The Codice de Santa Maria Asuncion, one of the most comprehensive native census pictoral manuscripts that has survived from central Mexico, provides a wealth of information on native rural life, social structure, settlement patterns, land tenure, household composition, political and economic organization, and cultural ecology and is one of a ......
Color attracts attention, evokes emotions, conveys information, carries complex meanings, and makes things beautiful. Color is so meaningful, in fact, that research on the color choices of Ancestral Pueblo people has the potential to deepen our understanding of religious, social, and economic change in the ancient Southwest. This volume explores ......
"This canyon world where water yearns toward the ocean is a place so large I can't take it in. Instead, I am taken in, traveling a near dream as we journey by water, contained by rock walls. In order to see this shorn-away world, I narrow my vision to the small and nearly secret. Never mind the stone's illusion of permanence or the great strength ......
John McPhee, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1999 for Annals of the Former World, is considered one of the most distinguished writers of literary nonfiction. Coming into McPhee Country is the first comprehensive anthology to address his significant body of work. The first section, 'The Evolving Writer,' examines his work from a biographical point ......
The Xinkan language family is the only pre-colonial, non-Mayan language group in Mesoamerica. This is a truly multilingual dictionary, offering forms, functions, and information in four Xinkan languages (Chiquimulilla, Guazacapan , Jumaytepeque, and Yupiltepeque), Spanish, and English, alongside brief grammar sketches in both English and Spanish. ......
In this autobiography, Viola Burnette braids the history of the Lakota people with the story of her own life as an Iyeska, or mixed-race Indian. Bringing together her years growing up on a reservation, her work as a lawyer and legal advocate for Native peoples, and her woman's perspective, she draws the reader into an intelligent and intimate ......
Sterling M. McMurrin, Obert C. Tanner, and Lowell L. Bennion
Lowell Bennion, Sterling McMurrin, and Obert Tanner were colleagues whose lives often intertwined. All professors at the University of Utah, these three scholars addressed issues and events of their time; each influenced the thought and culture of Mormonism, helping to institute a period of intellectual life and social activism. In Conscience and ......
Six Communal Religious Groups and Their Spatial Worlds
Constructing Space interrogates the religious worldviews about and experiences with place among a half dozen religious communities: Shakers, Oneida Perfectionists, LDS, Branch Davidians, FLDS, Adidam.
Six Communal Religious Groups and Their Spatial Worlds
Constructing Space interrogates the religious worldviews about and experiences with place among a half dozen religious communities: Shakers, Oneida Perfectionists, LDS, Branch Davidians, FLDS, Adidam.
