Engineering Mountain Landscapes: An Anthropology of Social Investment
Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- 1. Introduction / Laura L. Scheiber and María Nieves Zedeño -- 2. Central Places in the Backcountry: The Archaeology and Ethnography of Beaver Lake, Montana / María Nieves Zedeño, Wendi Field Murray, and John R. Murray -- 3. Paths, Places, and Positions: Exploring Rocky Mountain Landscapes as Resource, Symbol, Wilderness, and Refuge / Laura L. Scheiber -- 4. Engineering Alta Toquima: Social Investments and Dividends at 11,000 Feet / David Hurst Thomas -- 5. Social Investment in Regions of Refuge: Survival Strategies among the Southern Paiute of Southern Nevada / Alex K. Ruuska -- 6. Ethnology of Volcanoes: Quali-Signs and the Cultural Centrality of Self-Voiced Places / Richard W. Stoffle, Richard Arnold, Maurice Frank, Betty Cornelius, Lalovi Miller, Jerry Charles, Gerald Kane, Alex K. Ruuska, and Kathleen Van Vlack -- 7. Western Apache Pyrogenic Placemaking in the Mountains of Eastern Arizona / Christopher I. Roos -- 8. Beyond Ethnonyms: Interdisciplinary Research on Mountain Identity in the Sierra Sur of Oaxaca, Mexico / Stacie M. King and Danny A. Zborover -- 9. Elevated Landscapes in the Northern Plains: Hidatsa Butte-Top Settlements as Places of Refuge / Kacy L. Hollenback -- 10. Mississippian Frontiers in the Highlands of Southern Appalachia / Shannon D. Koerner and Lynne P. Sullivan -- 11. People and Mountains / María Nieves Zedeño and Laura L. Scheiber -- List of Contributors -- Index.