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Ethnic Medicine in the Southwest
Edited by Edward H. Spicer; By Eleanor Bauwens, Margarita Artschwager Kay, Mary Elizabeth Shutler, and Loudell F. Snow
The University of Arizona Press
Ethnic Medicine in the Southwest explores traditions guiding the medical arts of Yaqui, Anglo, Black and Mexican American communities and points out the relationship between alternative and scientific medicine. Beliefs prevail that illness may be punishment for sin, or caused by witchcraft or overwork. Treatment may include dreams, herbs, massage, or prayer. While practitioners in these communities are not necessarily licensed in the legal sense, they are nonetheless trusted and often effective.
Ecology of Sonoran Desert Plants and Plant Communities
Edited by Robert H. Robichaux
The University of Arizona Press
Colonel Greene and the Copper Skyrocket
The Spectacular Rise and Fall of William Cornell Greene: Copper King, Cattle Baron, and Promoter Extraordinary in Mexico, the American Southwest, and the New York Financial District
The University of Arizona Press
Celluloid Pueblo
Western Ways Films and the Invention of the Postwar Southwest
The University of Arizona Press
Celluloid Pueblo tells the story of Western Ways Features and its role in the invention of the Southwest of the imagination. The story closely follows the boom and bust arc of this region in the mid-twentieth century and the constantly evolving representations of an exotic—but safe and domesticated—frontier and the landscape, regional development, and diverse cultures of Arizona and the Southwest.
Bristlecone Pine in the White Mountains of California
Growth and Ring-Width Characteristics
The University of Arizona Press
Papers of the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, No. 4
The Vertebrates of Arizona
With Major Section on Arizona Habitats
Edited by Charles H. Lowe
The University of Arizona Press
The Social Organization of the Western Apache
By Grenville Goodwin; Preface by Keith H. Basso
The University of Arizona Press
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