University Press of Colorado: Recent submissions
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Detachment from place: beyond an archaeology of settlement abandonment
The first comparative and interdisciplinary volume on settlement abandonment, focusing on materiality, ideology, environment, and social construction of space. Case studies from around the world and time periods, shedding ... -
Anthropomorphic imagery in the Mesoamerican highlands: gods, ancestors, and human beings
Mexican, North American, and European researchers explore the meanings and functions of two-and three-dimensional human representations in pre-Columbian communities of Mexican highlands. They demonstrate the potential of ... -
Rewriting Maya religion: Domingo de Vico, k'iche' Maya intellectuals, and the Theologia indorum
Reconstructs the original Christian theology written in the Americas: the 1,400-page Theologia Indorum (Theology for the Indians) written in K'iche' Maya by Friar Domingo de Vico in 1554. Tracing how the Dominican missionaries ... -
Historicizing fear: ignorance, vilification, and othering
A historical interrogation from a global perspective of the use of fear to vilify and persecute groups and individuals. Offering a look at racism, fearful framing, oppression, and marginalization, and how 'the Other' is ... -
Indigenous graphic communication systems: a theoretical approach
Challenges Western academic views on what writing is and explores how these concepts can be improved by analyzing the sophisticated graphic communication systems found in Central Mesoamerica and Andean South America. ... -
Rituals and sisterhoods: single women's households in Mexico, 1560-1750
An approach to lingering views on single, plebeian women in Latin American historiography and specifically Mexico. Major revelations that single women in lower echelons of society in early to mid-colonial Mexico were able ... -
Thanks for watching: an anthropological study of video sharing on YouTube
YouTube hosts one billion visitors monthly and sees more than 400 hours of video uploaded every minute. An anthropological perspective on this mediated social environment, demonstrating how core concepts from anthropolog ... -
Pleas and petitions: Hispano culture and legislative conflict in territorial Colorado
Sheds new light on political obstacles, cultural conflicts, and institutional racism experienced by Hispano legislators in the wake of legal establishment of the Territory of Colorado. Reexamines the transformation of some ... -
Update culture and the afterlife of digital writing
Explores "neglected circulatory writing processes" to understand why and how digital writers compose, revise, and deliver arguments that undergo (sometimes constant) revision. Also looks at how digital writers respond to ... -
(Re)considering what we know: learning thresholds in writing, composition, rhetoric, and literacy
Continues a discipline-wide discussion about identifying key concepts and ideas of writing studies and the relevance of doing so within and beyond the discipline by considering threshold concepts as a framework, considering ... -
Work of teaching writing: learning from fiction, film, and drama, The
Shifts conversation from how teachers are portrayed in novels, films, and plays to how teaching is dramatized. Harris considers scenes of instruction from different stages of the writing process and exposes what fiction, ... -
More than a moment: contextualizing the past, present, and future of MOOCs
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) looked poised to revolutionize higher education, but problems shifted them into a less relevant model. Krause explores MOOCs lingering impact on distance learning in higher education, ... -
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 ...
