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Navajo Sovereignty
Understandings and Visions of the Diné People
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
U.S. Central Americans
Reconstructing Memories, Struggles, and Communities of Resistance
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
At the Border of Empires
The Tohono O'odham, Gender, and Assimilation, 1880-1934
After the Wildfire
Ten Years of Recovery from the Willow Fire
Postcards from the Sonora Border
Visualizing Place Through a Popular Lens, 1900s–1950s
Between 1900 and the late 1950s, Mexican border towns came of age both as centers of commerce and as tourist destinations. Postcards from the Sonora Border reveals how images—in this case the iconic postcard—shape the way we experience and think about place. Making use of his personal collection of historic images, Daniel D. Arreola captures the evolution of Sonoran border towns, creating a sense of visual “time travel” for the reader. Supported by maps and visual imagery, the author shares the geographical and historical story of five unique border towns—Agua Prieta, Naco, Nogales, Sonoyta, and San Luis Río Colorado.
Iep Jaltok
Poems from a Marshallese Daughter
Long Stories Cut Short
Fictions from the Borderlands
Stealing Shining Rivers
Agrarian Conflict, Market Logic, and Conservation in a Mexican Forest
Matrons and Maids
Regulating Indian Domestic Service in Tucson, 1914–1934
Food Systems in an Unequal World
Pesticides, Vegetables, and Agrarian Capitalism in Costa Rica
Alcohol in Latin America
A Social and Cultural History
Land Grab
Green Neoliberalism, Gender, and Garifuna Resistance in Honduras
Doing Good
Racial Tensions and Workplace Inequalities at a Community Clinic in El Nuevo South
Challenging the Dichotomy
The Licit and the Illicit in Archaeological and Heritage Discourses
Voices of Crime
Constructing and Contesting Social Control in Modern Latin America
The Ceramic Sequence of the Holmul Region, Guatemala
Moral Ecology of a Forest
The Nature Industry and Maya Post-Conservation
Beyond Indigeneity
Coca Growing and the Emergence of a New Middle Class in Bolivia
Radical Territories in the Brazilian Amazon
The Kayapó’s Fight for Just Livelihoods
Activist Biology
The National Museum, Politics, and Nation Building in Brazil
Plant Life of a Desert Archipelago
Flora of the Sonoran Islands in the Gulf of California
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.