-08-01
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0826317243
ISBN-13: 9780826317247

This remarkable book introduces us to four unforgettable Apache people, each of whom offers a different take on the significance of places in their culture. Apache conceptions of wisdom, manners and morals, and of their own history are inextricably intertwined with place, and by allowing us to overhear his conversations with Apaches on these subjects Basso expands our awareness of what place can mean to people.Most of us use the term sense of place often and rather carelessly when we think of nature or home or literature. Our senses of place, however, come not only from our individual experien

Author: Richardson B. Gill
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Keywords: death, life, water, droughts, maya
Number of Pages: 484
Published: 2001-04-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0826327745
ISBN-13: 9780826327741

This innovative study argues that the collapse of Classic Maya civilization was driven by catastrophic drought. Between A.D. 800 and 1000, unrelenting drought killed millions of Maya people with famine and thirst and initiated a cascade of internal collapses that destroyed their civilization. Linking global, regional, and local climate change, the author explores how atmospheric processes, volcanism, ocean currents, and other natural forces combined to create the dry climate that pried apart the highly complex civilization in the tropical Maya Lowlands in the ninth and tenth centuries.Drawing

Author: Gladys A. Reichard
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Keywords: weavers, chanters, navajo, story, woman, spider
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 1997-04-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0826317936
ISBN-13: 9780826317933

This lively account of a pioneering anthropologist’s experiences with a Navajo family grew out of the author’s desire to learn to weave as a way of participating in Navajo culture rather than observing it from the outside. In 1930, when Gladys Reichard came to stay with the family of Red-Point, a well-known Navajo singer, it was unusual for an anthropologist to live with a family and become intimately connected with women’s activities. First published in 1934 for a popular audience, Spider Woman is valued today not just for its information on Navajo culture but as an early ex

Author: Thomas A. Britten
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Keywords: lightning, wind, people, apaches, lipan
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2009-03-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0826345867
ISBN-13: 9780826345868

Despite the significant role they have played in Texas history for nearly four hundred years, the Lipan Apaches remain among the least studied and least understood tribal groups in the West. Considered by Spaniards of the eighteenth century to be the greatest threat to the development of New Spain’s northern frontier, the Lipans were viewed as a similar risk to the interests of nineteenth-century Mexico, Texas, and the United States. Direct attempts to dissolve them as a tribal unit began during the Spanish period and continued with the establishment of the Republic of Texas in 1836. Fro

Authors:Mary Ann Irwin, James F. Brooks,
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Keywords: west, american, gender, women
Number of Pages: 447
Published: 2004-10-30
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0826335993
ISBN-13: 9780826335999

In 1990 the Coalition for Western Women’s History inaugurated the Joan Jensen-Darlis Miller Prize to recognize outstanding scholarship on gender and the experiences of women in the North American West. Since then, the Jensen-Miller Prize committees have considered nearly two hundred submissions, and chosen thirteen for the skill and imagination with which the authors conducted research in original materials or reinterpreted a major problem in the field. Each piece was done with grace and style, and shaped the field for future historians. Women and Gender in the American West collects the