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Plaintext
Essays
By Nancy Mairs
The University of Arizona Press
Plaintext has won critical acclaim and a wide audience for author Nancy Mairs’s unapologetic views on agoraphobia, multiple sclerosis, and the challenges of being a woman in a patriarchal world. The provocative collection includes the widely anthologized essays “On Being a Cripple” and “On Not Liking Sex.”
New Chicana/Chicano Writing, Volume 2
Edited by Charles M. Tatum
The University of Arizona Press
Desert Landscaping
How to Start and Maintain a Healthy Landscape in the Southwest
The University of Arizona Press
Western Apache Language and Culture
Essays in Linguistic Anthropology
The University of Arizona Press
The Dawn of Belief
Religion in the Upper Paleolithic of Southwestern Europe
The University of Arizona Press
Songs My Mother Sang to Me
An Oral History of Mexican American Women
The University of Arizona Press
Motivated by a love of her Mexican American heritage, Patricia Preciado Martin set out to document the lives and memories of the women of her mother's and grandmother's eras; for while the role of women in Southwest has begun to be chronicled, that of Hispanic women largely remains obscure. In Songs My Mother Sang to Me, she has preserved the oral histories of many of these women before they have been lost or forgotten.
Soldiers of the Virgin
By Kevin Gosner
The University of Arizona Press
In the early summer of 1712, a young Maya woman from the village of Cancuc in southern Mexico encountered an apparition of the Virgin Mary while walking in the forest. The miracle soon attracted Indian pilgrims from pueblos throughout the highlands of Chiapas. When alarmed Spanish authorities stepped in to put a stop to the ...
Chilies to Chocolate
Food the Americas Gave the World
Edited by Nelson Foster and Linda S. Cordell
The University of Arizona Press
Blazing the Trail
Waymarks in the Exploration of Symbols
By Victor Turner; Edited by Edith Turner
The University of Arizona Press
The Portable Radio in American Life
The University of Arizona Press
As an artifact of culture, the portable radio is an unusual but perfect subject for investigation by archaeologist Schiffer. Seeing the history of everyday objects as the history of the life of a people, he shows how the portable radio has reflected changes in American society as surely as clay pots have for ancient cultures.
