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Los Primeros Mexicanos
Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene People of Sonora
The University of Arizona Press
Los Primeros Mexicanos explores the Clovis occupation of Mexico’s northwest region of Sonora through extensive primary data concerning specific artifacts, assemblages, and Paleoindian archaeology. Guadalupe Sánchez presents a synopsis and critical review of current data and a unique summary of hard-to-find information that until now has not been available in English.
Translating Southwestern Landscapes
The Making of an Anglo Literary Region
The University of Arizona Press
The Visions of Sor María de Agreda
Writing Knowledge and Power
The University of Arizona Press
Prehistoric Culture Change on the Colorado Plateau
Ten Thousand Years on Black Mesa
Edited by Shirley Powell and Francis E. Smiley
The University of Arizona Press
Empire of Sand
The Seri Indians and the Struggle for Spanish Sonora, 1645–1803
Edited by Thomas E. Sheridan
The University of Arizona Press
Early Stages in the Evolution of Mesopotamian Civilization
Soviet Excavations in Northern Iraq
Edited by Norman Yoffee and Jeffery J. Clark
The University of Arizona Press
A Frontier Documentary
Sonora and Tucson, 1821–1848
Edited by Kieran McCarty
The University of Arizona Press
Asteroids IV
The University of Arizona Press
150 international authorities through more than 40 chapters convey the definitive state of the field by detailing our current astronomical, compositional, geological, and geophysical knowledge of asteroids, as well as their unique physical processes and interrelationships with comets and meteorites. Most importantly, this volume outlines the outstanding questions that will focus and drive researchers and students of all ages toward new advances in the coming decade and beyond.
The Body as Capital
Masculinities in Contemporary Latin American Fiction
The University of Arizona Press
The Body as Capital analyzes and develops the notion of the male body as a dialogic site of enunciation, arguing that the writing of masculinities is a project that centers socioeconomic and political concerns, anxieties, and paradigms both on the male anatomy and on the matrices of masculinities presented in fiction. It forges a new path in the critical debates over gender and sexuality in Latin American writing.
Other Country
Barry Lopez and the Community of Artists
The University of Arizona Press
A deep concern with landscape, animals, indigenous cultures, and essential moral values runs through Other Country as author James Perrin Warren reveals the dynamic relationship between Barry Lopez and the artistic community in their quest to lead cultural change.
Born of Resistance
Cara a Cara Encounters with Chicana/o Visual Culture
Edited by Scott L. Baugh and Victor A. Sorell
The University of Arizona Press
Born of Resistance revisits and updates resistance as a complex underlying force in Chicana/o art and visual cultural expression. This groundbreaking volume includes nine clustered discussions that interface scholarly, critical, curatorial, and historical discussions alongside artist statements and interviews. Landmark artistic works in several media, including prints, paintings, sculpture, photography, film, and television, anchor each cluster of essays.
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.