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Spring and Summer 2013

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, 18–23Colorado, Utah, & the West, 2–5, 7–11Folklore Studies, 12–13Higher Education, 23History, 3–5, 7, 9–11Natural History, 1–2, 8Poetry, 6Writing Studies, 14–17

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Gerald N. Callahan is a professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology and the Department of English at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, where he lives with his wife and dog. He is the author of Between XX and XY; Faith, Madness, and Spontaneous Human Combustion; Infection; and River Odyssey (UPC).

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Creating Self in an Infectious World

Lousy Sex

In Lousy Sex, Gerald Callahan explores the science of self, illustrating the immune system’s role in forming individual identity. Blending the scientific essay with deeply personal narratives, these poi-gnant and enlightening stories use microbiology and immunology to explore a new way to answer the question, who am I?

“Self” has many definitions. Science has demonstrated that 90 percent of the cells in our bodies are bacteria—we are in many respects more non-self than self. In Lousy Sex, Callahan considers this microbio-neuro perspective on human identity together with the soulful, social perception of self, drawing on both art and science to fully illuminate this relationship.

In his stories about where we came from and who we are, Callahan uses autobiographical episodes to illustrate his scientific points. Through stories about the sex lives of wood lice, the bio-logical advantages of eating dirt, the question of immortality, the relationship between syphilis and the musical genius of Beethoven, and more, this book creates another way, a chimeric way, of seeing ourselves. The general reader with an interest in science will find Lousy Sex fascinating.

Gerald N. Callahan

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Paul A. Johnsgard is Foundation Professor of Biological Sciences

Emeritus at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska–

Lincoln. His previous works include fifty-six books, mostly reference works

on bird groups, such as cranes and waterfowl, and the ecology of Nebraska

and the Great Plains.

Thomas D. Mangelsen is one of the world’s premier nature photographers.

His work is frequently seen in major publications such as National Geographic, Audubon, Smithsonian, Time, and Life and

in his Images of Nature galleries in six-teen locations across North America.

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Yellowstone Wildlife

Yellowstone Wildlife is a natural history of the wild-life species that call Yellowstone National Park and the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem their home. Illustrated with stunning images by renowned wildlife photographer Thomas Mangelsen, Yellowstone Wildlife describes the lives of species in the park, exploring their habitats from the Grand Tetons to Jackson Hole.

From charismatic megafauna like elk, bison, wolves, bighorn sheep, and grizzly bears, to smaller mammals like bats, pikas, beavers, and otters, to some of the 279 species of birds, Johnsgard describes the behavior of animals throughout the seasons, with sections on what summer and autumn mean to the wildlife of the park, especially with the intrusion of millions of tourists each year. Enhanced by Mangelsen’s wildlife photography, Yellowstone Wildlife reveals the beauty and complex-ity of these species’ intertwined lives and that of Yellowstone’s greater ecosystem.

The Ecology and Natural History of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

Paul A. Johnsgard Photographs by Thomas D. Mangelsen






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“In the entire history of the American West there were no more fascinating characters than the ‘Bloody Espinosas’ of Colorado Territory. This fast-paced, amazingly objective, intriguing, and highly recom-mended study of the Espinosas, as well as those who hunted them, will keep you turning the pages.”

Novelist-turned-historian Charles F. Price is a full-time writer living in North Carolina and has previously pub-lished five novels. Season of Terror is his first nonfiction book.

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Season of Terror

Season of Terror is the first book-length treatment of the little-known true story of the Espinosas—serial murderers with a mission to kill every Anglo in Civil War–era Colorado Territory—and the men who brought them down.

For eight months during the spring and fall of 1863, brothers Felipe Nerio and José Vivián Espinosa and their young nephew, José Vincente, New Mexico–born Hispanos, killed and muti-lated an estimated thirty-two victims before their rampage came to a bloody end. Their motives were obscure, although they were members of the Penitentes, a lay Catholic brotherhood devoted to self-torture in emulation of the sufferings of Christ, and some suppose they believed them-selves inspired by the Virgin Mary to commit their slaughters.

Until now, the story of their rampage has been recounted as lurid melodrama or ignored by academic historians. Featuring a fascinating array of frontier characters, Season of Terror exposes this neglected truth about Colorado’s past and exam-ines the ethnic, religious, political, military, and moral complexity of the controversy that began as a regional incident but eventually demanded the attention of President Lincoln.

The Espinosas in Central Colorado, March–October 1863

Charles F. Price

—Jerry Thompson, Regents Professor of History, Texas A&M

International University

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“The best work on the Montana vigilantes . . . Its care-ful, informative, judicial approach radiates a strong authority that will be recognized by academics and popular readers alike.”

Mark C. Dillon is an associate jus-tice in the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court and

has a special interest in the history of law-making, law enforcement, and

“unauthorized justice” in the Montana Territory of the 1860s.

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The Montana Vigilantes1863–1870

Historians and novelists alike have described the vigilantism that took root in the gold-mining com-munities of Montana in the mid-1860s, but Mark C. Dillon is the first to examine the subject through the prism of American legal history, considering the state of criminal justice and law enforcement in the western territories and also trial procedures, guber-natorial politics, legislative enactments, and consti-tutional rights.

Using newspaper articles, diaries, letters, biographies, invoices, and books that speak to the compelling history of Montana’s vigilantism in the 1860s, Dillon examines the conduct of the vigilantes in the context of the due process norms of the time. He implicates the influence of lawyers and judges who, like their non-lawyer counterparts, shaped history during the rush to earn fortunes in gold.

Dillon’s perspective as a state Supreme Court justice and legal historian uniquely illuminates the intersection of territorial politics, constitutional issues, corrupt law enforcement, and the basic need of citizenry for social order. This readable and well-directed analysis of the social and legal context that contributed to the rise of Montana vigilante groups will be of interest to scholars and general readers interested in Western history, law, and criminal justice for years to come.

Gold, Guns, and Gallows

Mark C. Dillon

—Paul R. Wylie, historian and author of The Irish General




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A professional writer and former teacher, Pat Pascoe served twelve years in the Colorado State Senate, where she focused on education policy.


Helen Ring Robinson

"This careful documentation on the little-known and gutsy achievements of the second woman in the world to serve as an elected state senator, dedicated to bet-tering lives of women and children, should be in every Colorado high school and college library so that cur-rent and future students may know what women have accomplished here. Pat Pascoe has produced a very readable work with many personal insights, exempli-fying the tradition that past women are role models for future generations."

—Beverly Chico, Women’s History, Regis University

“The mysteries surrounding this pioneering woman make this timely biography a compelling read. Congratulations to author Pat Pascoe! We will all be enriched by getting to know Helen Ring Robinson and by gaining further insights into the time in which she lived.”

—Dottie Lamm, former First Lady of Colorado

”For nearly a century, Helen Ring Robinson has rested in peaceful anonymity. Pat Pascoe’s exhaustive re-search has changed all that. Robinson can now take her proper historical place as Colorado’s first elected state senator and pioneer crusader for the rights of women and children. Pat Pascoe’s detailed narrative provides, with clarity, a fascinating picture of Colorado politics in the first quarter of the twentieth century.”

—Clé Cervi Symons, former editor, Cervi’s Journal

“Helen Ring Robinson left an amazing legislative re-cord of achievement for women and children during a time when Colorado politics were as turbulent as any in recent recollection. Send this book to your congres-sional representative. They could learn a lot from this woman who served 100 years ago!”

—Pat Schroeder, Colorado’s first congresswoman

Colorado Senator and Suffragist

Pat Pascoe

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Jack Christian was born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1978. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, and teaches writing at

Westfield State University. This is his first book.

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Family System

Winner of the 2012 Colorado Prize for Poetry

“Family System is one of the most specific and clarify-ing books of poetry I’ve ever read. It is filled with choices—made, to be made, not made—handled with a poetic understanding that what seems arbitrary will be inevitable when said with the right words while singing the right songs. This is a stand-out-first book, introducing a first-rate original talent, doing powerful work, making quintessentially lyrical choices. Don’t miss this book.”

—Dara Wier

“It seems that Jack Christian’s brain is able to produce tiny lucid creatures, have them run and sprinkle over a map of an unknown world with joy, speed, and delight. Even stranger, he’s somehow the spiritual offspring of very different ancestors: Pascal’s Esprit de géométrie and Scandinavian mythology. ‘I was eulogizing a squirrel in a shoebox.’ Brilliant.”

—Tomaž Šalamun

Jack Christian






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Carl Abbott is professor of urban stud-ies and planning at Portland State University.

Stephen J. Leonard is professor and chair of the Department of History at Metropolitan State College.

Thomas J. Noel, also known as “Dr. Colorado,” teaches history at the University of Colorado at Denver, where he is the director of Public History, Preservation & Colorado Studies, and he is also a columnist for The Denver Post.


Colorado

Since 1976, newcomers and natives alike have learned about the rich history of the magnificent place they call home from Colorado: A History of the Centennial State. In the fifth edition, coauthors Carl Abbott, Stephen J. Leonard, and Thomas J. Noel incorporate recent events, scholarship, and insights about the state in an accessible volume that general readers and students will enjoy.

The new edition tells of conflicts, shifting alliances, and changing ways of life as Hispanic, European, and African American settlers flooded into a region that was already home to Native Americans. Providing a balanced treatment of the entire state’s history—from Grand Junction to Lamar and from Trinidad to Craig—the authors also reveal how Denver and its surrounding com-munities developed and gained influence.

While continuing to elucidate the significant impact of mining, agriculture, manufacturing, and tourism on Colorado, the fifth edition broadens and focuses its coverage by consolidating material on Native Americans into one chapter and add-ing a new chapter on sports history. The authors also expand their discussion of the twentieth century with updated sections on the environment, economy, politics, and recent cultural conflicts. New illustrations, updated statistics, and an exten-sive bibliography including Internet resources also enhance this edition.

A History of the Centennial State, Fifth Edition

Carl Abbott Stephen J. Leonard

Thomas J. Noel







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Ellen E. Wohl teaches geology at Colorado State University and is the

author of seven other books, most recently Island of Grass (UPC).

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Wide Rivers Crossed

In Wide Rivers Crossed, Ellen Wohl tells the stories of two rivers—the South Platte on the western plains and the Illinois on the eastern—to represent the environmental history and historical transfor-mation of major rivers across the American prai-rie. Wohl begins with the rivers’ natural histories, including their geologic history, physical char-acteristics, ecological communities, and earliest human impacts, and follows a downstream and historical progression from the use of the riv-ers’ resources by European immigrants through increasing population density of the twentieth cen-tury to the present day.

During the past two centuries, these rivers changed dramatically, mostly due to human inter-action. Crops replaced native vegetation; excess snowmelt and rainfall carried fertilizers and pes-ticides into streams; and levees, dams, and drain-age altered distribution. These changes cascaded through networks, starting in small headwater tributaries, and reduced the ability of rivers to sup-ply the clean water, fertile soil, and natural habitats they had provided for centuries. Understanding how these rivers, and rivers in general, function and how these functions have been altered over time will allow us to find innovative approaches to restoring river ecosystems.

The environmental changes in the South Platte and the Illinois reflect the relentless efforts by humans to control the distribution of water: to enhance surface water in the arid western prairie and to limit the spread of floods and drain the wet-lands along the rivers in the water-abundant east. Wide Rivers Crossed looks at these historical changes and discusses opportunities for much-needed protection and restoration for the future.

The South Platte and the Illinois of the American Prairie

Ellen Wohl






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Kent Curtis is an assistant professor of environmental studies at Eckerd College. His research focuses on the historic development of environmental values.


Gambling on Ore

Gambling on Ore examines the development of the western mining industry from the tumultuous and violent Gold Rush to the elevation of large-scale copper mining in the early twentieth century, using Montana as representative of mining develop-ments in the broader US mining west. Employing abundant new historical evidence in key primary and secondary sources, Curtis tells the story of the inescapable relationship of mining to nature in the modern world as the United States moved from a primarily agricultural society to a mining nation in the second half of the nineteenth century.

In Montana, legal issues and politics—such as unexpected consequences of federal mining law and the electrification of the United States—further complicated the mining industry’s already complex relationship to geology, while government policy, legal frameworks, dominant understandings of nature, and the exigencies of profit and production drove the industry in momentous and surprising directions. Despite its many uncertainties, mining became an important part of American culture and daily life.

Gambling on Ore unpacks the tangled relation-ships between mining and the natural world that gave material possibility to the age of electricity. Metal mining has had a profound influence on the human ecology and the social relationships of North America through the twentieth century and throughout the world after World War II. Understanding how we forged these relationships is central to understanding the environmental his-tory of the United States after 1850.

The Nature of Metal Mining in the United States, 1860–1910

Kent Curtis







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“An outstanding contribution to our understanding of the his-tory of the mercury industry in California and how it changed the development of California and the American West.”

Andrew Scott Johnston is an asso-ciate professor in the Department of Architecture at Xi’an Jiaotong–

Liverpool University in Suzhou, China.


—Donald L. Hardesty, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology,

University of Nevada, Reno

Mercury and the Making of California

Exploring the development of California and the relationship between the built environments of the mercury-mining industry and the emerging ethnic identities and communities in California, Mercury and the Making of California brings mer-cury to its rightful place alongside gold and silver in their defining roles in the development of the American West. In this pioneering study, Andrew Johnston examines the history of California’s mercury-mining industry—and its defining role in the development of the American West.

Mercury was crucial to refining gold and silver; therefore, its production and use were vital to creat-ing and securing power and wealth in the west. The first industrialized mining in California, mercury mining had its own particular organization and structure shaped by powers first formed within the Spanish Empire, transformed by British impe-rial ambitions, and manipulated by groups made wealthy and powerful by controlling it. In addition, the landscapes of work and camp and the relations among the many groups—Mexicans, Chileans, Spanish, English, Irish, Cornish, American, and Chinese—throughout the industry’s history illus-trate the complex history of race and ethnicity in the American West.

Combining rich documentary sources with a close examination of the existing physical land-scape, Andrew Johnston explores both the detail of everyday work and life in the mines and the larger economic and social structures in which mercury mining was enmeshed, revealing the significance of mercury mining to Western history.

Mining, Landscape, and Race, 1840–1890

Andrew Scott Johnston

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“Others, including myself, have never adequately explained the emergence of polygamy ideologi-cally. Smith does so brilliantly, meticulously tracing the factors that overcame resistance to the doctrine among the LDS faith-ful. She made it possible for me to understand my own ancestors’ rationale in adopting a way of life that so offended their Victorian sensibilities.”

Merina Smith is an independent historian living in La Mesa, California.

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Revelation, Resistance, and Mormon Polygamy

In Revelation, Resistance, and Mormon Polygamy, historian Merina Smith explores the introduc-tion of polygamy in Nauvoo, a development that unfolded amid scandal and resistance. Smith con-siders the ideological, historical, and even psycho-logical elements of the process and captures the emotional and cultural detail of this exciting and volatile period in Mormon history. She illuminates the mystery of early adherents' acceptance of such a radical form of marriage in light of their dedica-tion to the accepted monogamous marriage pat-terns of their day.

When Joseph Smith began to reveal and teach the doctrine of plural marriage in 1841, even stalwart members like Brigham Young were shocked and confused. In this thoughtful study, Smith argues that the secret introduction of plural marriage among the leadership coincided with an evolving public theol-ogy that provided a contextualizing religious narra-tive that persuaded believers to accept the principle.

This fresh interpretation draws from diaries, letters, newspapers, and other primary sources and is especially effective in its use of family narratives. It will be of great interest not only to scholars and the general public interested in Mormon history but in American history, religion, gender and sexuality, and the history of marriage and families.

The Introduction and Implementation of the Principle,

1830–1853Merina Smith

—Janet Bennion, Lyndon State College, author of

Polygamy in Primetime







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Frank de Caro is Professor Emeritus of English at Louisiana State University

and editor of The Folklore Muse and An Anthology of American Folktales

and Legends.

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Stories of Our Lives

The social importance of personal narratives, family saga, and communal legends are well established in ethnographic and folkloristic literature, but their value for individual self-knowledge is less often demonstrated. Both a memoir and a research project, Stories of Our Lives considers the stories from Frank de Caro’s personal life, as well as the stories he has collected in his years of field research as he explores how the stories we tell, listen to, and learn play an integral role in constructing our temporal selves.

De Caro uses his own memories and stories as specimens to call attention to the centrality of oral narration in his life, providing the recollections that all memoirs provide while additionally considering what those stories have meant to his life and sense of self. In doing so, he demonstrates the way in which stories infuse an individual life—expressing, contextualizing, and creating one’s sense of self—and how the larger life narrative in turn provides a context for the stories that shape it.

Memory, History, Narrative

Frank de Caro






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Trevor J. Blank is a visiting assis-tant professor in the Department of English and Communication at the State University of New York at Potsdam and editor of Folk Culture in the Digital Age.

Robert Glenn Howard is the Director of Digital Studies and a professor in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and editor of the journal Western Folklore.

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Tradition in the Twenty-First Century

In Tradition in the Twenty-First Century, eight diverse contributors explore the role of tradition in contemporary folkloristics. For more than a cen-tury, folklorists have been interested in locating sources of tradition and accounting for the concep-tual boundaries of tradition, but in the modern era, expanded means of communication, research, and travel, along with globalized cultural and economic interdependence, have complicated these pursuits. Tradition is thoroughly embedded in both mod-ern life and at the center of folklore studies, and a modern understanding of tradition cannot be fully realized without a thoughtful consideration of the past’s role in shaping the present.

Emphasizing how tradition adapts, survives, thrives, and either mutates or remains stable in today’s modern world, the contributors pay specific attention to how traditions now resist or expedite dissemination and adoption by individuals and communities. This complex and intimate portrayal of tradition in the twenty-first century offers a com-prehensive overview of the folkloristic and popular conceptualizations of tradition from the past to present and presents a thoughtful assessment and projection of how “tradition” will fare in years to come. The book will be useful to advanced under-graduate or graduate courses in folklore and will contribute significantly to the scholarly literature on tradition within the folklore discipline.

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Brock Dethier is professor of English at Utah State University, where he directs

the composition program and teaches writing and pedagogy at several lev-els. He has won his college’s Teacher

of the Year Award twice in the last six years and has published four books for composition teachers, including

First Time Up: An Insider’s Guide for New Composition Instructors (USUP).

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“Love this book! Our students seek information by dipping directly into what they need when they need it . . . This succinct, very easily accessible approach will really appeal to them.”

Twenty-One Genres and How to Write Them

In this classroom-tested approach to writing, Brock Dethier teaches readers how to analyze and write twenty-one genres that students are likely to encounter in college and beyond. This practi-cal, student-friendly, task-oriented text confidently guides writers through step-by-step processes, reducing the anxiety commonly associated with writing tasks.

In the first section, Dethier efficiently pres-ents each genre, providing models; a description of the genres’ purpose, context, and discourse; and suggestions for writing activities or “moves” that writers can use to get words on the page and accomplish their writing tasks. The second section explains these moves, over two hundred of them, in chapters ranging from “Solve Your Process Problems” and “Discover” to “Revise” and “Present.” Applicable to any writing task or genre, these moves help students overcome writing blocks and develop a piece of writing from the first glim-mers of an idea to its presentation.

This approach to managing the complexity and challenge of writing in college strives to be useful, flexible, eclectic, and brief—a valuable resource for students learning to negotiate unfamil-iar writing situations.

Brock Dethier

—Lauren Ingraham, University of Tennessee–Chattanooga

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Anne Ellen Geller is an associate professor of English and director of Writing Across the Curriculum in the Institute for Writing Studies at St. John’s University in Queens, New York.

Michele Eodice is the Associate Provost for Academic Engagement and director of the writing center at the University of Oklahoma.

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Working with Faculty Writers

The imperative to write and to publish is a rela-tively new development in the history of academia, yet it is now a significant factor in the culture of higher education. Working with Faculty Writers takes a broad view of faculty writing support, advocat-ing its value for tenure-track professors, adjuncts, senior scholars, and graduate students. The authors in this volume imagine productive campus writing support for faculty and future faculty that allows for new insights about their own disciplinary writing and writing processes, as well as the development of fresh ideas about student writing.

Contributors from a variety of institution types and perspectives consider who faculty writers are and who they may be in the future, reveal the range of locations and models of support for faculty writers, explore the ways these might be delivered and assessed, and consider the theoretical, philo-sophical, political, and pedagogical approaches to faculty writing support, as well as its relationship to student writing support.

With the pressure on faculty to be productive researchers and writers greater than ever, this is a must-read volume for administrators, faculty, and others involved in developing and assessing models of faculty writing support.

Anne Ellen Geller Michele Eodice

Foreword by Robert Boice







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Jackie Grutsch McKinney is the director of the Writing Program at

Ball State University.

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Peripheral Visions for Writing Centers

Peripheral Visions for Writing Centers aims to inspire a re-conception and re-envisioning of the bound-aries of writing center work. Moving beyond the grand narrative of the writing center—that it is solely a comfortable, yet iconoclastic place where all students go to get one-on-one tutoring on their writing—McKinney shines light on other represen-tations of writing center work.

McKinney argues that this grand narrative neglects the extent to which writing center work is theoretically and pedagogically complex, with ever-changing work and conditions, and results in a straitjacket for writing center scholars, practitioners, students, and outsiders alike. Peripheral Visions for Writing Centers makes the case for a broader narrative of writing center work that recognizes and theorizes the various spaces of writing center labor, allows for professionalization of administra-tors, and sees tutoring as just one way to perform writing center work.

McKinney explores possibilities that lie outside the grand narrative, allowing scholars and practi-tioners to open the field to a fuller, richer, and more realistic representation of their material labor and intellectual work.

Jackie Grutsch McKinney






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Frank Farmer is an associate professor of English at the University of Kansas and recently served as chair of the MLA Division Executive Committee on Language and Society. He is the author of Saying and Silence: Listening to Composition with Bakhtin (USUP, 2001) and the editor of Landmark Essays on Bakhtin, Rhetoric, and Writing.

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“This is the best account of the importance of public sphere theory in the field of rhetoric and composition, and, especially, of the application of the counter-discourses surrounding counterpublics and their oppositional role in the making (and remaking) of the discipline today. It will serve as a reminder that as a discipline and a practice, our field will continue to find itself having to contend with dominant public discourses, and sometimes in oppositional ways.”

After the Public Turn

In After the Public Turn, author Frank Farmer argues that counterpublics and the people who make counterpublics—“citizen bricoleurs”—deserve a more prominent role in our scholarship and in our classrooms. Encouraging students to understand and consider resistant or oppositional discourse is a viable route toward mature participation as citizens in a democracy.

Farmer examines two very different kinds of publics, cultural and disciplinary, and discusses two counterpublics within those broad categories: zine discourses and certain academic discourses. By juxtaposing these two significantly different kinds of publics, Farmer suggests that each discursive world can be seen, in its own distinct way, as a counterpublic, an oppositional social formation that has a stake in widening or altering public life as we know it.

Drawing on major figures in rhetoric and cultural theory, Farmer builds his argument about composition teaching and its relation to the public sphere, leading to a more sophisticated under-standing of public life and a deeper sense of what democratic citizenship means for our time.

Composition, Counterpublics, and the Citizen Bricoleur

Frank Farmer

—Paul Butler, University of Houston







August$55.00s, cloth, 6 x 9

ISBN: 978-1-60732-238-2$44.00, ebook

E-ISBN: 978-1-60732-239-9248 pages

8 b&w photographs, 1 map

Fernando Armstrong-Fumero is an assistant professor of anthropology at Smith College. He has conducted

research in Maya-speaking communi-ties in Yucatán, Mexico, since 1997.

un I v e r S I t y Pr e S S o F co l o r a d o ar c H a e o l o g y, an t H r o P o l o g y

“Armstrong-Fumero has done research in one of the areas most frequented by anthropologists yet he has come up with methodological and theoretical insights that go beyond the large body of publications . . . not only a solid contribution to the ethnographic litera-ture, but to indigenous movements in the Western Hemisphere.”

Elusive Unity

In Elusive Unity, Armstrong-Fumero exam-ines early twentieth-century peasant politics and twenty-first-century indigenous politics in the rural Oriente region of Yucatán.

The rural inhabitants of this region have had some of their most important dealings with their nation’s government as self-identified “peasants” and “Maya.” Using ethnography, oral history, and archival research, Armstrong-Fumero shows how the same body of narrative tropes has defined the local experience of twentieth-century agrarianism and twenty-first-century multiculturalism.

Through these recycled narratives, contempo-rary multicultural politics have also inherited some ambiguities that were built into its agrarian prede-cessor. Specifically, local experiences of peasant and indigenous politics are shaped by tensions between the vernacular language of identity and the intense factionalism that often defines the social organiza-tion of rural communities. This significant contribu-tion will be of interest to historians, anthropologists, and political scientists studying Latin America and the Maya.

Factionalism and the Limits of Identity Politics in Yucatán, Mexico

Fernando Armstrong-Fumero

—June Nash, City University of New York






May$70.00s, cloth, 6 x 9 ISBN: 978-1-60732-224-5$56.00, ebook E-ISBN: 978-1-60732-225-2368 pages74 figures

Matthew Sponheimer is an associ-ate professor of anthropology at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Julia A. Lee-Thorp is a professor of archaeological science at the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford.

Kaye E. Reed is a professor at the Institute of Human Origins, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University.

Peter Ungar is distinguished profes-sor and chair of the Anthropology Department at the University of Arkansas.


Early Hominin Paleoecology

An introduction to the multidisciplinary field of hominin paleoecology for advanced undergradu-ate students and beginning graduate students, Early Hominin Paleoecology offers an up-to-date review of the relevant literature, exploring new research and synthesizing old and new ideas.

Recent advances in the field and the labora-tory are not only improving our understanding of human evolution but are also transforming it. Given the increasing specialization of the individual fields of study in hominin paleontol-ogy, communicating research results and data is difficult, especially to a broad audience of graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and the inter-ested public. Early Hominin Paleoecology provides a good working knowledge of the subject while also presenting a solid grounding in the sundry ways this knowledge has been constructed. The book is divided into three sections—climate and environment (with a particular focus on the latter), adaptation and behavior, and modern analogs and models—and features contributors from various fields of study, including archaeology, primatology, paleoclimatology, sedimentology, and geochemistry.

Early Hominin Paleoecology is an accessible introduction into this fascinating and ever-evolving field and will be essential to any student interested in pursuing research in human paleoecology.

Matthew Sponheimer Julia A. Lee-Thorp

Kaye E. Reed Peter Ungar

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ISBN: 978-1-60732-222-1$64.00, ebook

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James Maffie is a visiting associate professor in the Department of

Philosophy and affiliate of the Latin American Studies Program at the

University of Maryland.


“Stunning . . . a major breakthrough that will be a game-changer in Mesoamerican studies.”

Aztec Philosophy

In Aztec Philosophy, James Maffie reveals a highly sophisticated and systematic Aztec philosophy worthy of consideration alongside European philos-ophies of their time. Bringing together the fields of comparative world philosophy and Mesoamerican studies, Maffie excavates the distinctly philosophi-cal aspects of Aztec thought.

Aztec Philosophy focuses on the ways Aztec metaphysics—the Aztecs’ understanding of the nature, structure, and constitution of reality—underpinned Aztec thinking about wisdom, ethics, politics, and aesthetics and served as a backdrop for Aztec religious practices as well as everyday activities such as weaving, farming, and warfare. Aztec metaphysicians conceived reality and cosmos as a grand, ongoing process of weaving—theirs was a world in motion. Drawing upon linguistic, ethnohistorical, archaeological, historical, and con-temporary ethnographic evidence, Maffie argues that Aztec metaphysics maintained a processive, transformational, and non-hierarchical view of reality, time, and existence along with a pantheistic theology.

Aztec Philosophy will be of great interest to Mesoamericanists, philosophers, religionists, folk-lorists, and Latin Americanists as well as students of indigenous philosophy, religion, and art of the Americas.

Understanding a World in Motion

James Maffie

—Alan Sandstrom, Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne






April$85.00s, cloth, 6 x 9 ISBN: 978-1-60732-220-7$68.00, ebook E-ISBN: 978-1-60732-221-4552 pages95 b&w photographs, 56 figures

Gabrielle Vail is a research scholar spe-cializing in codical and pre-Columbian studies at New College of Florida and the author or coeditor of five books, including The Madrid Codex (UPC).

Christine Hernández is the Curator of Special Collections at the Latin American Library at Tulane University and a Mesoamerican archaeologist who has published on topics ranging from Michoacan archaeology to pre- Columbian codices.


“This book presents the very latest interpretation of several of the most important sections of the Maya codices by two of the foremost experts on the subject. It is a major step forward in codical research, pushing the boundaries of traditional categories and delv-ing into the apparently very rich mythic content of these manuscripts, which are essentially divinatory in nature . . . an essential reference work not only for codical researchers but for all Mesoamericanists.”

Re-Creating Primordial Time

Re-Creating Primordial Time offers a new perspec-tive on the Maya codices, documenting the exten-sive use of creation mythology and foundational rituals in the hieroglyphic texts and iconography of these important manuscripts. Focusing on both pre-Columbian codices and early colonial creation accounts, Vail and Hernández show that in spite of significant cultural change during the Postclassic and Colonial periods, the mythological traditions reveal significant continuity, beginning as far back as the Classic period.

Remarkable similarities exist within the Maya tradition, even as new mythologies were intro-duced through contact with the Gulf Coast region and highland central Mexico. Vail and Hernández analyze the extant Maya codices within the context of later literary sources such as the Books of Chilam Balam, the Popol Vuh, and the Códice Chimalpopoca to present numerous examples highlighting the relationship among creation mythology, rituals, and lore. Compiling and comparing Maya creation mythology with that of the Borgia codices from highland central Mexico, Re-Creating Primordial Time is a significant contribution to the field of Mesoamerican studies and will be of interest to scholars of archaeology, linguistics, epigraphy, and comparative religions alike.

Foundation Rituals and Mythology in the Postclassic Maya Codices

Gabrielle Vail Christine Hernández

—Matthew Looper, California State University, Chico







August$80.00s, cloth, 6 x 9

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80 b&w photographs, 55 figures, 2 maps

Justyna Olko is an associate professor at the Institute for

Interdisciplinary Studies “Artes Liberales,” University of Warsaw.


Insignia of Rank in the Nahua World

"Justyna Olko provides nothing less than a rigorous and exhaustive analysis of every component of dress, jewelry, and other ornamentation worn by adorning indigenous men and women, be they native rulers (tlatoque), members of the nobility (principales), bureaucratic functionaries, or soldiers. This level of detail enables her to assign a cultural reference point for numerous figures—a reference point that includes indicators such as rank and social status and the spe-cific identity of local aristocracies, or, in the cases of a dual identity, the one that is intended to stand out at a certain time or to grace a particular occasion. These aspects of native culture, as drawn out by Olko, have often been ignored or overlooked, precisely because the field has lacked a comprehensive study such as hers to consult . . . [W]ith this book, Justyna Olko has become an unqualified master of the tlacuilolli.”

—María Castañeda de la Paz

In this significant work, Olko reconstructs the repertory of insignia of rank and the contexts and symbolic meanings of their use, along with their original terminology, among the Nahuatl-speaking communities of Mesoamerica from the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries. In this interpre-tive study and handy reference, Olko engages with and builds upon extensive worldwide scholarship and skillfully illuminates this complex topic, creat-ing a vital contribution to the fields of pre-Colum-bian and colonial Mexican studies. Insignia of Rank in the Nahua World substantially expands and elabo-rates the themes of Olko’s Turquoise Diadems and Staffs of Office: Elite Costume and Insignia of Power in Aztec and Early Colonial Mexico, originally published in Poland and never released in North America.

From the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century

Justyna Olko






May$24.95s, paper, 6 x 9ISBN: 978-1-60732-246-7$19.95, ebook E-ISBN: 978-087081-996-4236 pages8 figures, 1 map, 17 tables


John M. Weeks is the museum librarian and a consult-ing scholar at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

Maya Daykeeping

“This volume makes available priceless documents about the Maya of highland Guatemala. Their tran-scription and translation conserves vital legacies of Maya thought, conservation even more critical in light of the especially brutal repression and violence against Maya peoples in recent decades. . . The three calendars are—individually and collectively—invalu-able resources for scholars.”

—Wendy Ashmore, University of California, Riverside

Three Calendars from Highland Guatemala

John M. Weeks Frauke Sachse

Christian M. Prager

Available Now$36.95s, paper, 7 x 10 ISBN: 978-0-87421-922-7$30.00, ebook E-ISBN: 978-0-87421-870-1588 pages

Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs is associate professor of mod-ern languages and women studies at Seattle University.

Yolanda Flores Niemann is senior vice provost and pro-fessor of psychology at the University of North Texas.

Carmen G. González is professor of law at Seattle University.

Angela P. Harris is professor of law at University of California, Davis.

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Presumed Incompetent

"Women in academia still face obstacles built up over centuries, but the contributors to Presumed Incompetent have taken a leap toward liberation. Their revelations will enrage you—and open minds and hearts."

—Gloria Steinem

The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia

Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs Yolanda Flores Niemann

Carmen G. González Angela P. Harris

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