Lousy Sex

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10 January 2017 For arthropods, male-versus-female sex has more to do with infections than it does with genes or chromosomes. This blog post is excerpted from Gerald N. Callahan's Lousy Sex: Creating Self in an Infectious World. This morning, I am escorting a wood...

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Digital Art Guidelines

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08 February 2024 Digital Art Guidelines To ensure that the digital art files submitted to the press are acceptable for print reproduction, please use these instructions to evaluate image quality. It is essential that the press receives image files of the best quality...

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The Lost City That’s Not Lost, Not a City, and Doesn’t Need to Be Discovered

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25 April 2017 Modern explorers can fly over a jungle to “discover” an ancient site, but the people living in those rainforests already have extensive knowledge about their region’s history. Here's why researchers should work with residents—not over them. Republished...

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Cougars at the Nightstand

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27 December 2016 Bat biologist Rick A. Adams describes harrowing nightime encounters with mountain lions in the course of doing research near Boulder, Colorado. This blog post is excerpted from Into the Night: Tales of Nocturnal Wildlife Expeditions. Most mammals are...

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Tarascan/Purhépecha Monarchs as “Stranger Kings”

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06 November 2018 Two recent university press books in conversation: David Haskell examines his own The Two Taríacuris in context of On Kings by Marshall Sahlins and David Graeber. A significant underlying theoretical issue in my recent book is how one narrative, told...

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An “Ethnic” Perspective of the Manzanar Revolt

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01 April 2019 What if we examined the revolt at Manzanar in cultural rather than ideological terms? On October 28, 2018, Arthur Hansen presented his two 2018 publications, Barbed Voices: Oral History, Resistance, and the World War II Japanese American Social...

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A Letter to Pratt in Praise of Books

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30 June 2015 Dear Darrin, I am writing in the evening light; the river birds have begun the last of their singing, sweet whistles, and rapid staccatos that are their language. I imagine they are asking one another for the very same things we might ask for, a...

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The Futures of College Writing: Part II

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29 August 2017 Three further questions about what college writing should look like in coming years. Last week’s post, “The Futures of College Writing: Part I,” summarized thoughtfully provocative ideas from three writing studies leaders. Linda Adler-Kassner explored...

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Why the Famous Folsom Point Isn’t a Smoking Gun

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19 September 2017 It turns out that the story of the iconic Folsom Point is more complex than researchers initially believed. This piece first appeared on SAPIENS. Remember the iconic Folsom point? The one that I said, in my last post, changed the future of archaeology?...

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A Q&A with Laura Greenfield

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19 March 2019 Join us today as we talk with Laura Greenfield, faculty associate of communication and education in the School of Critical Social Inquiry at Hampshire College and author of Radical Writing Center Praxis. University Press of Colorado Blog Q&As share the...

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How the Folsom Point Became an Archaeological Icon

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01 August 2017 The Folsom spear point, which was excavated in 1927 near the small town of Folsom, New Mexico, is one of the most famous artifacts in North American archaeology, and for good reason . . . Republished with permission from SAPIENS. The Folsom spear...

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Playing Dead

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23 January 2015 Mock Trauma and Folk Drama in Staged High School Drunk Driving Tragedies Ritual, Festival, and Celebration Series "Miller asks intriguing questions and shares valuable insights. . . . Playing Dead will be an important source for analysis by...

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Imperial Peripheries in the Neo-Assyrian Period

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The Arapaho Language

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Listening to Cougar

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Teaching Mindful Writers

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Harnessed to the Pole

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17 December 2021 Sledge Dogs in Service to American Explorers of the Arctic, 1853-1909 "The next time I see the words: ‘Inuit Dogs have played an important role in Arctic exploration,’ Sheila Nickerson’s book, Harnessed to the Pole; Sledge Dogs in Service to American...

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Be-Hooved

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Foundations of New World Cultural Astronomy

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23 January 2015 A Reader with Commentary "10 out of 10 for the idea of bringing together difficult-to-access seminal articles and carefully selected newer material to provide an introductory reader." —Clive Ruggles "The reader will be highly useful in the classroom as...

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Mexico's Indigenous Communities

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23 January 2015 Their Lands and Histories, 1500-2010 Mesoamerican Worlds Series "I know of no other work of its kind or in its league. It is entirely original: a wonderfully narrated uncompromising history that is thoroughly and masterfully researched. This book is...

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