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Culture across Borders
Mexican Immigration and Popular Culture
Feminist Readings of Native American Literature
Coming to Voice
Women's Seclusion and Men's Honor
Sex Roles in North India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan
Prehistoric Sandals from Northeastern Arizona
The Earl H. Morris and Ann Axtell Morris Research
Speaking for the Generations
Native Writers on Writing
Amazonian Indians from Prehistory to the Present
Anthropological Perspectives
The Southwest in American Literature and Art
The Rise of a Desert Aesthetic
The Desert Grassland
Tarahumara
Where Night is the Day of the Moon
Chicanismo
The Forging of a Militant Ethos among Mexican Americans
The Road to Mexico
Hispanic Nation
Culture, Politics, and the Constructing of Identity
Molded in the Image of Changing Woman
Navajo Views on the Human Body and Personhood
Koviashuvik
Making a Home in the Brooks Range
Fear Falls Away
and Other Essays from Hard and Rocky Places
Race and Class on Campus
Conversations with Ricardo’s Daughter
Cultural Politics in Revolution
Teachers, Peasants, and Schools in Mexico, 1930-1940
Ceramic Commodities and Common Containers
The Production and Distribution of White Mountain Red Ware in the Grasshopper Region, Arizona
Indians and Anthropologists
Vine Deloria, Jr., and the Critique of Anthropology
Homicide, Race, and Justice in the American West, 1880-1920
Breathing Between the Lines
Demetria Martínez has entered the public consciousness by way of the heart. In 1994, she captured a Western States Book Award with her first novel, Mother Tongue, which went on to win widespread national attention. Now, in Breathing between the Lines, the writer returns to poetry, her first love.
Many of the poems in this book touch on the themes from Mother Tongue, about an American activist who falls in love with a Salvadoran political refugee. Weaving together threads of love and family, social conviction and activism, loss and renewal, Breathing between the Lines carries the reader deep inside the head and heart of a talented Chicana writer.
Page by page, the journey is an exhilarating one. What we find at the end is up to us.
The Telling Distance
Winner of the 1990 Western States Book Award for Creative Nonfiction, The Telling Distance evokes the yearning expanses of our southwestern deserts and finds them full of sensuous marvels, erratic life forms, eccentric fellow travelers, dry humor, and surprise. In prose that revels in paradox, it reveals desert distances to ...
If a Chimpanzee Could Talk and Other Reflections on Language Acquisition
