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Saints, Statues, and Stories
A Folklorist Looks at the Religious Art of Sonora
The University of Arizona Press
Beloved folklorist James S. Griffith introduces us to the roadside shrines, artists, fiestas, saints, and miracles of northern Mexico. Full-color images add to the pleasure of this delightful journey through the churches and towns of Sonora.
Reel Latinxs
Representation in U.S. Film and TV
The University of Arizona Press
Experts in Latinx pop culture Frederick Luis Aldama and Christopher González explain the real implications of Latinx representation in mainstream TV and film. They also provide a roadmap through a history of mediatized Latinxs that rupture stereotypes and reveal nuanced reconstructions of Latinx subjectivities and experiences.
Meditación Fronteriza
Poems of Love, Life, and Labor
The University of Arizona Press
Meditación Fronteriza is a beautifully crafted exploration of life in the Texas-Mexico borderlands. Written by award-winning author Norma Elia Cantú, the poems flow from Spanish to English gracefully as they explore culture, traditions, and solidarity.
Latinx Ciné in the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Frederick Luis Aldama
The University of Arizona Press
This timeless volume is a significant analysis of the burgeoning field of Latinx filmmaking. Editor Frederick Luis Aldama has gathered together some of the best writing on Latinx ciné in the twenty-first century. Today’s filmmakers show the world a rich Latinidad informed by a complexly layered culture replete with history, biography, and everyday experiences.
Black Girl Magic Beyond the Hashtag
Twenty-First-Century Acts of Self-Definition
Edited by Julia S. Jordan-Zachery and Duchess Harris; Foreword by Janell Hobson; Afterword by Tammy Owens
The University of Arizona Press
Black Girl Magic Beyond the Hashtag poses the question: how does the #BlackGirlMagic political and cultural movement translate outside of social media? The essays in this volume move us beyond the digital realm and reveals how Black girls and women foster community, counter invisibility, engage in restorative acts, and create spaces for freedom in the face of structural oppression.
Mexican Workers and the Making of Arizona
Edited by Luis F. B. Plascencia and Gloria H. Cuádraz
The University of Arizona Press
Mexican Workers and the Making of Arizona expands our understanding of the critical role played by Mexican and Mexican American laborers in making Arizona a prominent and influential state in the Southwest and beyond.
Chicano Communists and the Struggle for Social Justice
The University of Arizona Press
Chicano Communists and the Struggle for Social Justice traces the early roots of the Chicano Movement. It follows the thread of radical activism of the 1930s and 1940s to today, showing the depth of its influence on Mexican Americans struggling to achieve social justice and equality.
Coloniality of the US/Mexico Border
Power, Violence, and the Decolonial Imperative
The University of Arizona Press
Based on more than twenty years of border activism in San Diego–Tijuana and El Paso–Ciudad Juárez, this book is an interdisciplinary examination that considers the 1984 McDonald’s massacre, Minutemen vigilantism, border urbanism, the ongoing murder of women in Ciudad Juárez, and anti-border music. It is a theoretical and pragmatic analysis of the future of violence at—and because of—national territorial borders, and it offers a call for epistemic and cartographic disobedience.
Athapaskan Migrations
The Archaeology of Eagle Lake, British Columbia
By R. G. Matson and Martin P. R. Magne
The University of Arizona Press
Global Indigenous Health
Reconciling the Past, Engaging the Present, Animating the Future
The University of Arizona Press
Painting the Skin
Pigments on Bodies and Codices in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica
Edited by Élodie Dupey García and María Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual
The University of Arizona Press
Painting the Skin brings together exciting research on painted skins—human, animal, and vegetal—in Mesoamerica. It offers physicochemical analysis and interdisciplinary understandings of the materiality, uses, and cultural meanings of the colors applied on a multitude of skins, including bodies, codices, and even building “skins.”
Worlds in the Sky
Planetary Discovery from Earliest Times Through Voyager and Magellan
The University of Arizona Press
William Sheehan gives us a history our fascination with planets, weaving together scientific history, anecdotes surrounding planetary discoveries, and the personal reflections of an incurable amateur astronomer. He describes how we arrived at our current understanding of the Moon and the planets and shows how certain individuals in history shaped the world’s knowledge about the Solar System.
The Navajo Hunter Tradition
The University of Arizona Press
A new approach to the study of myths relating to the origin of the Navajos. Based on extensive fieldwork and research, including Navajo hunter informants and unpublished manuscripts of Father Berard Haile.
Sonora Yaqui Language Structures
By John M. Dedrick and Eugene H. Casad
The University of Arizona Press
Sonora Yaqui Language Structures is a valuable source not only for research on this language family but also for anthropological studies of the Arizona-Sonora cultural region. In addition, it documents an indigenous language for future generations of Yaqui speakers.
Sand, Wind, and War
Memoirs of a Desert Explorer
The University of Arizona Press
Records the work, travels, and adventures of one of the last of the great British explorers, a man who served in both world wars and carved out a special niche in science through his studies of desert sands.
Dude Lit
Mexican Men Writing and Performing Competence, 1955–2012
By Emily Hind
The University of Arizona Press
Columnar Cacti and Their Mutualists
Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation
Edited by Theodore H. Fleming and Alfonso Valiente-Banuet
The University of Arizona Press
Reframing the Northern Rio Grande Pueblo Economy
Edited by Scott Ortman
The University of Arizona Press
The archaeological record of the Northern Rio Grande exhibits the hallmarks of economic development, but Pueblo economies were organized in radically different ways than modern industrialized and capitalist economies. Contributors to Reframing the Northern Rio Grande Pueblo Economy explore the patterns and determinants of economic development in pre-Hispanic Rio Grande Pueblo society, building a platform for more broadly informed research on this critical process.
Unwriting Maya Literature
Ts'íib as Recorded Knowledge
By Paul M. Worley and Rita M. Palacios
The University of Arizona Press
Unwriting Maya Literature provides an important decolonial framework for reading Maya and other Indigenous texts. Through insightful analyses of Maya cultural productions—whether textiles or poetry—this perspective offers a point of departure for the study of Maya literature and art that is situated in an Indigenous way of performing the act of reading.
Indigenous Interfaces
Spaces, Technology, and Social Networks in Mexico and Central America
Edited by Jennifer Gómez Menjívar and Gloria Elizabeth Chacón
The University of Arizona Press
Indigenous Interfaces rejects the myth that Indigeneity and information technology are incompatible through its compelling analysis of the relationships between Indigenous peoples and new media. The volume illustrates how Indigenous peoples are selectively and strategically choosing to interface with cybertechnology, highlights Indigenous interpretations of new media, and brings to center Indigenous communities who are resetting modes of communication and redirecting the flow of information. It convincingly argues that interfacing with traditional technologies simultaneously with new media gives Indigenous peoples an edge on the claim to autonomous and sovereign ways of being Indigenous in the twenty-first century.
The Davis Ranch Site
A Kayenta Immigrant Enclave in Southeastern Arizona
By Rex E. Gerald; Edited by Patrick D. Lyons
The University of Arizona Press
In this volume, the results of Rex Gerald’s 1957 excavations at the Davis Ranch site in southeastern Arizona's San Pedro River Valley are reported in their entirety for the first time. Annotations to Gerald’s original manuscript and newly written material place Gerald’s work in the context of what is currently known regarding the late thirteenth-century Kayenta diaspora and the relationship between Kayenta immigrants and the Salado phenomenon.
Challenging Colonial Narratives
Nineteenth-Century Great Lakes Archaeology
The University of Arizona Press
Challenging Colonial Narratives pushes postcolonial thinking in archaeology in socially and politically meaningful directions. Matthew A. Beaudoin calls for more nuanced interpretive frameworks and encourages archaeologists and scholars to focus on the different or similar aspects among sites to explore the nineteenth-century life of contemporaneous Indigenous and settler peoples.
The Continuous Path
Pueblo Movement and the Archaeology of Becoming
Edited by Samuel Duwe and Robert W. Preucel
The University of Arizona Press
The Continuous Path challenges archaeologists to take Pueblo concepts of movement seriously by privileging Pueblo concepts of being and becoming in the interpretation of anthropological data. The collaborative volume brings together Native community members, archaeologists, and anthropologists to weave multiple perspectives together to write the histories of Pueblo peoples past, present, and future.
Community-Based Participatory Research
Testimonios from Chicana/o Studies
Edited by Natalia Deeb-Sossa; Foreword by Louie F. Rodriguez
The University of Arizona Press
The first of its kind, Community-Based Participatory Research: Testimonios from Chicana/o Studies is a trailblazing collection of personal testimonies that showcase how understandings of community empowerment are incomplete as they have dismissed the variety of ways communities themselves have created social change strategies. In first-person accounts, Chicana/o researchers share their experience doing community-based participatory research (CBPR) praxis to illustrate its complexity and how it might be implemented to create sustainable change and community empowerment.
Bedouin Ethnobotany
Plant Concepts and Uses in a Desert Pastoral World
The University of Arizona Press
Transcontinental Dialogues
Activist Alliances with Indigenous Peoples of Canada, Mexico, and Australia
The University of Arizona Press
Transcontinental Dialogues presents innovative discussion, argument, and insight into the interactions between anthropologists and social researchers—both Indigenous and allies—as they negotiate together the terrain of the imposition of ongoing colonialism over Indigenous lives across three countries. The essays explore how scholars can recalibrate their moral, political, and intellectual actions to meet the obligations flowing from the decolonial alliances.
The Northeast
A Fire Survey
The University of Arizona Press
In this new book in the To the Last Smoke series, renowned fire expert Stephen J. Pyne narrates this history and explains how fire is returning to a place not usually thought of in America’s fire scene. He examines what changes in climate and land use mean for wildfire, what fire ecology means for cultural landscapes, and what experiments are underway to reintroduce fire to habitats that need it. The region’s great fires have gone; its influence on the national scene has not. The Northeast: A Fire Survey samples the historic and contemporary significance of the region and explains how it fits into a national cartography and narrative of fire.
Latin American Indigenous Warfare and Ritual Violence
Edited by Richard J. Chacon and Rubén G. Mendoza
The University of Arizona Press
Behind the Mask
Gender Hybridity in a Zapotec Community
The University of Arizona Press
Combines historical analysis, ethnographic field research, and interviews conducted with los muxes of Juchitán, a hybrid third gender, over a period of seven years. Sociologist Alfredo Mirandé observed community events, attended muxe velas, and interviewed both muxes and other Juchitán residents. Prefaced by an overview of the study methods and sample, the book challenges the ideology of a male-dominated Mexican society driven by the cult of machismo, featuring photos alongside four appendixes.
Gerard P. Kuiper and the Rise of Modern Planetary Science
The University of Arizona Press
Gerard P. Kuiper and the Rise of Modern Planetary Science describes the life of a man who lived through some of the most dramatic events of the twentieth century and ended up creating a new field of scientific research, planetary science. As NASA and other space agencies explore the solar system, they take with them many of the ideas and concepts first described by Gerard P. Kuiper.
The Chicana Motherwork Anthology
Edited by Cecilia Caballero, Yvette Martínez-Vu, Judith Pérez-Torres, Michelle Téllez, and Christine X Vega; Foreword by Ana Castillo
The University of Arizona Press
The Chicana M(other)work Anthology is a call to action for justice within and outside academia. This volume brings together emerging scholarship and testimonios by and about self-identified Chicana and Women of Color mother-scholars, activists, and allies who, using an intersectional lens, center mothering as transformative labor.
Food Fight!
Millennial Mestizaje Meets the Culinary Marketplace
The University of Arizona Press
Food Fight! contributes to urgent discussions around the problems of cultural misappropriation, labeling, identity, and imaging in marketing and dining establishments. Not just about food, restaurants, and coffee, this volume employs a decolonial approach and engaging voice to interrogate ways that mestizo, Indigenous, and Latinx peoples are objectified in mainstream ideology and imaginary.
When It Rains
Tohono O'odham and Pima Poetry
Edited by Ofelia Zepeda
The University of Arizona Press
When It Rains is an intuitive poetry collection that shows us how language connects people. With the poems in both O’odham and English, the volume serves as a reminder of the beauty and changeability of the O’odham language.
Snake Poems
An Aztec Invocation
By Francisco X. Alarcón; Edited by Odilia Galván Rodríguez; Translated by David Bowles and Xánath Caraza; Foreword by Juan Felipe Herrera
The University of Arizona Press
This special edition of Snake Poems offers Nahuatl, Spanish, and English renditions of 104 poems based on Nahuatl invocations and spells that have survived more than three centuries, with a modern ecopoetic response from the late Francisco X. Alarcón.
Them Goon Rules
Fugitive Essays on Radical Black Feminism
By Marquis Bey
The University of Arizona Press
Marquis Bey’s debut essay collection unsettles normative ways of understanding Blackness, Black feminism, and queerness. Them Goon Rules is an un-rulebook, a long-form essayistic sermon that meditates on how Blackness and nonnormative gender impact and remix everything we claim to know.
Rosa's Einstein
Poems
The University of Arizona Press
Using details both from Einstein’s known life and from quantum physics, poet Jennifer Givhan imagines Lieserl, the daughter Albert Einstein and his wife Mileva allegedly gave up for adoption at birth, in a circus-like landscape of childhood trauma and survival, guided by Rosa and her sister Nieve. Rosa’s Einstein is a Latinx retelling of the Brothers Grimm’s Snow-White and Rose-Red, reevaluating border, identity, and immigration narratives through the unlikely amalgamation of physics and fairy tale.
Brother Bullet
Poems
The University of Arizona Press
Speaking to both a personal and collective loss, in Brother Bullet Casandra López confronts her relationships with violence, grief, trauma, guilt, and, ultimately, survival. Revisiting the memory and lasting consequences of her brother’s murder, López traces the course of the bullet—its trajectory, impact, wreckage—in poems that are paralyzing and raw with emotion, yet tender and alive in revelations of light.
Enceladus and the Icy Moons of Saturn
Edited by Paul M. Schenk, Roger N. Clark, Carly J. A. Howett, Anne J. Verbiscer, and J. Hunter Waite
The University of Arizona Press
Enceladus and the Icy Moons of Saturn brings together nearly eighty of the world’s top experts to establish what we currently understand about Saturn’s moons, while building the framework for the highest-priority questions to be addressed through ongoing spacecraft exploration.
Sentient Lands
Indigeneity, Property, and Political Imagination in Neoliberal Chile
The University of Arizona Press
Sentient Lands is a historically grounded ethnography of the Mapuche people’s engagement with state-run reconciliation and land-restitution efforts. Piergiorgio Di Giminiani analyzes environmental relations, property, state power, market forces, and indigeneity to illustrate how land connections are articulated, in both landscape experiences and land claims.
Educating Across Borders
The Case of a Dual Language Program on the U.S.-Mexico Border
By María Teresa de la Piedra, Blanca Araujo, and Alberto Esquinca; Foreword by Concha Delgado Gaitan
The University of Arizona Press
This is the first book to address the learning experience of transfronterizxs, border-crossing students, in a dual language program. Educating Across Borders explains how transfronterizx language, literacy practices, and knowledge are used in the educational system.
Seventeenth-Century Metallurgy on the Spanish Colonial Frontier
Pueblo and Spanish Interactions
The University of Arizona Press
A unique contribution to the archaeological literature on the Southwest, Seventeenth-Century Metallurgy on the Spanish Colonial Frontier introduces a wealth of data from one of the few known colonial metal production sites in the Southwest. Drawing upon ten seasons of excavation, archaeologist Noah H. Thomas provides an interpretation of data that is grounded in theories of agency, practice, and notions of value. This work brings to light a little-known aspect of the colonial experience: the production of metal by indigenous Puebloan people.
Naming the World
Language and Power Among the Northern Arapaho
The University of Arizona Press
Naming the World is an ethnography of language shift among the Northern Arapaho. It focuses on the often subtle continuities and discontinuities in the society produced by the shift, as well as the diversity of community responses.
Rethinking the Aztec Economy
The University of Arizona Press
Rethinking the Aztec Economy brings together leading scholars from multiple disciplines to thoroughly synthesize and examine the nature of goods and their movements across rural and urban landscapes in Mesoamerica. In so doing, they provide a new way of understanding society and economy in the Aztec empire.
Voices from Bears Ears
Seeking Common Ground on Sacred Land
The University of Arizona Press
Through twenty individual stories, Voices from Bears Ears captures the passions of the debate that led to the creation of Bears Ears National Monument, a land of unsurpassed natural beauty and deep historical significance. The story of this place reflects the cultural crosscurrents that roil our times: maintaining tradition and culture in the face of change, healing the pain of past injustices, creating shared futures, and protecting and preserving lands for future generations.
Instruments of the True Measure
Poems
By Laura Da'
The University of Arizona Press
Instruments of the True Measure charts the coordinates and intersections of land, history, and culture. Lyrical passages map the parallel lives of ancestral figures and connect dispossessions of the past to lived experiences of the present.
Here and There
A Fire Survey
The University of Arizona Press
Presented through a mixture of journalism, history, and literary imagination, Here and There moves the discussion on fire beyond the usual formulations of science and policy within a national narrative to one of thoughtful interpretation, analysis, and commentary. Centered on the unique complexities of fire management in a global world, Here and There offers a punctuation point to our understanding of wildfire.
The Motions Beneath
Indigenous Migrants on the Urban Frontier of New Spain
The University of Arizona Press
The Motions Beneath describes the encounters of thousands of Indigenous peoples from ten linguistic groups in the mining town of San Luis Potosí at the turn of the seventeenth century. It is the story of two generations of highly mobile individuals and their agency and subjectivity when facing colonial structures of exploitation on a daily basis.
Call Him Mac
Ernest W. McFarland, the Arizona Years
By Gary L. Stuart; Foreword by Michael Daly Hawkins
The University of Arizona Press, Sentinel Peak Books
The political life of Ernest W. McFarland—lawyer, judge, senator, governor, Arizona Supreme Court Justice, and businessman—is well documented. Call Him Mac offers the lesser-known story of a family man, country lawyer, rural judge, and visionary who helped shape the state of Arizona.
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