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Transversal
Poems
By Urayoán Noel
The University of Arizona Press
Transversal takes a groundbreaking, disruptive approach to poetic translation, opening up alternative ways of reading as poems get translated or transcreated into entirely new pieces. In this collection, Noel masterfully examines his native Puerto Rico and the broader Caribbean as sites of transversal poetics and politics.
Rewriting the Chicano Movement
New Histories of Mexican American Activism in the Civil Rights Era
Edited by Mario T. Garcia and Ellen McCracken
The University of Arizona Press
Rewriting the Chicano Movement is an insightful new history of the Chicano Movement that expands the meaning and understanding of this seminal historical period in Chicano history. The essays introduce new individuals and struggles previously omitted from Chicano Movement history.
The Great Ages of Discovery
How Western Civilization Learned About a Wider World
The University of Arizona Press
The Great Ages of Discovery is a fascinating conceptual framework for understanding the past 600 years of exploration by Western civilization and its relationship to contemporary society. Stephen J. Pyne expertly organizes the vast narrative of Western exploration into three distinctive ages of discovery.
Renewing Our Rivers
Stream Corridor Restoration in Dryland Regions
Edited by Mark K. Briggs and Waite R. Osterkamp
The University of Arizona Press
Renewing Our Rivers guides readers through the main steps in designing and implementing successful dryland stream corridor restoration. Ecologists, geomorphologists, and hydrologists from Australia, Mexico, and the United States share their case studies and key lessons learned for successful restoration and renewal of our most vital resource.
Voices of Play
Miskitu Children's Speech and Song on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua
By Amanda Minks
The University of Arizona Press
Voices of Play is an ethnography of multilingual play and performance among indigenous Miskitu children growing up in a diverse region of the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua. Minks reveals the intertwining of speech and song and the emergence of self and other in a mobile, mixed indigenous community.
Decolonizing Indigenous Histories
Exploring Prehistoric/Colonial Transitions in Archaeology
The University of Arizona Press
This leading-edge volume explores how the inclusion of indigenous histories in analyses of colonialism, collaboration with contemporary communities and scholars across the subfields of anthropology, and the engagement with these histories and with indigenous peoples contributes constructively to the decolonization of archaeology as well as to broader projects of social justice.
Mexico’s Community Forest Enterprises
Success on the Commons and the Seeds of a Good Anthropocene
The University of Arizona Press
David Barton Bray has spent more than thirty years researching and studying Mexican community forest enterprises (CFEs). In this book he shares the scientific evidence for Mexico’s social and environmental achievements and how, in its most successful manifestations, it became a global model for common-property forest management, sustainable social-ecological systems, and climate change mitigation in developing countries.
The Prehispanic Ethnobotany of Paquimé and Its Neighbors
By Paul E. Minnis and Michael E. Whalen
The University of Arizona Press
This volume is a major ethnobotanical study for the ancient U.S. Southwest and northwestern Mexico. The results reorient our perspective in the rise of one of the most impressive communities in the international region.
Revitalization Lexicography
The Making of the New Tunica Dictionary
The University of Arizona Press
A unique look under the hood of lexicography in a small community, highlighting how the creation of the Tunica dictionary was intentionally leveraged to shape the revitalization of the Tunica language. It details both the theoretical and the practical aspects that contributed to the Tunica dictionary in manner compelling to readers from all walks of life.
The Nature of Desert Nature
Edited by Gary Paul Nabhan
The University of Arizona Press
The desert inspires wonder. Attending to history, culture, science, and spirit, The Nature of Desert Nature celebrates the bounty and the significance of desert places.
The Edible Gardens of Ethiopia
An Ethnographic Journey into Beauty and Hunger
The University of Arizona Press
Based on prolonged engagement with this “virtuous” plant of southwestern Ethiopia, this book provides a nuanced reading of the ensete ventricosum (avant-)garden and explores how the life in tiny, diverse, and womanly plots may indeed offers alternative visions of nature, food policy, and conservation efforts.
La Gente
Struggles for Empowerment and Community Self-Determination in Sacramento
The University of Arizona Press
La Gente traces the rise of the Chicana/o Movement in Sacramento and the role of everyday people in galvanizing a collective to seek lasting and transformative change during the 1960s and 1970s. In their efforts to be self-determined, la gente contested multiple forms of oppression at school, at work sites, and in their communities.
A Good Map of All Things
A Picaresque Novel
The University of Arizona Press, University of Arizona Press
Reflections of a Transborder Anthropologist
From Netzahualcóyotl to Aztlán
The University of Arizona Press
Taking us on a journey of remembering and rediscovery, anthropologist Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez shares important insights into his development as a scholar and in so doing the development of the interdisciplinary field of transborder anthropology.
Cultura y Corazón
A Decolonial Methodology for Community Engaged Research
The University of Arizona Press
Cultura y Corazón is a cultural approach to research that requires a long-term commitment to community-based and engaged research methodologies. This book presents case studies in the fields of education and health that recognize and integrate communities’ values, culture, and funds of knowledge in the research process.
Activist Leaders of San José
En sus propias voces
The University of Arizona Press
Challenging stereotypes, this book unearths and makes visible lived experiences of Chicana and Latino activists from San José, California, who made contributions to the cultural and civic life of the city. Through oral histories, we see a portrait of grassroots leadership in the twentieth century.
A Marriage Out West
Theresa and Frank Russell’s Explorations in Arizona, 1900–1903
The University of Arizona Press
A Marriage Out West is an intimate biographical account of two fascinating figures of twentieth-century archaeology. Frances Theresa Peet Russell, an educator, married Harvard anthropologist Frank Russell in June 1900. They left immediately on a busman’s honeymoon to the Southwest. Their goal was twofold: to travel to an arid environment to quiet Frank’s tuberculosis and to find archaeological sites to support his research.
Traditional Arid Lands Agriculture
Understanding the Past for the Future
Edited by Scott E. Ingram and Robert C. Hunt
The University of Arizona Press
Traditional Arid Lands Agriculture offers a unique approach to advancing understanding of traditional agriculture worldwide. The volume focuses on what is unknown, why and how we can know more, and the specific research needed.
La Raza Cosmética
Beauty, Identity, and Settler Colonialism in Postrevolutionary Mexico
The University of Arizona Press
La Raza Cosmética examines postrevolutionary identity construction as a project of settler colonialism that at once appropriated and erased indigeneity. In its critique of Indigenous representation, it also shows how Indigenous women strategically engaged with and resisted these projects as they played out in beauty pageants, films, tourism, art, and other realms of popular culture.
Colonial Legacies in Chicana/o Literature and Culture
Looking Through the Kaleidoscope
The University of Arizona Press
Colonial Legacies in Chicana/o Literature and Culture traces the development of Chicana/o literature and cultural production from the Spanish colonial period to the present. In doing so, it challenges us to look critically at how we simultaneously embody colonial constructs and challenge their legacies.
Binational Commons
Institutional Development and Governance on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Edited by Tony Payan and Pamela L Cruz
The University of Arizona Press
Binational Commons focuses on whether the institutions that presently govern the U.S.-Mexico transborder space are effective in providing solutions to difficult binational problems as they manifest themselves in the borderlands. The volume addresses key binational issues and explores where there are strong levels of institutional governance development, where it is failing, how governance mechanisms have evolved over time, and what can be done to improve it to meet the needs of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands in the next decades.
Beyond Earth’s Edge
The Poetry of Spaceflight
Edited by Julie Swarstad Johnson and Christopher Cokinos
The University of Arizona Press, University of Arizona Press
Teaching Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Pedagogy and Practice for Our Classrooms and Communities
The University of Arizona Press
Teaching Gloria E. Anzaldúa provides pedagogical applications of Anzaldúa’s noted theories, including la facultad, the path of conocimiento, and autohistoria, among others. This text provides examples, lesson plans, and activities for scholars, professors, teachers, and community members in various disciplines—such as history, composition, literature, speech and debate, and more—and for those interested in teaching the theories of Gloria Anzaldúa.
Conserving Migratory Pollinators and Nectar Corridors in Western North America
Edited by Gary Paul Nabhan
The University of Arizona Press
A Desert Feast
Celebrating Tucson's Culinary Heritage
The University of Arizona Press
This book offers a food pilgrimage, where stories and recipes demonstrate why the desert city of Tucson became American’s first UNESCO City of Gastronomy. You’ll meet the farmers, small-scale food entrepreneurs, and chefs who are dedicated to making Tucson taste like nowhere else.
Innocent Until Interrogated
The True Story of the Buddhist Temple Massacre and the Tucson Four
The University of Arizona Press
Decolonizing Latinx Masculinities
Edited by Arturo J. Aldama and Frederick Luis Aldama
The University of Arizona Press
With unity of heart and mind, the creative and the scholarly, Decolonizing Latinx Masculinities opens wide its arms to all non-binary, decolonial masculinities today to grow a stronger, resilient, and more compassionate new generation of Latinxs tomorrow.
Oysters in the Land of Cacao
Archaeology, Material Culture, and Societies at Islas de Los Cerros and the Western Chontalpa, Tabasco, Mexico
The University of Arizona Press
Oysters in the Land of Cacao delivers a long-overdue presentation of the archaeology, material culture, and regional synthesis on the Formative to Late Classic period societies of the western Chontalpa region (Tabasco, Mexico) through contemporary theory. It offers a significant new understanding of the Mesoamerican Gulf Coast.
America's Early Whalemen
Indian Shore Whalers on Long Island, 1650–1750
The University of Arizona Press
The Native Americans of Long Island were integral to the origin and development of the first American whaling enterprise in the years 1650 to 1750. John A. Strong has produced the authoritative source on Indians and shore whaling.
Coastal Lives
Nature, Capital, and the Struggle for Artisanal Fisheries in Peru
The University of Arizona Press
Coastal Lives reveals the ways in which ocean life is organized to produce value and thus provides a critical examination of the politics of contemporary environmental change in Peru and around the world. The authors underscore the importance of making the co-production of nature, capital, and politics visible as a critical means for addressing ecological crises and the multispecies dispossessions that accompany them.
Planetary Astrobiology
The University of Arizona Press
Planetary Astrobiology represents the combined efforts of more than seventy-five international experts consolidated into twenty chapters and provides an accessible, interdisciplinary gateway for new students and seasoned researchers who wish to learn more about this expanding field. Readers are brought to the frontiers of knowledge in astrobiology via results from the exploration of our own solar system and exoplanetary systems.
Fighting for Andean Resources
Extractive Industries, Cultural Politics, and Environmental Struggles in Peru
The University of Arizona Press
Fighting for Andean Resources offers a singular contribution to the literature critiquing monolithic views of nation-state dynamics and globalization. Vladimir R. Gil Ramón examines the protocols of accountability and the social critique of the application of environmental impact assessments and safeguard policies. His analysis reveals the complex mechanisms for legitimizing decision-making and adds to an understanding of everyday state-nation conflicts and negotiations.
Landscapes of Freedom
Building a Postemancipation Society in the Rainforests of Western Colombia
By Claudia Leal
The University of Arizona Press
Landscapes of Freedom reconstructs the unusual postemancipation trajectory of African descendants on Colombia’s Pacific coast, who attained high levels of autonomy by controlling rainforests for subsistence and procuring natural resources for export.
Girl of New Zealand
Colonial Optics in Aotearoa
The University of Arizona Press
Girl of New Zealand resurrects Māori women from objectification and locates them firmly within Māori whanau/families and communities.
Diné Identity in a Twenty-First-Century World
By Lloyd L. Lee
The University of Arizona Press
Informed by personal experience and offering an inclusive view, Diné Identity in a Twenty-First-Century World showcases the complexity of understanding and the richness of current Diné identities.
State Formation in the Liberal Era
Capitalisms and Claims of Citizenship in Mexico and Peru
Edited by Ben Fallaw and David Nugent
The University of Arizona Press
Traditional, National, and International Law and Indigenous Communities
Edited by Marianne O. Nielsen and Karen Jarratt-Snider
The University of Arizona Press
This volume of the Indigenous Justice series explores the global effects of marginalizing Indigenous law. The essays in this book argue that European-based law has been used to force Indigenous peoples to assimilate, has politically disenfranchised Indigenous communities, and has destroyed traditional Indigenous social institutions. The research in this volume focuses on the resurgence of traditional law, tribal–state relations in the United States, laws that have impacted Native American women, laws that have failed to protect Indigenous sacred sites, the effect of international conventions on domestic laws, and the role of community justice organizations in operationalizing international law.
Indigenous Revolution in Ecuador and Bolivia, 1990–2005
The University of Arizona Press
In the fifteen-year span from 1990 to 2005 uprisings of the indigenous peoples of Ecuador and Bolivia changed their societies forever. The combination of mass mobilization, elections, and indigenous socialism created a new form of twenty-first-century revolution that applies to cultures far beyond the Andes. Jeffrey M. Paige’s interviews present the powerful personal experiences and emotional intensity of the revolutionary leadership.
Indigenous Environmental Justice
Edited by Karen Jarratt-Snider and Marianne O. Nielsen
The University of Arizona Press
The book explores the ongoing effects of colonization and emphasizes Native American tribes as governments rather than ethnic minorities. Combining elements of legal issues, human rights issues, and sovereignty issues, Indigenous Environmental Justice creates a clear example of community resilience in the face of corporate greed and state indifference.
Cycles of Conquest
The Impact of Spain, Mexico, and the United States on the Indians of the Southwest, 1533–1960
The University of Arizona Press
To the Last Smoke
An Anthology
The University of Arizona Press
This anthology offers a unique and sweeping view of the nation’s fire scene by distilling observations on Florida, California, the Northern Rockies, the Great Plains, the Southwest, the Interior West, the Northeast, Alaska, the oak woodlands, and the Pacific Northwest into a single, readable volume. The essays offer a color-commentary companion to the play-by-play narrative offered in Pyne’s Between Two Fires: A Fire History of Contemporary America.
To the Last Smoke is Stephen J. Pyne’s way of “keeping with it to the end,” encompassing the directive from his rookie season as a wildland firefighter to stay with every fire “to the last smoke.”
The Global Spanish Empire
Five Hundred Years of Place Making and Pluralism
Edited by Christine Beaule and John G. Douglass
The University of Arizona Press
The Global Spanish Empire tackles broad questions about indigenous cultural persistence, pluralism, and place making using a global comparative perspective grounded in the shared experience of Spanish colonialism. Through an expansive range of essays that look at Africa, the Americas, Asia, the Caribbean and the Pacific, this volume brings often-neglected regions into conversation.
Tewa Worlds
An Archaeological History of Being and Becoming in the Pueblo Southwest
By Samuel Duwe
The University of Arizona Press
Tewa Worlds offers an archaeological history of eight centuries of Tewa Pueblo history in the Rio Chama Valley through the lens of contemporary Pueblo philosophical and historical discourse. The result gives weight to the deep past, colonial encounters, and modern experiences. It challenges archaeologists to both critically reframe interpretation and to acknowledge the Tewa’s deep but ongoing connection with the land.
Sugarcane and Rum
The Bittersweet History of Labor and Life on the Yucatán Peninsula
The University of Arizona Press
More than a history of coveted commodities, the unique story that unfolds in John R. Gust and Jennifer P. Mathews’s new historySugarcane and Rum is told through the lens of Maya laborers who worked under brutal conditions on small haciendas to harvest sugarcane and produce rum in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico.
Radio Nation
Communication, Popular Culture, and Nationalism in Mexico, 1920-1950
The University of Arizona Press
Reading Popol Wuj
A Decolonial Guide
The University of Arizona Press
Reading Popol Wuj offers readers a path to look beyond Western constructions of literature to engage with this text through the philosophical foundation of Maya thought and culture. This guide deconstructs various translations to ask readers—scholars, teachers, and graduate and undergraduate students—to break out of the colonial mold in approaching this seminal Maya text.
Moquis and Kastiilam
Hopis, Spaniards, and the Trauma of History, Volume II, 1680–1781
Edited by Thomas E. Sheridan, Stewart B. Koyiyumptewa, Anton Daughters, Dale S. Brenneman, T. J. Ferguson, Leigh J. Kuwanwisiwma, and Leigh Wayne Lomayestewa
The University of Arizona Press
The second of a two-volume series, Moquis and Kastiilam tells the story of the encounter between the Hopis, who the Spaniards called Moquis, and the Spaniards, who the Hopis called Kastiilam, from the Pueblo Revolt through 1781. Balancing historical documents with oral histories, it creates a fresh perspective on the interface of Spanish and Hopi peoples in the period of missionization.
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