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Ricardo J. Alvarez-Pimentel
Counterrevolutionary Women

Following the Mexican Revolution of 1910, Mexico City's upper-class laywomen were at the helm of a formidable religious movement that strove to counter state-mandated secular education and its perceived c…

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Nicholas Barron
Applying Anthropology, Assembling Community

Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology

In Applying Anthropology, Assembling Community Nicholas Barron examines how members of the borderlands Pascua Yaqui Tribe selectively and creatively absorbed anthropologists, and anthropological research …

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David Benac
Rainforest Radicals

Rainforest Radicals presents the first history of one of the most innovative and successful environmental organizations of the late twentieth century. Rainforest Action Network emerged in 1985, when it to…

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Steve Bialostok
Playing to the End

Anthropology of Contemporary North America

In Playing to the End , Steve Bialostok immerses readers in the vibrant world of the card room at Denver's Hiawatha Davis Jr. Recreation Center, where a group of older Black men gather to play dominoes, e…

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Franz Boas,
The Franz Boas Papers, Volume 3

Franz Boas Papers Documentary Edition

Anthropology is inseparable from writing, whether in field diaries, letters, articles, or books. Among these writings, letters form paper bridges---holding a special place as material artifacts uniquely c…

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Margaret M. Crump
James Cowles Prichard of the Red Lodge

Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology

Margaret M. Crump offers the first thorough biography of British scientist and physician James Cowles Prichard (1786--1848), an intellectual giant in the developing human sciences, a pioneering psychiatri…

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Jason H. Dormady
Conflict and Correspondence

In the decades following the 1910 Mexican Revolution, Guadalajara faced immense demographic and economic transformation, stunning both longtime residents and new arrivals. The city's population nearly tri…

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Thomas Grillot
The Pursuit of Family

Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians

In The Pursuit of Family Thomas Grillot examines how Dakota and Lakota people on the Standing Rock Reservation have lived as families since the 1870s in what is now North Dakota and South Dakota. Grillot …

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William R. Handley
Horizons of Catastrophe in the American West

Postwestern Horizons

Horizons of Catastrophe in the American West contributes to discussions in the environmental humanities and western U.S. studies about how we read past cultural history in the light of our determined yet …

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Adam Kaul, Margaret E. Farrar
Becoming Utopia

Anthropology of Contemporary North America

Becoming Utopia centers on the tiny community of Bishop Hill, Illinois, whose marketing materials call it "Utopia on the Prairie," home to a radical communal religious sect that emigrated from S…

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Kirsten Leng
Pleasure, Play, and Politics

Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Pleasure, Play, and Politics is the first book to examine the roles humor played in U.S. feminism during the late twentieth century. Based on extensive archival research, it brings to light the stunning, …

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Roberto L. Lenton
Confronting Water Insecurity

Confronting Water Insecurity provides an account of the role of multilateral cooperation and global institutions in transforming science, policy, and practice for water security from 1945 to 2024, a perio…

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Valerie Sherer Mathes
Mary Louise Eldridge

In the fall of 1891 Mary Louise Eldridge and Mary Raymond were sent by the Women's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church to work among the Navajos living along the San Juan River in no…

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Molly Littlewood McKibbin
Shades of Gray

Borderlands and Transcultural Studies

Named a 2019 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleIn Shades of Gray Molly Littlewood McKibbin offers a social and literary history of multiracialism in the twentieth-century United States. She examines the Af…

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Ella Mingazova
Narrative Slowness As Effect

Frontiers of Narrative

Slowness and its related concepts of rhythm and pace are understudied topics in narrative theory. Whereas readers typically invoke narrative rhythm to describe the experiential sense that a narrative acce…

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Andrea R. Morrell
Prison Town

Anthropology of Contemporary North America

Elmira, a town of about twenty-six thousand people in central New York, is in some ways a typical town-with quiet, tree-lined residential streets, an art museum, local coffee shops, and a small college. T…

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Loren Michael Mortimer
Crossings at the Great Waterway

Borderlands and Transcultural Studies

Crossings at the Great Waterway recovers the deep, continuous history of the St. Lawrence River as an Indigenous place-world of diplomacy, ecology, and endurance. Spanning from the retreat of the glaciers…

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David Andrew Nichols
To Be Men of Business

New Visions in Native American and Indigenous Studies

Capitalism during the American colonial era was an economic system known primarily for dispossessing and exploiting Indigenous peoples. Some Indigenous nations, however, learned to use its primary feature…

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Ulices Pina
Rebellious Citizens

Confluencias

In Rebellious Citizens Ulices Piña shows that democracy in Mexico has never been the exclusive domain of elites, nor confined to the ballot box. Focusing on the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution of 1910…

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Susie S. Porter
Senorita Telefonista

Engendering Latin America

In Señorita Telefonista Susie S. Porter recounts the dynamic role of telephone operators in labor organizing in early twentieth-century Mexico City, taking us from switchboards to union halls and into the…

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