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University Press of Colorado and Utah State University Press

Spring and Summer 2015

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The University Press of Colorado is a cooperative publish-ing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State University, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Regis University, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, Utah State University, and Western State Colorado University.

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Subject IndexArchaeology, Anthropology, 8–13, 23Colorado, Utah & the West, 1, 2, 4Folklore Studies, 7History, 2, 4, 5, 13Memoir, 4Natural History, 6Poetry, 3Travel, 1Writing Studies, 14–22

Front cover© Watercolors by George Hoshida, from Taken from the Paradise Isle (page 4)

contentSSpring/Summer 2015 Frontlist, 1–22New in Paperback, 23Order Information, 24

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Ways to the West

Tim Sullivan is a city planner, urban designer, and writer whose professional focus is the reshaping of cities and com-munities through alternative transpor-tation planning. He is the author of No Communication with the Sea: Searching for an Urban Future in the Great Basin. He lives in Salt Lake City with his wife and two children.

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In Ways to the West, Tim Sullivan embarks on a car-less road trip through the Intermountain West, exploring how the region is taking on what may be its greatest challenge: sustainable transporta-tion. Combining personal travel narrative, histori-cal research, and his professional expertise in urban planning, Sullivan takes a critical yet optimistic and often humorous look at how contemporary Western cities are making themselves more hospitable to a life less centered on the personal vehicle.

The modern West was built by the automobile, but so much driving has jeopardized the West’s mystic hold on the American future. At first, auto-mobility heightened the things that made the West great, but love became dependence, and depen-dence became addiction. Via his travels by bicycle, bus, and train through Las Vegas, Phoenix, Denver, Boise, Salt Lake City, and Portland, Sullivan cap-tures the modern transportation evolution tak-ing place across the region and the resulting ways in which contemporary Western communities are reinterpreting classic American values like mobility, opportunity, adventure, and freedom.

Finding a West created, lost, and reclaimed, Ways to the West will be of great interest to anyone curious about sustainable transportation and the history, geography, and culture of the American West.

How Getting Out of Our Cars Is Reclaiming America’s Frontier

Tim Sullivan

“This book should be read by every planner, transportation engineer, city commissioner, councilman, mayor, economic development director, and developer.”

—John inglish, former CEO, Utah Transit Authority

“A fascinating read that gives new insight into the transportation evolution that is now taking place across this region.”

—Wesley MArshAll, University of Colorado, Denver

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The Denver Artists Guild

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Stan Cuba, a graduate of Columbia University in New York, is associate

curator of the Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art in Denver. In addi-tion to curating and writing catalogs for many exhibits of regional art, he

has written John F. Carlson and Artists of the Broadmoor Academy and coauthored The Art of Charles Partridge Adams, The

Colorado Book, and Pikes Peak Vision: The Broadmoor Art Academy, 1919–1945.

hi s to ry Co l o r A d o Co l o r A d o, utA h & t h e We s t; hi s to ry

In 1928, the newly organized Denver Artists Guild held its inaugural exhibition in downtown Denver. Little did the participants realize that their initial effort would survive the Great Depression and World War II—and then outlive all of the group’s fifty-two charter members.

The guild’s founders worked in many media and pursued a variety of styles. In addition to the oils and watercolors one would expect were master-ful pastels by Elsie Haddon Haynes, photographs by Laura Gilpin, sculpture by Gladys Caldwell Fisher and Arnold Rönnebeck, ceramics by Anne Van Briggle Ritter and Paul St. Gaudens, and col-lages by Pansy Stockton. Styles included real-ism, impressionism, regionalism, surrealism, and abstraction. Murals by Allen True, Vance Kirkland, John E. Thompson, Louise Ronnebeck, and others graced public and private buildings—secular and religious—in Colorado and throughout the United States. The guild’s artists didn’t just contribute to the fine and decorative arts of Colorado; they enhanced the national reputation of the state.

Then, in 1948, the Denver Artists Guild became the stage for a great public debate pitting tradi-tional against modern. The twenty-year-old guild split apart as modernists bolted to form their own group, the Fifteen Colorado Artists. It was a semi-nal moment: some of the guild’s artists became great modernists, while others remained great traditionalists.

Enhanced by period photographs and repro-ductions of the founding members’ works, The Denver Artists Guild chronicles a vibrant yet over-looked chapter of Colorado’s cultural history. The book includes a walking tour of guild members’ paintings and sculptures viewable in Denver and elsewhere in Colorado, by Leah Ness and author Stan Cuba.

Its Founding Members; An Illustrated History

Stan CubaForeword by Hugh Grant

Introduction by Cynthia Jennings

Po e t ry

“In T. Zachary Cotler’s Supplice, humanism’s dialectic is itself a primary form of torture. Working inside the circuitry of thesis-antithesis, self-other, the poems collected here answer ’no’ to Keats’s questions in ’Ode on a Grecian Urn,’ confessing ’that truth / is beauty isn’t true.’ In a world become word, ’the eternal present eternally fails / to be trapped,’ and our poet-pilgrim is bound by dueling via negativa that chart the passage of d’ailleurs or elsewhere, where he finds history has located meaning’s trajectory. A not-ready-for-remnant-sonnet sequence as chilling as it is tutelary.”

Natalie Scenters-Zapico is from the sister cities of El Paso, Texas, United States, and Cd. Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. Her poems have appeared in journals including The Believer, American Poets, Prairie Schooner, West Branch, and Palabra.

Vance Kirkland, Red Mountain, 1947. Watercolor, casein and gouache.

Courtesy Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art.

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Co l o r A d o, utA h & t h e We s t; hi s to ry

Foreword by Hugh Grant Introduction by Cynthia Jennings

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Supplice

T. Zachary Cotler is the author of two books of poetry, House with a Dark Sky Roof and Sonnets to the Humans; a novel, Ghost at the Loom; and a critical monograph, Elegies for Humanism.

Ce n t e r f o r li t e r A ry Pu b l i s h i n gPo e t ry

Winner of the 2014 Colorado Prize for Poetry

T. Zachary Cotler

“In T. Zachary Cotler’s Supplice, humanism’s dialectic is itself a primary form of torture. Working inside the circuitry of thesis-antithesis, self-other, the poems collected here answer ’no’ to Keats’s questions in ’Ode on a Grecian Urn,’ confessing ’that truth / is beauty isn’t true.’ In a world become word, ’the eternal present eternally fails / to be trapped,’ and our poet-pilgrim is bound by dueling via negativa that chart the passage of d’ailleurs or elsewhere, where he finds history has located meaning’s trajectory. A not-ready-for-remnant-sonnet sequence as chilling as it is tutelary.”

—ClAudiA KeelAn, final judge

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The Verging Cities

Natalie Scenters-Zapico is from the sister cities of El Paso, Texas, United States, and Cd. Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. Her poems have appeared in journals including The Believer, American Poets, Prairie Schooner, West Branch, and Palabra.

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 mar-riage, narco-violence and femicide, and angels in the domestic sphere. Deeply rooted along the US-Mexico border in the sister cities of El Paso, Texas, and Cd. Juarez, Chihuahua, these poems give a brave new voice to the ways in which inter-national politics affect the individual. Composed in a variety of forms, from sonnet and epithalamium to endnotes and field notes, each poem distills vio-lent stories of narcos, undocumented immigrants, border patrol agents, and the people who fall in love with each other and their traumas.

Natalie Scenters-Zapico

Mountain West Poetry Series Stephanie G’Schwind & Donald Revell,

Series Editors

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Heidi Kim is assistant professor of English and comparative literature at

the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has published essays

on the food policies of the Japanese American incarceration camps and the legacy of Korematsu v. United States and

regularly teaches courses devoted to the history and literature of Japanese

American incarceration.

un i v e r s i t y Pr e s s o f Co l o r A d o Co l o r A d o, utA h & t h e We s t; hi s to ry; Me M o i r

Crafted from George Hoshida’s diary and mem-oir, as well as letters faithfully exchanged with his wife Tamae, Taken from the Paradise Isle is an inti-mate account of the anger, resignation, philosophy, optimism, and love with which the Hoshida family endured their separation and incarceration during World War II.

George and Tamae Hoshida and their children were an American family of Japanese ancestry who lived in Hawai’i. In 1942, George was arrested as a “potentially dangerous alien” and interned in a series of camps over the next two years. Meanwhile, forced to leave her handicapped eldest daugh-ter behind in a nursing home in Hawai’i, Tamae and three daughters, including a newborn, were incarcerated at the Jerome Relocation Center in Arkansas. George and Tamae regularly exchanged letters during this time, and George maintained a diary including personal thoughts, watercolors, and sketches. In Taken from the Paradise Isle these sources are bolstered by extensive archival documents and editor Heidi Kim’s historical contextualization, providing a new and important perspective on the tragedy of the incarceration as it affected Japanese American families in Hawai’i.

This personal narrative of the Japanese American experience adds to the growing testi-mony of memoirs and oral histories that illumi-nate the emotional, psychological, physical, and economic toll suffered by Nikkei as the result of the violation of their civil rights during World War II.

Taken from the Paradise Isle

The Hoshida Family StoryEdited by Heidi Kim

Foreword by Franklin Odo

The George and Sakaye Aratani Nikkei in the Americas Series

Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, General Editor

“From the Obatas to Hatsuko Mary Higuchi, Japanese American artists depicted their lives in American concentration camps as they sought to express the sorrows engendered by incarceration. All this and more is captured by Heidi Kim’s marvelous selection of George Hoshida’s artwork and correspondence in Taken from the Paradise Isle, which poignantly documents George’s desperate attempts to keep his family intact.”

—lAne ryo hirAbAyAshi, Asian American Studies, UCLA

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Including feminist Alice Dickerson Montemayor, San Antonio attorney Gus García, civil rights activist and scholar Ernesto Galarza, the subjects of these biographies include some of the most prominent idealists and actors of the time. Whether debating in a court of law, writing for a major newspaper, producing reports for gov-ernmental agencies, organizing workers, holding public office, or otherwise shaping space for the Mexican American identity in the United States, these subjects embody the core values and diversity of their generation.

More than a chronicle of personalities who left their mark on Mexican American history, Leaders of the Mexican American Generation cements this com-munity as a major player in the history of activism and civil rights in the United States. It is a rich col-lection of historical biographies that will enlighten and enliven our understanding of Mexican American history.

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Contributors

Co l o r A d o, utA h & t h e We s t; hi s to ry; Me M o i r

Crafted from George Hoshida’s diary and mem-oir, as well as letters faithfully exchanged with his wife Tamae, Taken from the Paradise Isle is an inti-mate account of the anger, resignation, philosophy, optimism, and love with which the Hoshida family endured their separation and incarceration during World War II.

George and Tamae Hoshida and their children were an American family of Japanese ancestry who lived in Hawai’i. In 1942, George was arrested as a “potentially dangerous alien” and interned in a series of camps over the next two years. Meanwhile, forced to leave her handicapped eldest daugh-ter behind in a nursing home in Hawai’i, Tamae and three daughters, including a newborn, were incarcerated at the Jerome Relocation Center in Arkansas. George and Tamae regularly exchanged letters during this time, and George maintained a diary including personal thoughts, watercolors, and sketches. In Taken from the Paradise Isle these sources are bolstered by extensive archival documents and editor Heidi Kim’s historical contextualization, providing a new and important perspective on the tragedy of the incarceration as it affected Japanese American families in Hawai’i.

This personal narrative of the Japanese American experience adds to the growing testi-mony of memoirs and oral histories that illumi-nate the emotional, psychological, physical, and economic toll suffered by Nikkei as the result of the violation of their civil rights during World War II.

Taken from the Paradise Isle

“From the Obatas to Hatsuko Mary Higuchi, Japanese American artists depicted their lives in American concentration camps as they sought to express the sorrows engendered by incarceration. All this and more is captured by Heidi Kim’s marvelous selection of George Hoshida’s artwork and correspondence in Taken from the Paradise Isle, which poignantly documents George’s desperate attempts to keep his family intact.”

—lAne ryo hirAbAyAshi, Asian American Studies, UCLA

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Leaders of the Mexican American Generation

Anthony Quiroz is professor of his-tory at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi. He is the author of Claiming Citizenship: Mexican Americans in Victoria, Texas.

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Leaders of the Mexican American Generation explores the lives of a wide range of influential members of the US Mexican American community between 1920 and 1965 who paved the way for major changes in their social, political, and economic sta-tus within the United States.

Including feminist Alice Dickerson Montemayor, San Antonio attorney Gus García, civil rights activist and scholar Ernesto Galarza, the subjects of these biographies include some of the most prominent idealists and actors of the time. Whether debating in a court of law, writing for a major newspaper, producing reports for gov-ernmental agencies, organizing workers, holding public office, or otherwise shaping space for the Mexican American identity in the United States, these subjects embody the core values and diversity of their generation.

More than a chronicle of personalities who left their mark on Mexican American history, Leaders of the Mexican American Generation cements this com-munity as a major player in the history of activism and civil rights in the United States. It is a rich col-lection of historical biographies that will enlighten and enliven our understanding of Mexican American history.

Biographical Essays

Edited by Anthony QuirozForeword by Arnoldo De León

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Ellen Wohl teaches geology at Colorado State University. She is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the

Geological Society of America and a Fulbright Fellow. She has received

the G. K. Gilbert Award from the Association of American Geographers

and the Kirk Bryan Award from the Geological Society of America and

has written nine books including Wide Rivers Crossed and Island of Grass.

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Transient Landscapes

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Landscape—the unique combination of landforms, plants, animals, and weather that compose any natural place—is inherently transient. Each essay in Transient Landscapes introduces this idea of a con-stantly metamorphosing global landscape, reveal-ing how to see the ubiquity of landscape transience, both that which results through Earth’s natural environmental and climatological processes and that which comes from human intervention.

The essays are grouped by type of environ-mental change: long-term, large-scale transforma-tion driven by geologic forces such as tectonic uplift and volcanism; natural variability at shorter time scales, such as seasonal flooding; and modifications resulting from human activities, such as timber harvest, land drainage, and pollution. Each essay is set in a unique geographic location—including such diverse places as New Zealand, Northern California, Costa Rica, and the Scottish Highlands—and is largely drawn from Wohl’s personal experi-ence researching in the field.

A combination of travel writing, nature writ-ing, and science writing, Transient Landscapes is a beautiful and thoughtful journey through the natu-ral world.

Insights on a Changing Planet

Ellen Wohl

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“An exemplary study—brimming with frequently hilarious and occasionally harrowing examples—challenging received notions that practical jokes are invariably simple, crude, and cruel. Practically Jok-ing is the definitive word on a vibrant, ubiquitous, complicated, and profoundly human phenomenon.”

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Practically Joking

Moira Marsh is the subject librarian for anthropology, sociology, folklore, and comparative literature at the Indiana University Bloomington Libraries. She holds a PhD in folklore from Indiana University, and her research on practi-cal jokes, cross-cultural approaches to laughter, and humor theory has been published in folklore journals, text-books, and encyclopedias.

utA h stAt e un i v e r s i t y Pr e s sfo l K l o r e st u d i e s

In Practically Joking, the first full-length study of the practical joke, Moira Marsh examines the value, artistry, and social significance of this ancient and pervasive form of vernacular expression.

Though they are sometimes dismissed as the lowest form of humor, practical jokes come from a lively tradition of expressive play. They can reveal both sophistication and intellectual satisfaction, with the best demanding significant skill and talent not only to conceive but also to execute. Practically Joking establishes the practical joke as a folk art form subject to critical evaluation by both practitio-ners and audiences, operating under the guidance of local aesthetic and ethical canons.

Marsh studies the range of genres that pranks comprise; offers a theoretical look at the reception of practical jokes based on “benign transgression”—a theory that sees humor as playful violation—and uses real-life examples of practical jokes in context to establish the form’s varieties and meanings as an independent genre, as well as its inextricable rela-tionship with a range of folklore forms. Scholars of folklore, humor, and popular culture will find much of interest in Practically Joking.

Moira Marsh

“An exemplary study—brimming with frequently hilarious and occasionally harrowing examples—challenging received notions that practical jokes are invariably simple, crude, and cruel. Practically Jok-ing is the definitive word on a vibrant, ubiquitous, complicated, and profoundly human phenomenon.”

—JAMes P. leAry, University of Wisconsin

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Rebecca Prentice is a lecturer in anthro-pology at the University of Sussex in

Brighton, UK. Her research on garment workers in Trinidad was funded by the

Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Economic and Social Research Council (UK), and

the Royal Anthropological Institute.


Thiefing a Chance

An t h r o P o l o g y

When an IMF-backed program of liberalization opened Trinidad’s borders to foreign ready-made apparel, global competition damaged the local industry and unraveled worker entitlements and expectations but also presented new economic opportunities for engaging the “global” market. This fascinating ethnography explores contempo-rary life in the Signature Fashions garment factory, where the workers attempt to exploit gaps in these new labor configurations through illicit and infor-mal uses of the factory, a practice they colloquially refer to as “thiefing a chance.”

Drawing on fifteen months of fieldwork, author Rebecca Prentice combines a vivid picture of factory life, first-person accounts, and anthropo-logical analysis to explore how economic restruc-turing has been negotiated, lived, and recounted by women working in the garment industry dur-ing Trinidad’s transition to a neoliberal economy. Through careful social coordination, the workers “thief” by copying patterns, taking portions of fab-ric, teaching themselves how to operate machines, and wearing their work outside the factory. Even so, the workers describe their “thiefing” as a per-sonal, individualistic enterprise rather than a form of collective resistance to workplace authority. By making and taking furtive opportunities, they embrace a vision of themselves as enterprising sub-jects while actively complying with the competitive demands of a neoliberal economic order.

Prentice presents the factory not as a stable institution but instead as a material and social space in which the projects, plans, and desires of workers and their employers become aligned and misaligned, at some moments in deep harmony and at others in rancorous conflict. Arguing for the productive power of the informal and illicit, Thiefing a Chance contributes to anthropological debates about the very nature of neoliberal capital-ism and will be of great interest to undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty in anthro-pology, labor studies, Caribbean studies, and devel-opment studies.

Factory Work, Illicit Labor, and Neoliberal Subjectivities in Trinidad

Rebecca Prentice

“Thiefing a Chance takes readers on an eye-opening adventure inside a Trinidadian garment factory where women display ingenuous and often cooperative ways to make garments for their own clients alongside their legitimate work. In this innovative ethnographic work, Prentice uses lively stories and ro-bust cultural theory to broaden and deepen our understanding of both the forms and meaning of Carib-bean cunning and pride.”

—KAtherine e. broWne Colorado State University, author of Creole Economics


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Contributors


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The Ecology of Pastoralism

P. Nick Kardulias is professor of anthropology and sociology and chair of the archaeology program at the College of Wooster. He also serves as associate director of the Athienou Archaeological Project in Cyprus and co-PI of the Ashland/Wooster/Columbus Archaeological and Geological Consortium in Ohio.

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In The Ecology of Pastoralism, diverse contributions from archaeologists and ethnographers address pastoralism’s significant impact on humanity’s basic subsistence and survival, focusing on the net-work of social, political, and religious institutions existing within various societies dependent on ani-mal husbandry.

Pastoral peoples, both past and present, have organized their relationships with certain animals to maximize their ability to survive and adapt to a wide range of conditions over time. Contributors show that despite differences in landscape, envi-ronment, and administrative and political struc-tures, these societies share a major characteristic—high flexibility. Based partially on the adaptability of various domestic animals to difficult environ-ments and partially on the ability of people to establish networks allowing them to accommodate political, social, and economic needs, this flexibility is key to the survival of complex pastoral systems and serves as the connection among the varied cul-tures in the volume.

In The Ecology of Pastoralism, a variety of case studies from a broad geographic sampling uses archaeological and contemporary data and offers a new perspective on the study of pastoralism, mak-ing this volume a valuable contribution to current research in the area.

Edited by P. Nick Kardulias

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Contributors

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69 figures, 2 videos, 1 audio file

Ruth M. Van Dyke is professor of anthropology at Binghamton University, SUNY. She directs projects on the Chaco

landscape in northwest New Mexico and on historic Alsatian immigration

in Texas.

Reinhard Bernbeck is professor at the Institute for Near Eastern Archaeology

at Freie Universität Berlin. He codirects multi-year excavation projects at

Monjukli Depe in Turkmenistan and at Tempelhof Airport in Berlin.


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Subjects and Narratives in Archaeology

Ar C h A e o l o g y

Seeking to move beyond the customary limits of archaeological prose and representation, Subjects and Narratives in Archaeology presents archaeology in a variety of nontraditional formats. The vol-ume demonstrates that visual art, creative nonfic-tion, archaeological fiction, video, drama, and other artistic pursuits have much to offer archaeological interpretation and analysis.

Chapters in the volume are augmented by nar-rative, poetry, paintings, dialogues, online data-bases, videos, audio files, and slideshows. The work will be available in print and as an enhanced ebook that incorporates and showcases the multi-media elements in archaeological narrative. While exploring these new and not-so-new forms, the contributors discuss the boundaries and connec-tions between empirical data and archaeological imagination.

Both a critique and an experiment, Subjects and Narratives in Archaeology addresses the goals, advantages, and difficulties of alternative forms of archaeological representation. Exploring the idea that academically sound archaeology can be fun to create and read, the book takes a step beyond the boundaries of both traditional archaeology and tra-ditional publishing.

Edited by Ruth M. Van Dyke and Reinhard Bernbeck

“Subjects and Narratives in Archaeology will prove invaluable not only to new generations of scholars trying to find ways to keep archaeology relevant to a rapidly changing world but also to anyone teaching a class on topics such as professional ethics, archaeolog-ical writing, and archaeology and its place in society.”

—Anne Porter, James Madison University


“An excellent snapshot of the value of cultural astronomy to interpretations of ancient Mesoamerican cultures.”

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Contributors


—Anne Porter, James Madison University

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Cosmology, Calendars, and Horizon-Based

Astronomy in Ancient Mesoamerica

Anne S. Dowd is principal archaeolo-gist at ArchæoLOGIC USA and win-ner of the Eben Demarest Trust Award for excellence in archaeology (1998), Brown University’s Watson Smith Prize Honorable Mention (1998), the Geochron Research Award (1996), and the Daryle Bogenreif Award (2010).

Susan Milbrath is curator of Latin American art and archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History and an affiliate professor of anthropol-ogy at the University of Florida. She is the author of Star Gods of the Maya and Heaven and Earth in Ancient Mexico.

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Cosmology, Calendars, and Horizon-Based Astronomy in Ancient Mesoamerica is an interdisciplinary tour de force that establishes the critical role astronomy played in the religious and civic lives of the ancient peoples of Mesoamerica. Providing extraordinary examples of how Precolumbian peoples merged ideas about the cosmos with those concerning cal-endar and astronomy, the volume showcases the value of detailed examinations of astronomical data for understanding ancient cultures.

The volume is divided into three sections: investigations into Mesoamerican horizon-based astronomy, the cosmological principles expressed in Mesoamerican religious imagery and rituals related to astronomy, and the aspects of Mesoamerican cal-endars related to archaeoastronomy. It also provides cutting-edge research on diverse topics such as records of calendar- and horizon-based astronomi-cal observation, Mesoamerican codices (like the Dresden and Borgia codices), iconography of burial assemblages, architectural alignment studies, urban planning, and counting or measuring devices.

Contributors—who are among the most respected in their fields—explore new dimensions in Mesoamerican timekeeping and skywatching in the Olmec, Maya, Teotihuacan, Zapotec, and Aztec cultures. This book will be of great interest to stu-dents and scholars of anthropology, archaeology, art history, and astronomy.

Edited by Anne S. Dowd and Susan Milbrath

Foreword by E. C. Krupp

Anthony f. Aveni

hArvey M. briCKer

viCtoriA r. briCKer

John b. CArlson

florA siMMons ClAnCy

CleMenCy Coggins

Anne s. doWd

ronAld K. fAulseit

dAvid A. freidel

John Justeson

e. C. KruPP

susAn MilbrAth

PrudenCe M. riCe

MiChelle riCh

ivAn šPrAJC

gAbrivelle vAil

“An excellent snapshot of the value of cultural astronomy to interpretations of ancient Mesoamerican cultures.”

—Arlen f. ChAse, University of Central Florida

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109 figures

Michael Lind was an anthropology professor at Santa Ana College in the

1970s and at the Universidad de las Américas in Mexico in the early 1980s.

In 1984 he became a bilingual science teacher in the Santa Ana Unified School

District, where he remained until his retirement in 2004. He is coauthor of

The Lords of Lambityeco.

Ancient Zapotec Religion

Ancient Zapotec Religion is the first comprehen-sive study of Zapotec religion as it existed in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca on the eve of the Spanish Conquest. Author Michael Lind brings a new perspective, focusing not on underlying theo-logical principles but on the material and spatial expressions of religious practice.

Using sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish colonial documents and archaeological findings related to the time period leading up to the Spanish Conquest, he presents new information on deities, ancestor worship and sacred bundles, the Zapotec cosmos, the priesthood, religious ceremo-nies and rituals, the nature of temples, the distinc-tive features of the sacred and solar calendars, and the religious significance of the murals of Mitla—the most sacred and holy center. He also shows how Zapotec religion served to integrate Zapotec city-state structure throughout the valley of Oaxaca, neighboring mountain regions, and the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.

Ancient Zapotec Religion is the first in-depth and interdisciplinary book on the Zapotecs and their religious practices and will be of great interest to archaeologists, epigraphers, historians, and special-ists in Native American, Latin American, and reli-gious studies.

An Ethnohistorical and Archaeological Perspective

Michael Lind

“An excellent, impressive piece of scholarship . . . a valuable resource for scholars and students alike.”

—sArAh b. bArber, University of Central Florida

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Contributors

—sArAh b. bArber, University of Central Florida

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Bridging the Gaps

Danny Zborover is a research associate at the Center for US-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego.

Peter Kroefges is a professor-researcher at the Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, San Luis Potosí, Mexico.

un i v e r s i t y Pr e s s o f Co l o r A d oAr C h A e o l o g y/hi s to ry

Bridging the Gaps: Integrating Archaeology and History in Oaxaca, Mexico does just that: it bridges the gap between archaeology and history of the Precolumbian, Colonial, and Republican eras of the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, a cultural area encompass-ing several of the longest-enduring literate societies in the world.

Fourteen case studies from an interdisciplinary group of archaeologists, anthropologists, ethno-historians, and art historians consciously compare and contrast changes and continuities in material culture before and after the Spanish conquest, in Prehispanic and Colonial documents, and in oral traditions rooted in the present but reflecting upon the deep past. Contributors consider both indig-enous and European perspectives while exposing and addressing the difficulties that arise from the application of this conjunctive approach.

Inspired by the late Dr. Bruce E. Byland’s work in the Mixteca, which exemplified the union of archaeological and historical evidence and inspired new generations of scholars, Bridging the Gaps pro-motes the practice of integrative studies to explore the complex intersections between social organi-zation and political alliances, religion and sacred landscape, ethnic identity and mobility, colonial-ism and resistance, and territoriality and economic resources.

Integrating Archaeology and History in Oaxaca, Mexico;

A Volume in Memory of Bruce E. Byland

Edited by Danny Zborover and Peter Kroefges

bruCe e. bylAnd

bAs vAn doesburg

violA König

Peter Kroefges

MiChAel lind

CArlos rinCón MAutner

geoffrey g. MCCAfferty

shArisse d. MCCAfferty

liAnA i. JiMénez osorio

John M. d. Pohl

eMMAnuel Posselt sAntoyo

AdAM sellen

ronAld sPores

stePhen l. Whittington

AndreW WorKinger

dAnny zborover

Judith f. zeitlin


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June$24.95s, paper, 6 x 9

ISBN: 978-0-87421-987-6$19.95, ebook

E-ISBN: 978-0-87421-988-3220 pages

Richard Haswell retired as Haas Professor of English at Texas A&M

University–Corpus Christi in 2008 and previously spent twenty-nine years at

Washington State University, where he directed the composition program and

the cross-campus writing-assessment program. He has authored and coedited

six other books.

Janis Haswell is professor emerita of English at Texas A&M University–

Corpus Christi. She is the author and coauthor of five books and more

than thirty articles in literature and composition.

utA h stAt e un i v e r s i t y Pr e s s

Hospitality and Authoring

Wr i t i n g st u d i e s

Hospitality and Authoring, a sequel to the Haswells’ 2010 volume Authoring, attempts to open the path for hospitality practice in the classroom, making a strong argument for educational use and offer-ing an initial map of the territory for teachers and authors.

Hospitality is a social and ethical relation-ship not only between host and guest but also between writer and reader or teacher and student. Hospitality initiates, maintains, and completes acts of authoring. This extended essay explores the ways that a true hospitable classroom community can be transformed through assigned reading, one-on-one conferencing, interpretation, syllabus, read-ing journals, topic choice, literacy narrative, writing centers, program administration, teacher training, and many other passing habitations.

Hospitality and Authoring strives to offer a few possibilities of change to help make college an insti-tution where singular students and singular teach-ers create a room to learn with room to learn.

An Essay for the English Profession

Richard Haswell and Janis Haswell

“The subject has received so little attention in the field that many compositionists have not heard of the tradi-tional motif and practice. The Haswells’ treatment is not only the best and most complete on the subject in the field, it is the only book on the subject in the field.”

—roseMAry WinsloW, Catholic University of America


“This book will not merely be significant. It will be re-quired reading for any WPA and for anyone preparing to become a WPA. Moreover, it will raise the level of awareness of and uses for statistical data in our field.”

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—roseMAry WinsloW, Catholic University of America

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Very Like a Whale

Edward M. White is emeritus pro-fessor of English who held positions at California State University, San Bernardino, and the University of Arizona.

Norbert Elliot is professor emeritus of English at New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Irvin Peckham is professor of rhetoric and composition at Drexel University, where he directs the writing program.

utA h stAt e un i v e r s i t y Pr e s sWr i t i n g st u d i e s

Written for those who design, redesign, and assess writing programs, Very Like a Whale is an intensive discussion of writing program assessment issues. Taking its title from Hamlet, the book explores the multifaceted forces that shape writing programs and the central role these programs can and should play in defining college education.

Given the new era of assessment in higher education, writing programs must provide valid evidence that they are serving students, instructors, administrators, alumni, accreditors, and policymak-ers. This book introduces new conceptualizations associated with assessment, making them clear and available to those in the profession of rhetoric and composition/writing studies. It also offers strate-gies that aid in gathering information about the relative success of a writing program in achieving its identified goals.

Philosophically and historically aligned with quantitative approaches, White, Elliot, and Peckham use case study and best-practice scholar-ship to demonstrate the applicability of their inno-vative approach, termed Design for Assessment (DFA). Well grounded in assessment theory, Very Like a Whale will be of practical use to new and sea-soned writing program administrators alike, as well as to any educator involved with the accreditation process.

The Assessment of Writing Programs

Edward M. White, Norbert Elliot, and Irvin Peckham

“This book will not merely be significant. It will be re-quired reading for any WPA and for anyone preparing to become a WPA. Moreover, it will raise the level of awareness of and uses for statistical data in our field.”

—WilliAM Condon, Washington State University

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Still Life with Rhetoric

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Laurie E. Gries is assistant professor in the Department of English at the

University of Florida, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses

focused on writing, rhetoric, theory, and new media.

utA h stAt e un i v e r s i t y Pr e s s Wr i t i n g st u d i e s

In Still Life with Rhetoric, Laurie Gries forges con-nections among new materialism, actor network theory, and rhetoric to explore how images become rhetorically active in a digitally networked, global environment. Rather than study how an already-materialized “visual text” functions within a spe-cific context, Gries investigates how images often circulate and transform across media, genre, and location at viral rates. A four-part case study of Shepard Fairey’s now iconic Obama Hope image elucidates how images reassemble collective life as they actualize in different versions, enter into vari-ous relations, and spark a firework of activity across the globe.

While intent on tracking the rhetorical life of a single, multiple image, Still Life with Rhetoric is most concerned with studying rhetoric in motion. To account for an image’s widespread circulation and emergent activities, Gries introduces icono-graphic tracking—a digital research method for tracing an image’s divergent rhetorical becomings. Yet Gries also articulates a dynamic set of theoreti-cal principles for studying rhetoric as a distributed, generative, and unforeseeable event that is appli-cable beyond the study of visual rhetoric. With an eye toward futurity—the strands of time beyond a thing’s initial moment of production and delivery—Still Life with Rhetoric intends to be taken up by those interested in visual rhetoric, research meth-ods, and theory.

A New Materialist Approach for Visual Rhetorics

Laurie E. Gries


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Contributors


In Still Life with Rhetoric, Laurie Gries forges con-nections among new materialism, actor network theory, and rhetoric to explore how images become rhetorically active in a digitally networked, global environment. Rather than study how an already-materialized “visual text” functions within a spe-cific context, Gries investigates how images often circulate and transform across media, genre, and location at viral rates. A four-part case study of Shepard Fairey’s now iconic Obama Hope image elucidates how images reassemble collective life as they actualize in different versions, enter into vari-ous relations, and spark a firework of activity across the globe.

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Naming What We Know

Linda Adler-Kassner is professor of writing and director of the writing pro-gram at University of California, Santa Barbara.

Elizabeth Wardle is professor and department chair of writing and rheto-ric at the University of Central Florida.


Naming What We Know examines the core prin-ciples of knowledge in the discipline of writing studies using the lens of “threshold concepts”—concepts that are critical for epistemological par-ticipation in a discipline. The first part of the book defines and describes thirty-seven threshold con-cepts of the discipline in entries written by some of the field’s most active researchers and teachers, all of whom participated in a collaborative wiki discussion guided by the editors. These entries are clear and accessible, written for an audience of writing scholars, students, and colleagues in other disciplines and policy makers outside the academy. Contributors describe the conceptual background of the field and the principles that run through-out practice, whether in research, teaching, assess-ment, or public work around writing. Chapters in the second part of the book describe the benefits and challenges of using threshold concepts in spe-cific sites—first-year writing programs, WAC/WID programs, writing centers, writing majors—and for professional development to present this frame-work in action.

Naming What We Know opens a dialogue about the concepts that writing scholars and teachers agree are critical and about why those concepts should and do matter to people outside the field.

Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies

Edited by Linda Adler-Kassner and Elizabeth Wardle

lindA Adler-KAssner

Chris M. Anson

Cheryl e. bAll

ChArles bAzerMAn

Collin brooKe

Allison CArr

Colin ChArlton

doug doWns

dylAn b. dryer

John duffy

heidi estreM

Jeffrey t. grAbill

bill hArt-dAvidson

brAdley hughes

AsAo b. inoue

rAy lAnd

neAl lerner

AndreA A. lunsford

John MAJeWsKi

PAul Kei MAtsudA

rebeCCA noWACeK

Peggy o’neill

liAne robertson

Kevin roozen

shirley rose

dAvid r. russell

J. blAKe sCott

tony sCott

KArA tACzAK

hoWArd tinberg

viCtor villAnuevA

elizAbeth WArdle

KAthleen blAKe yAnCey

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Bruce McComiskey specializes in rhetoric and composition, classical

rhetoric, and professional writing at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

His most recent publications include Teaching Composition as a Social Process,

Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric, a coedited collection titled City Comp:

Identities, Spaces, Practices, and the edited collection English Studies: An

Introduction to the Disciplines.


Dialectical Rhetoric


In Dialectical Rhetoric, Bruce McComiskey argues that the historical conflict between rhetoric and dia-lectic can be overcome in ways useful to both com-position theory and the composition classroom.

Historically, dialectic has taken two forms in relation to rhetoric. First, it has been the logi-cal development of linear propositions leading to necessary conclusions, a one-dimensional form that was the counterpart of rhetorics in which philo-sophical, metaphysical, and scientific truths were conveyed with as little cognitive interference from language as possible. Second, dialectic has been the topical development of opposed arguments on con-troversial issues and the judgment of their relative strengths and weaknesses, usually in political and legal contexts, a two-dimensional form that was the counterpart of rhetorics in which verbal battles over competing probabilities in public institutions revealed distinct winners and losers.

The discipline of writing studies is on the brink of developing a new relationship between dialectic and rhetoric, one in which dialectics and rhetorics mediate and negotiate different argu-ments and orientations that are engaged in any rhetorical situation. This new relationship consists of a three-dimensional hybrid art called “dialecti-cal rhetoric,” whose method is based on five topoi: deconstruction, dialogue, identification, critique, and juxtaposition. Three-dimensional dialecti-cal rhetorics function effectively in a wide variety of discursive contexts, including digital environ-ments, since they can invoke contrasts in stagnant contexts and promote associations in chaotic con-texts. Dialectical Rhetoric focuses more attention on three-dimensional rhetorics from the rhetoric and composition community.

Bruce McComiskey

“What the author proposes here is not found anywhere else, and his development of a third dialectic—that is, an entirely new model for understanding dialectic—well, this is not mere appropriation; this is theory making.”

—frAnK fArMer, University of Kansas, author of After the Public Turn and

Saying and Silence


“This is a work that clearly needs to be published—needs to be heard.”

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—frAnK fArMer, University of Kansas, author of After the Public Turn and

Saying and Silence

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Transiciones

Todd Ruecker is assistant professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of New Mexico.


Transiciones is a thorough ethnography of seven Latino students in transition between high school and community college or university. Data gath-ered over two years of interviews with the students, their high school English teachers, and their writing teachers and administrators at postsecondary insti-tutions reveal a rich picture of the conflicted experi-ence of these students as they attempted to balance the demands of schooling with a variety of personal responsibilities.

Todd Ruecker explores the disconnect between students’ writing experiences in high school and higher education and examines the integral role that writing plays in college. Considering the almost universal requirement that students take a writing class in their critical first year of college, he contends that it is essential for composition researchers and teachers to gain a fuller understanding of the role they play in sup-porting and hindering Latina and Latino students’ transition to college.

Arguing for situating writing programs in larger discussions of high school / college align-ment, student engagement, and retention, Transiciones raises the profile of what writing pro-grams can do, while calling composition teachers, administrators, and scholars to engage in more col-laboration across the institution, across institutions, and across disciplines to make the transition from high school to college writing more successful for this important group of students.

Pathways of Latinas and Latinos Writing in High School and College

Todd Ruecker

“This is a work that clearly needs to be published—needs to be heard.”

—Anne MArie hAll, University of Arizona

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Contributors

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8 figures

Amy E. Dayton is associate professor of English at the University of Alabama. Her research interests include histori-

ography, community literacy, language attitudes, literacy in literature, assess-

ment/teacher training, composition theory/pedagogy, and models and methods for community outreach.


PAul Anderson

Chris M. Anson

niChole bennett-beAler

KArA MAe broWn

AMy e. dAyton

Meredith deCostA

KiM freeMAn

Chris W. gAllAgher

robert M. gonyeA

AMy goodburn

AMy C. KiMMe heA

briAn JACKson

deborAh Minter

Cindy Moore

gerAld nelMs

ChArles PAine

duAne roen

edWArd M. White

Assessing the Teaching of Writing


Although fraught with politics and other perils, teacher evaluation can contribute in important, positive ways to faculty development at both the individual and the departmental levels. Yet the logistics of creating a valid assessment are compli-cated. Inconsistent methods, rater bias, and over-reliance on student evaluation forms have proven problematic. The essays in Assessing the Teaching of Writing demonstrate constructive ways of evaluat-ing teacher performance, taking into consideration the immense number of variables involved.

Contributors to the volume examine a range of fundamental issues, including the political con-text of declining state funds in education; growing public critique of the professoriate and demands for accountability resulting from federal policy ini-tiatives like No Child Left Behind; the increasing sophistication of assessment methods and technolo-gies; and the continuing interest in the scholarship of teaching. The first section addresses concerns and advances in assessment methodologies, and the second takes a closer look at unique individual sites and models of assessment. Chapters collectively argue for viewing teacher assessment as a rhetori-cal practice.

Fostering new ways of thinking about teacher evaluation, Assessing the Teaching of Writing will be of great interest not only to writing program admin-istrators but also to those concerned with faculty development and teacher assessment outside the writing program.

Twenty-First Century Trends and Technologies

Edited Amy E. Dayton

“The writers and editor draw from various disciplines, are sophisticated in their understanding and use of data, and are wise to the complexity of their subject. Every reader of this substantial book will experience the goal of the collection, to foster new ways of think-ing about teacher evaluation.”

—edWArd M. White, author of Teaching and Assessing Writing

“This collection adds substantially to the conversation about instruc-tional assessment.”

—PAtriCiA lynne, author of Coming to Terms: A Theory of

Writing Assessment


“Anybody reading the collection will come away with fresh insights about how our field has assembled itself, where it has come from and where it now seems to be headed. I imagine that the book will be used in many graduate-level introductions to the field and also by individual readers, who will treat it as something midway between a helpful reference tool and a profes-sional mandala.”

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Contributors


“The writers and editor draw from various disciplines, are sophisticated in their understanding and use of data, and are wise to the complexity of their subject. Every reader of this substantial book will experience the goal of the collection, to foster new ways of think-ing about teacher evaluation.”

—edWArd M. White, author of Teaching and Assessing Writing

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Keywords in Writing Studies


Keywords in Writing Studies is an exploration of the principal ideas and ideals of an emerging aca-demic field as they are constituted by its specialized vocabulary. A sequel to the 1996 work Keywords in Composition Studies, this new volume traces the evolution of the field’s lexicon, taking into account the wide variety of theoretical, educational, profes-sional, and institutional developments that have redefined it over the past two decades.

Contributors address the development, trans-formation, and interconnections among thirty-six of the most critical terms that make up writing stud-ies. Looking beyond basic definitions or explana-tions, they explore the multiple layers of meaning within the terms that writing scholars currently use, exchange, and question. Each term featured is a part of the general disciplinary parlance, and each is a highly contested focal point of significant debates about matters of power, identity, and val-ues. Each essay begins with the assumption that its central term is important precisely because its meaning is open and multiplex.

Keywords in Writing Studies reveals how the key concepts in the field are used and even challenged, rather than advocating particular usages and the particular vision of the field that they imply. The volume will be of great interest to both graduate students and established scholars.

Edited by Paul Heilker and Peter Vandenberg

steven ACCArdi

Anis bAWArshi

A. suresh CAnAgArAJAh

Jennifer ClAry-leMon

AMy devitt

dylAn b. dryer

CynthiA fields

PAul heilKer

JohndAn Johnson-eilolA

KAthy Kerr

KAren KoPelson

CynthiA leWieCKi-Wilson

Julie lindQuist

MArK longAKer

tiM MAyers

steve PArKs

Kelly Pender

KAtrinA M. PoWell PAul Prior

CArolyn rude

stuArt A. selber

CynthiA l. selfe

lorin shellenberger

JAson sWArts

Christine M. tArdy

Chris thAiss

Kt torrey

Peter vAndenberg

ChristiAn r. Weisser

KAthleen blAKe yAnCey

MelAnie yergeAu

Morris young

“Anybody reading the collection will come away with fresh insights about how our field has assembled itself, where it has come from and where it now seems to be headed. I imagine that the book will be used in many graduate-level introductions to the field and also by individual readers, who will treat it as something midway between a helpful reference tool and a profes-sional mandala.”

—Kurt sPellMeyer, Rutgers University

Paul Heilker is associate professor in the Department of English at Virginia Tech.

Peter Vandenberg is professor and chair of the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse at DePaul University.

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Greg Giberson is associate professor in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric

at Oakland University.

Jim Nugent is associate professor in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric at

Oakland University.

Lori Ostergaard is associate professor and director of first-year writing in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric at

Oakland University.


Writing Majors


The writing major is among the most exciting scenes in the evolving American university. Writing Majors is a collection of firsthand descriptions of the origins, growth, and transformations of eighteen different programs. The chapters provide useful administrative insight, benchmark information, and even inspiration for new curricular configurations from a range of institutions.

A practical sourcebook for those who are build-ing, revising, or administering their own writ-ing majors, this volume also serves as a historical archive of a particular instance of growth and trans-formation in American higher education. Revealing bureaucratic, practical, and institutional matters as well as academic ideals and ideologies, each pro-file includes sections providing a detailed program review and rationale, an implementation narrative, and reflection and prospection about the program.

Documenting eighteen stories of writing major programs in various stages of formation, preserva-tion, and reform and exposing the contingencies of their local and material constitution, Writing Majors speaks as much to the “how to” of building writing major programs as to the larger “what,” “why,” and “how” of institutional growth and change.

Eighteen Program ProfilesEdited by Greg Giberson,

Jim Nugent, and Lori Ostergaard


“This volume is sure to be a rallying point for further research, in that it has demonstrated conclusively that market exchange constitutes a dynamic compo-nent of human behavior and that it was one among many mechanisms by which people acquired desired goods as part of a measured, calculated, and con-scious engagement in economic activities at the level of both the household and the state."

—MoniCA l. sMith, American Anthropologist

“With a quiet seriousness and unpretentious man-ner, Archaeological Approaches to Market Exchange in Ancient Societies resets the terms of research on the topic of market exchange . . . this coming-of-age book hopefully marks a new intel-lectual independence and spirit of innovation within the discipline.”

—PAtriCiA MCAnAny, Journal of Field Archaeology

“These significant contributions to economic anthro-pology should encourage comparative cross-cultural dialogues and foster new approaches to the study of premodern market exchange . . . The Garraty and Stark volume is a giant step forward in understand-ing market systems, market places, and sociocultural and religious parameters that impinge upon the economic structure of preindustrial societies.”

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Edited by Greg Giberson, Jim Nugent, and Lori Ostergaard

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Archaeological Approaches to Market Exchange in Ancient

Societies

Christopher P. Garraty is a senior ceramic analyst at Statistical Research, Inc.

Barbara L. Stark is a professor of anthropology at the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University.

un i v e r s i t y Pr e s s o f Co l o r A d oAr C h A e o l o g y

“This volume is sure to be a rallying point for further research, in that it has demonstrated conclusively that market exchange constitutes a dynamic compo-nent of human behavior and that it was one among many mechanisms by which people acquired desired goods as part of a measured, calculated, and con-scious engagement in economic activities at the level of both the household and the state."

—MoniCA l. sMith, American Anthropologist

“With a quiet seriousness and unpretentious man-ner, Archaeological Approaches to Market Exchange in Ancient Societies resets the terms of research on the topic of market exchange . . . this coming-of-age book hopefully marks a new intel-lectual independence and spirit of innovation within the discipline.”

—PAtriCiA MCAnAny, Journal of Field Archaeology

Edited by Christopher P. Garraty and Barbara L. Stark

New in Paperback

“These significant contributions to economic anthro-pology should encourage comparative cross-cultural dialogues and foster new approaches to the study of premodern market exchange . . . The Garraty and Stark volume is a giant step forward in understand-ing market systems, market places, and sociocultural and religious parameters that impinge upon the economic structure of preindustrial societies.”

—ChArles C. Kolb, The Cambridge Archaeological Journal

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ReturnsAll overstock books returned must be in A-1 condition and in print at the time of return. All shipments must be prepaid. All books may be returned for credit at 100% of the purchase price if copies of the invoices or invoice numbers and dates are provided. Customers may return dam-aged or defective books at any time; paperwork inside the shipment must identify the books as damaged or defective. Two-way transportation will be credited.

Address returns to:Chicago Distribution CenterReturns Processing Center11030 South LangleyChicago, IL 60628

Media/Educators

Media review copy requestsRequests for review copies by jour-nalists, producers, and editors must be in writing on letterhead or sent with appropriate background infor-mation. We are happy to forward requests for interviews to authors.

Examination and desk copy requestsEducators who would like to con-sider books for course adoption may request examination copies. Cloth editions are sent on approval with invoice; the invoice may be cred-ited when the edition is adopted for course use. Paperback editions, when available, will be sent at no charge. All requests must be on institutional letterhead or from an .edu email address and include academic course name, enrollment, and bookstore information. Desk copies are avail-able to educators who have adopted a book as a required text.

Individual Orders

General informationPayment must accompany orders in US funds drawn on a US bank. We accept checks, VISA, MasterCard, American Express, and money orders.

Tax: orders within IllinoisAdd 9.5% of the total price of books.

ShippingUS: add $6.00 for the first book and $1.25 for each addtional. UPS Ground (trackable) or USPS Priority Mail (non-trackable) is $8.00 for the first book and $2.00 for each additional book. International: Please contact the appropriate international representa-tive above. Canada: Please contact Codasat Canada, Ltd.; info above.

CANADACodasat Canada, Ltd.Sandra [email protected]

INTERNATIONALNBN international+441752 202301cservs@nbninternational .com

The Chicago Distribution Center provides domestic fulfillment services for the University Press of Colorado and Utah State University Press. Please contact:

Chicago Distribution Center11030 South LangleyChicago, IL 60628

Phone: 800.621.2736 Fax: 800.621.8476 Email: [email protected] Pubnet@202-5280

Or: www.upcolorado.com www.usupress.com

Prices and publication dates indicated for forthcom-ing books are tentative. Prices and rights restrictions for books already published are subject to change without notice. Rights are worldwide unless otherwise noted. An “s” after the print book price indicates a short-discount book. Our standard retail discount schedule does not apply to ebook editions listed in this catalog. For retail and wholesale inquiries regarding ebooks, please con-tact UPC’s Sales & Marketing Department.

CO, NM, UT, WYJim Sena719.210.5222 (phone)719.265.5932 (fax)[email protected]

AZ, S CATom McCorkell949.362.0597 (phone)949.643.2330 (fax)[email protected]

AK, ID, MT, OR, WA George Carroll425.922.1045 (phone)425.671.0362 (fax)[email protected]

NV, N CABob Rosenberg415.564.1248 (phone)888.491.1248 (fax)bob@bobrosenberggroup .com

Retail outlets please contact your appropriate representative below:

Direct further inquiries about discounts and complimentary copies to:Attn: Sales and MarketingUniversity Press of Colorado5589 Arapahoe Ave., Suite 206CBoulder, CO 80303720.406.8849 x 803 • [email protected]

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Utah State University Press is an imprint of the University Press of Colorado.

The University Press of Colorado is a cooperative publish-ing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State University, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Regis University, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, Utah State University, and Western State Colorado University.

The University Press of Colorado is a member of the Association of American University Presses.

Subject IndexArchaeology, Anthropology, 8–13, 23Colorado, Utah & the West, 1, 2, 4Folklore Studies, 7History, 2, 4, 5, 13Memoir, 4Natural History, 6Poetry, 3Travel, 1Writing Studies, 14–22

Front cover© Watercolors by George Hoshida, from Taken from the Paradise Isle (page 4)

contentSSpring/Summer 2015 Frontlist, 1–22New in Paperback, 23Order Information, 24

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