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Náyari History, Politics, and Violence
From Flowers to Ash
Copper for America
The United States Copper Industry from Colonial Times to the 1990s
The El Mozote Massacre
Human Rights and Global Implications Revised and Expanded Edition
Dispatches from the Fort Apache Scout
White Mountain and Cibecue Apache History Through 1881
Barrio Dreams
Selected Plays
The Sonoran Desert
A Literary Field Guide
Los Primeros Mexicanos
Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene People of Sonora
Translating Southwestern Landscapes
The Making of an Anglo Literary Region
The Visions of Sor María de Agreda
Writing Knowledge and Power
Prehistoric Culture Change on the Colorado Plateau
Ten Thousand Years on Black Mesa
Empire of Sand
The Seri Indians and the Struggle for Spanish Sonora, 1645–1803
Early Stages in the Evolution of Mesopotamian Civilization
Soviet Excavations in Northern Iraq
A Frontier Documentary
Sonora and Tucson, 1821–1848
Asteroids IV
The Body as Capital
Masculinities in Contemporary Latin American Fiction
Other Country
Barry Lopez and the Community of Artists
Born of Resistance
Cara a Cara Encounters with Chicana/o Visual Culture
Speaking Mexicano
Dynamics of Syncretic Language in Central Mexico
Food Plants of the Sonoran Desert
Winner of the Society for Economic Botany’s Mary W. Klinger Book Award, this volume presents information on nearly 540 edible plants used by people of more than fifty traditional cultures of the Sonoran Desert and peripheral areas. Drawing on thirty years of research, Wendy Hodgson has synthesized the widely scattered literature and added her own experiences to create an exhaustive catalog of desert plants and their many and varied uses. Accessible to general readers, this book is an invaluable compendium for anyone interested in the desert’s hidden bounty.
Badmen, Bandits, and Folk Heroes
The Ambivalence of Mexican American Identity in Literature and Film
Images of Public Wealth or the Anatomy of Well-Being in Indigenous Amazonia
The Ancient Maya Marketplace
The Archaeology of Transient Space
Practicing Materiality
Moquis and Kastiilam
Hopis, Spaniards, and the Trauma of History, Volume I, 1540–1679
Human Spaceflight
From Mars to the Stars
Potters and Communities of Practice
Glaze Paint and Polychrome Pottery in the American Southwest, AD 1250 to 1700
The contributors to this volume present results of their collaborative research into the production and distribution of these new wares, including cutting-edge chemical and petrographic analyses. They use the insights gained to reflect on the changing nature of communities of potters as they participated in the dynamic social conditions of their world.