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Gbenga Adesina
Death Does not End at the Sea

The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry

Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in PoetryIn Gbenga Adesina's debut book of poems, a defiant and wise exploration of exile, voyages, and spiritual odysseys, we encounter figures emba…

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Ricardo J. Alvarez-Pimentel
Counterrevolutionary Women

Engendering Latin America

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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Ricardo J. Alvarez-Pimentel
Counterrevolutionary Women

Engendering Latin America

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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Charles E. Apekaum,
Autobiography of a Kiowa Indian

American Indian Lives

Anthropologist Benjamin R. Kracht presents one of the few Kiowa autobiographies in publication---the life narrative of Charles E. Apekaum of the Kiowa Nation of Oklahoma, whose services as a translator we…

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Walt Bachman
Northern Slave, Black Dakota

Born into slavery in free territory, Joseph Godfrey died widely reviled for his controversial role in the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862. Separated from his mother at age five when his enslaver sold her, Godfrey…

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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 incorporated anthropologists, and anthropological resea…

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Laura J. Beard
John S. McClintock and Deadwood

Engaging Deadwood's history through the lens of her great-great-uncle John S. McClintock's legendary 1939 memoir, Pioneer Days in the Black Hills, Laura J. Beard shines light on the power of mythology 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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Mark Boxell
Crude State

Oil companies sank the first commercial oil wells in Indian Territory between 1895 and 1901. Crude State traces the origins of the industry that sprang up in the aftermath, focusing on the settler culture…

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Thomas S. Bremer
Sacred Wonderland

America's Public Lands

Sacred Wonderland explores the historical role of religion in making Yellowstone National Park a meaningful American icon.

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Brian K. Burton
Forward to Richmond

Great Campaigns of the Civil War

In the early eastern theater of the American Civil War, the Northern and Southern armies saw little of combat and little of each other, with most of their military intelligence more akin to propaganda tha…

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Brian K. Burton
Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville

This Hallowed Ground: Guides to Civil War Battlefields

Through the winter of 1862 and spring of 1863, the U.S. Army and Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia clashed along the Rappahannock River in two major battles. Both demonstrated the height of power …

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Pearl Casias
Red Woman

American Indian Lives

In this singular memoir, Pearl E. Casias tells the story of her rise from poverty to chair of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe in rural southwest Colorado. Casias grew up in poverty and was raised by alcohol…

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David Chapin
Freshwater Passages

A fur trader and explorer, Peter Pond (1740-1807) became one of the first English-speaking men to see much of North America, traveling its rivers and lakes from Long Island Sound to Great Slave Lake in Ca…

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Francie R. Chassen-Lopez
The Extraordinary Life of Juana Catarina Romero

Confluencias

The construction of the nation-state, the development of capitalism, and the modernization of society have historically been defined as masculine endeavors, with women on the sidelines. This biography of …

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Francie R. Chassen-Lopez
The Extraordinary Life of Juana Catarina Romero

Confluencias

The construction of the nation-state, the development of capitalism, and the modernization of society have historically been defined as masculine endeavors, with women on the sidelines. This biography of …

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Michael W. Childers
The Mountains Are Calling

Environment and Region in the American West

Yosemite National Park hosts more than four million visitors annually, a number that underscores both the national park's immense popularity and its limits. Large numbers of visitors means air pollution f…

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Catherine Christensen Gwin
Moral Divide

The United States-Mexico border has been a contested space and a political and ideological apparatus since the early twentieth century. While today we think of the border as a method to exclude people fro…

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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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