Bøger udgivet af University of Utah Press,U.S.

In a startling voice propelled by desire and desperation on the verge of laughter, these poems leap from the mundane to the sublime, from begging to bravado, from despair to reverie, revealing the power that comes from hanging on by a thread.

Though photographers Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams were contemporaries and longtime friends, most of their work portrays contrasting subject matter. That they joined together to photograph Mormons in Utah in the early 1950s for Life magazine may come as a surprise. This book examines the history and content of the two photographers' forgotten collaboration Three Mormon Towns.

Presents a collection of studies on the ancient games of indigenous peoples of North America. The authors, all archaeologists, muster evidence from artifacts, archaeological features, ethnography, ethnohistory, and to a lesser extent linguistics and folklore. Chapters sometimes centre on a particular game or sometimes on a specific prehistoric society and its games.

Robert Smithson's earthwork, Spiral Jetty is located on the northern shores of Utah's Great Salt Lake. The Spiral Jetty Encyclo draws on Smithson's writings for encyclopaedic entries that bring to light the context of the earthwork and Smithson's many points of reference in creating it.

Details the efforts of one of America's most under appreciated public servants. In 1934, Franklin D. Roosevelt invited Marriner S. Eccles, a Mormon from Utah, to join his administration. Presenting the first comprehensive and independent analysis of Eccles's influential career, Jumping the Abyss wrestles with economic issues that remain relevant today.

Competitive technology for sourcing renewable energy, marketplace readiness, and pressures from climate change all signal that the fossil fuel era is coming to an end. This book explains the alternatives and suggests when and how change will occur. Employing a global perspective, it provides recommendations on policies and strategies to make a smooth and wholesale transition to renewables.

Hidden away in the canyons of a highly restricted military base on the edge of the Mojave Desert is the largest concentration of rock art in North America, possibly in the world. Images of animals, shamans, and puzzling abstract forms were peckedand painted on stone over thousands of years by a now long-gone culture. Talking Stone is a multivocal investigation of this art.

In these dynamic essays, thirteen wise women review their lives for meaning and purpose, striving to integrate both head and heart. They consider how their spiritual paradigms have shaped their vocations as teachers, scholars, guides, mentors, and advocates and how these roles have been integral to their life's work, not merely to their work life.

Travel back in memory to the people, sights, and sounds of Poplarhaven, known to most as Huntington, Utah.

An anthology of fine writing, adventurous storytelling, droll humor, and vivid description of one of America's most beloved national parks

Drawing from forty-five years of experience, E. Richard Hart elucidates the use of history as expert testimony in American Indian tribal litigation. Such lawsuits deal with aboriginal territory; hunting, fishing, and plant gathering rights; reservation boundaries; water rights; federal recognition; and other questions that have a historical basis.

Explores the interconnecting aspects of junipers. Ghost beads, biotic communities, gin, tree masticators, Puebloan diapers, charcoal, folklore, historic explorers, spiral grain, tree life cycles, spirituality, packrat middens, climate changes, wildfire, ranching, wilderness, and land management policies are among the many different threads the book follows.

This volume highlights the importance of eastern Paleoindian research in understanding some of the first inhabitants of North America.

The private life of Utah's foremost women's rights activist

In late 2012, crowds gathered to hear a long anticipated announcement: The Trust for Public Land had prevented natural gas development in the remote Hoback Basin of Wyoming by buying the leases owned by Plains Exploration Company. This title tells the inspiring story of determined citizens who worked together to protect the land that they loved and made a difference.

Between 1967 and 1975 archaeologists from SUNY-Buffalo led a multidisciplinary project in the Marismas Nacionales, a vast, resource-rich estuary and mangrove forest of coastal Sinaloa and Nayarit, west Mexico. This volume provides a much-needed synthesis of these investigations, drawing from previously unpublished data and published reports to provide a comprehensive look at the region.

Focuses on a number of general deliberations on the archaeology of middle-range society and the prehistory of the American Southwest. This includes the complex dynamics of migration, identity, ethnic interaction, and the ability of archaeologists to identify these patterns in the archaeological record.

Philip Garrison says his book of essays is ""in praise of mixed feelings"", particularly the mixed feelings he and his neighbors have toward the places they came from. Following a meandering, though purposeful trail, Garrison catches hillbillies and newer Mexican arrivals in ambiguous, wary encounters on a set four hundred years in the making, built on a foundation of Native American displacement.

Around 1700 AD the Lacandon Maya took refuge in the forest lowlands of Chiapas, Mexico, and in western Peten, Guatemala. Their language belongs to the Yucatecan branch of the Maya language. Today the Lancandon are split into northern and southern linguistic groups. This dictionary focuses on the southern Lacandon of Lacanja. This reference contains pronunciation and grammatical information.

Tells how Venture, a free, interdisciplinary college humanities course inspired by the national Clemente Course, has helped open doors for hundreds of students who, for various reasons, faced barriers to attending college. This course has given them the knowledge, confidence, and power to re-chart their lives.

Family history, usually destined or even designed for limited consumption, is a familiar genre within Mormon culture. Mostly written with little attention to standards of historical scholarship, such works are a distinctly hagiographic form of family memorabilia. Kerry Bate proceeds on the premise that a story centering on the women of the clan could provide fresh perspective and insight.