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Damming the Gila
The Gila River Indian Community and the San Carlos Irrigation Project, 1900–1942
Indigenous Health and Justice
Growing Up in the Gutter
Diaspora and Comics
Growing Up in the Gutter: Diaspora & Comics is the first book-length exploration of contemporary graphic coming-of-age narratives written in the context of diasporic and immigrant communities in the United States by and for young, BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and diasporic readers. The book analyzes the complex identity formation of first- and subsequent-generation diasporic protagonists in globalized rural and urban environments and dissects the implications that marginalized formative processes have for the genre in its graphic version.
A New Deal for Navajo Weaving
Reform and Revival of Diné Textiles
Kneeling Before Corn
Recuperating More-than-Human Intimacies on the Salvadoran Milpa
Focusing on the intimate relations that develop between plants and humans in the northern rural region of El Salvador, this book explores the ways in which more-than-human intimacies travel away from and return to the milpa through human networks. The chapters present innovative methodological and conceptual contributions to the study of relationships that form between plants and people.
Indigenous Science and Technology
Nahuas and the World Around Them
Indigenous Science and Technology focuses on how Nahuas have explored, understood, and explained the world around them in pre-invasion, colonial, and contemporary time periods.
Border Killers
Neoliberalism, Necropolitics, and Mexican Masculinity
Ancient Mesoamerican Population History
Urbanism, Social Complexity, and Change
Including research from both highland central Mexico and the tropical lowlands of the Maya and Olmec areas, this book reexamines demography in ancient Mesoamerica. Through new technology such as LiDAR (light detecting and ranging), the book provides new understandings of ancient Mesoamerican societies and how they changed over time.
Five Suns
A Fire History of Mexico
We Stay the Same
Subsistence, Logging, and Enduring Hopes for Development in Papua New Guinea
Written in a clear and relatable style for students, We Stay the Same combines ethnographic and ecological research to show how the people of New Hanover, Papua New Guinea, continue to survive and make meaningful lives in a situation where their own hopes for economic development via logging and commercial agriculture have often been used against them as a mechanism of a more distantly profitable dispossession.