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Bountiful Deserts
Sustaining Indigenous Worlds in Northern New Spain
The University of Arizona Press
Set in the arid lands of northwestern Mexico, this book foregrounds the knowledge of Indigenous peoples who harvested the desert as bountiful in its material resources and sacred spaces. Author Cynthia Radding uses the tools of history, anthropology, geography, and ecology to re-create the means of defending Indigenous worlds through colonial encounters, the formation of mixed societies, and the direct conflicts over forests, grasslands, streams, and coastal estuaries that sustained wildlife, horticulture, foraging, hunting, fishing, and—after European contact—livestock and extractive industries. She returns in each chapter to the spiritual power of nature and the enduring cultural significance of the worlds that Indigenous communities created and defended.
Cenizas
Poems
The University of Arizona Press
Cenizas offers an arresting portrait of a Salvadoran family whose lives were shaped by tumultuous global politics. Cynthia Guardado’s poems argue that the Salvadoran Civil War permanently altered the Salvadoran people’s reality by forcing them to become refugees who continue to leave their homeland, even decades after the war.
World of Our Mothers
Mexican Revolution–Era Immigrants and Their Stories
The University of Arizona Press
World of Our Mothers highlights the largely forgotten stories of forty-five women immigrants in the early twentieth century. Through interviews in Arizona mining towns, Phoenix barrios, and selected areas of California, Texas, and the Midwest, we learn how they negotiated their lives with their circumstances.
Children Crossing Borders
Latin American Migrant Childhoods
Edited by Alejandra J Josiowicz and Irasema Coronado
The University of Arizona Press
This volume draws attention to the plight of migrant children and their families, illuminating the human and emotional toll that children experience as they crisscross the Americas. Exploring the connections between education, policy, cultural studies, and anthropology, the essays in this volume navigate a space of transnational children’s rights central to Latin American life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Dance of the Returned
The University of Arizona Press
The disappearance of a young Choctaw leads Detective Monique Blue Hawk to investigate a little-known ceremonial dance. As she traces the steps of the missing man, she discovers that the seemingly innocuous Renewal Dance is not what it appears to be. After Monique embarks on a journey that she never thought possible, she learns that the past and future can converge to offer endless possibilities for the present. She must also accept her own destiny of violence and peacekeeping.
The Desert Smells Like Rain
A Naturalist in O'odham Country
The University of Arizona Press
Published more than forty years ago, The Desert Smells Like Rain remains a classic work about nature, how to respect it, and what transplants can learn from the longtime residents of the Sonoran Desert, the Tohono O’odham people.
Michael Chiago
O’odham Lifeways Through Art
By Michael Chiago and Amadeo M. Rea
The University of Arizona Press
O’odham artist Michael Chiago Sr.’s paintings provide a window into the lifeways of the O’odham people. This book offers a rich account of how Tohono O’odham and Akimel O’odham live in the Sonoran Desert now and in the recent past.
Indigenous Economics
Sustaining Peoples and Their Lands
The University of Arizona Press
The book explains how Indigenous peoples organize their economies for good living by supporting relationships between humans and the natural world. This work argues that creating such relationships is a major alternative to economic models that stress individualism and domination of nature.
The Border and Its Bodies
The Embodiment of Risk Along the U.S.-México Line
Edited by Thomas E. Sheridan and Randall H. McGuire
The University of Arizona Press
The increasingly militarized U.S.-México border is an intensely physical place, affecting the bodies of all who encounter it. The essays in this volume explore how crossing becomes embodied in individuals on the most basic social unit possible: the human body.
Narrating Nature
Wildlife Conservation and Maasai Ways of Knowing
The University of Arizona Press
Narrating Nature opens up dialogue that counters traditional conservation narratives. It offers conservation efforts that not only include people as beneficiaries but also demonstrate how they are essential and knowledgeable members of the conservation landscape itself.
Mineralogy of Arizona, Fourth Edition
The University of Arizona Press
This is most comprehensive book yet to describe the minerals known to occur in Arizona. It presents a framework of Arizona’s mineralogy and a set of mineral district maps that can help identify new mineral occurrences. A must-have resource for anyone interested in Arizona minerals, gemstones, fluorescent minerals, and geology.
LGBTQ Politics in Nicaragua
Revolution, Dictatorship, and Social Movements
The University of Arizona Press
LGBTQ Politics in Nicaragua provides the previously untold history of the LGBTQ community’s emergence as political actors—from revolutionary guerillas to civil rights activists.
The Aztecs at Independence
Nahua Culture Makers in Central Mexico, 1799–1832
The University of Arizona Press
This ethnohistory uses colonial-era native-language texts written by Nahuas to construct history from the indigenous point of view. The book offers the first internal ethnographic view of central Mexican indigenous communities in the critical time of independence, when modern Mexican Spanish developed its unique character, founded on indigenous concepts of space, time, and grammar. The Aztecs at Independence opens a window into the cultural life of writers, leaders, and worshippers—Nahua women and men in the midst of creating a vibrant community.
Crafting Wounaan Landscapes
Identity, Art, and Environmental Governance in Panama's Darién
The University of Arizona Press
In Crafting Wounaan Landscapes, Julie Velásquez Runk upends long-standing assumptions about the people that call Panama's Darién home, and she demonstrates the agency of the Wounaan people to make their living and preserve and transform their way of life in the face of continuous and tremendous change. She unpacks environmental governance efforts that illustrate what happens when conservation is confronted with people in a purportedly peopleless place.
A Love Letter to This Bridge Called My Back
The University of Arizona Press
In 1981, Chicana feminist intellectuals Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa published what would become a foundational legacy for generations of feminist women of color—the seminal This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. To celebrate and honor this important work, editors gloria j. wilson, Joni B. Acuff, and Amelia M. Kraehe offer new generations A Love Letter to This Bridge Called My Back.
Pachamama Politics
Campesino Water Defenders and the Anti-Mining Movement in Andean Ecuador
The University of Arizona Press
Pachamama Politics examines how campesinos came to defend their community water sources from gold mining upstream and explains why Ecuador’s “pink tide” government came under fire by Indigenous and environmental rights activists.
The Maya Art of Speaking Writing
Remediating Indigenous Orality in the Digital Age
The University of Arizona Press
Challenging the distinctions between “old” and “new” media and narratives about the deprecation of orality in favor of inscribed forms, The Maya Art of Speaking Writing draws from Maya concepts of tz’ib’ (recorded knowledge) and tzij, choloj, and ch’owen (orality) to look at expressive work across media and languages.
Finding Right Relations
Quakers, Native Americans, and Settler Colonialism
The University of Arizona Press
Colonialism has the power to corrupt. This important new work argues that even the early Quakers, who had a belief system rooted in social justice, committed structural and cultural violence against their Indigenous neighbors.
Postindian Aesthetics
Affirming Indigenous Literary Sovereignty
The University of Arizona Press
Postindian Aesthetics is a collection of critical, cutting-edge essays on a new generation of Indigenous writers who are creatively and powerfully contributing to a thriving Indigenous literary canon that is redefining the parameters of Indigenous literary aesthetics.
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