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2012
This classic volume on the evocative and enigmatic pottery of the Mimbres people has become an irreplaceable design catalogue for contemporary Native American artists. Burt and Harriet (Hattie) Cosgrove were self-trained archaeologists who began...
2011
by Dayanita Singh
Finalist, 2012 New England Book Show (Pictorial)
House of Love is a work of photo fiction by Dayanita Singh. Working closely with the writer, Aveek Sen, whose prose follows a journey of its own, Singh explores the relationships among...
Peru’s ancient Moche culture is represented in a magnificent collection of artifacts at Harvard’s Peabody Museum. In this richly illustrated volume, Jeffrey Quilter presents a fascinating introduction to this intriguing culture and explores current...
The Copan Sculpture Museum in western Honduras features the extraordinary stone carvings of the ancient Maya city known as Copan. The city’s sculptors produced some of the finest and most animated buildings and temples in the Maya area, in addition to...
2010
This book presents selected writings by acclaimed filmmaker Robert Gardner. There are journals written during filmmaking expeditions, observing and reacting to diverse ways of life. There are accounts of film projects envisioned and planned but not...
Winner, 2009 New England Book Show (General Trade, Illustrated)
Silver Medal, 2010 IPPY Awards (Multicultural Non-Fiction Adult)
Silver Medal, 2010 IPPY Awards (Religion & Multi-Cultural)
Bronze Medal, 2009 Foreword Magazine Awards (Religion)
With essays by A...
Alfred V. Kidder’s excavations at Pecos Pueblo in New Mexico between 1914 and 1929 set a new standard for archaeological fieldwork and interpretation. Among his other innovations, Kidder recognized that skeletal remains were a valuable source of...
2009
Foreword by Robert Gardner
“Guy Tillim … combines a profound sense of historic documentation of African countries ravaged by conflicts and tragedies of all kinds and a very stringent formal aesthetic devoid of all mannerism.”'
—Michket Krifa
As the first...
Edited by Charles Warren
Photographs by Michael Rockefeller, Adelaide de Menil, Kevin Bubriski, Christopher James, Jane Tuckerman, Susan Meiselas, and Alex Webb
Winner, 2009 New England Book Show (General Trade, Book and Cover)
First Place, 2010 NEMA Awards...
In late prehistory, the ancestors of the present-day Hopi in Arizona created a unique and spectacular painted pottery tradition referred to as Hopi Yellow Ware. This ceramic tradition, which includes Sikyatki Polychrome pottery, inspired Hopi potter...
2008
Foreword by Susan Gilson Miller
Photographs by Hillel S. Burger & Mark Craig
Artistry of the Everyday presents the Peabody Museum’s collection of arts from the Berber-speaking regions of North Africa. The book gives an overview of Berber history and culture...
Winner, 2008 New England Book Show (General Trade, Cover)
Gold Medal, 2009 IPPY Awards (West Mountain - Best Regional Non-Fiction)
Remembering Awatovi is the engaging story of a major archaeological expedition on the Hopi Reservation in northern Arizona...