Archaeology of the Moundville Chiefdom edited by Vernon J. Knight, Vincas P. Steponaitis At its height, the Moundville ceremonial center was a densely occupied town of approximately 1,000 residents, with at least 29 earthen mounds surrounding a central plaza. Today, Moundville is not only one of the largest and best-preserved Mississippian sites in the United States, but also one of... (learn more about this book)

Becoming Rasta: origins of Rastafari identity in Jamaica by Charles Price So much has been written about the Rastafari, yet we know so little about why and how people join the Rastafari movement. Although popular understandings evoke images of dreadlocks, reggae, and marijuana, Rastafarians were persecuted in their country, becoming a people seeking social justice. Yet... (learn more about this book)

British Colonial Rule and the Resistance of the Malay Peasantry, 1900-1957 by Donald M. Nonini The author synthesizes a large body of materials on peasant resistance to British rule on the Malayan peninsula. He delineates the forms the resistance took, and the emergence and internal differentiation of a "Malay" peasantry. Explanations for the "underdevelopment" of this peasantry are evaluated... (learn more about this book)

Bioarchaeology of the Florida Gulf Coast: Adaptation, Conflict, and Change by Dale L. Hutchinson In Bioarchaeology of the Florida Gulf Coast, Dale Hutchinson explores the role of human adaptation along the Gulf Coast of Florida and the influence of coastal foraging on several indigenous Florida populations. The Sarasota landmark known as Historic Spanish Point has captured the attention... (learn more about this book)

Ceramics, Chronology and Community Patterns: An Archaeological Study at Moundville (Studies in Archaeology) by Vincas P. Steponaitis Moundville, located on the Black Warrior River in west-central Alabama, is one of the best known and most intensively studied archaeological sites in North America. Yet, in spite of all these investigations, many aspects of the site's internal chronology remained unknown until the original 1983... (learn more about this book)

Cherokee Heritage Trails Guidebook by Barbara R. Duncan and Brett H. Riggs Enriched by Cherokee voices, this guidebook offers a unique journey into the lands and culture of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in the mountains of North Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia. Every year millions of tourists visit these mountains, drawn by the region's great natural beauty and diverse cultural... (learn more about this book)

Colonial Entanglement: Constituting a 21st Century Osage Nation by Jean Dennison From 2004 to 2006 the Osage Nation conducted a contentious governmental reform process in which sharply differing visions arose over the new government's goals, the Nation's own history, and what it means to be Osage. The primary debates were focused on biology, culture, natural resources, and sovereignty... (learn more about this book)

Excavating Occaneechi Town edited By R. P. Stephen Davis Jr, Patrick Livingood, Trawick Ward and Vincas P. Steponaitis This CD-ROM incorporates a remarkable body of information on the archaeological discoveries made at the Fredricks site, an eighteenth-century Occaneechi Indian community located in present-day Hillsborough, North Carolina. With detailed descriptions and interpretations, hundreds of color... (learn more about this cd)

Fighting Like a Community: Andean Civil Society in an Era of Indian Uprisings by Rudolf Josef Colloredo-Mansfeld The indigenous population of the Ecuadorian Andes made substantial political gains during the 1990s in the wake of a dynamic wave of local activism. The movement renegotiated land development laws, elected indigenous candidates to national office, and successfully fought for the constitutional... (learn more about this book)

Foraging, Farming, and Coastal Biocultural Adaptation in: Late Prehistoric North Carolina by Dale L. Hutchinson Dale Hutchinson provides a detailed bioarchaeological analysis exploring human adaptation in the estuary zone of North Carolina and the influence of coastal foraging during the late prehistoric transition to agriculture. He draws on observations of human skeletal remains to look at nutrition, disease, physical... (learn more about this book)

The Global Idea of 'The Commons' edited by Donald M. Nonini During the last three decades, corporations allied with scientists and universities, national and regional governments, and international financial institutions have, through a variety of mechanisms associated with neo-liberal globalization, acted to dispossess large proportions of the world's... (learn more about this book)

Listening For A Life by Patricia Sawin In one sense a folklorist’s portrayal of a notable folk artist’s life and art, Listening for a Life is equally a rethinking of the processes involved in such work, not only in how the folklorist conveys her subject but in how her subject constitutes and performs herself into being through... (learn more about this book)

Local Democracy Under Siege: Activism, Public Interests, and Private Politics by Dorothy Holland, Donald Nonini, et al. Won Delmos Jones and Jagna Scharff Prize for Best Book in the Critical Study of North America. What is the state of democracy at the turn of the twenty-first century? To answer this question, seven scholars lived for a year in five North Carolina communities. They observed public meetings... (learn more about this book)

The Native Leisure Class: Consumption and Cultural Creativity in the Andes by Rudolf Josef Colloredo-Mansfeld In the Andean city of Otavalo, Ecuador, a cultural renaissance is now taking place against a backdrop of fading farming traditions, transnational migration, and an influx of new consumer goods. Recently, Otavalenos have transformed their textile trade into a prosperous tourist industry, exporting... (learn more about this book)

The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 14: Folklife edited by Glenn Hinson and William Ferris Southern folklife is the heart of southern culture. Looking at traditional practices still carried on today as well as at aspects of folklife that are dynamic and emergent, contributors to this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture examine a broad range of folk traditions... (learn more about this book)

Social Archaeologies of Trade and Exchange edited by Anna S Agbe-Davies and Alexander A. Bauer This volume focuses on the anthropological concept of trade as a fundamentally social activity concerned not only with the movement of goods, but also on the social context and consequences of that exchange. The distinguished contributors discuss trade on a range of scales—from a solitary ... (learn more about this book)

Tatham Mound and the Bioarchaeology of European Contact: Disease and Depopulation in Central Gulf Coast Florida by Dale L. Hutchinson This is the first systematic analysis of Tatham Mound, one of the most important archaeological sites in Central Gulf Coast Florida. Because it documents the earliest years of contact between the resident Native Americans of the area and European colonists, Tatham Mound has provided... (learn more about this book)

Time before History: The Archaeology of North Carolina by H. Trawick Ward and R. P. Stephen Davis Jr. North Carolina's written history begins in the sixteenth century with the voyages of Sir Walter Raleigh and the founding of the ill-fated Lost Colony on Roanoke Island. But there is a deeper, unwritten past that predates the state's recorded history. The region we now know as North Carolina was... (learn more about this book)

Ungrounded Empires The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Transnationalism edited by Aihwa Ong and Donald M. Nonini In the last two decades, Chinese transnationalism has become a distinctive domain within the new "flexible" capitalism emerging in the Asia-Pacific region. Ungrounded Empires maps this domain as the intersection of cultural politics and global capitalism, drawing on recent ethnographic research... (learn more about this book)

Visible and Invisible Realms: Power, Magic, and Colonial Conquest in Bali by Margaret J. Wiener In 1908, the ruler of the Balinese realm of Klungkung and more than 100 members of his family and court were massacred when they marched deliberately into the fire of the Dutch colonial army. The question of what their action meant and its continued significance in contemporary Klungkung... (learn more about this book)

Women's Health in Post-Soviet Russia by Michele Rivkin-Fish In the first decade after the collapse of the Soviet Union, deteriorating public health indicators such as below-replacement fertility and high rates of sexually transmitted diseases, abortions, birth traumas, and maternal mortality raised acute anxieties about Russia’s future. This study documents the efforts... (learn more about this book)