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Atomic Culture
How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Av Michael A. Amundson, Scott C. Zeman
Häftad, 2004
356 kr
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Eight scholars examine the range of cultural expressions of atomic energy from the 1940s to the early twenty-first century, including comic books, nuclear landscapes, mushroom-cloud postcards, the Los Alamos suburbs, uranium-themed board games, future atomic waste facilities, and atomic-themed …
Ancient Traditions
Shamanism in Central Asia and the Americas
Av Denver Museum of Natural History, Center for Visual Anthropology m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
366 kr
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Shamanism is the worlds oldest religion. The rituals and beliefs of this ancient tradition were carried from Asia and Siberia into the New World by nomadic hunting bands beginning 12,000 years ago. This unique collection of essays on shamanism in Central Asia and the Indian Americas provides sound …
Yellowstone Story, Volume I
A History of Our First National Park
Häftad, 1999
336 kr
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The Yellowstone Story traces the history of the Yellowstone region from the time when hunters and gatherers migrated into the Rocky Mountains thousands of years ago to the post-World War II era when tourists began inundating Yellowstone National Park. Volume I takes the account from prehistoric …
Tribal Government Today
Av James J. Lopach, Margery Hunter Brown m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
493 kr
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An account of Fourth World peoples within a First World nation, TRIBAL GOVERNMENT TODAY is a critical analysis of the contemporary progress of Indian tribes toward self-government and economic sufficiency. Focusing on seven reservations in Montana representing the diverse opportunities and problems …
Moctezuma's Mexico
Visions of the Aztec World
Av David Carrasco, Eduardo Matos Moctezuma
Häftad, 2003
412 kr
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Updated with a new chapter by David Carrasco describing how the Aztec world has been re-imagined by modern Mexican American communities and Chicano scholars, 'Moctezuma's Mexico' is a lavishly illustrated volume that provides an in-depth historical profile of the Aztec empire on the eve of its …
Shooting Cowboys and Indians
Silent Western Films, American Culture, and the Birth of Hollywood
Inbunden, 2004
454 kr
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Academics have generally dismissed Hollywood's cowboy and Indian movies - one of its defining successful genres - as specious, one-dimensional, and crassly commercial. In Shooting Cowboys and Indians, Andrew Brodie Smith challenges this simplistic characterization of the genre, illustrating the …
Identity, Feasting, and the Archaeology of the Greater Southwest
Av Barbara J Mills, Barbara J. Mills
Häftad, 2004
348 kr
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With contributions from sociocultural and linguistic anthropologists as well as archaeologists, this volume is the first to present case studies of social identity and feasting from throughout the Greater Southwest. A section of the book is also devoted to a synthesis and set of case studies on the …
Time for Peace
Fort Lewis, Colorado, 1878-1891
Inbunden, 2006
440 kr
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TIME FOR PEACE, historian Duane Smiths chronicle of southwest Colorados Fort Lewis, belies the Western myth of soldiers riding out from isolated posts to rescue wagon trains and protect pioneer towns. Long on daily routine and blissfully short on action, Fort Lewis lost nary a soldier in battle. …
Spain and the Plains
Myths and Realities of Spanish Exploration and Settlement on the Great Plains
Av Ralph H. Vigil, John R. Wunder m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
290 kr
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The myths of settlement of the Great Plains usually conjure up images of Anglo-American pioneers moving into a sea of grass, opposed by Native peoples. Such myths leave out the considerable influence of Spain. Spain and the Plains introduces and documents Spanish exploration of and migration to the …
Recasting Race after World War II
Germans and African Americans in American-Occupied Germany
Inbunden, 2007
449 kr
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Explores the re-negotiation of race by Germans and African American GIs in post-World War II Germany. Schroer dissects the ways in which notions of blackness and whiteness became especially problematic in interactions between Germans and American soldiers serving as part of the victorious occupying …
Cheyenne Dog Soldiers
A Ledgerbook History of Coups and Combat
Av Jean Afton, David Fridtjof Halaas m. fl.
1998
586 kr
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Tezcatlipoca
Trickster and Supreme Deity
Inbunden, 2015
724 kr
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This book brings archaeological evidence into the body of scholarship on the lord of the smoking mirror, one of the most important Aztec deities. While iconographic and textual resources from sixteenth-century chroniclers and codices have contributed greatly to the understanding of Aztec religious …
Process and Meaning in Spatial Archaeology
Investigations into Pre-Columbian Iroquoian Space and Place
Inbunden, 2017
638 kr
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Process and Meaning in Spatial Archaeology examines Northern Iroquoian archaeology through various lenses at multiple spatial levels, including individual households, village constructions, relationships between villages in a local region, and relationships between various Iroquoian nations and …
Best Perennials
For the Rocky Mountains and High Plains
Av Celia Tannehill, James E Klett
Häftad, 2003
239 kr
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