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Howling for Justice
New Perspectives on Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead
Edited by Rebecca Tillett
The University of Arizona Press
Almanac of the Dead is a demanding, polarizing, and unique novel. Howling for Justice offers a fresh collection of essays by international scholars that examine and explain some of the book’s key themes in new and useful ways. Included is a never-before-published interview with Leslie Marmon Silko.
Constructing Community
The Archaeology of Early Villages in Central New Mexico
The University of Arizona Press
In Constructing Community, Alison E. Rautman uses the Salinas District in New Mexico to examine the relationships of subsistence practices, mobility, and settlement. Rautman tackles a very broad topic: how archaeologists use material evidence to infer and imagine how people lived in the past, how they coped with everyday decisions and tensions, and how they created a sense of themselves and their place in the world.
The Borders of Inequality
Where Wealth and Poverty Collide
By Íñigo Moré; Translated by Lyn Dominguez
The University of Arizona Press
The Borders of Inequality illustrates how longstanding “multidirectional misunderstandings” can exacerbate cross-border problems—and consequent public opinion. Perpetuating these misunderstandings can inflame and complicate the situation, but purposeful efforts to reduce inequality can produce promising results.
Heirloom Seeds and Their Keepers
Marginality and Memory in the Conservation of Biological Diversity
The University of Arizona Press
Heirloom Seeds and Their Keepers offers a much-needed, scientifically researched perspective on the contribution of seedsaving that illustrates its critical significance to the preservation of both cultural knowledge and crop diversity around the world. It opens new conversations between anthropology and biology, and between researchers and practitioners, as it honors conservation as a way of life.
Mestizaje and Globalization
Transformations of Identity and Power
Edited by Stefanie Wickstrom and Philip D. Young
The University of Arizona Press
Mestizaje and Globalization contributes to an emerging multidisciplinary effort to explore how identities are imposed, negotiated, and reconstructed. The volume offers a comprehensive and empirically diverse collection of insights that look beyond nationalistic mestizaje projects to a diversity of local concepts, understandings, and resistance, with particular attention to cases in Latin America and the United States.
Demigods on Speedway
The University of Arizona Press
Demigods on Speedway is dramatic and poetic, a work of linked stories that together paint a gritty portrait of the Southwest. Well-drawn characters, sprung from Greek mythology into the realities of modern life, face the dilemma of struggling to survive under siege while passionately seeking to make something immortal in their lives.
Thinking en español
Interviews with Critics of Chicana/o Literature
By Jesús Rosales; Foreword by Rolando Hinojosa-Smith
The University of Arizona Press
Thinking en español takes the important literary figures who shaped our knowledge of Chicano authors and places them in the dynamic arc of Chicana/o criticism and literature. Jesús Rosales interviews foundational Chicana/o literary critics and, through conversations, establishes the path of Chicana/o criticism from 1848 to the present.
Our Sacred Maíz Is Our Mother
Indigeneity and Belonging in the Americas
The University of Arizona Press
Weaving archival records, ancient maps and narratives, and the wisdom of the elders, Roberto Cintli Rodriguez offers compelling evidence that maíz is the historical connector between Indigenous peoples of this continent. Rodriguez brings together the wisdom of scholars and elders to show how maíz/corn connects the peoples of the Americas.
Dragons in the Land of the Condor
Writing Tusán in Peru
By Ignacio Lopez-Calvo; Foreword by Eugenio Chang-Rodríguez
The University of Arizona Press
Dragons in the Land of the Condor studies the influence of a Chinese ethnic background in the writing of several twentieth- and twenty-first-century Sino-Peruvian authors. Ignacio López-Calvo considers the different strategies used by Chinese Peruvian writers to claim either their belonging in the Peruvian national project or their difference as a minority ethnic group.
Buried in Shades of Night
Contested Voices, Indian Captivity, and the Legacy of King Philip's War
The University of Arizona Press
Billy J. Stratton’s critical examination of Mary Rowlandson’s 1682 publication, The Soveraignty and Goodness of God, reconsiders the role of the captivity narrative in American literary history and national identity. With pivotal new research into Puritan minister Increase Mather’s influence on the narrative, Stratton calls for a reconsideration of past scholarly work on the genre.
Creating Aztlán
Chicano Art, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Lowriding Across Turtle Island
The University of Arizona Press
Creating Aztlán interrogates the historic and important role that Aztlán plays in Chicano and Indigenous art and culture. Using the idea that lowriding is an Indigenous way of being in the world, artist and historian Dylan A. T. Miner (Métis) discusses the multiple roles that Aztlán has played at various moments in time, engaging precolonial indigeneities, alongside colonial, modern, and contemporary Xicano responses to colonization.
Colonial Itineraries of Contemporary Mexico
Literary and Cultural Inquiries
Edited by Oswaldo Estrada and Anna M. Nogar
The University of Arizona Press
Colonial Itineraries of Contemporary Mexico analyzes how Mexico’s colonial experience has been reimagined in the twenty-first century. From an interdisciplinary perspective, the fourteen essays gathered in this book question the problematic formation of contemporary marginalities and inequality, imposed political domination, and hybrid subjectivities.
Therapeutic Nations
Healing in an Age of Indigenous Human Rights
By Dian Million
The University of Arizona Press
Therapeutic Nations is one of the first books to demonstrate trauma's wide-ranging historical origins, and it offers a new indigenous feminist critique of the conversation of healing. Million's theoretical sophistication and original research make the book relevant across a range of disciplines as it challenges key concepts of American Indian and indigenous studies.
Soul Over Lightning
By Ray Gonzalez
The University of Arizona Press
In this collection, which the poet calls his “rebirth in the search for home,” Ray Gonzalez expresses the gentle, humble intelligence that has made him a leading voice in Latino letters. He shares with the reader the voice of a grounded soul searcher who has passed through middle age and still vibrates with passion for the world. Soul Over Lightning lifts spirits and yet offers a timeless search for home and truth.
In the Garden of the Bridehouse
The University of Arizona Press
Scrutinizing myth, culture, identity, and sexuality, J. Michael Martinez, in his brave new collection, weds the innovative with the narrative tradition, cultivating a collection that is unlike any other, simultaneously drawing together and pulling apart the familiar and the foreign, the self and the other, the known and the unknowable, the recoverable and irrecoverable past, the historical record and all that is given up for lost. Martinez interrogates the restrictions chosen to constrain imagination’s boundlessness.
Indigenous Peoples, National Parks, and Protected Areas
A New Paradigm Linking Conservation, Culture, and Rights
Edited by Stan Stevens
The University of Arizona Press
This passionate, well-researched book makes a compelling case for a paradigm shift in conservation practice. It explores new policies and practices, which offer alternatives to exclusionary, uninhabited national parks and wilderness areas and make possible new kinds of protected areas that recognize Indigenous peoples’ rights and benefit from their knowledge and conservation contributions.
From Enron to Evo
Pipeline Politics, Global Environmentalism, and Indigenous Rights in Bolivia
By Derrick Hindery; Foreword by Susanna B. Hecht
The University of Arizona Press
Offering a critique of both free-market piracy and the dilemmas of resource nationalism, From Enron to Evo is groundbreaking book for anyone concerned with Indigenous politics, social movements, and environmental justice in an era of expanding resource development.
Contingent Maps
Rethinking Western Women's History and the North American West
Edited by Susan E. Gray and Gayle Gullett
The University of Arizona Press
Contingent Maps is an appeal to all who care about the history of women in the North American West. Susan E. Gray and Gayle Gullett, former co-editors of Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, offer in this collection a new approach to women’s history that is firmly rooted in a fresh understanding of place.
Sinking Suspicions
The University of Arizona Press
Sinking Suspicions offers a heartwarming story of loss and redemption, murder and healing in Oklahoma’s modern-day Indian Country. Mystery writer Sara Sue Hoklotubbe crafts an authentic tale that mixes stolen identity with a fast-paced search for a killer.
A Land Between Waters
Environmental Histories of Modern Mexico
Edited by Christopher R. Boyer
The University of Arizona Press
This is the first book to explore the relationship between the people and the environment of Mexico. Featuring a dozen essays by leading scholars, it heralds the arrival of environmental history as a major area of study in the field of Mexican history.