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Diverting the Gila

Diverting the Gila

The Pima Indians and the Florence-Casa Grande Project, 1916–1928

By David H. DeJong

The University of Arizona Press

Diverting the Gila explores the complex web of tension, distrust, and political maneuvering to divide and divert the scarce waters of Arizona’s Gila River among residents of Florence, Casa Grande, and the Pima Indians in the early part of the twentieth century. It is the sequel to David H. DeJong’s 2009 Stealing the Gila, and it continues to tell the story of the forerunner to the San Carlos Irrigation Project and the Gila River Indian Community’s struggle to regain access to their water.

Alone but Not Lonely

Alone but Not Lonely

Exploring for Extraterrestrial Life

By Louis Friedman

The University of Arizona Press

Humans have always been fascinated by the possibility of extraterrestrial life, often wondering if we are alone in the universe. Drawing on the author’s fifty years in the field, this book looks at the subject of extraterrestrial life, separating knowledge from conjecture, fact from fiction, to draw scientific and technical conclusions that answer this enduring question and examine the possibility of remotely exploring life on other worlds.

Listening to Laredo

Listening to Laredo

A Border City in a Globalized Age

By Mehnaaz Momen

The University of Arizona Press

Nestled between Texas and Mexico, the city of Laredo was a quaint border town, nurturing cultural ties across the river, attracting occasional tourists, and populated with people living there for generations. Mehnaaz Momen traces Laredo’s history and evolution through the voices of its people. She examines the changing economic and cultural infrastructure of the city, its interdependence with its sister city across the national boundary, and, above all, the resilience of the community as it adapts to and even challenges the national narrative on the border.

Bennu 3-D

Anatomy of an Asteroid

By Dante S. Lauretta, Brian May, Carina A. Bennett, Kenneth S. Coles, Claudia Manzoni, and Catherine W. V. Wolner

The University of Arizona Press

This book, the world’s first complete (and stereoscopic) atlas of an asteroid, is the result of a unique collaboration between OSIRIS-REx mission leader Dante Lauretta and Brian May’s London Stereoscopic Company. Lauretta’s colleagues include Carina Bennett, Kenneth Coles, and Cat Wolner, as well as Brian May and Claudia Manzoni, who became part of the ultimately successful effort to find a safe landing site for sampling. The text details the data collected by the mission so far, and the stereo images have been meticulously created by Manzoni and May from original images collected by the OSIRIS-REx cameras.

Birds of the Sun

Birds of the Sun

Macaws and People in the U.S. Southwest and Mexican Northwest

Edited by Christopher W Schwartz, Stephen Plog, and Patricia A. Gilman

The University of Arizona Press

The multiple vivid colors of scarlet macaws and their ability to mimic human speech are key reasons they were and are significant to the Native peoples of the U.S. Southwest and Mexican Northwest. Although the birds’ natural habitat is the tropical forests of Mexico and Central and South America, they were present at multiple archaeological sites in the region yet absent at the vast majority. Leading experts in southwestern archaeology explore the reasons why.

Urban Imaginaries in Native Amazonia

Urban Imaginaries in Native Amazonia

Tales of Alterity, Power, and Defiance

Edited by Fernando Santos-Granero and Emanuele Fabiano

The University of Arizona Press

Featuring analysis from historical, ethnological, and philosophical perspectives, this volume dissects Indigenous Amazonians’ beliefs about urban imaginaries and their ties to power, alterity, domination, and defiance. Contributors analyze how ambiguous urban imaginaries express a singular view of cosmopolitical relations, how they inform and shape forest-city interactions, and the history of how they came into existence, as well as their influence in present-day migration and urbanization.

No Place for a Lady

No Place for a Lady

The Life Story of Archaeologist Marjorie F. Lambert

By Shelby Tisdale

The University of Arizona Press

Marjorie Lambert’s life story is intricately entwined in the development of archaeology in the American Southwest. In Shelby Tisdale’s compelling biography, Lambert’s work as an archaeologist, museologist, and museum curator in Santa Fe comes to life and serves as inspiration for today.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Juan Felipe Herrera

Migrant, Activist, Poet Laureate

Edited by Francisco A. Lomelí and Osiris Aníbal Gómez

The University of Arizona Press

This book is a wide-ranging collection of critical approaches on the highly accomplished poet Juan Felipe Herrera, who transcends ethnic and mainstream poetics. The chapters in this book expertly demonstrate the author’s versatility, resourcefulness, innovations, and infinite creativity.

Becoming Hopi

Becoming Hopi

A History

Edited by Wesley Bernardini, Stewart B. Koyiyumptewa, Gregson Schachner, and Leigh J. Kuwanwisiwma

The University of Arizona Press

Becoming Hopi is a comprehensive look at the history of the people of the Hopi Mesas as it has never been told before. The product of more than fifteen years of collaboration between tribal and academic scholars, this volume presents groundbreaking research demonstrating that the Hopi Mesas are among the great centers of the Pueblo world.

Where We Belong

Where We Belong

Chemehuevi and Caxcan Preservation of Sacred Mountains

By Daisy Ocampo Diaz

The University of Arizona Press

This comparative work dispels the harmful myth that Native people are unfit stewards of their sacred places. This work establishes Indigenous preservation practices as sustaining approaches to the caretaking of the land that embody ecological sustainability, spiritual landscapes, and community well-being.

Finding Right Relations

Finding Right Relations

Quakers, Native Americans, and Settler Colonialism

By Marianne O. Nielsen and Barbara M. Heather

The University of Arizona Press

Colonialism has the power to corrupt. This important new work argues that even the early Quakers, who had a belief system rooted in social justice, committed structural and cultural violence against their Indigenous neighbors.

Pyrocene Park

Pyrocene Park

A Journey into the Fire History of Yosemite National Park

By Stephen J. Pyne

The University of Arizona Press

The Earth is fast transitioning from a planet shaped by ice to one shaped by fire in all its manifestations. Yosemite National Park offers a microcosm for understanding our current world. Stephen J. Pyne tells the story of how fire got removed from the landscape and the ways, both deliberate and feral, it is returning.

Persistence of Good Living

Persistence of Good Living

A’uwe Life Cycles and Well-Being in the Central Brazilian Cerrados

By James R. Welch

The University of Arizona Press

For the Indigenous A’uwẽ (Xavante) people in the tropical savannas of Brazil, special forms of intimate and antagonistic social relations, camaraderie, suffering, and engagement with the environment are fundamental aspects of community well-being. In this work, the author transparently presents ethnographic insights from long-term anthropological fieldwork in two A’uwẽ communities, addressing how distinctive constructions of age organization contribute to social well-being in an era of major ecological, economic, and sociocultural change.

Mexican Waves

Mexican Waves

Radio Broadcasting Along Mexico's Northern Border, 1930–1950

By Sonia Robles

The University of Arizona Press

Mexican Waves takes us to a time before the border’s militarization, when radio entrepreneurs, listeners, and artists viewed the boundary between the United States and Mexico the same way that radio waves did—as fluid and nonexistent. Author Sonia Robles explains how Mexican radio entrepreneurs targeted the Mexican population in the United States decades before U.S. advertising agencies realized the value of the Spanish-language market and demonstrates Mexico’s role in shaping the borderlands.

Indigenous Justice and Gender

Indigenous Justice and Gender

Edited by Marianne O. Nielsen and Karen Jarratt-Snider

The University of Arizona Press

This new book offers a broad overview of topics pertaining to gender-related health, violence, and healing. Employing a strength-based approach (as opposed to a deficit model), the chapters address the resiliency of Indigenous women and two-spirit people in the face of colonial violence and structural racism.

Walking Together

Walking Together

Central Americans and Transit Migration Through Mexico

By Alejandra Díaz de León

The University of Arizona Press

Sitting at the intersection of border studies, immigration studies, and Latinx studies, this concise volume shows how Central American migrants in transit through Mexico survive the precarious and unpredictable road by forming different types of social ties, developing trust, and engaging in acts of solidarity. The accessible writing and detailed ethnographic narratives of different associations, ties, and groups that migrants form while in transit weave together theory with empirical observations to highlight and humanize the migrant experience.

Revealing Rebellion in Abiayala

Revealing Rebellion in Abiayala

The Insurgent Poetics of Contemporary Indigenous Literature

By Hannah Burdette

The University of Arizona Press

From the Pan-Maya Movement in Guatemala and the Zapatista uprising in Mexico to the Water and Gas Wars in Bolivia and the Idle No More movement in Canada, the twenty-first century has witnessed a notable surge in Indigenous political action. Meanwhile, numerous authors use fiction and poetry to combat their invisibility and envision alternatives to coloniality. Revealing Rebellion in Abiayala provides a powerful starting point for rethinking inter-American studies through the lens of literature and Indigenous sovereignty.

Foodways of the Ancient Andes

Foodways of the Ancient Andes

Transforming Diet, Cuisine, and Society

Edited by Marta P Alfonso-Durruty and Deborah E Blom

The University of Arizona Press

Exploring the multiple social, ecological, cultural, and ontological dimensions of food in the Andean past, this book offers a diverse set of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches that reveal the richness, sophistication, and ingenuity of Andean peoples. With forty-six contributors from ten countries, the studies presented in this volume employ new analytical methods, integrating different food data and interdisciplinary research to show how food impacts sociopolitical relationships and ontologies that are otherwise invisible in the archaeological record.

Black Women and da ’Rona

Black Women and da ’Rona

Community, Consciousness, and Ethics of Care

Edited by Julia S. Jordan-Zachery and Shamara Wyllie Alhassan

The University of Arizona Press

Deliberately writing against archival erasure and death-driven logics of anti-Blackness, this volume chronicles Black women’s aliveness, ethics of care, and rituals of healing. The nineteen contributors from interdisciplinary fields and diverse backgrounds situate Black women’s multidimensional experiences with COVID-19 and other violences that affect their lives. The stories they tell are connected and interwoven, bound together by anti-Black gendered COVID necropolitics and commitments to creating new spaces for breathing, healing, and wellness.

The Unequal Ocean

The Unequal Ocean

Living with Environmental Change along the Peruvian Coast

By Maximilian Viatori

The University of Arizona Press

Based on a decade of ethnographic and archival research in Peru, this volume reveals how prevailing representations of the ocean obscure racialized disparities and the ways that different people experience the impacts of the climate crisis. The book also addresses expanding scholarly interest in the world’s oceans as sites for thinking about social inequities, environmental politics, and multispecies relationships.

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