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An Impossible Living in a Transborder World
Culture, Confianza, and Economy of Mexican-Origin Populations
The University of Arizona Press
With this extensively researched book, Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez updates and expands upon his major 1983 study of rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs), incorporating new data that reflect the explosion of Mexican-origin populations in the United States. This book examines the way in which these practices are part of greater transnational economies and how these populations engage in—and suffer through—the twenty-first century global economy.
A Prehistory of Ordinary People
The University of Arizona Press
Monica L. Smith examines how the archaeological record of ordinary objects—used by ordinary people—constitutes a manifestation of humankind’s cognitive and social development. A Prehistory of Ordinary People offers an impressive synthesis and accessible style that will appeal to archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, and others interested in the long history of human decision-making.
The Argentine Folklore Movement
Sugar Elites, Criollo Workers, and the Politics of Cultural Nationalism, 1900–1955
The University of Arizona Press
No Communication with the Sea
Searching for an Urban Future in the Great Basin
By Tim Sullivan
The University of Arizona Press
torch song tango choir
The University of Arizona Press
These fine poems are connected by—and evoke—the music of lost homelands. Paegle, the daughter of immigrants from Argentina and Latvia, takes us through the tumult of displacement and migration with a strong sense for the folk songs and tango music of her youth.
The Good Rainbow Road
By Simon J. Ortiz; Illustrated by Michael Lacapa
The University of Arizona Press