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Persistent Peoples
Cultural Enclaves in Perspective
Edited by George Pierre Castile and Gilbert Kushner
The University of Arizona Press
What constitutes a people? Persistent Peoples draws on enduring groups from around the world to identify and analyze the phenomenon of cultural enclavement. While race, homeland, or language are often considered to be determining factors, the authors of these original articles demonstrate a more basic common denominator: a continuity of common identity in resistance to absorption by a dominant surrounding culture.
Navajo Architecture
Forms, History, Distributions
The University of Arizona Press
Complete explication of hogan and house forms, root forms, summer structures and more make this possibly the most complete study ever made of the folk architecture of a tribal society to date.
John Xántus
The Fort Tejon Letters, 1857–1859
By Ann Zwinger
The University of Arizona Press
Captures the exploits of one of the Smithsonian's early specimen collectors in the American West.
Friar Bringas Reports to the King
Methods of Indoctrination on the Frontier of New Spain, 1796–97
Edited by Daniel S. Matson and Bernard L. Fontana
The University of Arizona Press
A significant contribution to a deeper understanding of the Spanish period in Arizona and Sonora, Mexico, this translation of Father Diego Miguel Bringas' 1796–97 report on missionary activities presents a rare first-hand account of Spanish attempts to direct cultural change among the Pima Indians.
Chronological Analysis of Tsegi Phase Sites in Northeastern Arizona
The University of Arizona Press
Papers of the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, No. 3, this book presents archaeological and chronological data on thirteen Tsegi Phase sites in the area of Tsegi Canyon in northeastern Arizona, for a comprehensive characterization of the Tsegi Phase.
Blessingway
With Three Versions of the Myth Recorded and Translated from the Navajo by Father Berard Haile, O.F.M.
By Leland C. Wyman; Foreword by Bernard L. Fontana
The University of Arizona Press
An outstanding work crafted from the handwritten pages of translations from the Navajo of the late Father Berard Haile giving three separate versions of the Blessingway rite with each version consisting of a prose text accompanied by the ritual songs and prayers. Valuable insights into the character and use of the Blessingway rite; its ceremonial procedures, its mythology, and its drypaintings.
American Labor in the Southwest
The First One Hundred Years
Edited by James C. Foster
The University of Arizona Press
The Last 10,000 Years
A Fossil Pollen Record of the American Southwest
The University of Arizona Press
The Hohokam
Desert Farmers and Craftsmen, Excavations at Snaketown, 1964–1965
The University of Arizona Press
The Aztec Kings
The Construction of Rulership in Mexican History
The University of Arizona Press
Winner of the Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Book Award from the American Society for Ethnohistory, The Aztec Kings is the first major study to take into account the Aztec cyclical conception of time and treat indigenous historical traditions as symbolic statements in narrative form. Susan D. Gillespie focuses on the dynastic history of the Mexica of Tenochtitlan. By demonstrating that most of Aztec history is nonliteral, she sheds new light on Aztec culture and on the function of history in society. By relating the cyclical structure of Aztec dynastic history to similar traditions of African and Polynesian peoples, she introduces a broader perspective on the function of history in society and on how and why history must change.
Rules and Precepts of the Jesuit Missions of Northwestern New Spain
The University of Arizona Press
Once a River
Bird Life and Habitat Changes on the Middle Gila
The University of Arizona Press
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