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Discovering Paquimé
Edited by Paul E. Minnis and Michael E. Whalen
The University of Arizona Press
Based on a half century of modern research since the Joint Casas Grades Project, this book explores the recent discoveries about important site and its neighbors. Drawing the expertise of fourteen scholars from the U.S., Mexico , and Canada, who have long worked in the region, the chapters revel new insights about Paquime and its influence, bringing this fascinating place and its story to light.
New Lives for Ancient and Extinct Crops
Edited by Paul E. Minnis
The University of Arizona Press
New Lives for Ancient and Extinct Crops profiles nine plant species that were important contributors to human diets and medicinal uses in antiquity: maygrass, chenopod, marsh elder, agave, little barley, chia, arrowroot, little millet, and bitter vetch. Each chapter is written by a well-known scholar, who illustrates the value of the ancient crop record to inform the present.
Learning the Possible
Mexican American Students Moving from the Margins of Life to New Ways of Being
By Reynaldo Reyes; Foreword by Christian J. Faltis
The University of Arizona Press
Learning the Possible chronicles the experiences of five academically underprepared Mexican American students in their first year of college, aided by a federally funded one-year scholarship and support program called the College Assistance Migrant Program. CAMP works, says Reyes, and does so primarily by helping students develop new identities as successful learners.
Archaeological Anthropology
Perspectives on Method and Theory
The University of Arizona Press
In this collection, four generations of Longacre protégés show how they are building upon and developing—but also modifying—the theoretical paradigm that remains at the core of Americanist archaeology. The contributions focus on six themes prominent in Longacre’s career: the intellectual history of the field in the late twentieth century, archaeological methodology, analogical inference, ethnoarchaeology, cultural evolution, and reconstructing ancient society.
Object and Apparition
Envisioning the Christian Divine in the Colonial Andes
The University of Arizona Press
Based on thorough archival research combined with stunning visual analysis, Maya Stanfield-Mazzi demonstrates that Andeans were active agents in Catholic image-making and created a particularly Andean version of Catholicism. Object and Apparition describes the unique features of Andean Catholicism while illustrating its connections to both Spanish and Andean cultural traditions.
Beyond Germs
Native Depopulation in North America
The University of Arizona Press
Beyond Germs: Native Depopulation in North America challenges the hypothesis that the massive depopulation of the New World was primarily caused by diseases brought by Europeans, which scholars used for decades to explain the decimation of the indigenous peoples of North America. Contributors expertly argue that blaming germs downplays the active role of Europeans in inciting wars, destroying livelihoods, and erasing identities.
Tribal Water Rights
Essays in Contemporary Law, Policy, and Economics
The University of Arizona Press
The Tropical Deciduous Forest of Alamos
Biodiversity of a Threatened Ecosystem in Mexico
Edited by Robert H. Robichaux and David Yetman
The University of Arizona Press
The Learned Ones
Nahua Intellectuals in Postconquest Mexico
The University of Arizona Press
In The Learned Ones Kelly S. McDonough gives sustained attention to the complex nature of Nahua intellectualism and writing from the colonial period through the present day. This collaborative ethnography shows the heterogeneity of Nahua knowledge and writing, as well as indigenous experiences in Mexico.
A Zapotec Natural History
Trees, Herbs, and Flowers, Birds, Beasts, and Bugs in the Life of San Juan Gbëë
The University of Arizona Press
Inland Fishes of the Greater Southwest
Chronicle of a Vanishing Biota
By W. L. Minckley and Paul C. Marsh
The University of Arizona Press
O'odham Creation and Related Events
As Told to Ruth Benedict in 1927
The University of Arizona Press
Anthropologies of Guayana
Cultural Spaces in Northeastern Amazonia
Edited by Neil L. Whitehead and Stephanie Alemán
The University of Arizona Press
This important collection brings together the work of scholars from North America, South America, and Europe to reveal the anthropological significance of Guayana, the ancient realm of El Dorado and still the scene of gold and diamond mining. Beginning with the earliest civilizations of the region, the chapters focus on the historical ecology of the rain forest and the archaeological record up to the sixteenth century, as well as ethnography, ethnology, and perceptions of space. The book features extensive discussions of the history of a range of indigenous groups, such as the Waiwai, Trio, Wajãpi, and Palikur. Contributions analyze the emergence of a postcolonial national society, the contrasts between the coastlands and upland regions, and the significance of race and violence in contemporary politics.
At the Desert's Green Edge
An Ethnobotany of the Gila River Pima
The University of Arizona Press
Winner of the Society for Economic Botany’s Klinger Book Award, this is the first complete ethnobotany of the Gila River Pima, presented from the perspective of the Pimas themselves.
Staking Claim
Settler Colonialism and Racialization in Hawai'i
By Judy Rohrer
The University of Arizona Press
Staking Claim analyzes Hawai‘i at the crossroads of competing claims for identity, belonging, and political status. Judy Rohrer argues that the dual settler colonial processes of racializing native Hawaiians (erasing their indigeneity), and indigenizing non-Hawaiians, enable the staking of non-Hawaiian claims to Hawai‘i.
Huaorani Transformations in Twenty-First-Century Ecuador
Treks into the Future of Time
By Laura Rival
The University of Arizona Press
Like the Amazon forest where the Huaorani people find so much natural abundance, Laura Rival’s book is rich in insights. Capitalizing on her decades-long study and interactions in the community, Huaorani Transformations in Twenty-First-Century Ecuador brings new insights to the Huaorani’s unique way of relating to humans, to other-than-humans, and to the forest landscape they have inhabited for centuries.
Stand Up and Fight
Participatory Indigenismo, Populism, and Mobilization in Mexico, 1970–1984
The University of Arizona Press
Stand Up and Fight is the opening analysis of the First National Congress of Indigenous Peoples in Mexico. The author uses never-before-available documents to trace the political history of a group of indigenous leaders and government representatives who defined politics in their own terms during the 1970s and early 1980s.
Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl and His Legacy
Edited by Galen Brokaw and Jongsoo Lee
The University of Arizona Press
Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl and His Legacy provides a much-needed overview of the life, work, and contribution of an important seventeenth-century historian. The volume explores the complexities of Alva Ixtlilxochitl’s life and works, revising and broadening our understanding of his racial and cultural identity and his contribution to Mexican history.
Uprooting Community
Japanese Mexicans, World War II, and the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
The University of Arizona Press
Uprooting Community examines the political cross-currents that resulted in detention of Japanese Mexicans during World War II. Selfa A. Chew reveals how the entire multiethnic social fabric of the borderlands was reconfigured by the absence of Japanese Mexicans.
Intimate Grammars
An Ethnography of Navajo Poetry
The University of Arizona Press
Through the work of poets such as Luci Tapahonso, Laura Tohe, Rex Lee Jim, Gloria Emerson, Blackhorse Mitchell, Esther Belin, Sherwin Bitsui, and many others, Webster provides new ways of thinking about contemporary Navajo poets and poetry. Intimate Grammars offers an exciting new ethnography of speaking, ethnopoetics, and discourse-centered examinations of language and culture.
Capture These Indians for the Lord
Indians, Methodists, and Oklahomans, 1844-1939
By Tash Smith
The University of Arizona Press
Exploring larger issues associated with western expansion, Capture These Indians for the Lord details the history of the Southern Methodist Church in Oklahoma’s Indian Territory and the complex relationship between its white and Indian membership.
Archaeology and Apprenticeship
Body Knowledge, Identity, and Communities of Practice
Edited by Willeke Wendrich
The University of Arizona Press
Apprenticeship is broadly defined as the transmission of culture through a formal or informal teacher–pupil relationship. This collection invites a wide discussion, citing case studies from all over the world and yet focuses the scholarship into a concise set of contributions. This book also examines apprenticeship in archaeology against a backdrop of sociological and cognitive psychology literature, to enrich the understanding of the relationship between material remains and enculturation.
A Passion for the True and Just
Felix and Lucy Kramer Cohen and the Indian New Deal
The University of Arizona Press
A Passion for the True and Just reveals the moral underpinnings of Felix and Lucy Kramer Cohen and their important contribution to the Indian New Deal. Alice Beck Kehoe illuminates Felix Cohen’s uncompromising commitment to the “true and the just,” rooted in his Jewish intellectual and moral heritage, and Social Democrat principles, that changed American legal philosophy.
Ethnobiology for the Future
Linking Cultural and Ecological Diversity
Edited by Gary Paul Nabhan; Foreword by Paul E. Minnis
The University of Arizona Press
Ethnobiology is dedicated to celebrating the knowledge and values of some of the most distinctive cultures and practices on Earth. In this important new collection, MacArthur Fellow Gary Paul Nabhan lays out the case for the future of the field. Nabhan and his colleagues from across disciplines and cultures call for an ethnobiology that is provocative, problem-driven, and, above all, inspiring.
Asegi Stories
Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory
The University of Arizona Press
Drawing on oral histories and archival research, this book develops the concept of asegi stories. Asegi translates as “strange,” and it is also used by some Cherokees as a term similar to “Queer.” This book provides a LGBTQ2 lens to interpret the Cherokee past, understand the present, and imagine decolonial futures.
A Tale of Three Villages
Indigenous-Colonial Interactions in Southwestern Alaska, 1740–1950
By Liam Frink
The University of Arizona Press
A Tale of Three Villages tracks the histories of three villages ancestrally linked to Chevak, a contemporary village in southwestern Alaska. Through an innovative interdisciplinary methodology that respectfully and creatively investigates the spatial and material past, the author convincingly demonstrates that, in order to understand colonial history, we must actively incorporate indigenous people as actors, not merely as reactors.
Weathering Risk in Rural Mexico
Climatic, Institutional, and Economic Change
By Hallie Eakin
The University of Arizona Press
Chaco Revisited
New Research on the Prehistory of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Edited by Carrie C. Heitman and Stephen Plog
The University of Arizona Press
Bringing together both up-and-coming and well-known scholars of Chaco Canyon, Chaco Revisited provides readers with refreshing and updated analyses of research collected over the course of a century. Addressing age-old questions surrounding the canyon using new methods, contributors prove that Chaco Canyon was even more complex and fascinating than previously understood.
Sanctioning Matrimony
Western Expansion and Interethnic Marriage in the Arizona Borderlands
By Sal Acosta
The University of Arizona Press
Sanctioning Matrimony provides a deep analysis of intermarriage in southern Arizona from 1860 to 1930. Sal Acosta utilizes vital records and census documents to demonstrate how interethnic relationships extended the racial fluidity of the Arizona borderlands.
Florida
A Fire Survey
The University of Arizona Press
In this important new collection of essays on the region, Stephen J. Pyne colorfully explores the ways the region has approached fire management. Florida has long resisted national models of fire suppression in favor of prescribed burning, for which it has ideal environmental conditions and a robust culture. Out of this heritage the fire community has created institutions to match. The Tallahassee region became the ignition point for the national fire revolution of the 1960s. Today, it remains the Silicon Valley of prescription burning. How and why this happened is the topic of a fire reconnaissance that begins in the panhandle and follows Floridian fire south to the Everglades.
California
A Fire Survey
The University of Arizona Press
In this collection of essays on the region, Stephen J. Pyne colorfully explores the ways the region has approached fire management and what sets it apart from other parts of the country. Pyne writes that what makes California’s fire scene unique is how its dramatically distinctive biomes have been yoked to a common system, ultimately committed to suppression, and how its fires burn with a character and on a scale commensurate with the state’s size and political power. California has not only a ferocity of flame but a cultural intensity that few places can match. California’s fires are instantly and hugely broadcast. They shape national institutions, and they have repeatedly defined the discourse of fire’s history. No other place has so sculpted the American way of fire.
Writing the Goodlife
Mexican American Literature and the Environment
The University of Arizona Press
The decolonial approaches found in Writing the Goodlife provide rich examples of mutually respectful relations between humans and nature. Ybarra’s book takes on two of today’s most discussed topics: environmentalism and Latina/o population growth. Ybarra shines a light on long-established traditions of environmental thought that have existed in Mexican American literary history for at least 150 years.
Weaving the Boundary
By Karenne Wood
The University of Arizona Press
Political yet universal, Weaving the Boundary tells of love and betrayal, loss and forgiveness. Poet Karenne Wood intertwines important and otherwise untold stories and histories with a heightened sense of awareness of Native peoples’ issues and present realities.
The Fornes Frame
Contemporary Latina Playwrights and the Legacy of Maria Irene Fornes
The University of Arizona Press
A key way to view Latina plays today is through the foundational frame of playwright and teacher, Maria Irene Fornes, who has transformed American theatre. Considering Fornes’s legacy, Anne García-Romero shows how five award-winning playwrights continue to contest and complicate Latina theatre.
How Myth Became History
Texas Exceptionalism in the Borderlands
The University of Arizona Press
How Myth Became History emphasizes the heterogeneity of border communities and the foregrounding narratives often ignored, such as Mexican-indio histories. John E. Dean provides critical insight into the vexed status of the contemporary Texas-Mexico divide and points to broader implications for national and transnational identity.
Poetry of Resistance
Voices for Social Justice
The University of Arizona Press
Poetry of Resistance offers a poetic call for tolerance, reflection, reconciliation, and healing. Bringing together more than eighty writers, the anthology powerfully articulates the need for change and the primacy of basic human rights.
Indigenous Pop
Native American Music from Jazz to Hip Hop
The University of Arizona Press
American Indian musicians have been innovators in virtually all popular forms of music—jazz, blues, country-western, rock and roll, reggae, punk, and hip-hop. In fact, some of the United States’ most prominent musicians have been American Indians. Yet for too long their contributions have been invisible to the public. This book showcases the range of musical genres to which Native musicians have contributed and the unique ways in which their engagement advances the struggle for justice and continues age-old traditions of creative expression.
The Settlement of the American Continents
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Human Biogeography
The University of Arizona Press
Náyari History, Politics, and Violence
From Flowers to Ash
The University of Arizona Press
Copper for America
The United States Copper Industry from Colonial Times to the 1990s
The University of Arizona Press
An extensively documented chronicle of the rise and fall of individual mines, companies, and regions, Copper for America will prove an essential resource for economic and business historians, historians of technology and mining, and western historians.
The El Mozote Massacre
Human Rights and Global Implications Revised and Expanded Edition
The University of Arizona Press
The El Mozote Massacre, 2nd Edition brings a fresh perspective on what may be the largest massacre in modern Latin American history. Through many new additions, including data from half a dozen field trips, discussions of reconstruction and the fight for justice, and the relation of the massacre to the region, Binford continues to bring social identity and a sense of history to the fallen people of the Salvadoran village.
Dispatches from the Fort Apache Scout
White Mountain and Cibecue Apache History Through 1881
By Lori Davisson, Edgar Perry, and The Original Staff of the White Mountain Apache Cultural Center; Edited by John R. Welch
The University of Arizona Press
Dispatches from the Fort Apache Scout showcases and annotates articles published between June 1973 and October 14, 1977, in the tribe’s Fort Apache Scout newspaper. This twenty-eight-part series shared Western Apache culture and history, and the book powerfully shows the importance of collaborative projects aimed at preserving and perpetuating Native heritage.
Barrio Dreams
Selected Plays
The University of Arizona Press
Silviana Wood’s teatro has elicited tears and laughter from audiences young and old. Barrio Dreams brings together for the first time the plays of Wood, one of Arizona’s foremost playwrights. Wood is acclaimed locally, regionally, and nationally as a playwright, actor, director, and activist.
Under Desert Skies
How Tucson Mapped the Way to the Moon and Planets
The University of Arizona Press, Sentinel Peak Books
Under Desert Skies describes how a small lunar- and planetary-focused laboratory at the University of Arizona forged the field of planetary science at a time when few people studied the solar system. Spanning six decades, the book records the stories of the scientists who, with telescopes and spacecraft, transformed single points of lights into worlds that we can see, touch, study, and compare to Earth.
The Sonoran Desert
A Literary Field Guide
The University of Arizona Press
A groundbreaking book that melds art and science, this collection is sure to become the new classic, offering up the next generation of voices of this special place, the Sonoran Desert. More than fifty poets and writers respond to as many species of this stunning desert. Each creative contribution is joined by an illustration and scientific information, creating a new form of Sonoran Desert field guide.
Los Primeros Mexicanos
Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene People of Sonora
The University of Arizona Press
Los Primeros Mexicanos explores the Clovis occupation of Mexico’s northwest region of Sonora through extensive primary data concerning specific artifacts, assemblages, and Paleoindian archaeology. Guadalupe Sánchez presents a synopsis and critical review of current data and a unique summary of hard-to-find information that until now has not been available in English.
Translating Southwestern Landscapes
The Making of an Anglo Literary Region
The University of Arizona Press
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