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Uncharted Terrains

New Directions in Border Research Methodology, Ethics, and Practice

The University of Arizona Press

New Directions in Border Research Methodology, Ethics, and Practice looks at the stigmatization of immigrants since the U.S. began focusing on securing its border with Mexico in 2001. These researchers explore ethical questions concerning border research methodology, and the political and social implications of U.S. immigration policies and programs.

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Complex Communities

The Archaeology of Early Iron Age West-Central Jordan

The University of Arizona Press

Complex Communities explores how sustainable communities developed and flourished in the Middle East nearly four thousand years ago. From archaeological evidence, Benjamin W. Porter reconstructs how the residents of small villages were able to adapt to changes in their environment, including climate change, and maintain their communities over time.

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Broken Souths

Latina/o Poetic Responses to Neoliberalism and Globalization

The University of Arizona Press

Broken Souths puts Latina/o and Latin American poets into sustained conversation in original and rewarding ways.

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Encountering Life in the Universe

Ethical Foundations and Social Implications of Astrobiology

The University of Arizona Press

Encountering Life in the Universe examines the intersection of scientific research and society to determine the philosophy and ethics of relating to the Earth and beyond.

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Brewing Arizona

A Century of Beer in the Grand Canyon State

The University of Arizona Press

Brewing Arizona is the first comprehensive book of Arizona beer. Beautifully illustrated, it includes every brewery known to have operated in the state, from the first to the latest, from crude brews to craft brews. Like a fine beer, the contents are deep and rich with just a little froth on top.

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A War that Can’t Be Won

Binational Perspectives on the War on Drugs

The University of Arizona Press

Forty years after Richard Nixon declared a “War on Drugs,” this sobering book offers views of the “narco wars” from scholars on both sides of the US-Mexico border. With evidence newly obtained through freedom-of-information inquiries in Mexico, it proposes practical solutions to a seemingly intractable crisis.

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Where the Wind Blows Us

Practicing Critical Community Archaeology in the Canadian North

The University of Arizona Press

This useful book—part case study, part handbook—unites critical practice with a community-based approach to archaeology. It describes an inclusive archaeology that rests on a flexible but rigorous research design and incorporates responsible, ethical practice.

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Telling and Being Told

Storytelling and Cultural Control in Contemporary Yucatec Maya Literatures

The University of Arizona Press

Oral literature has been excluded from the analysis of Yucatec Maya literature, but it is a key component and a vital force in the cultural communities and their contemporary writing. Telling and Being Told shows the vital role Yucatec storytelling claims in Mayan ways of knowing and in the Mexican literary canon.
 

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Milk and Filth

The University of Arizona Press

National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Milk and Filth is a collection of forty-two poems exploring issues of gender, equality, sexuality and the artist-as-thinker in modern culture. Deftly blending a variety of tones, styles, and structure, Giménez Smith’s poems evocatively explores deep cultural issues.

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Indian Resilience and Rebuilding

Indigenous Nations in the Modern American West

The University of Arizona Press

This illuminating and comprehensive analysis of Native nations' resilience in the twentieth century demonstrates how Native Americans reinvented themselves, rebuilt their nations, and ultimately became major forces in the United States. Written by Donald L. Fixico, Indian Resilience and Rebuilding redefines how modern American history can and should be told.

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Oral History, Community, and Work in the American West

Edited by Jessie L. Embry
The University of Arizona Press

The essays in this volume show how oral history can increase understanding of work and community in the twentieth century American West. Here an array of oral historians—including folklorists, librarians, and public historians—record what they have learned from people who have made their communities and have made history.

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More Than Two to Tango

Argentine Tango Immigrants in New York City

The University of Arizona Press

The world of Argentine tango presents a glamorous façade of music and movement. Yet the immigrant dancers whose livelihoods depend on the US tango industry receive little attention beyond their enigmatic public personas. More Than Two to Tango gives a detailed portrait of the Argentine immigrant community, where tango is both an art form and a means of survival.

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Coconut Milk

The University of Arizona Press

Coconut Milk is the first book-length collection of poems by contemporary queer Samoan writer and painter Dan Taulapapa McMullin. His poems humorously attack cultural appropriation, gender, and the hypocrisies of Western influence in Oceania today. Pulling at the stereotype of a beautiful Polynesia available for the taking, his poems challenge and carve out new avenues of meaning for Pacific Islanders.

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Indigeneity in the Mexican Cultural Imagination

Thresholds of Belonging

The University of Arizona Press
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Pueblo Indians and Spanish Colonial Authority in Eighteenth-Century New Mexico

The University of Arizona Press

Tracy L. Brown explores the impact of Spanish colonial interactions on Pueblo culture, using little-researched Spanish language documents from the eighteenth century. Pueblo peoples negotiated Spanish authority to maintain their own distinct ethnic identity.

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Mexico, Nation in Transit

Contemporary Representations of Mexican Migration to the United States

The University of Arizona Press

Spanning the social sciences and the humanities, Mexico, Nation in Transit poses a new, transnational alternative to the postnational view that geopolitical borders are being erased by the forces of migration and globalization, and the nationalist view that borders must be strictly enforced. It shows that borders, like identities, are not easy to locate precisely.

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Baja California Missions

In the Footsteps of the Padres

By David Burckhalter; By (photographer) Mina Sedgwick; Foreword by Bernard L. Fontana
The University of Arizona Press

Baja California Missions is a beautiful and informative book about the lovely but seldom-seen missions of Baja that remain intact today. With gorgeous photographs and useful descriptions that include both historical backgrounds and contemporary driving directions, Baja California Missions is both a photography book and a guidebook.

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Women and Ledger Art

Four Contemporary Native American Artists

The University of Arizona Press

Although ledger art has long been considered a male art form, Women and Ledger Art calls attention to the extraordinary achievements of four contemporary female Native artists—Sharron Ahtone Harjo (Kiowa), Colleen Cutschall (Oglala Lakota), Linda Haukaas (Sicangu Lakota), and Dolores Purdy Corcoran (Caddo). The book examines these women’s interpretations of their artwork and their thoughts on tribal history and contemporary life.  

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Communities of Practice

An Alaskan Native Model for Language Teaching and Learning

The University of Arizona Press

This book describes an innovative project in native-language instruction that has wide applicability in second-language classrooms. Although the project it describes was developed in Alaska, the program can serve as a model throughout the world.

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The Affinity of the Eye

Writing Nikkei in Peru

The University of Arizona Press

López-Calvo uses contemporary Nikkei texts such as fiction, testimonies, and poetry to construct an account of the cultural formation of Japanese migrant communities, and in so doing challenges fixed notions of Japanese Peruvian identity.

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