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Worlds in the Sky
Planetary Discovery from Earliest Times Through Voyager and Magellan
The University of Arizona Press
William Sheehan gives us a history our fascination with planets, weaving together scientific history, anecdotes surrounding planetary discoveries, and the personal reflections of an incurable amateur astronomer. He describes how we arrived at our current understanding of the Moon and the planets and shows how certain individuals in history shaped the world’s knowledge about the Solar System.
The Navajo Hunter Tradition
The University of Arizona Press
A new approach to the study of myths relating to the origin of the Navajos. Based on extensive fieldwork and research, including Navajo hunter informants and unpublished manuscripts of Father Berard Haile.
Sonora Yaqui Language Structures
By John M. Dedrick and Eugene H. Casad
The University of Arizona Press
Sonora Yaqui Language Structures is a valuable source not only for research on this language family but also for anthropological studies of the Arizona-Sonora cultural region. In addition, it documents an indigenous language for future generations of Yaqui speakers.
Sand, Wind, and War
Memoirs of a Desert Explorer
The University of Arizona Press
Records the work, travels, and adventures of one of the last of the great British explorers, a man who served in both world wars and carved out a special niche in science through his studies of desert sands.
Rudo Ensayo
A Description of Sonora and Arizona in 1764
The University of Arizona Press
An incomparable record of a twelve-year mission in 18th century Sonora, the Rudo Ensayo as rendered in modern English is also a fascinating travelogue through an untamed land.
Rim of Christendom
A Biography of Eusebio Francisco Kino, Pacific Coast Pioneer
By Herbert Eugene Bolton; Foreword by John L. Kessell
The University of Arizona Press
"This re-issued biography recounts [Kino's] work with loving detail and with an accuracy that has survived slight amendments. Its accompanying plates, maps, and bibliography enhance a text that should find a place in every serious library."—Religious Studies Review
Arid Lands in Perspective
Edited by William G. McGinnies and Bram J. Goldman
The University of Arizona Press
Represents the combined efforts of many people with varied orientations to summarize aspects of current research and knowledge relevant for the multitudes attempting to inhabit Earth’s warm arid areas, known for their imbalance of natural resources.
Where the Strange Roads Go Down
The University of Arizona Press
Mary and Fred del Villar's desire to travel "the strange roads" of rural Mexico led to a 750-mile walk from Lake Patzcuaro to the Pacific Ocean in 1951. For three months they endured sun, scorpions, floods, and hunger, but also found warm friendship everywhere they went.
Use-Wear Analysis of Flaked Stone Tools
The University of Arizona Press
This major contribution to archaeological method details the use-wear analysis of a set of stone tools recovered during the excavation of Cassegros Cave, in southwestern France. The study combines low-power and high-power microwear approaches and develops their potential for use on a wider range of lithic and contact materials than have been reported previously.
The People of Sonora and Yankee Capitalists
The University of Arizona Press
Examines how the advent of North American dollars between 1882 and 1910 helped reshape the economic, social, and political contours of a Mexican province on the border of Arizona.
The Origin and Development of the Pueblo Katsina Cult
The University of Arizona Press
Examines the concept of the katsina and the religion that developed around it, focusing on what makes katsinas unique, why the concept was developed, and what adaptive value it had for prehistoric Pueblo culture.
The Discovery of New Mexico by the Franciscan Monk Friar Marcos de Niza in 1539
By Adolph F. Bandelier; Edited by Madeleine Turrell Rodack
The University of Arizona Press
The Chicanos
As We See Ourselves
Edited by Arnulfo D. Trejo
The University of Arizona Press
Thirteen Chicano scholars draw upon their personal experiences and expertise to paint a vivid, colorful portrait of what it means to be a Chicano.
Piman Shamanism and Staying Sickness (Ká:cim Múmkidag)
The University of Arizona Press
This definitive study of shamanic theory and practice was developed through a four-person collaboration: three Tohono O’odham Indians—a shaman, a translator, and a trained linguist—and a non-Indian explicator. It provides an in-depth examination of the Piman philosophy of sickness as well as an introduction to the world view of an entire people.
Phoenix Indian School
The Second Half-Century
The University of Arizona Press
Provides a history of the Phoenix Indian School from 1930 until the graduation of its final class of nineteen students in 1990. Dorothy Parker tells how the Phoenix Indian School not only adapted to policy changes instituted by the federal government but also had to contend with events occurring in the world around it, such as the Great Depression, World War II, and the advent of the "red power" movement.
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
Impounded People
Japanese-Americans in the Relocation Centers
The University of Arizona Press
Grenville Goodwin Among the Western Apache
Letters from the Field
Edited by Morris E. Opler
The University of Arizona Press
Ethnic Medicine in the Southwest
Edited by Edward H. Spicer; By Eleanor Bauwens, Margarita Artschwager Kay, Mary Elizabeth Shutler, and Loudell F. Snow
The University of Arizona Press
Ethnic Medicine in the Southwest explores traditions guiding the medical arts of Yaqui, Anglo, Black and Mexican American communities and points out the relationship between alternative and scientific medicine. Beliefs prevail that illness may be punishment for sin, or caused by witchcraft or overwork. Treatment may include dreams, herbs, massage, or prayer. While practitioners in these communities are not necessarily licensed in the legal sense, they are nonetheless trusted and often effective.
Ecology of Sonoran Desert Plants and Plant Communities
Edited by Robert H. Robichaux
The University of Arizona Press
Colonel Greene and the Copper Skyrocket
The Spectacular Rise and Fall of William Cornell Greene: Copper King, Cattle Baron, and Promoter Extraordinary in Mexico, the American Southwest, and the New York Financial District
The University of Arizona Press
Bristlecone Pine in the White Mountains of California
Growth and Ring-Width Characteristics
The University of Arizona Press
Papers of the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, No. 4
The Vertebrates of Arizona
With Major Section on Arizona Habitats
Edited by Charles H. Lowe
The University of Arizona Press
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