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The Quechan are a Yuman people who have traditionally lived along the lower part of the Colorado River in California and Arizona. They are well known as warriors, artists, and traders, and they also have a rich oral tradition. The stories in this volume were told by tribal elders in the 1970s and early 1980s. The eleven narratives in this volume take place at the beginning of time and introduce the reader to a variety of traditional characters, including the infamous Coyote and also Kwayúu the giant, Old Lady Sanyuuxáv and her twin sons, and the Man Who Bothered Ants. This book makes a long-awaited contribution to the oral literature and mythology of the American Southwest, and its format and organization are of special interest. Narratives are presented in the original language and in the storytellers' own words. A prosodically-motivated broken-line format captures the rhetorical structure and local organization of the oral delivery and calls attention to stylistic devices such as repetition and syntactic parallelism. Facing-page English translation provides a key to the original Quechan for the benefit of language learners. The stories are organized into “story complexes”, that is, clusters of narratives with overlapping topics, characters, and events, told from diverse perspectives. Inpresenting not just stories but story complexes, this volume captures the art of storytelling and illuminates the complexity and interconnectedness of an important body of oral literature. Stories from Quechan Oral Literature provides invaluable reading for anyone interested in Native American cultural heritage and oral traditions more generally.

Native Americans --- oral literature --- oral tradition --- Quechan --- Yuman --- First Nations

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Aby M. Warburg (1866–1929) is recognized not only as one of the century’s preeminent art and Renaissance historians but also as a founder of twentieth-century methods in iconology and cultural studies in general. Warburg’s 1923 lecture, first published in German in 1988 and now available for the first time in English translation, Michael Steinberg offers offers at once a window on his career, a formative statement of his cultural history of modernity, and a document in the ethnography of the American Southwest. This edition includes thirty-nine photographs, many of them originally presented as slides with the speech, and a rich interpretive essay by the translator.

Images from the Region of the Pueblo Indians of North America translates Warburg’s seminal study of the “serpent ritual” of the Hopi people, which grew out of a trip to the American Southwest undertaken by Warburg in 1895–1896.

Native Americans, Pueblo Indians, serpent worship, American southwest, ethnography, photography, Hopi

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Hardwood-dominated temperate forests (mostly in Eastern North America, Europe, North East Asia) provide valuable renewable timber and numerous ecosystem services. Many of these forests have been subjected to harvesting or conversion to agriculture, sometimes over centuries, that have greatly reduced their former extent and diversity. Natural regeneration following harvesting or during post-agricultural succession has often failed to restore these forests adequately. Past harvesting practices and the valuable timber of some species have led to a reduction in their abundance. The loss of apex predators has caused herbivore populations to increase and exert intense browsing pressure on hardwood regeneration, often preventing it. Particularly important are fruit, nut and acorn bearing species, because of their vital role in forest food webs and biodiversity. Restoring hardwood species to natural forests in which they were formerly more abundant will require a number of forest management actions (e.g., resistant hybrids, deer exclosures/protectors, enrichment planting, underplanting, etc.). Similarly, reforesting areas that were once natural forests will also require new silvicultural knowledge. Global warming trends will intensify the need for interventions to maintain the diversity and function of temperate hardwood forests, as well as for increase hardwood reforestation.

forest restoration --- Fagaceae species --- seed predation --- seedling establishment --- sub-tropical hardwoods --- native mixed forests --- agroforestry --- riparian forest restoration --- hardwoods --- Juglans nigra --- Quercus macrocarpa --- Pinus strobus --- vegetation management --- weed control --- nitrate --- phosphorus --- deer abundance --- forest diversity --- avian guilds --- protected landscape area --- understorey --- unmanaged forest --- tree shelter --- deer browsing --- hardwood restoration --- assisted migration --- enrichment planting --- shelterwood --- Pinus strobus L. --- Quercus rubra L. --- Carya cordiformis (Wangenh.) K. Koch --- Juglans nigra L. --- Quercus rubra --- oak regeneration --- Central Hardwood Forest region --- shelterwood --- deer herbivory --- sugar maple --- yellow birch --- tree vigor --- growth efficiency index --- tree selection --- invasive plants --- forest restoration --- soil disturbance --- herbicide effects --- forest regeneration --- floristic quality index --- species composition --- Bioclimatic niche --- Durango --- Mexican tree species --- MaxEnt --- non-parametric correlation --- forest restoration --- wildfire --- biological diversity --- cultural diversity --- ecosystem services --- monitoring --- indicators --- inventory --- Native Americans --- non-timber forest products --- tree plantation --- abandoned agricultural field --- predation --- competition --- tolerance --- facilitation --- precision restoration