Borderlands Histories

What are the connections between past and present peoplesin the U.S. Southwest and Northwest Mexico? How were the ancient societies that occupied this landscape interconnected?Contributors leverage diverse source materialsrooted in classic ethnography, oral tradition, and historicaldocuments to offer novel answers to these questions.Running throughout the discussions is a metanarrative thatreflects the tensions between disciplines such as anthropologyand history and the rapidly evolving dynamic betweenscholars and the Indigenous subjects of past and presentresearch. With chapters written by scholars from the U.S.and Mexico, including Indigenous coauthors, BorderlandsHistories offers diverse perspectives and illustrates therange of methods and interpretive approaches employedby some of the most respected and experienced namesin the field of borderlands archaeology today.