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The U.S.-Mexico Transborder Region
Cultural Dynamics and Historical Interactions
Edited by Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez and Josiah Heyman
The University of Arizona Press
Not a static entity, the transborder region is peopled by ever-changing groups who face the challenges of social inequality: political enforcement of privilege, economic subordination of indigenous communities, and organized resistance to domination. Editors Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez and Josiah Heyman envision this region as involving diverse and unequal social groups in dynamic motion over thousands of years. Thus the historical interaction of the U.S.-Mexico border, however massively unequal and powerful, is only the most recent manifestation of this longer history and common ecology.
Navajo Sovereignty
Understandings and Visions of the Diné People
Edited by Lloyd L. Lee; Foreword by Jennifer Nez Denetdale
The University of Arizona Press
A companion to Diné Perspectives: Revitalizing and Reclaiming Navajo Thought, each chapter of Navajo Sovereignty offers the contributors’ individual perspectives. This book discusses Western law’s view of Diné sovereignty, research, activism, creativity, and community, and Navajo sovereignty in traditional education. Above all, Lloyd L. Lee and the contributing scholars and community members call for the rethinking of Navajo sovereignty in a way more rooted in Navajo beliefs, culture, and values.
Foreign Objects
Rethinking Indigenous Consumption in American Archaeology
Edited by Craig N. Cipolla
The University of Arizona Press
Foreign Objects demonstrates the breadth and vibrancy of contemporary archaeology. Taking a broad set of archaeological cases from across the Americas, editor Craig N. Cipolla and the volume contributors explore how indigenous communities have socialized foreign objects over time. The book critiques the artificial divide between prehistory and history, studying instead the long-term indigenous histories of consumption, a term typically associated with capitalism and modern-world colonialism.
U.S. Central Americans
Reconstructing Memories, Struggles, and Communities of Resistance
The University of Arizona Press
U.S. Central Americans explores the shared yet distinctive experiences, histories, and cultures of 1.5-and second-generation Central Americans in the United States. While much has been written about U.S. and Central American military, economic, and political relations, this is the first book to articulate the rich and dynamic cultures, stories, and historical memories of Central American communities in the United States. Contributors to this anthology—often writing from their own experiences as members of this community—articulate U.S. Central Americans’ unique identities as they also explore the contradictions found within this multivocal group.
Cooperatives, Grassroots Development, and Social Change
Experiences from Rural Latin America
The University of Arizona Press
Cooperatives, Grassroots Development, and Social Change presents examples from Paraguay, Brazil, and Colombia, examining what is necessary for smallholder agricultural cooperatives to support holistic community-based development in peasant communities. Reporting on successes and failures of these cooperative efforts, the contributors offer analyses and strategies for supporting collective grassroots interests. Illustrating how poverty and inequality affect rural people, they reveal how cooperative organizations can support grassroots development strategies while negotiating local contexts of inequality amid the broader context of international markets and global competition.
At the Border of Empires
The Tohono O'odham, Gender, and Assimilation, 1880-1934
By Andrae M. Marak and Laura Tuennerman
The University of Arizona Press
The border between the United States and Mexico, established in 1853, passes through the territory of the Tohono O’odham peoples. This revealing book sheds light on Native American history as well as conceptions of femininity, masculinity, and empire.
After the Wildfire
Ten Years of Recovery from the Willow Fire
By John Alcock
The University of Arizona Press
Naturalist John Alcock details the aftermath of a devastating wildfire in the lower reaches of Arizona’s Mazatzal Mountains. Documenting for a decade the chaparral landscape left in the wake of the Willow fire, Alcock thrills at the renewal of the region as he hikes in and photographs plants and animals in a once-blackened wildland now teeming with resurgent life.
Iep Jaltok
Poems from a Marshallese Daughter
The University of Arizona Press
Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner raises a call to action as the seas rise over the Marshall Islands. Weaving together history, personal experience, and Marshallese perspectives, the author provides a glimpse into a culture and people that is ancient and resilient—but that is also changing and adapting to each new threat. She uses the power of poetry to demand justice in the face of the devastating effects of climate change on her home island. Iep Jaltok is the first published book of poetry written by a Marshallese author.
Long Stories Cut Short
Fictions from the Borderlands
By Frederick Luis Aldama; Foreword by Ana María Shua
The University of Arizona Press
Frederick Luis Aldama and graphic artists from Mapache Studios give shape to ugly truths in the most honest way, creating new perceptions, thoughts, and feelings about life in the borderlands of the Américas. Each bilingual prose-art fictional snapshot offers an unsentimentally complex glimpse into what it means to exist at the margins of society today.
Stealing Shining Rivers
Agrarian Conflict, Market Logic, and Conservation in a Mexican Forest
By Molly Doane
The University of Arizona Press
Named Best Social Sciences Book (Latin American Studies Association, Mexico Section), this book describes how Chimalapas, a rainforest in Mexico’s southern state of Oaxaca, was appropriated and redefined by environmentalists. Molly Doane demonstrates that good intentions are not always enough to produce results that benefit both a habitat and its many different types of indigenous inhabitants.
Matrons and Maids
Regulating Indian Domestic Service in Tucson, 1914–1934
The University of Arizona Press
This book recounts the fascinating story of the placing of Native American girls into the homes of white families for domestic service during their summer vacations from boarding schools run by the federal Office of Indian Affairs. It complicates our picture of “women’s work” and the complex involvement of white women as agents of colonization.
Food Systems in an Unequal World
Pesticides, Vegetables, and Agrarian Capitalism in Costa Rica
By Ryan E. Galt
The University of Arizona Press
Food Systems in an Unequal World examines regulatory risk and how it translates to and impacts farmers in the agrochemical-dependent agriculture industry of Costa Rica. Ryan E. Galt shows how the food produced for domestic markets lacks regulation similar to that of export markets, creating a dangerous double standard of pesticide use. In seeking solutions, Galt argues for improved governance and research into alternative pest control but emphasizes that the process must be rooted in farmers’ economic well-being.
Alcohol in Latin America
A Social and Cultural History
Edited by Gretchen Pierce and Maria Áurea Toxqui
The University of Arizona Press
The first interdisciplinary study to examine the historic role of alcohol across Latin America and over a broad time span. Contributors use the disciplines of anthropology, archaeology, art history, ethnohistory, history, and literature to examine alcohol use in six locations—the Andean region, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Guatemala, and Mexico—thus offering a better understanding of race, class, gender, state-building, and more.
Land Grab
Green Neoliberalism, Gender, and Garifuna Resistance in Honduras
The University of Arizona Press
This is a rich ethnographic account of the relationship between identity politics, neoliberal development policy, and rights to resource management in native communities on the north coast of Honduras. It also answers the question: can “freedom” be achieved under the structures of neoliberalism?
Doing Good
Racial Tensions and Workplace Inequalities at a Community Clinic in El Nuevo South
The University of Arizona Press
Throughout the “New South,” relationships based on race, class, social status, gender, and citizenship are being upended by the recent influx of Latina/o residents. Drawing on direct experiences and first-hand interviews, Doing Good provides an informative and fascinating view of how changing demographics are profoundly affecting the new social order.
Challenging the Dichotomy
The Licit and the Illicit in Archaeological and Heritage Discourses
The University of Arizona Press
Challenging the Dichotomy explores how dichotomies regarding heritage dominate the discussions of ethics, practices, and institutions. Contributing authors underscore the challenge to the old paradigms from multiple forces. The case studies and discourses, both ethnographic and archaeological, arise from a wide variety of regional contexts and cultures.
Voices of Crime
Constructing and Contesting Social Control in Modern Latin America
The University of Arizona Press
Voices of Crime examines how different social groups constructed, contested, navigated, and negotiated notions of crime, criminality, and justice. The authors seek to document and illustrate the everyday experiences of crime in particular settings, emphasizing under-researched historical actors such as criminals, victims, and police officers. The fresh research offers a critical approach to the very definition of crime and its perpetrators, suggesting that “not only the actions of the poor and racial others but also the state can be termed as criminal.”
The Ceramic Sequence of the Holmul Region, Guatemala
The University of Arizona Press
New and comprehensive sequencing of the ceramics in Guatemala’s Holmul region provides answers to important questions in Maya archaeology. In this comprehensive and highly illustrated new study, authors Callaghan and Neivens de Estrada use type:variety-mode classification to define a ceramic sequence that spans approximately 1,600 years.
Moral Ecology of a Forest
The Nature Industry and Maya Post-Conservation
The University of Arizona Press
Moral Ecology of a Forest provides an ethnographic account of conservation politics, particularly the conflict between Western conservation and Mayan ontological ecology. Author José E. Martínez-Reyes documents how Maya moral ecologies of the forest support their continuous resistance amid the pressures and global schemes of the nature industry.
Beyond Indigeneity
Coca Growing and the Emergence of a New Middle Class in Bolivia
The University of Arizona Press
Beyond Indigeneity offers new analysis of indigenous identity and social mobility that changes the discourse in Latin American social anthropology. Alessandra Pellegrini Calderón explores the positioning of coca growers in Bolivia and their reluctance to embrace the politics of indigeneity.
Radical Territories in the Brazilian Amazon
The Kayapó’s Fight for Just Livelihoods
The University of Arizona Press
Radical Territories in the Brazilian Amazon sheds light on the creative and groundbreaking efforts Kayapó peoples deploy to protect their lands and livelihoods in Brazil. Laura Zanotti shows how Kayapó communities are using diverse pathways to make a sustainable future for their peoples and lands. The author advances anthropological approaches to understanding how indigenous groups cultivate self-determination strategies in conflict-ridden landscapes.
Activist Biology
The National Museum, Politics, and Nation Building in Brazil
The University of Arizona Press
Activist Biology is the story of a group of biologists at the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro who joined the drive to renew the Brazilian nation, claiming as their weapon the voice of their fledgling field. It offers a portrait of science as a creative and transformative pathway. This book will intrigue anyone fascinated by environmental history and Latin American political and social life in the 1920s and 1930s.
Plant Life of a Desert Archipelago
Flora of the Sonoran Islands in the Gulf of California
By Richard Stephen Felger, Benjamin Theodore Wilder, and Humberto Romero-Morales; Foreword by Exequiel Ezcurra
The University of Arizona Press
Plant Life of a Desert Archipelago is the first in-depth coverage of the plants on islands in the Gulf of California found in between the coasts of Baja California and Sonora. This collective effort weaves together careful and accurate botanical science with the rich cultural and stunning physical setting of this island realm.
A New Form of Beauty
Glen Canyon Beyond Climate Change
By Peter Goin and Peter Friederici
The University of Arizona Press
Contemplating humanity’s role in the world it is creating, Peter Goin and Peter Friederici ask if the uncertainties inherent in Glen Canyon herald an unpredictable new future. They challenge us to question how we look at the world, how we live in it, and what the future will be.
Migrant Deaths in the Arizona Desert
La vida no vale nada
The University of Arizona Press
Migrant Deaths in the Arizona Desert addresses the tragic results of government policies on immigration. The book’s central question is why are migrants dying on our border? The authors constitute a multidisciplinary group reflecting on the issues of death, migration, and policy.
The Last 10,000 Years
A Fossil Pollen Record of the American Southwest
The University of Arizona Press
The Hohokam
Desert Farmers and Craftsmen, Excavations at Snaketown, 1964–1965
The University of Arizona Press
The Aztec Kings
The Construction of Rulership in Mexican History
The University of Arizona Press
Winner of the Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Book Award from the American Society for Ethnohistory, The Aztec Kings is the first major study to take into account the Aztec cyclical conception of time and treat indigenous historical traditions as symbolic statements in narrative form. Susan D. Gillespie focuses on the dynastic history of the Mexica of Tenochtitlan. By demonstrating that most of Aztec history is nonliteral, she sheds new light on Aztec culture and on the function of history in society. By relating the cyclical structure of Aztec dynastic history to similar traditions of African and Polynesian peoples, she introduces a broader perspective on the function of history in society and on how and why history must change.
Rules and Precepts of the Jesuit Missions of Northwestern New Spain
The University of Arizona Press
Once a River
Bird Life and Habitat Changes on the Middle Gila
The University of Arizona Press
Nobody Rich or Famous
A Family Memoir
The University of Arizona Press
Once in a while, a book comes along that redefines the concept of family. Frank McCourt did it with Angela’s Ashes; Annie Dillard did it with An American Childhood. In Nobody Rich or Famous, award-winning poet and author Richard Shelton immerses us in the hardscrabble lives of his Boise, Idaho, clan during the 1930s and ’40s. This is memoir in its finest tradition, illuminating today’s cultural chasm between the haves and have-nots. It is the true story of a family and how it got that way.
Mexican Melodrama
Film and Nation from the Golden Age to the New Wave
The University of Arizona Press
Mexican Melodrama offers a timely look at critically acclaimed films that serve as key referents in discussions of Mexican cinema. Elena Lahr-Vivaz artfully portrays the dominant conventions of historical and contemporary Mexican cinema, showing how new-wave directors draw from a previous generation to produce meaning in the present.
Impounded People
Japanese-Americans in the Relocation Centers
The University of Arizona Press
Grenville Goodwin Among the Western Apache
Letters from the Field
Edited by Morris E. Opler
The University of Arizona Press
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.
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