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Latino Los Angeles
Transformations, Communities, and Activism
Edited by Enrique C. Ochoa and Gilda L. Ochoa
The University of Arizona Press
Field Man
Life as a Desert Archaeologist
The University of Arizona Press
Field Man is the memoir of renowned southwestern archaeologist Julian Dodge Hayden—a blue-collar scholar who challenged conventional thinking on the antiquity of man in the New World, brought a formidable pragmatism to the identification of stone tools, and who is remembered as the leading authority on the prehistory of the Sierra Pinacate.
Death and Dying in Colonial Spanish America
Edited by Martina Will de Chaparro and Miruna Achim
The University of Arizona Press
Women and Knowledge in Mesoamerica
From East L.A. to Anahuac
The University of Arizona Press
This book disrupts Euro-based intellectual hegemony and makes a case for the epistemic authority of Native women. Written from a Chicana perspective, this study is learned, personal, and engaging for anyone who is interested in the wisdom that prevailing analytical cultures have deemed “unintelligible.” As it turns out, those who are unacquainted with the sometimes surprising extent and depth of wisdom of indigenous women healers simply haven’t been looking in the right places—outside the texts from which they have been consistently excluded.
Smugglers, Brothels, and Twine
Historical Perspectives on Contraband and Vice in North America’s Borderlands
Edited by Elaine Carey and Andrae M. Marak
The University of Arizona Press
Native American Performance and Representation
Edited by S. E. Wilmer
The University of Arizona Press
Immigration Law and the U.S.–Mexico Border
¿Sí se puede?
By Kevin R. Johnson and Bernard Trujillo
The University of Arizona Press
Ideologies in Archaeology
Edited by Reinhard Bernbeck and Randall H. McGuire
The University of Arizona Press
Archaeologists have often used the term ideology to vaguely refer to a “realm of ideas.” Scholars from Marx to Zizek have developed a sharper concept, arguing that ideology works by representing—or misrepresenting—power relations through concealment, enhancement, or transformation of real social relations between groups. Ideologies in Archaeology examines the role of ideology in this latter sense as it pertains to both the practice and the content of archaeological studies. This is the first work to address in any detail the mutual relationship between ideologies of the past and present ideological conditions producing archaeological knowledge.
Contributors to this volume focus on elements of life in past societies that “went without saying” and uncover complex manipulations of power that have often gone unrecognized. They show that Occam’s razor—the tendency to favor simpler explanations—is sometimes just an excuse to avoid dealing with the historical world in its full complexity.
Contributors to this volume focus on elements of life in past societies that “went without saying” and uncover complex manipulations of power that have often gone unrecognized. They show that Occam’s razor—the tendency to favor simpler explanations—is sometimes just an excuse to avoid dealing with the historical world in its full complexity.
From Beneath the Volcano
The Story of a Salvadoran Campesino and His Family
The University of Arizona Press
Twelve Hundred Miles by Horse and Burro
J. Stokley Ligon and New Mexico’s First Breeding Bird Survey
By Harley Shaw and Mara E. Weisenberger
The University of Arizona Press
The Other Latin@
Writing Against a Singular Identity
Edited by Blas Falconer and Lorraine M. López
The University of Arizona Press
The Archaeology of Native-Lived Colonialism
Challenging History in the Great Lakes
By Neal Ferris
The University of Arizona Press
State Healthcare and Yanomami Transformations
A Symmetrical Ethnography
The University of Arizona Press
Until now, anthropological writing on Amazonian peoples has been divided between “traditional” topics (e.g., kinship, cosmology, and ritual) and struggles with the nation-state. In this ethnography, José Antonio Kelly challenges that dichotomy, placing the study of culture and cosmology within the context of the modern nation-state and its institutions. He explores Indian-white relations through the operation of a state-run health system among the indigenous Yanomami of southern Venezuela.
With theoretical foundations in medical and Amazonian anthropology, Kelly shows how Amerindian cosmology shapes concepts of the state at the community level. His symmetrical anthropology treats white and Amerindian perceptions of each other within a single theoretical framework, thus expanding our understanding of the groups and their mutual influences. This book will be valuable to scholars and students of Amazonian peoples, medical anthropology, development, and Latin American studies.
With theoretical foundations in medical and Amazonian anthropology, Kelly shows how Amerindian cosmology shapes concepts of the state at the community level. His symmetrical anthropology treats white and Amerindian perceptions of each other within a single theoretical framework, thus expanding our understanding of the groups and their mutual influences. This book will be valuable to scholars and students of Amazonian peoples, medical anthropology, development, and Latin American studies.
Sing
Poetry from the Indigenous Americas
Edited by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
The University of Arizona Press
This multilingual collection of Indigenous American poetry gathers more than eighty poets from across the Americas, covering territory from Alaska to Chile, and featuring familiar names like Sherwin Bitsui, Louise Erdrich, Joy Harjo, Lee Maracle, and Simon Ortiz alongside international poets—both emerging and acclaimed—from regions underrepresented in anthologies.
Cooking the Wild Southwest
Delicious Recipes for Desert Plants
By Carolyn Niethammer; Illustrated by Paul Mirocha
The University of Arizona Press
Codex Chimalpopoca
The Text in Nahuatl with a Glossary and Grammatical Notes
The University of Arizona Press
Chicano Studies
The Genesis of a Discipline
The University of Arizona Press
Part intellectual history, part social criticism, and part personal meditation, Chicano Studies attempts to make sense of the collision (and occasional wreckage) of politics, culture, scholarship, ideology, and philosophy that created a new academic discipline. Along the way, it identifies a remarkable cast of scholars and administrators who added considerable zest to the drama.