University Press of Colorado: Recent submissions
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Return to Ixil: Maya society in an eighteenth-century Yucatec town
An examination of 100+ previously unstudied colonial-era Maya wills from the Yucatec town of Ixil. These testaments--some of the only surviving documentation of colonial inhabitation--offer unprecedented depictions of ... -
Seeking conflict in Mesoamerica: operational, cognitive, and experiential approaches
Focuses on the conflicts of the Maya, providing a holistic history of hostilities, and comparing them to neighboring Mesoamerican villages. Explores varied stories of past conflicts through artifacts, texts, and images. ... -
Clever maids, fearless Jacks, and a cat: fairy tales from a living oral tradition
Passed on orally between generations as a community tradition, these sensitive and artful tales don't appear anywhere in print. Features ethnopoetic transcriptions from authors to give authentic accounts of "living" oral ... -
Retelling trickster in Naapi's language
An examination of Niitsitapisinii (Blackfoot) origin stories about one of the powerful and unpredictable creators in Niitsitapii consciousness: Naapi. Through in-depth linguistic analysis, Howe reinterprets the earliest ... -
Changing the subject: a theory of rhetorical empathy
Explores ways of engaging across difference by studying the concept of empathy from a rhetorical perspective. Considers how empathy can be deliberate, conscious choice to understand others through listening and exploration ... -
Early holistic scoring of writing: a theory, a history, a reflection
During the educational accountability movement of the 1980s/1990s, holistic scoring became known as the fairest and most efficient ways to assess writing performance. Addressing the history of holistic assessment in the ... -
Reinventing (with) theory in rhetoric and writing studies: essays in honor of Sharon Crowley
Scholarship that takes up and extends the practices of inventive theorizing characterized by Crowley's work. Showing that theory is a continual rhetorical process that is indispensable for understanding situations and their ... -
Folklorist in the marketplace: conversations at the crossroads of vernacular culture and economics, The
Voices from multiple disciplines consider how economics shape and are shaped by folk groups and academic disciplines and goes far beyond the well-trod examinations of material culture to look closely at the historical and ... -
Magnifier: poems
A magnifier praises what's larger and a magnifier concentrates poisons. Brandon Krieg's Magnifier is a book of spirits invoked by destroyers. It trains its gaze on the deep dependencies we are urged daily to hide from ... -
Objects of survivance: a material history of the American Indian school experience
Reframes the Bratley collection showing how tribal members have embraced it as their past and reclaimed it as contemporary identity. Bratley was an Indian school teacher charged with forcibly assimilating Native Americans. ... -
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Verging cities: poems, The
"From undocumented men named Angel, to angels falling from the sky, Natalie Scenters-Zapico's gripping debut collection, The Verging Cities, is filled with explorations of immigration and marriage, narco-violence and ... -
Kiss of death: contagion, contamination, and folklore, The
Disease is a social issue, not just a medical issue. Using specific legends and rumors, and exploring beliefs and practices that permeate notions of contagion and contamination, Kitta offers insight into vernacular conceptions ... -
Weathering the storm: independent writing programs in the age of fiscal austerity
Assesses the socio-economic and political conditions that surrounded the rise of independent writing programs since the 2008 financial collapse. Looking at institutional conditions and challenges programs have faced in the ... -
Toward translingual realities in composition: (re)working local language representations and practices
A multi-year ethnographic study of first-year writing programs in Lebanon and Washington State--respectively, a country where English isn't the language of instruction and a state in which English is dominant--to examine ... -
Explanation points: publishing in rhetoric and composition
A curated archive of disciplinary knowledge and best practices for publishing in rhetoric and composition. Covering a variety of topics in an approachable, conversational tone, that demonstrates how writing faculty from ... -
Reformers, teachers, writers: curricular and pedagogical inquiries
Exploring the distinction between curriculum and pedagogy focused on curriculum and its importance in many contexts in which writing plays a role. Using a mixed-methods approach of quantitative, qualitative, textual, ... -
Writing across cultures
New and experienced teachers examine ways their training has--or has not--prepared them for issues of race, power, and authority in classrooms. Includes activities to examine issues such as white privilege, and racism in ...
