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From Tribute to Communal Sovereignty
The Tarascan and Caxcan Territories in Transition
The University of Arizona Press
From Tribute to Communal Sovereignty brings together well-regarded scholars to examine both continuity and change over the last five centuries for the indigenous peoples of Central Western Mexico, providing the first sweeping and comprehensive regional history of this important region in Mesoamerica.
Crafting Identity
Transnational Indian Arts and the Politics of Race in Central Mexico
The University of Arizona Press
Crafting Identity explores the complex interplay of social relations, values, dominations, and performances present in the world of Mexican mask making. The book examines how art, media, and tourism mediate Mexican culture from the margins (“arte popular”), making Mexican indigeneity “palatable” for Mexican nationalism and American and global markets for folklore.
Taking Charge
Native American Self-Determination and Federal Indian Policy, 1975–1993
The University of Arizona Press
We Are the State!
Barrio Activism in Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution
The University of Arizona Press
We Are the State! provides a new perspective on the Chavistas, a diverse social movement and a driving force behind Venezuela’s social revolution. Cristobal Valencia dramatically challenges top-down understandings of the state and power in Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution. His ethnographic research reveals the shift in power relationships and the evolving political practices amongst the Chavistas, the Chávez government, and the larger state apparatus.
Native Studies Keywords
The University of Arizona Press
Native Studies Keywords is a genealogical project that looks at the history of words that claim to have no history. The end goal is not to determine which words are appropriate but to critically examine words that are crucial to Native studies, in hopes of promoting debate and critical interrogation.
Mesoamerican Plazas
Arenas of Community and Power
Edited by Kenichiro Tsukamoto and Takeshi Inomata
The University of Arizona Press
This is the first book to examine the roles of plazas in ancient Mesoamerica. It argues persuasively that physical interactions among people in communal events were not the outcomes of political machinations held behind the scenes, but were the actual political processes through which people created, negotiated, and subverted social realities.
Mapping Indigenous Presence
North Scandinavian and North American Perspectives
The University of Arizona Press
Mapping Indigenous Presence promises to become a benchmark for future conversations concerning comparative Indigenous scholarly methodologies. Shanley and Evjen’s work attests to the importance of the roles Indigenous peoples have played as overseers of their own lands and resources and as political entities capable of governing themselves.
Living with the Dead in the Andes
Edited by Izumi Shimada and James L. Fitzsimmons
The University of Arizona Press
Living with the Dead in the Andes provides new data and insights informed by general anthropological theory; the extensive bibliography alone is an important contribution. Scholars working with Andean mortuary practices (and prehistory generally) will be citing these chapters for years.
Universities and Indian Country
Case Studies in Tribal-Driven Research
Edited by Dennis K. Norman and Joseph P. Kalt
The University of Arizona Press
Building on the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development’s experience with more than 120 nation-building projects over two decades, Universities and Indian Country posits that the tenets of nation building can provide a strategy for expanding and diversifying universities’ perspectives of knowledge in a multicultural world, while also producing results that are requested by and useful to Native communities. It is a valuable resource for any student, professional, and community member working to assert powers of self-determination, strengthen culture, and develop economies.
Minorities in Phoenix
A Profile of Mexican American, Chinese American, and African American Communities, 1860-1992
The University of Arizona Press
The Sagebrush Trail
Western Movies and Twentieth-Century America
The University of Arizona Press
The Sagebrush Trail is a history of Western movies but also a history of twentieth-century America. Richard Aquila’s fast-paced narrative includes classic Westerns such as Stagecoach, A Fistful of Dollars, and Unforgiven. This engaging volume shows how the mythic West continues to ride tall in the saddle along a “sagebrush trail,” which reveals valuable clues about American life and thought.
Mexican Americans and Health
¡Sana! ¡Sana!
By Adela de la Torre and Antonio Estrada
The University of Arizona Press
Mexican Americans and Health, 2nd Edition provides new and updated information on health and health care topics regarding people of Mexican origin. New additions include analysis of emerging diseases and populations, current health-care events, and predictions for the next ten years. De la Torre and Estrada’s collaboration brings scholarship that is both cross-disciplinary and highly readable.
Mexican Americans and Education
El saber es poder
The University of Arizona Press
In Mexican Americans and Education, Estela Godinez Ballón provides students and educators alike with an indispensable overview of the relationship between Mexican Americans and the U.S. public schooling system. She examines controversial issues, such as standardized testing, segregation, and curriculum tracking, as well as a historical analysis of the barriers that Mexican American students have and continue to regularly face.
Tributaries
By Laura Da'
The University of Arizona Press
Tributaries lyrically surveys Shawnee history alongside personal identity and memory. With the eye of a storyteller, poet Laura Da’ creates an arc that flows from the personal to the historical and back again. With narrative content from the period of Indian Removal in the 1830s to the present, the collection is composed of four sections that come together to create an important new telling of Shawnee past and present.
More or Less Dead
Feminicide, Haunting, and the Ethics of Representation in Mexico
By Alice Driver
The University of Arizona Press
More or Less Dead is a rigorous critical work that asks us to reexamine conversations about human rights. This provocative book offers a penetrating portrayal of life and death in Ciudad Juárez.
Mexico in Verse
A History of Music, Rhyme, and Power
The University of Arizona Press
Mexico in Verse, edited by Stephen Neufeld and Michael Matthews, examines Mexican history through its poetry and music, the spoken and the written word. The book provides a window to the beliefs and aspirations of ordinary people, fresh and vigorous and honest, in Mexico during a period of dynamic and turbulent change.
Women Who Stay Behind
Pedagogies of Survival in Rural Transmigrant Mexico
The University of Arizona Press
Women Who Stay Behind examines the social, educational, and cultural resources rural Mexican women employ to creatively survive the conditions created by the migration of loved ones. Using narrative, research, and theory, Ruth Trinidad Galván presents a hopeful picture of what is traditionally viewed as the abject circumstances of poor and working-class people in Mexico who are forced to migrate to survive.
Searching for Golden Empires
Epic Cultural Collisions in Sixteenth-Century America
The University of Arizona Press
In Searching for Golden Empires, William K. Hartmann tells a true-life adventure story that recounts the shared history of the United States and Mexico, unveiling episodes both tragic and uplifting. Hernan Cortés, Montezuma, Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, and Viceroy Antonio Mendoza are just some of the principal eyewitnesses in this vivid history of New World exploration.
George Hunt
Arizona's Crusading Seven-Term Governor
The University of Arizona Press
George Hunt is the political biography of Arizona’s first elected governor, a nuanced, penetrating portrait of a colorful and controversial man. David Berman has written a well-researched, unvarnished portrayal of a complicated and controversial figure, George W. P. Hunt.
Canto hondo / Deep Song
The University of Arizona Press
Canto hondo / Deep Song includes 106 poems, in both Spanish and English, in the style of Federico García Lorca, which has been compared to “the trilling of birds” and “the natural music of woods and streams.” An important voice in Chicano and GLBT poetry, Alarcón’s new work is his most complex and emotionally powerful published.
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