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Speaking Mexicano
Dynamics of Syncretic Language in Central Mexico
By Jane H. Hill and Kenneth C. Hill
The University of Arizona Press
Food Plants of the Sonoran Desert
The University of Arizona Press
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
The University of Arizona Press
Badmen, Bandits, and Folk Heroes compares the literary and cinematic representation of Mexican American masculine identity from early twentieth-century adventure stories and Westerns through contemporary self-representations by Chicano/a writers and filmmakers. Juan J. Alonzo proposes a reconsideration of the early stereotypical depictions of Mexicans in fiction and film: rather than viewing stereotypes as unrelentingly negative, Alonzo presents them as part of a complex apparatus of identification and disavowal. Alonzo reassesses Chicano/a self-representation in literature and film, and argues that the Chicano/a expression of identity is characterized by an acknowledgment of the contingent status of present-day identity formations.
Images of Public Wealth or the Anatomy of Well-Being in Indigenous Amazonia
Edited by Fernando Santos-Granero
The University of Arizona Press
Reflecting a global interest in the topics of well-being, happiness, and the good life, this book explores local notions of public wealth in indigenous Amazonia. The contributors place particular importance in how indigenous views of wealth are linked to the creation of strong, productive, and moral individuals and collectivities, providing thought-provoking new approaches to understanding wealth in non-capitalist, kin-based societies.
The Ancient Maya Marketplace
The Archaeology of Transient Space
Edited by Eleanor M. King
The University of Arizona Press
The Ancient Maya Marketplace, edited by Eleanor M. King, reviews the debate on prehispanic Maya markets. The volume’s contributors challenge the model of a non-commercialized Maya economy and offer compelling new evidence for the existence and identification of ancient marketplaces among the Maya.
Practicing Materiality
Edited by Ruth M. Van Dyke
The University of Arizona Press
Practicing Materiality focuses on the job of applying materiality to anthropological investigations. It demonstrates a practical way to focus on the entangled lives of things without losing sight of their political and social implications.
Moquis and Kastiilam
Hopis, Spaniards, and the Trauma of History, Volume I, 1540–1679
Edited by Thomas E. Sheridan, Stewart B. Koyiyumptewa, Anton Daughters, Dale S. Brenneman, T. J. Ferguson, Leigh J. Kuwanwisiwma, and Leigh Wayne Lomayestewa
The University of Arizona Press
The first of a two-volume series, Moquis and Kastiilam tells the story of the encounter between the Hopis, who the Spaniards called Moquis, and the Spaniards, who the Hopis called Kastiilam, from the first encounter in 1540 until the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. Balancing historical documents with oral histories, it creates a fresh perspective on the interface of Spanish and Hopi in the period of missionization.
Human Spaceflight
From Mars to the Stars
The University of Arizona Press
Human Spaceflight lays out a new model for the future of humans in space, where robotic technologies extend human presence beyond the solar system. Louis Friedman argues for settlement of Mars, serving as a base for humans to explore the rest of the universe with an expanding arsenal of technology.
Potters and Communities of Practice
Glaze Paint and Polychrome Pottery in the American Southwest, AD 1250 to 1700
Edited by Linda S. Cordell and Judith A. Habicht-Mauche
The University of Arizona Press
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.
Senator Dennis DeConcini
From the Center of the Aisle
By Dennis DeConcini and Jack L. August
The University of Arizona Press
Senator Dennis DeConcini is an Arizona icon. His political memoir provides the reader with penetrating and revealing insights into the inner workings and colorful characters of Arizona politics and the United States Senate. A vigilant centrist who got results by building coalitions on both sides of the aisle, Senator DeConcini was not bound to strict party alliances but was deeply rooted in the independent political environment of Arizona.
Local Governments and Rural Development
Comparing Lessons from Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Peru
The University of Arizona Press
The Quiet Extinction
Stories of North America’s Rare and Threatened Plants
By Kara Rogers
The University of Arizona Press
The Quiet Extinction explores the reasons many of our native plants are disappearing, noting their significance to the continent’s natural heritage. Kara Rogers captures the excitement of their discovery, the tragedy that has come to define their existence, and the remarkable efforts underway to save them.
Shameful Victory
The Los Angeles Dodgers, the Red Scare, and the Hidden History of Chavez Ravine
The University of Arizona Press
Enhancing our understanding of the Mexican American experience and urban renewal in LA, Shameful Victory focuses on Chavez Ravine and the eventual building of Dodger Stadium at the expense of the community. Author John H. M. Laslett shows how urban renewal led to the eviction of Mexican Americans and the introduction of the Dodgers, placing the Chavez Ravine affair into a broader social and historical context.
For All of Humanity
Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala
By Martha Few
The University of Arizona Press
For All of Humanity examines the first public health campaigns in Guatemala, southern Mexico, and Central America in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It reconstructs a rich and complex picture of the ways colonial doctors, surgeons, Indigenous healers, midwives, priests, government officials, and ordinary people engaged in efforts to prevent and control epidemic disease.
Earth and Mars
A Reflection
The University of Arizona Press
Earth and Mars relates the life story of two planets, celestial siblings in space. The book is a fusion of art and science, a blend of images and essays celebrating the successful creation of our life-sustaining planet. A collection of simple and profoundly beautiful forms, Earth and Mars provides a context to appreciate the common forces responsible for these haunting shapes as well as the divergent paths that led to an Earth teeming with life-forms, while its sibling, Mars, is seemingly devoid of all life.
Capturing the Landscape of New Spain
Baltasar Obregón and the 1564 Ibarra Expedition
The University of Arizona Press
Rebecca A. Carte sheds new light on sixteenth-century Spanish exploration and mining expansion in the borderlands of Mexico and the United States. She shows how history and geography, past and present, people and land, come together to fashion the landscape of northern New Spain.
In the Shadow of Cortés
Conversations Along the Route of Conquest
The University of Arizona Press
In the Shadow of Cortés offers a visual and cultural history of the legacy of the contact between Spaniards and indigenous civilizations of Mexico. Kathleen Ann Myers reveals how the symbolic geography of the conquest fuels a historical memory of colonialism that continues to shape lives today.
Between Two Fires
A Fire History of Contemporary America
The University of Arizona Press
Between Two Fires is a story of ideas, institutions, and fires. Stephen J. Pyne tells the history of America’s fire revolution, a reaction to the decades-long policy of fire suppression touched off by the Great Fires of 1910. It is the real history of contemporary America’s management of one billion burnable acres. Pyne has once again constructed a history of record that will shape our next century of wildland fire management.
Wooden Ritual Artifacts from Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
The Chetro Ketl Collection
The University of Arizona Press
The Cochise Cultural Sequence in Southeastern Arizona
By E. B. Sayles
The University of Arizona Press
The Chinese of Early Tucson
Historic Archaeology from the Tucson Urban Renewal Project
The University of Arizona Press
The Asturian of Cantabria
Early Holocene Hunter-Gatherers in Northern Spain
The University of Arizona Press
Sixteenth Century Maiolica Pottery in the Valley of Mexico
The University of Arizona Press
Settlement, Subsistence, and Society in Late Zuni Prehistory
The University of Arizona Press
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