"At Home with the Aztecs" provides a fresh view of Aztec society, focusing on households and communities instead of kings, pyramids and human sacrifice. This new approach offers an…
The story of Spanish explorers, the missions that followed, English slave raids, and Creek and Seminole political machinations has previously been told through the lens of history and…
The Cibola region on the Arizona-New Mexico border has fascinated archaeologists for more than a century. The region’s core is recognized as the ancestral homeland of the contemporary…
Edited by Eileen P. Anderson-Fye and Alexandra Brewis Slade
The average size of human bodies all over the world has been steadily rising over recent decades. The total count of people clinically labeled “obese” is now at least three times what it…
As one of the oldest groups of Asian Americans in the United States, most Japanese Americans are culturally assimilated and well-integrated in mainstream American society. However, they…
Edited by Takeyuki Tsuda and Brenda J. Baker
Migration has always been a fundamental human activity, yet little collaboration exists between scientists and social scientists examining how it has shaped past and contemporary…
Edited by Francis P. McManamon
"New Perspectives in Cultural Resource Management" describes the historic developments, current challenges and future opportunities presented by contemporary Cultural Resource Management…
Methods can be difficult to teach in the classroom, with many instructors struggling to devise practical ways to help students understand how archaeologists work. "Principles of…
"Slow Anthropology" considers the history of the Iu Mien, an upland Laotian minority caught in the disruptions of the Vietnam-American war. This study challenges the prevailing academic…
Edited by Kristin De Lucia and Christopher T. Morehart
The concept of surplus captures the politics of production and also conveys the active material means by which people develop the strategies to navigate everyday life. "Surplus: The…