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Indigenous Peoples, National Parks, and Protected Areas
A New Paradigm Linking Conservation, Culture, and Rights
Edited by Stan Stevens
The University of Arizona Press
This passionate, well-researched book makes a compelling case for a paradigm shift in conservation practice. It explores new policies and practices, which offer alternatives to exclusionary, uninhabited national parks and wilderness areas and make possible new kinds of protected areas that recognize Indigenous peoples’ rights and benefit from their knowledge and conservation contributions.
From Enron to Evo
Pipeline Politics, Global Environmentalism, and Indigenous Rights in Bolivia
By Derrick Hindery; Foreword by Susanna B. Hecht
The University of Arizona Press
Offering a critique of both free-market piracy and the dilemmas of resource nationalism, From Enron to Evo is groundbreaking book for anyone concerned with Indigenous politics, social movements, and environmental justice in an era of expanding resource development.
Contingent Maps
Rethinking Western Women's History and the North American West
Edited by Susan E. Gray and Gayle Gullett
The University of Arizona Press
Contingent Maps is an appeal to all who care about the history of women in the North American West. Susan E. Gray and Gayle Gullett, former co-editors of Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, offer in this collection a new approach to women’s history that is firmly rooted in a fresh understanding of place.
Sinking Suspicions
The University of Arizona Press
Sinking Suspicions offers a heartwarming story of loss and redemption, murder and healing in Oklahoma’s modern-day Indian Country. Mystery writer Sara Sue Hoklotubbe crafts an authentic tale that mixes stolen identity with a fast-paced search for a killer.
A Land Between Waters
Environmental Histories of Modern Mexico
Edited by Christopher R. Boyer
The University of Arizona Press
This is the first book to explore the relationship between the people and the environment of Mexico. Featuring a dozen essays by leading scholars, it heralds the arrival of environmental history as a major area of study in the field of Mexican history.
Shells on a Desert Shore
Mollusks in the Seri World
By Cathy Moser Marlett; Foreword by Richard Stephen Felger
The University of Arizona Press
Shells on a Desert Shore is a fresh, original look at an indigenous culture of North America having a deep and intimate knowledge of the Gulf of California. Cathy Moser Marlett offers a richly illustrated ethnographic work, describing the Seri knowledge of mollusks and their cultural importance.
Requiem for the Santa Cruz
An Environmental History of an Arizona River
By Robert H. Webb, Julio L. Betancourt, R. Roy Johnson, and Raymond M. Turner; Foreword by Bernard L. Fontana
The University of Arizona Press
Requiem for the Santa Cruz is the riveting human and natural history of the life and death of a Southwestern river. The book is a model for explaining changes in river systems and the consequences, and will appeal to a wide-ranging audience of water lawyers, floodplain managers, land-use planners, people who live near major rivers in the Southwest, bird watchers, and armchair historians.
Nature Inc.
Environmental Conservation in the Neoliberal Age
The University of Arizona Press
With global wildlife populations and biodiversity riches in peril, it is obvious that innovative methods of addressing our planet’s environmental problems are needed. But is “the market” the answer? Nature™ Inc. brings together cutting-edge research by respected scholars from around the world to analyze how “neoliberal conservation” is reshaping human–nature relations.
Just Between Us
An Ethnography of Male Identity and Intimacy in Rural Communities of Northern Mexico
The University of Arizona Press
Just Between Us, set in the context of Mexico’s cultural codes, challenges norms in thinking about men’s identities, their pleasures, and their sense of belonging. Author Guillermo Núñez Noriega offers a groundbreaking study that contests patriarchal concepts limiting male relationships and masculinity.
Beyond the Page
Poetry and Performance in Spanish America
The University of Arizona Press
Beyond the Page examines the performance of poetry to show how it travels outside of writing, eventually becoming part of the cultural consciousness. Exploring a range of performances from early twentieth-century recitations to twenty-first-century film, CDs, and Internet renditions, Beyond the Page offers analytic tools to chart poetry beyond printed texts.
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