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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.

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The Intimate Frontier

Friendship and Civil Society in Northern New Spain

The University of Arizona Press

Building on the most recent scholarship in borderlands history, The Intimate Frontier is an intellectual and social history that explores the immensely complex web of interpersonal relationships and layers of emotional sophistication inherent among frontier communities.

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Racial Alterity, Wixarika Youth Activism, and the Right to the Mexican City

The University of Arizona Press

Utilizing archival and ethnographic research, this book explores the construction of racial and ethnic imaginaries in the western Mexican cities of Guadalajara and Tepic, and the ways in which these imaginaries shape the contemporary experiences and activism of Wixarika (Huichol) Indigenous university students and professionals living, studying, and working in these two cities.

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Kids in Cages

Surviving and Resisting Child Migrant Detention

The University of Arizona Press

This book provides an interdisciplinary perspective of child migrant detention by bringing together voices from the legal realm, the academic world, and the on-the-ground experiences of activists and practitioners. The chapters explore the harms of detention while also looking at survival in and resistance to this violent institution.

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Caracoleando Among Worlds

Reconstructing Maya Worldviews in Chiapas

The University of Arizona Press

This book focuses on the analysis of the contemporary literary movement of Maya writers of Chiapas. At the heart of this examination is a journey into the trajectory of this literary movement and its connection to the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (or EZLN) insurgency. This work shows two movements that are rooted in shared visions of rescuing, reclaiming, and recentering Maya worldviews.

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Hopis and the Counterculture

Traditionalism, Appropriation, and the Birth of a Social Field

The University of Arizona Press

This book addresses how the Hopi became icons of the followers of alternative spiritualities and reveals one of the major pathways for the appropriation of Indigenous identities that exploded in the 1960s. Exploring the new social field that developed to spread these ideas, the book documents the biographies of Ammon Hennacy, Craig Carpenter, Frank Waters, and the Firesign Theatre, among others.

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The Global Spanish Empire

Five Hundred Years of Place Making and Pluralism

The University of Arizona Press

The Global Spanish Empire tackles broad questions about indigenous cultural persistence, pluralism, and place making using a global comparative perspective grounded in the shared experience of Spanish colonialism. Through an expansive range of essays that look at Africa, the Americas, Asia, the Caribbean and the Pacific, this volume brings often-neglected regions into conversation.

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Plants for Desperate Times

The Diversity of Life-Saving Famine Foods

The University of Arizona Press

Plants for Desperate Times is an introduction to the foods that have saved millions of lives during lethal food shortages. While not a field guide, it addresses questions about what famine foods are and why they are important.

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Cookstove Chronicles

Social Life of a Women’s Technology in India

The University of Arizona Press

Cookstove Chronicles examines India’s handcrafted, wood-burning cooking stoves, the rural women who use them, and outsiders who try to improve them by engineering a range of “clean” cooking devices. Khandelwal adopts a transnational feminist, anthropological, and STS perspective to reimagine the humble mud stove as both villain and hero of this story and to suggest pathways for collaboration across radical disciplinary divides.

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Celluloid Pueblo

Western Ways Films and the Invention of the Postwar Southwest

The University of Arizona Press

Celluloid Pueblo tells the story of Western Ways Features and its role in the invention of the Southwest of the imagination. The story closely follows the boom-and-bust arc of this region in the mid-twentieth century and the constantly evolving representations of an exotic—but safe and domesticated—frontier and the landscape, regional development, and diverse cultures of Arizona and the Southwest.

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Landscapes of Movement and Predation

Perspectives from Archaeology, History, and Anthropology

The University of Arizona Press

Landscapes of Movement and Predation is a global study of times and places, in the colonial and precolonial eras, where people were subject to brutality, displacement, and loss of life, liberty, livelihood, and possessions. The book provides a startling new perspective on an aspect of the past that is often overlooked: the role of violence in shaping where, how, and with whom people lived.

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