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The University of Arizona Press is the premier publisher of academic, regional, and literary works in the state of Arizona. They disseminate ideas and knowledge of lasting value that enrich understanding, inspire curiosity, and enlighten readers. They advance the University of Arizona’s mission by connecting scholarship and creative expression to readers worldwide.

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Prehistory, Personality, and Place

Emil W. Haury and the Mogollon Controversy

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Flexible Bones

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Flamenco Hips and Red Mud Feet

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Zuni Origins

Toward a New Synthesis of Southwestern Archaeology

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A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, Zuni Origins takes stock of and synthesizes what is currently known about the origins of the Zuni language and the development of modern Zuni culture. The only volume to address this subject with such a breadth of data and interpretations, it will prove invaluable to archaeologists working throughout the North American Southwest as well as to others struggling with issues of ethnicity, migration, incipient agriculture, and linguistic origins.

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The Legacy of Hurricane Mitch

Lessons from Post-Disaster Reconstruction in Honduras

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The Legacy of Hurricane Mitch offers a comprehensive analysis of the immediate and long-term consequences of Hurricane Mitch in Honduras. Based on longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork and environmental assessments, this volume illustrates the importance of adopting an approach to disaster research and practice that places “natural” trigger events within their political, cultural, and socio-economic contexts. The contributors make a compelling case against post-disaster recovery efforts that limit themselves to alleviating the symptoms, rather than confronting the root causes of the vulnerability that prefigured the disaster.

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Polities and Power

Archaeological Perspectives on the Landscapes of Early States

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Atlas of Coastal Ecosystems in the Western Gulf of California

Tracking Limestone Deposits on the Margin of a Young Sea

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Resistance and Survival

Children’s Narrative from Central America and the Caribbean

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Pachucas and Pachucos in Tucson

Situated Border Lives

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Human Rights along the U.S.–Mexico Border

Gendered Violence and Insecurity

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Observatories of the Southwest

A Guide for Curious Skywatchers

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Undermining Race

Ethnic Identities in Arizona Copper Camps, 1880–1920

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Toward a Behavioral Ecology of Lithic Technology

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Modern humans and their hominid ancestors relied on chipped-stone technology for well over two million years and colonized more than 99 percent of the Earth's habitable landmass in doing so. Yet there currently exist only a handful of informal models derived from ethnographic observation, experiments, engineering, and "common sense" to ...

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Reflections in Place

Connected Lives of Navajo Women

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Inheriting the Past

The Making of Arthur C. Parker and Indigenous Archaeology

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I Know It’s Dangerous

Why Mexicans Risk Their Lives to Cross the Border

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