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Mezcal in Oaxaca

A Craft Spirit for the Global Marketplace

University of Texas Press

An ethnography of mezcal and how it has become a global, "artisanal" good.

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Mestizaje and Globalization

Transformations of Identity and Power

The University of Arizona Press

Mestizaje and Globalization contributes to an emerging multidisciplinary effort to explore how identities are imposed, negotiated, and reconstructed. The volume offers a comprehensive and empirically diverse collection of insights that look beyond nationalistic mestizaje projects to a diversity of local concepts, understandings, and resistance, with particular attention to cases in Latin America and the United States.

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Living with the Dead in the Andes

The University of Arizona Press

Living with the Dead in the Andes provides new data and insights informed by general anthropological theory; the extensive bibliography alone is an important contribution. Scholars working with Andean mortuary practices (and prehistory generally) will be citing these chapters for years.

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Intertidal Shipwrecks

Management of a Historic Resource in an Unmanageable Environment

University Press of Florida

This volume presents a global array of case studies on the management of shipwreck sites in intertidal zones, including strategies for conservation, archaeological research, and public outreach focused on such vulnerable sites.

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George Hunt

Arizona's Crusading Seven-Term Governor

The University of Arizona Press

George Hunt is the political biography of Arizona’s first elected governor, a nuanced, penetrating portrait of a colorful and controversial man. David Berman has written a well-researched, unvarnished portrayal of a complicated and controversial figure, George W. P. Hunt.

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Cemetery Protections in Urban Environments

Archaeology, Preservation, and the Law

University of Florida Press

This book illuminates the role of the law in the protection and preservation of urban cemetery spaces, providing a history and analysis of cemetery site protections in the United States and discussing how to prevent future damage and development in these landscapes of grieving and cultural memory.

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Barry Goldwater and the Remaking of the American Political Landscape

The University of Arizona Press

Barry Goldwater lost the race for the presidency in 1964, but his conservative agenda sparked a movement that has had profound and far-reaching effects on American politics and society. This is a long-overdue reconsideration of the life, times, and legacy of a polarizing politician who is as reviled as he is revered.

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Archaeology, Heritage, and Reactionary Populism

University Press of Florida

This volume explores how populist movements and politics present new challenges to public archaeologists, using global examples to propose practical forms of community engagement amid increasing polarization and extremism.

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Singing through Struggle

Music, Worship, and Identity in Postemancipation Black Churches

University Press of Mississippi

A critical examination of the power of sacred song in nineteenth-century African American life

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Notes From A Queer Cripple

How to Cultivate Queer Disabled Joy (and Be Hot While Doing It!)

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

A how-to for the queer disabled community about dealing with ableism, making inclusivity mandatory, and how to experience queer crip joy. With advice on everything from sexual autonomy, self-pleasure, and sex workers, to date-prep and disability disclosure - this is both a self-care bible and an urgent call for the queer community to do better.

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