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Urban Farming in the West
A New Deal Experiment in Subsistence Homesteads
The University of Arizona Press
Political Ecologies of Cattle Ranching in Northern Mexico
Private Revolutions
The University of Arizona Press
Paleonutrition
The University of Arizona Press
The study of paleonutrition provides valuable insights into shifts and changes in human history. This is the most comprehensive book on the topic. Intended for students and professionals, it describes the nature of paleonutrition studies, reviews the history of research, discusses methodological issues in the reconstruction of prehistoric diets, presents theoretical frameworks frequently used in research, and showcases examples in which analyses have been successfully conducted on prehistoric individuals, groups, and populations. It offers an integrative approach to understanding state-of-the-art anthropological dietary, health, and nutritional assessments. The most recent and innovative methods used to reconstruct prehistoric diets are discussed, along with the major ways in which paleonutrition data are recovered, analyzed, and interpreted. The book includes five contemporary case studies that illustrate the mutually beneficial linkages between ethnography and archaeology.
The Permit that Never Expires
Migrant Tales from the Ozark Hills and the Mexican Highlands
The University of Arizona Press
Prehistory, Personality, and Place
Emil W. Haury and the Mogollon Controversy
The University of Arizona Press
Engendering Households in the Prehistoric Southwest
Edited by Barbara J. Roth
The University of Arizona Press
Zuni Origins
Toward a New Synthesis of Southwestern Archaeology
The University of Arizona Press
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, Zuni Origins takes stock of and synthesizes what is currently known about the origins of the Zuni language and the development of modern Zuni culture. The only volume to address this subject with such a breadth of data and interpretations, it will prove invaluable to archaeologists working throughout the North American Southwest as well as to others struggling with issues of ethnicity, migration, incipient agriculture, and linguistic origins.
People and Plants in Ancient Western North America
Edited by Paul E. Minnis
The University of Arizona Press
People and Plants in Ancient Eastern North America
Edited by Paul E. Minnis
The University of Arizona Press
The Legacy of Hurricane Mitch
Lessons from Post-Disaster Reconstruction in Honduras
The University of Arizona Press
The Legacy of Hurricane Mitch offers a comprehensive analysis of the immediate and long-term consequences of Hurricane Mitch in Honduras. Based on longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork and environmental assessments, this volume illustrates the importance of adopting an approach to disaster research and practice that places “natural” trigger events within their political, cultural, and socio-economic contexts. The contributors make a compelling case against post-disaster recovery efforts that limit themselves to alleviating the symptoms, rather than confronting the root causes of the vulnerability that prefigured the disaster.
Polities and Power
Archaeological Perspectives on the Landscapes of Early States
Edited by Steven E. Falconer and Charles L. Redman
The University of Arizona Press
Labor Market Issues along the U.S.-Mexico Border
Edited by Marie T. Mora and Alberto Dávila
The University of Arizona Press
Atlas of Coastal Ecosystems in the Western Gulf of California
Tracking Limestone Deposits on the Margin of a Young Sea
Edited by Markes E. Johnson and Jorge Ledesma-Vásquez
The University of Arizona Press
Resistance and Survival
Children’s Narrative from Central America and the Caribbean
By Ann González
The University of Arizona Press
Human Rights along the U.S.–Mexico Border
Gendered Violence and Insecurity
The University of Arizona Press
Observatories of the Southwest
A Guide for Curious Skywatchers
By Douglas Isbell and Stephen E. Strom
The University of Arizona Press
Undermining Race
Ethnic Identities in Arizona Copper Camps, 1880–1920
The University of Arizona Press
Toward a Behavioral Ecology of Lithic Technology
The University of Arizona Press
Modern humans and their hominid ancestors relied on chipped-stone technology for well over two million years and colonized more than 99 percent of the Earth's habitable landmass in doing so. Yet there currently exist only a handful of informal models derived from ethnographic observation, experiments, engineering, and "common sense" to ...
Reflections in Place
Connected Lives of Navajo Women
By Donna Deyhle
The University of Arizona Press
Inheriting the Past
The Making of Arthur C. Parker and Indigenous Archaeology
By Chip Colwell
The University of Arizona Press
I Know It’s Dangerous
Why Mexicans Risk Their Lives to Cross the Border
The University of Arizona Press
For a Girl Becoming
By Joy Harjo; Illustrated by Mercedes McDonald
The University of Arizona Press
Foods of Association
Biocultural Perspectives on Foods and Beverages that Mediate Sociability
The University of Arizona Press
This fascinating book examines the biology and culture of foods and beverages that are consumed in communal settings, with special attention to their health implications. Nina Etkin covers a wealth of topics, exploring human evolutionary history, the Slow Food movement, ritual and ceremonial foods, caffeinated beverages, spices, the street foods of Hawaii and northern Nigeria, and even bottled water. Her work is framed by a biocultural perspective that considers both the physiological implications of consumption and the cultural construction and circulation of foods.
The Dialogue of Earth and Sky
Dreams, Souls, Curing, and the Modern Aztec Underworld
The University of Arizona Press
Mining, the Environment, and Indigenous Development Conflicts
The University of Arizona Press
The Sweet Smell of Home
The Life and Art of Leonard F. Chana
The University of Arizona Press
The Road to Mount Lemmon
A Father, A Family, and the Making of Summerhaven
The University of Arizona Press
Remedies for a New West
Healing Landscapes, Histories, and Cultures
The University of Arizona Press
Across the Plains
Sarah Royce’s Western Narrative
By Sarah Royce; Edited by Jennifer Dawes
The University of Arizona Press
The Last Refuge of the Mt. Graham Red Squirrel
Ecology of Endangerment
The University of Arizona Press
Fair Bananas!
Farmers, Workers, and Consumers Strive to Change an Industry
The University of Arizona Press
When the Rains Come
A Naturalist’s Year in the Sonoran Desert
By John Alcock
The University of Arizona Press
John Alcock knows the Sonoran Desert better than just about anyone else, and in this book he tracks the changes he observes in plant and animal life over the course of a drought year. Combining scientific knowledge with years of exploring the desert, he describes the variety of ways in which the wait for rain takes place—and what happens when it finally comes.
Native American Language Ideologies
Beliefs, Practices, and Struggles in Indian Country
Edited by Paul V. Kroskrity and Margaret C. Field
The University of Arizona Press
Criminal Justice in Native America
Edited by Marianne O. Nielsen and Robert A. Silverman
The University of Arizona Press
The Neighbors of Casas Grandes
Medio Period Communities of Northwestern Chihuahua
By Michael E. Whalen and Paul E. Minnis
The University of Arizona Press
Angeleno Days
An Arab American Writer on Family, Place, and Politics
The University of Arizona Press
Dead in Their Tracks
Crossing America’s Desert Borderlands in the New Era
The University of Arizona Press
Dead in Their Tracks is the saga of a merciless despoblado in the Great Southwest, of desperate yet hopeful migrants and refugees who keep staggering north. It is the story of ranchers, locals, and Border Patrol trackers who’ve saved countless lives, and heavily armed smugglers who haunt an inhospitable, if beautiful, wilderness that remains off the radar for journalists and news organizations that dare not set foot in the American desert waiting to welcome them on its terms. One photojournalist did.