UBC - Agency Logos - The University of Arizona Press

The University of Arizona Press is the premier publisher of academic, regional, and literary works in the state of Arizona. They disseminate ideas and knowledge of lasting value that enrich understanding, inspire curiosity, and enlighten readers. They advance the University of Arizona’s mission by connecting scholarship and creative expression to readers worldwide.

Showing 801-840 of 1,704 items.

Reimagining Marginalized Foods

Global Processes, Local Places

The University of Arizona Press

This volume brings together ethnographically based anthropological analyses of shifting meanings and representations associated with the foods, ingredients, and cooking practices that of marginalized and/or indigenous cultures. Contributors are particularly interested in how these foods intersect with politics, nationhood and governance, identity, authenticity, and conservation.

More info

Red Weather

The University of Arizona Press

Against the backdrop of Central American politics, this suspenseful first novel from award-winning poet Janet McAdams explores an important chapter in American Indian history. Through finely drawn, compelling characters and lucidly beautiful prose, Red Weather explores the journey from loss to possibility, from the secrets of the past to the longings of the present.

More info

I Don't Cry, But I Remember

A Mexican Immigrant's Story of Endurance

The University of Arizona Press

In I Don’t Cry, But I Remember, Joyce Lackie shares with us an intimate portrait of Viviana Salgeuro’s life. Based on hours of recorded conversations, Lackie skillfully translates the interviews into an engaging, revealing narrative that details the migrant experience from a woman’s point of view and fills a gap in our history by examining the role of women of color in the American Southwest.

More info

Cell Traffic

New and Selected Poems

The University of Arizona Press

Cell Traffic presents new poems and uncollected prose poetry along with selected work from award-winning poet Heid Erdrich’s three previous poetry collections. Erdrich’s new work reflects her continuing concerns with the tensions between science and tradition, between spirit and body. She finds surprising common ground while exploring indigenous experience in multifaceted ways: personal, familial, biological, and cultural.


More info

Walking the Clouds

An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction

Edited by Grace L. Dillon
The University of Arizona Press

In this first-ever anthology of Indigenous science fiction Grace Dillon collects some of the finest examples of the craft with contributions by Native American, First Nations, Aboriginal Australian, and New Zealand Maori authors.

More info

The New Politics of Protest

Indigenous Mobilization in Latin America's Neoliberal Era

The University of Arizona Press
More info

Outside the Hacienda Walls

The Archaeology of Plantation Peonage in Nineteenth-Century Yucatán

The University of Arizona Press

Drawing on a dozen years of archaeological and historical investigation, Allan Meyers breaks new ground in the study of Yucatán haciendas. He presents original data and fresh interpretations on settlement organization, social stratification, and spatial relationships.

More info

Hogs, Mules, and Yellow Dogs

Growing Up on a Mississippi Subsistence Farm

By Jimmye Hillman; Foreword by Robert Hass
The University of Arizona Press

To ensure that the world of Jimmye Hillman’s childhood in Greene County, Mississippi during the Great Depression doesn’t slip away, he has gathered together accounts of his family and the other people of Old Washington village. More than just childhood memories and a family saga, though, this book serves as a snapshot of the natural, historical, and linguistic details of the time and place. It is a remarkable record of Southern life.

More info

We Are Our Language

An Ethnography of Language Revitalization in a Northern Athabaskan Community

The University of Arizona Press

We Are Our Language provides an investigation of language revitalization based on local language renewal efforts. This book reveals the subtle ways in which different conceptions and practices—historical, material, and interactional—can variably affect the state of an indigenous language, and it offers a critical step toward redefining success and achieving revitalization.

More info

Toward a Behavioral Ecology of Lithic Technology

Cases from Paleoindian Archaeology

The University of Arizona Press
More info

The Archaeology of Environmental Change

Socionatural Legacies of Degradation and Resilience

The University of Arizona Press

In this book, a diverse collection of case studies reveal how archaeology can contribute to a better understanding of humans' relation to the environment. The Archaeology of Environmental Change shows that the environmental challenges facing humanity today can be better approached through an attempt to understand how past societies dealt with similar circumstances.

More info

The Ancient Andean Village

Marcaya in Prehispanic Nasca

The University of Arizona Press
More info

Sueños Americanos

Barrio Youth Negotiating Social and Cultural Identities

The University of Arizona Press

For nearly a decade, Julio Cammarota interviewed and observed Latino youth—researching how they negotiated myriad social conditions and hostile economic and political pressures in their daily lives. One of the most extensive studies of barrio youth, Sueños Americanos illuminates the complex relationships among low-wage employment, cultural standards, education, class oppression, and gender expectations.

More info

Religious Transformation in the Late Pre-Hispanic Pueblo World

The University of Arizona Press

The contributors to this volume employ a wide range of archaeological evidence to examine the origin and development of religious ideologies and the ways they shaped Pueblo societies across the Southwest in the centuries prior to European contact.

More info

Out of Nature

Why Drugs from Plants Matter to the Future of Humanity

The University of Arizona Press

Through stories of drug revelation in nature and forays into botany, human behavior, and conservation, Kara Rogers sheds light on the multiple ways in which humans, medicine, and plants are interconnected. With accessible and engaging writing, she explores the relationships between humans and plants, relating the stories of plant hunters of centuries past and examining the impact of human activities on the environment and the world's biodiversity.

More info

Leaving Mesa Verde

Peril and Change in the Thirteenth-Century Southwest

The University of Arizona Press

A great mystery in the archaeology of the Southwest is the depopulation of the northern San Juan in the late thirteenth-century AD. Leaving Mesa Verde confronts this mystery with new paleoenvironmental data and much archaeological research. What arises is a story of conflict and disruption as a result of climate change, environmental degradation, social rigidity, and conflict.

More info

Gender Violence at the U.S.–Mexico Border

Media Representation and Public Response

The University of Arizona Press
More info

Exploring Mars

Chronicles from a Decade of Discovery

By Scott Hubbard; Foreword by Bill Nye
The University of Arizona Press
More info

Bolivia's Radical Tradition

Permanent Revolution in the Andes

The University of Arizona Press
More info

Arizona

A History, Revised Edition

The University of Arizona Press

Now, just in time for Arizona’s centennial, Sheridan has revised and expanded this already top-tier state history to incorporate events and changes that have taken place in recent years. Addressing contemporary issues like land use, water rights, dramatic population increases, suburban sprawl, and the US–Mexico border, the new material makes the book more essential than ever. It successfully places the forty-eighth state’s history within the context of national and global events. No other book on Arizona history is as integrative or comprehensive.


More info

Along These Highways

The University of Arizona Press

Rene Perez has the ability to stop time. In fact, time stops as soon as you start reading one of his short stories. You find yourself transported into the minds and lives of people you thought you didn’t know. Suddenly they are your best friends. They live in Texas. Most of them are Hispanic. But their problems are universal.

More info

Latino Los Angeles

Transformations, Communities, and Activism

The University of Arizona Press
More info

Field Man

Life as a Desert Archaeologist

The University of Arizona Press

Field Man is the memoir of renowned southwestern archaeologist Julian Dodge Hayden—a blue-collar scholar who challenged conventional thinking on the antiquity of man in the New World, brought a formidable pragmatism to the identification of stone tools, and who is remembered as the leading authority on the prehistory of the Sierra Pinacate.

More info

Women and Knowledge in Mesoamerica

From East L.A. to Anahuac

The University of Arizona Press

This book disrupts Euro-based intellectual hegemony and makes a case for the epistemic authority of Native women. Written from a Chicana perspective, this study is learned, personal, and engaging for anyone who is interested in the wisdom that prevailing analytical cultures have deemed “unintelligible.” As it turns out, those who are unacquainted with the sometimes surprising extent and depth of wisdom of indigenous women healers simply haven’t been looking in the right places—outside the texts from which they have been consistently excluded.

More info

Smugglers, Brothels, and Twine

Historical Perspectives on Contraband and Vice in North America’s Borderlands

The University of Arizona Press
More info

Immigration Law and the U.S.–Mexico Border

¿Sí se puede?

The University of Arizona Press
More info

Ideologies in Archaeology

The University of Arizona Press

Archaeologists have often used the term ideology to vaguely refer to a “realm of ideas.” Scholars from Marx to Zizek have developed a sharper concept, arguing that ideology works by representing—or misrepresenting—power relations through concealment, enhancement, or transformation of real social relations between groups. Ideologies in Archaeology examines the role of ideology in this latter sense as it pertains to both the practice and the content of archaeological studies. This is the first work to address in any detail the mutual relationship between ideologies of the past and present ideological conditions producing archaeological knowledge.

Contributors to this volume focus on elements of life in past societies that “went without saying” and uncover complex manipulations of power that have often gone unrecognized. They show that Occam’s razor—the tendency to favor simpler explanations—is sometimes just an excuse to avoid dealing with the historical world in its full complexity.

More info

From Beneath the Volcano

The Story of a Salvadoran Campesino and His Family

The University of Arizona Press
More info

Earth Wisdom

A California Chumash Woman

The University of Arizona Press
More info

Aconcagua

The Invention of Mountaineering on America’s Highest Peak

The University of Arizona Press
More info

Twelve Hundred Miles by Horse and Burro

J. Stokley Ligon and New Mexico’s First Breeding Bird Survey

The University of Arizona Press
More info

The Other Latin@

Writing Against a Singular Identity

The University of Arizona Press
More info

The Archaeology of Native-Lived Colonialism

Challenging History in the Great Lakes

The University of Arizona Press
More info

State Healthcare and Yanomami Transformations

A Symmetrical Ethnography

The University of Arizona Press

Until now, anthropological writing on Amazonian peoples has been divided between “traditional” topics (e.g., kinship, cosmology, and ritual) and struggles with the nation-state. In this ethnography, José Antonio Kelly challenges that dichotomy, placing the study of culture and cosmology within the context of the modern nation-state and its institutions. He explores Indian-white relations through the operation of a state-run health system among the indigenous Yanomami of southern Venezuela.

With theoretical foundations in medical and Amazonian anthropology, Kelly shows how Amerindian cosmology shapes concepts of the state at the community level. His symmetrical anthropology treats white and Amerindian perceptions of each other within a single theoretical framework, thus expanding our understanding of the groups and their mutual influences. This book will be valuable to scholars and students of Amazonian peoples, medical anthropology, development, and Latin American studies.

More info
Find what you’re looking for...
Stay Informed

Receive the latest UBC Press news, including events, catalogues, and announcements.


Read past newsletters

Publishers Represented
UBC Press is the Canadian agent for several international publishers. Visit our Publishers Represented page to learn more.