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Red Medicine
Traditional Indigenous Rites of Birthing and Healing
The University of Arizona Press
Patrisia Gonzales addresses “Red Medicine” as a system of healing that includes birthing practices, dreaming, and purification rites to re-establish personal and social equilibrium. The book explores Indigenous medicine across North America, with a special emphasis on how Indigenous knowledge has endured and persisted among peoples with a legacy to Mexico.
High Country Summers
The Early Second Homes of Colorado, 1880–1940
The University of Arizona Press
High Country Summers considers the emergence of the “summer home” in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains as both an architectural and a cultural phenomenon. Writing with affection and insight, Melanie Shellenbarger shows that these summer residences crossed boundaries of class, race, and gender—and helped shape our ideas about the American West.
Forced Marches
Soldiers and Military Caciques in Modern Mexico
Edited by Ben Fallaw and Terry Rugeley
The University of Arizona Press
Forced Marches is a collection of innovative essays that analyze the influence of the military and militias in the century that followed Mexican independence. Contributors from the U.S. and the U.K. employ the “new military history” to engage with recent scholarship on the early national period, the Reform, the Porfiriato, and the Revolution.
Hell of a Vision
Regionalism and the Modern American West
The University of Arizona Press
Focusing on the American West from the 1890s to the present, Richard Dorman provides a wide-ranging view of the impact of regionalist ideas in pop culture and diverse fields such as geography, land-use planning, anthropology, journalism, and environmental policy-making.
Corpse Whale
The University of Arizona Press
A self-proclaimed, “vessel in which stories are told from time immemorial,” poet dg nanouk okpik seamlessly melds both traditional and contemporary narrative, setting her apart from her peers. The result is a collection of poems that are steeped in the perspective of an Inuit of the twenty-first century—a perspective that is fresh, vibrant, and rarely seen in contemporary poetics.
A New Deal for Native Art
Indian Arts and Federal Policy, 1933-1943
The University of Arizona Press
Available for the first time in paperback!
Comparative Indigeneities of the Américas
Toward a Hemispheric Approach
The University of Arizona Press
Comparative Indigeneities of the Américas highlights intersecting themes such as indigenismo, mestizaje, migration, displacement, autonomy, sovereignty, borders, spirituality, and healing that have historically shaped the experiences of Native peoples across the Américas. In doing so, it promotes a broader understanding of the relationships between Native communities in the United States and Canada and those in Latin America and the Caribbean and invites a hemispheric understanding of the relationships between Native and mestiza/o peoples.
A Place All Our Own
Lives Entwined in a Desert Garden
By Mary Irish
The University of Arizona Press
Intertwined Lives is the delightful tale of creating a very special garden in one of the most extreme climates in the inhabited world. Told with wit and obvious affection, it will appeal to anyone who enjoys the pleasures of gardening—and everyone who enjoys a well-told, true-life nature tale.
Pregnancy, Motherhood, and Choice in Twentieth-Century Arizona
The University of Arizona Press
Mary Melcher’s Pregnancy, Motherhood, and Choice in Twentieth-Century Arizona provides a deep and diverse history of the dramatic changes in childbirth, birth control, infant mortality, and abortion over the course of the last century. Using oral histories, memoirs, newspaper accounts, government documents, letters, photos, and biographical collections, this fine-grained study of women’s reproductive health places the voices of real women at the forefront of the narrative, providing a personal view into some of the most intense experiences of their lives.