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Papers from each of the seminars are later revised, compiled by the seminar chair (who serves as volume editor), and submitted to the School for publication in the Advanced Seminar Series. This acclaimed series is published by SAR Press, the School's publishing arm.

Advanced Seminar Series

2004
ViolenceVIOLENCE

Edited by NEIL L. WHITEHEAD

307 pp., 7 figures, notes, references, index
Cloth, ISBN 1-930618-51-4, $60.00
Paper, ISBN 1-930618-52-2, $24.95
UK, Europe, & Africa: James Currey

Seminar: Culture and Conflict: The Poetics of Violent Practice (May, 2002)

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Pluralizing Etnography
2004
PLURALIZING ETHNOGRAPHY

Comparison and Representation in Maya Cultures, Histories, and Identities
Edited by JOHN M. WATANABE and
EDWARD F. FISCHER

370 pp., eight figures, one table, notes,
references, index, 6 x 9
Cloth, ISBN 1-930618-35-2, $60.00
Paper, ISBN 1-930618-36-0, $24.95

Seminar: Culture Theory and Cross-Cultural Comparison: Maya Culture and History in a Multicultural World (October, 2000)

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2004
Anthropology at the MarginsANTHROPOLOGY IN THE MARGINS OF THE STATE
Edited by VEENA DAS and DEBORAH POOLE 
Santa Fe: School of American Research Press

Cloth, ISBN 1-930618-40-9, $60.00
Paper, ISBN 1-930618-41-7, $24.95

Seminar: The State at its Margins: Comparative Ethnographies of the Modern State in Africa, Latin America and South Asia (April, 2001)

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2004
Law & EmpireLAW & EMPIRE IN THE PACIFIC
Fiji and Hawai`i
Edited by SALLY ENGLE MERRY and DONALD BRENNEIS 
Santa Fe: School of American Research Press

Cloth, ISBN 1-930618-24-7, $60.00
Paper, ISBN 1-930618-25-5, $24.95

Seminar: Law and Empire in the Pacific: Intersections of Culture and Legality (March, 2001)

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2003 
American ArrivalsAMERICAN ARRIVALS
Anthropology Engages the New Immigration
Edited by NANCY FONER
Santa Fe: School of American Research Press

Cloth, ISBN 1-930618-33-6, $60.00
Paper, ISBN 1-930618-34-4, $24.95

Seminar: Anthropology and Contemporary Immigration (October, 2001)

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2003
GRAY AREAS

Gray AreasEthnographic Encounters with Nursing Home Culture
Edited by PHILIP B. STAFFORD
Santa Fe: School of American Research Press

Cloth, ISBN 1-930618-31-X, $60.00
Paper, ISBN 1-930618-30-1, $24.95

Seminar: Nursing Home Ethnography  (November, 1995)

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2003
Remaking Life & Death
REMAKING LIFE & DEATH

Towards an Anthropology of the Biosciences
Edited by SARAH  FRANKLIN and MARGARET LOCK
Santa Fe: School of American Research Press

Seminar: Animation and Cessation: Anthropological Perspectives on Changing Definitions of Life and Death in the Context of Biomedicine (May, 2000)

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2001
URUK MESOPOTAMIA & ITS NEIGHBORS

Cross-Cultural Interactions in the Era of State Formation
Edited by MITCHELL S. ROTHMAN
Santa Fe: School of American Research Press

Seminar: Mesopotamia in the Era of State Formation: Aiming for Consensus (March, 1998)

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2001The Empire of Things
THE EMPIRE OF THINGS

Regimes of Value and Material Culture
Edited by FRED R. MYERS
Santa Fe: School of American Research Press

Seminar: Material Culture: Habitats and Values (November, 1996)

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2001History in Person
HISTORY IN PERSON
Enduring Struggles, Contentious Practice, Intimate Identities
Edited by DOROTHY HOLLAND and JEAN LAVE
Santa Fe: School of American Research Press

Seminar: History in Person: The Mutual Constitution of Endemic Struggles and Enduring Identities (October, 1995)

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2001

WOMEN & MEN IN THE PREHISPANIC SOUTHWEST:
LABOR POWER & PRESTIGE  
Edited by pATRICIA l. CROWN 
Santa Fe: School of American Research Press

Seminar: Sex Roles and Gender Hierarchies in Middle Range Societies: Engendering Southwestern Prehistory (March, 1997)

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2000
REGIMES OF LANGUAGE

Ideologies, Polities, and Identities
Edited by PAUL V. KROSKRITY
Santa Fe: School of American Research Press

Seminar: Language Ideologies: The Cultures of Language in Theory and Practice (April, 1994)

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2000Biology,Brains,and Behavior
BIOLOGY, BRAINS, AND BEHAVIOR

The Evolution of Human Development
Edited by SUE TAYLOR PARKER, JONAS LANGER, and MICHAEL MCKINNEY
Santa Fe: School of American Research Press

Seminar: The Evolution of Behavioral Ontogeny (August, 1995)

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1999  
WAR IN THE TRIBAL ZONE

Expanding States and Indigenous Warfare
Edited by R. BRIAN FERGUSON and NEIL L. WHITEHEAD
Santa Fe: School of American Research Press

Seminar: Expanding States and Indigenous Warfare (April, 1989) 

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1999
Origins of LanguageTHE ORIGINS OF LANGUAGE
What Nonhuman Primates Can Tell Us
Edited by BARBARA J. KING
Santa Fe: School of American Research Press

Seminar: Evolution of Language (October, 1996)  

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1999
CRITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY NOW
Unexpected Contexts, Shifting Constituencies, Changing Agendas

Edited by GEORGE E. MARCUS
Santa Fe: School of American Research Press

Seminar:  Power/Knowledge Shifts in America's Present Fin-de-Siecle (October, 1994)

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Cyborgs and CitadelsCYBORGS & CITADELS
Anthropological Interventions in Emerging Sciences
and Technologies

Edited by GARY LEE DOWNEY and JOSEPH DUMIT
Santa Fe: School of American Research Press

Seminar:  Cyborg Anthropology (October, 1993)

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1996
Senses of PlaceSENSES OF PLACE
Edited by STEVEN FELD and KEITH H. BASSO
Santa Fe: School of American Research Press

Seminar:  Place, Expression, and Experience (April, 1993)

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1998
Archaic States
ARCHAIC STATES
Edited by GARY M. FEINMAN and JOYCE MARCUS
Santa Fe: School of American Research Press

Seminar:  Archaic States (November, 1992)

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1996
Last HuntersLAST HUNTERS-FIRST FARMERS
New Perspectives on the Prehistoric Transition to Agriculture
Edited by T. DOUGLAS PRICE and ANNE BIRGITTE GEBAUER
Santa Fe: School of American Research Press

Seminar:  Transition to Agriculture (May, 1992)

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1996
Alternate HistoriesMAKING ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES
The Practice of Archaeology and History in Non-Western Settings
Edited by PETER R. SCHMIDT and THOMAS C. PATTERSON
Santa Fe: School of American Research Press

Seminar:  Making Alternative Histories (April, 1992)

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1995

OTHER INTENTIONSOther Intentions
Cultural Contexts and the Attribution of Inner States
Edited by LAWRENCE ROSEN  
Santa Fe: School of American Research Press

Seminar:  Cultural Analysis of Intentionality (November, 1990)

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1994
HISTORICAL ECOLOGY
Cultural Knowledge and Changing Landscapes
Edited by CAROLE L. CRUMLEY
Santa Fe: School of American Research Press

Seminar:  Historical Ecology (October, 1990)

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1994
Memory,History,and OppositionMEMORY, HISTORY, AND OPPOSITION UNDER STATE SOCIALISM
Edited by RUBIE S. WATSON
Santa Fe: School of American Research Press

Seminar:  Secret Histories (October, 1991)

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1994
Themes in Southwest PrehistoryTHEMES IN SOUTHWEST PREHISTORY
Edited by GEORGE J. GUMERMAN
Santa Fe: School of American Research Press

Seminar:  The Organization and Evolution of Prehistoric Southwestern Society (September, 1989)

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1992
CHIEFDOMS: POWER, ECONOMY, and IDEOLOGY  
Edited by TIMOTHY EARLE 
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Seminar: Chiefdoms: Their Evolutionary Significance (January, 1988)


1992
DREAMING
Anthropological and Psychological Interpretations
Edited by BARBARA TEDLOCK
Santa Fe: School of American Research Press

Seminar:  Dreams in Cross-Cultural Perspective (November, 1982)

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1991
Recapturing AnthropologyRECAPTURING ANTHROPOLOGY
Working in the Present
Edited by RICHARD G. FOX
Santa Fe: School of American Research Press

Seminar:  Representing Anthropology (June, 1989)

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1991
CHACO & HOHOKAMChaco & Hohokam
Prehistoric Regional Systems in the American Southwest
Edited by PATRICIA L. CROWN and W. JAMES JUDGE
Santa Fe: School of American Research Press

Seminar:  Cultural Complexity in the Arid Southwest (October, 1987)

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1992
IdeologyIDEOLOGY AND PRE-COLUMBIAN CIVILIZATIONS
Edited by ARTHUR A. DEMAREST and GEOFFREY W. CONRAD
Santa Fe: School of American Research Press

Seminar:  Ideology and the Cultural Evolution of Pre-Columbian Civilizations (May, 1987)

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1991
Steadman Upham (ed.)
Evolution of Political Systems: Sociopolitics in Small Scale Sedentary Societies  
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Seminar:  The Development of Political Systems in Prehistoric Sedentary Societies (April, 1987)


1991
T. Patrick Culbert (ed.)
Classic Maya Political History: Hieroglyphic and Archaeological Evidence  
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Seminar:  Ruling Class Interaction Among the Classic Maya (October, 1986)

1989
Erik Trinkaus (ed.)
Emergence of Modern Humans: Biocultural Adaptations in the Later Pleistocene  
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Seminar:  The Origins of Modern Human Adaptation (April, 1986)

1990
Jonathan Haas (ed.)
Anthropology of War  
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Seminar:  The Anthropology of War  (March, 1986)

1989
T. Douglas Price (ed.)

Chemistry of Prehistoric Human Bone
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Seminar:  Bone Chemistry and Past Behavior (March, 1986)

1991
Robert L. Canfield (ed.)
Turko-Persia in Historical Perspective
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Seminar:  Central Asia as a Culture Area (April, 1985)

1986
James Clifford and George E. Marcus (eds.)
Writing Culture 
Berkeley: University of California Press

Seminar:  The Making of Ethnographic Texts (April, 1984)


1986
David C. Grove and Robert J. Sharer (eds.)
Regional Perspectives on the Olmec
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Seminar:  Olmec Culture: Processes and Implications of Olmec Diffusion (November, 1983)


1989
Douglas W. Schwartz (ed.)
Dynamics of Southwest Prehistory
Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Press.

Seminar:  The Dynamics of Southwestern Prehistory (September, 1983)


1986
E. Wyllys Andrews and Sabloff, Jeremy A. (eds.)

After the Fall: New Perspectives on the Postclassic Period in the Maya Lowlands   
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press
Seminar:  Late Lowland Maya Civilization (October, 1982)

1988
George Cowgill and Norman Yoffee (eds.)

Collapse of Ancient Civilizations
Tucson: University of Arizona Press

Seminar: Collapse of Ancient Civilizations (March, 1982)


1984
Gumerman. George J. (ed.)
Papers on the Archaeology of Black Mesa
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press

Seminar: Black Mesa Culture Change (March, 1982)


1988
George J. Gumerman (ed.)
The Anasazi in a Changing Environment
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Seminar:  Anasazi Cultural Developments and Paleoenvironmental Correlates (October, 1981)


1984  
Gould, Richard A. (ed.)
Shipwreck Anthropology
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press

Seminar: Shipwrecks and Anthropological Phenomena (May, 1981)


1983
Winter, Joseph C. (ed.)
High Altitude Adaptations in the Southwest
Washington, D.C.: United States Department of Agriculture

Seminar: High Altitude Resource Utilization in the Southwest (October, 1980)


1984
Frederick W. Lange and Doris Z. Stone (eds.)
Archaeology of Lower Central America
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press

Seminar: Central American Archaeology (April, 1980)


1985
Richard I. Ford (ed.)
Prehistoric Food Production in North America.  
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Anthropology Series

Seminar: The Origins of Plant Husbandry in North America (March, 1980)


1982
Fred Plog (ed.)
San Juan Tomorrow
Washington D.C.: United States Department of the Interior

Seminar: San Juan (April, 1979)


1983
George E. Marcus (ed.)
Elites  
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press

Seminar: Anthropological Perspectives on Elites in Complex Societies (March, 1979)


1982
Albert H. Schroeder  (ed.)
Southwestern Ceramics 
Tucson: Arizona Archaeological Society

Seminar: Southwestern Ceramic Traditions (February, 1979)


1981
Jeremy A. Sabloff,  (ed.)
Simulations in Archaeology  
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press

Seminar: The Use of Systems Models and Computer Simulations in the Study of Complex Societies (October, 1978)


1980
Charlotte J. Frisbie (ed.)
Southwestern Indian Ritual Drama
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press

Seminar: Southwestern Indian Ritual Drama (October, 1978)


1981
Wendy Ashmore (ed.)
Lowland Maya Settlement Patterns
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press

Seminar: Lowland Maya Settlement Patterns (November, 1977)


1987
Frank Hole (ed.)
Archaeology of Western Iran  
Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press

Seminar: Patterns of Settlement and Cultural Development in Western Iran (March, 1977)


1980
Gallaher, Art (ed.)
The Dying Community  
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press

Seminar: The Dying Community (September, 1976)


1982
Moseley, Michael E. (ed.)
Chan Chan
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press

Seminar: The Desert City and Its Hinterland in Coastal Peru (April, 1976)


1978
Richard A. Gould (ed.)
Ethnoarchaeology
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press

Seminar: Explorations in Ethnoarchaeology (November, 1975)


1983
Kent V. Flannery (ed.)
The Cloud People
New York City: Academic Press

Seminar: The Evolution of Zapotec and Mixtec Civilizations of Oaxaca, Mexico (October, 1975)


1979
Sidney M. Greenfield (ed.)
Entrepreneurs in Cultural Context.  Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press

Seminar: The Economic Anthropology of Investment Behavior in Latin America (August, 1975)


1977
Richard E. W. Adams (ed.)
The Origins of Maya Civilization. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press

Seminar: The Origins of Civilization in the Maya Lowlands (October, 1974)


1976
Keith H. Basso and Henry A. Selby (eds.)
Meaning in Anthropology
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press

Seminar: Meaning in Anthropology (March, 1974)


1975
C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky and Jeremy A. Sabloff (eds.)
Ancient Civilization and Trade
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press

Seminar: Ancient Civilization and Trade (October, 1973)


1976
Moreau S. Maxwell (ed.)
Eastern Arctic Prehistory
Washington D.C.: Society for American Archaeology, Memoir

Seminar: Predorset-Dorset Problems (February, 1973)


1976
Ezra B. W. Zubrow (ed.)
Demographic Anthropology
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press

Seminar: Demography and Anthropological Research (January, 1973)


1976
Munro S. Edmonson (ed.)
Sixteenth Century Mexico
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press

Seminar: La Obra de Sahagun (November, 1972)


1976
Eric R. Wolf (ed.)
The Valley of Mexico
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press

Seminar: The Valley of Mexico (April, 1972)


1975
Elmer Harp (ed.)
Photography in Archaeological Research
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press

Seminar: Photography in Archaeological Research (April, 1971)


1973
Michael H. Crawford (ed.)
Methods and Theories of Anthropological Genetics
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press

Seminar: Methods and Theories of Anthropological Genetics (February, 1971)


1973
Gordon Willey (ed.)
Classic Maya Collapse
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press

Seminar: The Classic Maya Collapse (October, 1970)


1977
James N. Hill (ed.)
Explanation of Prehistoric Change
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press

Seminar: Explanation of Prehistoric Organizational Change (April, 1970)


1972
Alfonso Ortiz (ed.)
New Perspectives on the Pueblos
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press

Seminar: New Perspectives on the Rio Grande Pueblos (November, 1969)


1972
Nancie L. Gonzalez (ed.)
Structure and Process in Latin America
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press

Seminar: Patronage, Clientage, and Power Structures in Latin America (October, 1969)


1972
Thomas  Weaver (ed.)
Anthropology of Urban Environments
Washington D.C.: Society for Applied Anthropology Monograph

Seminar: Urban Anthropology (November, 1968)


1970
William A. Longacre (ed.)
Reconstructing Prehistoric Pueblo Societies
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press

Seminar: The Inference of Social Organization from Prehistoric Southwestern Pueblos (April, 1968)