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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.
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.
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