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Thomas Grillot
The Pursuit of Family

Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians

In The Pursuit of Family Thomas Grillot examines how Dakota and Lakota people on the Standing Rock Reservation have lived as families since the 1870s in what is now North Dakota and South Dakota. Grillot …

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William R. Handley
Horizons of Catastrophe in the American West

Postwestern Horizons

Horizons of Catastrophe in the American West contributes to discussions in the environmental humanities and western U.S. studies about how we read past cultural history in the light of our determined yet …

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Pamela Smith Hill
Too Good to Be Altogether Lost

Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the well-known Little House series, wrote stories from her childhood because they were "too good to be altogether lost." And those stories seemed far from being l…

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Lillian Bullshows Hogan,
The Woman Who Loved Mankind

The oldest living Crow at the dawn of the twenty-first century, Lillian Bullshows Hogan (1905--2003), recounts in traditional Crow storytelling forms her life---including growing up on the Crow reservatio…

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Robert Jarvenpa
Declared Defective

Declared Defective is the anthropological history of an outcast community and a critical reevaluation of The Nam Family, written in 1912 by Arthur Estabrook and Charles Davenport, leaders of the early twe…

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David Kamper
Rezballers and Skate Elders

Ethnographer and American Indian studies scholar David Kamper examines how Indigenous youth and adults are making basketball and skateboarding meaningful to their communities by sustaining the transmissio…

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Adam Kaul, Margaret E. Farrar
Becoming Utopia

Anthropology of Contemporary North America

Becoming Utopia centers on the tiny community of Bishop Hill, Illinois, whose marketing materials call it "Utopia on the Prairie," home to a radical communal religious sect that emigrated from S…

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Hannah Kim
Ties That Bind

Hannah Kim examines the efforts of nongovernmental actors such as American missionaries, the press, Korean expatriates, social workers, and educators in strengthening Korean and American relations from th…

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Geoffrey D Kimball
Natchez Analytical Dictionary

In Natchez Analytical Dictionary Geoffrey Kimball offers the first comprehensive dictionary of the Natchez language, a now extinct Native American language originally spoken in the region surrounding Natc…

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Paul Knepper
Moses Malone

Moses Malone overcame abject poverty in segregated Petersburg, Virginia, to become the first modern-day basketball player to jump directly from high school to the pros, paving a path for future stars such…

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Thomas A Krainz
A Great Many Refugees

Thomas A. Krainz examines how communities in the American West cared for refugees during the Progressive Era.

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David Krell
1978

David Krell chronicles in novelistic detail the notable achievements of some of baseball's greatest players of 1978, along with some of the national pastime's quirkiest moments, to capture an extraordinar…

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Jim Leeke
Big Loosh

Big Loosh is the biography of Ron Luciano, an outsized figure who was an MLB umpire in the 1970s, worked in broadcasting, published five books, and became a personality off the field---yet whose upbeat pu…

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Kirsten Leng
Pleasure, Play, and Politics

Pleasure, Play, and Politics is the first book to examine the roles humor played in U.S. feminism during the late twentieth century. Based on extensive archival research, it brings to light the stunning, …

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Kirsten Leng
Pleasure, Play, and Politics

Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Pleasure, Play, and Politics is the first book to examine the roles humor played in U.S. feminism during the late twentieth century. Based on extensive archival research, it brings to light the stunning, …

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Roberto L. Lenton
Confronting Water Insecurity

Confronting Water Insecurity provides an account of the role of multilateral cooperation and global institutions in transforming science, policy, and practice for water security from 1945 to 2024, a perio…

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David Shane Lowry
Lumbee Pipelines

In Lumbee Pipelines David Shane Lowry (Lumbee) examines the historical and modern paths, or "pipelines," through which members of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina maintain Lumbee national iden…

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Valerie Sherer Mathes
Mary Louise Eldridge

In the fall of 1891 Mary Louise Eldridge and Mary Raymond were sent by the Women's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church to work among the Navajos living along the San Juan River in no…

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Molly Littlewood McKibbin
Shades of Gray

Borderlands and Transcultural Studies

Named a 2019 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleIn Shades of Gray Molly Littlewood McKibbin offers a social and literary history of multiracialism in the twentieth-century United States. She examines the Af…

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Andrea R. Morrell
Prison Town

Elmira, a town of about twenty-six thousand people in central New York, is in some ways a typical town-with quiet, tree-lined residential streets, an art museum, local coffee shops, and a small college. T…

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