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Biography of a Hacienda
Work and Revolution in Rural Mexico
The University of Arizona Press
Biography of a Hacienda is a book that will last for generations. It looks at the real lives of real people pushed to the brink of revolution, and its conclusions compel us to rethink the social and economic factors involved in the Mexican Revolution.
Fleshing the Spirit
Spirituality and Activism in Chicana, Latina, and Indigenous Women’s Lives
Edited by Elisa Facio and Irene Lara
The University of Arizona Press
Fleshing the Spirit brings together established and new writers to explore the relationships between the physical body, the spirit and spirituality, and social justice activism. The anthology incorporates different genres of writing—such as poetry, testimonials, critical essays, and historical analysis—and stimulates the reader to engage spirituality in a critical, personal, and creative way.
An Anthropologist's Arrival
A Memoir
The University of Arizona Press
Ruth Underhill’s intriguing memoir traces the story of her life, delving into the Depression, the famous anthropologists in her circle, and her fieldwork with a keen ethnographic eye.
Yakama Rising
Indigenous Cultural Revitalization, Activism, and Healing
The University of Arizona Press
Yakama Rising argues that Indigenous communities themselves have the answers to the persistent social problems they face. This book contributes to discourses of Indigenous social change by articulating a Yakama decolonizing praxis that advances the premise that grassroots activism and cultural revitalization are powerful examples of decolonization.
Huichol Territory and the Mexican Nation
Indigenous Ritual, Land Conflict, and Sovereignty Claims
The University of Arizona Press
This book is thus a multi-sited ethnography of territoriality with broad geographical and theoretical reach. Its mix of vivid description and complex theory will engage multiple publics. It is aimed at anthropologists, historians, and geographers who deal with Indian territory and sovereignty in Latin America, but it will also engage readers interested in what “place” means to native peoples and how they represent themselves to global publics. It will also be a good book for students who want to read an innovative ethnography about a quintessentially “traditional” Mexican Indian people’s creative response to challenging historical conditions.
Aztlán Arizona
Mexican American Educational Empowerment, 1968–1978
The University of Arizona Press
Aztlán Arizona is the first thorough examination of Arizona’s Chicano student movement, providing an exhaustive history of the emergence of the state’s Chicano Movement politics and its related school reform efforts. Darius V. Echeverría reveals how Mexican American communities fostered a togetherness that ultimately modified larger Arizona society by revamping the educational history of the region.
Off-Trail Adventures in Baja California
Exploring Landscapes and Geology on Gulf Shores and Islands
The University of Arizona Press
A must-have for anyone who has visited or hopes to visit Baja California’s Gulf Coast, Off-Trail Adventures in Baja California describes—and maps and illustrates—nine hikes on islands, along coastal outcrops, and other special places where geography, geology, and ecology meet in singular ways. Whether you like to hike with your boots on or from the comfort of your couch, this book is a delight.
Seriously Funny
Mexican Political Jokes as Social Resistance
By Samuel Schmidt; Translated by Adam Schmidt
The University of Arizona Press
Exploring the ways in which political humor has developed and operated in Mexico over more than four centuries, this is groundbreaking work argues persuasively that political jokes are acts of rebellion: their objective is not to overthrow a government but to correct its mistakes.
With Blood in Their Eyes
By Thomas Cobb
The University of Arizona Press
Thomas Cobb introduces the day when the Power brothers engaged the Graham County Sheriff’s Department in the bloodiest shootout in Arizona history. In this Spur Award Winner (Best Western Long Novel) Cobb cunningly weaves the story of the Power brothers’ escape with flashbacks of the boys’ father’s life and his struggle to make a living ranching, logging, and mining in the West around the turn of the century. Deftly drawn characters and cleverly concealed motivations work seamlessly to blend a compelling family history with a desperate story of the brothers as they attempt to escape.
The Red Bird All-Indian Traveling Band
The University of Arizona Press
Opening July 4, 1969, on the Pine Ridge Reservation, The Red Bird All-Indian Traveling Band follows a country western band through a summer of gigs in this novel that is equal parts mystery and community chronicle. At its core is the band’s sassy lead singer and guitarist, Sissy Roberts, who must unravel a mysterious death as well as her own future in this story set in Indian Country on the verge of historic changes.
Raza Studies
The Public Option for Educational Revolution
The University of Arizona Press
The well-known and controversial Mexican American studies (MAS) program in Arizona’s Tucson Unified School District set out to create an equitable and excellent educational experience for Latino students. Raza Studies: The Public Option for Educational Revolution offers the first comprehensive account of this progressive—indeed revolutionary—program by those who created it, implemented it, and have struggled to protect it.
Ameriscopia
By Edwin Torres
The University of Arizona Press
Shattering the definition of Latino into a million little pieces, poet Edwin Torres reassembles identity into something that is more likely and at the same time unexpected, complex, and multifaceted. From conversations in cars to fast-beat lullabies, Ameriscopia is a collection that taps into rhythms both distinctive and dynamic.
Reimagining National Belonging
Post-Civil War El Salvador in a Global Context
The University of Arizona Press
Reimagining National Belonging offers the first sustained critical examination of post-civil war El Salvador, describing how one nation took up the challenge of generating social unity and shared meanings around ideas of the nation. An “ethnography of the state,” it highlights the practices and the complexities of nation-building in the 21st century.
Latino Los Angeles in Film and Fiction
The Cultural Production of Social Anxiety
The University of Arizona Press
A much-needed contribution to the fields of urban theory, race critical theory, Chicana/o–Latina/o studies, and Los Angeles writing and film, López-Calvo offers multiple theoretical perspectives—including urban theory, ecocriticism, ethnic studies, gender studies, and cultural studies—contextualized with notions of transnationalism and post-nationalism.
Revolt
An Archaeological History of Pueblo Resistance and Revitalization in 17th Century New Mexico
The University of Arizona Press
Traditional text-based accounts tend to focus on the revolt and the Spaniards’ reconquest in 1692—completely skipping over the years of indigenous independence that occurred in between. Revolt boldly breaks out of this mold and examines the aftermath of the uprising in colonial New Mexico, focusing on the radical changes it instigated in Pueblo culture and society.
Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University.
Last Water on the Devil's Highway
A Cultural and Natural History of Tinajas Altas
By Bill Broyles, Gayle Harrison Hartmann, Thomas E. Sheridan, Gary Paul Nabhan, and Mary Charlotte Thurtle
The University of Arizona Press
In the Smaller Scope of Conscience
The Struggle for National Repatriation Legislation, 1986–1990
The University of Arizona Press
In the Smaller Scope of Conscience is a thoughtful and detailed study of the ins and outs of the four-year process behind the creation of NMAIA and NAGPRA. It is a singular contribution to the history of these issues, with the potential to help mediate the ongoing debate by encouraging all sides to retrace the steps of the legislators responsible for the acts.
Warfare in Cultural Context
Practice, Agency, and the Archaeology of Violence
Edited by Axel E. Nielsen and William H. Walker
The University of Arizona Press
Warfare is a constant in human history. Contributors to this book contend that agency and culture, inherited values and dispositions (such as religion and other cultural practices), beliefs, and institutions are always woven into the conduct of war. Using archaeological and ethnohistorical data from various parts of the world, the contributors explore the multiple avenues for the cultural study of warfare that these ideas make possible. Contributions focus on cultural aspects of warfare in Mesoamerica, South America, North America, and Southeast Asia.
Comparative Climatology of Terrestrial Planets
The University of Arizona Press
Through the contributions of more than sixty leading experts in the field, Comparative Climatology of Terrestrial Planets sets forth the foundations for this emerging new science and brings the reader to the forefront of our current understanding of atmospheric formation and climate evolution.
Foundational Arts
Mural Painting and Missionary Theater in New Spain
The University of Arizona Press
Foundational Arts examines how the relationships between mural painting and missionary theater became a transcultural process for mass conversion of Native populations to Christianity. Michael K. Schuessler studies the New World expressions of dramatic and plastic arts and how they became the tools of European friars to Christianize Native peoples and ultimately create a new and unique literary and artistic tradition.
Ambitious Rebels
Remaking Honor, Law, and Liberalism in Venezuela, 1780-1850
The University of Arizona Press
By examining everyday life in Venezuela’s post-colonial period, Reuben Zahler provides a broad perspective on conditions throughout the Americas, and the tension between traditional norms and new liberal standards during Venezuela’s transformation from a Spanish colony to a modern republic.
The Archaeology of Kinship
Advancing Interpretation and Contributions to Theory
The University of Arizona Press
This book explains how kinship is relevant to contemporary archaeological theory, detailing methods appropriate for archaeological analysis, and provides long-overdue solutions to problems plaguing ethnological hypotheses on the origins and contexts of kinship behaviors.
Silent Violence
Global Health, Malaria, and Child Survival in Tanzania
The University of Arizona Press
Seeking to link social, economic, and political forces to local experiences of sickness and suffering, Silent Violence analyzes the experiences and practices of people most deeply affected by malaria. Vinay Kamat explores the experience of individuals and households confronted by malaria against the backdrop of social and health issues.
Seeds of Resistance, Seeds of Hope
Place and Agency in the Conservation of Biodiversity
The University of Arizona Press
Without denying the gravity of the problems of feeding the earth’s population while conserving its natural resources, Seeds of Resistance, Seeds of Hope reminds us that there are many positive movements and developments, especially at the grass-roots level, that demonstrate the power of opposition and optimism.
Knowing the Day, Knowing the World
Engaging Amerindian Thought in Public Archaeology
By Lesley Green and David R. Green
The University of Arizona Press
Based on more than a decade of research in Palikur lands known as Arukwa in the state of Amapá, Brazil, Knowing the Day, Knowing the World demonstrates both the challenges of comprehending alternative cosmologies and the rich rewards of grappling with Amerindian ways of thinking and knowing.
Uncharted Terrains
New Directions in Border Research Methodology, Ethics, and Practice
The University of Arizona Press
New Directions in Border Research Methodology, Ethics, and Practice looks at the stigmatization of immigrants since the U.S. began focusing on securing its border with Mexico in 2001. These researchers explore ethical questions concerning border research methodology, and the political and social implications of U.S. immigration policies and programs.
Complex Communities
The Archaeology of Early Iron Age West-Central Jordan
The University of Arizona Press
Complex Communities explores how sustainable communities developed and flourished in the Middle East nearly four thousand years ago. From archaeological evidence, Benjamin W. Porter reconstructs how the residents of small villages were able to adapt to changes in their environment, including climate change, and maintain their communities over time.
Broken Souths
Latina/o Poetic Responses to Neoliberalism and Globalization
The University of Arizona Press
Broken Souths puts Latina/o and Latin American poets into sustained conversation in original and rewarding ways.
Encountering Life in the Universe
Ethical Foundations and Social Implications of Astrobiology
The University of Arizona Press
Encountering Life in the Universe examines the intersection of scientific research and society to determine the philosophy and ethics of relating to the Earth and beyond.
Brewing Arizona
A Century of Beer in the Grand Canyon State
By Ed Sipos
The University of Arizona Press
Brewing Arizona is the first comprehensive book of Arizona beer. Beautifully illustrated, it includes every brewery known to have operated in the state, from the first to the latest, from crude brews to craft brews. Like a fine beer, the contents are deep and rich with just a little froth on top.
A War that Can’t Be Won
Binational Perspectives on the War on Drugs
The University of Arizona Press
Forty years after Richard Nixon declared a “War on Drugs,” this sobering book offers views of the “narco wars” from scholars on both sides of the US-Mexico border. With evidence newly obtained through freedom-of-information inquiries in Mexico, it proposes practical solutions to a seemingly intractable crisis.
Where the Wind Blows Us
Practicing Critical Community Archaeology in the Canadian North
The University of Arizona Press
This useful book—part case study, part handbook—unites critical practice with a community-based approach to archaeology. It describes an inclusive archaeology that rests on a flexible but rigorous research design and incorporates responsible, ethical practice.
Telling and Being Told
Storytelling and Cultural Control in Contemporary Yucatec Maya Literatures
The University of Arizona Press
Oral literature has been excluded from the analysis of Yucatec Maya literature, but it is a key component and a vital force in the cultural communities and their contemporary writing. Telling and Being Told shows the vital role Yucatec storytelling claims in Mayan ways of knowing and in the Mexican literary canon.
Milk and Filth
The University of Arizona Press
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Milk and Filth is a collection of forty-two poems exploring issues of gender, equality, sexuality and the artist-as-thinker in modern culture. Deftly blending a variety of tones, styles, and structure, Giménez Smith’s poems evocatively explores deep cultural issues.
Indian Resilience and Rebuilding
Indigenous Nations in the Modern American West
The University of Arizona Press
This illuminating and comprehensive analysis of Native nations' resilience in the twentieth century demonstrates how Native Americans reinvented themselves, rebuilt their nations, and ultimately became major forces in the United States. Written by Donald L. Fixico, Indian Resilience and Rebuilding redefines how modern American history can and should be told.
Oral History, Community, and Work in the American West
Edited by Jessie L. Embry
The University of Arizona Press
The essays in this volume show how oral history can increase understanding of work and community in the twentieth century American West. Here an array of oral historians—including folklorists, librarians, and public historians—record what they have learned from people who have made their communities and have made history.
More Than Two to Tango
Argentine Tango Immigrants in New York City
The University of Arizona Press
The world of Argentine tango presents a glamorous façade of music and movement. Yet the immigrant dancers whose livelihoods depend on the US tango industry receive little attention beyond their enigmatic public personas. More Than Two to Tango gives a detailed portrait of the Argentine immigrant community, where tango is both an art form and a means of survival.
Coconut Milk
The University of Arizona Press
Coconut Milk is the first book-length collection of poems by contemporary queer Samoan writer and painter Dan Taulapapa McMullin. His poems humorously attack cultural appropriation, gender, and the hypocrisies of Western influence in Oceania today. Pulling at the stereotype of a beautiful Polynesia available for the taking, his poems challenge and carve out new avenues of meaning for Pacific Islanders.
Indigeneity in the Mexican Cultural Imagination
Thresholds of Belonging
The University of Arizona Press
Pueblo Indians and Spanish Colonial Authority in Eighteenth-Century New Mexico
The University of Arizona Press
Tracy L. Brown explores the impact of Spanish colonial interactions on Pueblo culture, using little-researched Spanish language documents from the eighteenth century. Pueblo peoples negotiated Spanish authority to maintain their own distinct ethnic identity.
Mexico, Nation in Transit
Contemporary Representations of Mexican Migration to the United States
The University of Arizona Press
Spanning the social sciences and the humanities, Mexico, Nation in Transit poses a new, transnational alternative to the postnational view that geopolitical borders are being erased by the forces of migration and globalization, and the nationalist view that borders must be strictly enforced. It shows that borders, like identities, are not easy to locate precisely.
Baja California Missions
In the Footsteps of the Padres
The University of Arizona Press
Baja California Missions is a beautiful and informative book about the lovely but seldom-seen missions of Baja that remain intact today. With gorgeous photographs and useful descriptions that include both historical backgrounds and contemporary driving directions, Baja California Missions is both a photography book and a guidebook.
Women and Ledger Art
Four Contemporary Native American Artists
The University of Arizona Press
Although ledger art has long been considered a male art form, Women and Ledger Art calls attention to the extraordinary achievements of four contemporary female Native artists—Sharron Ahtone Harjo (Kiowa), Colleen Cutschall (Oglala Lakota), Linda Haukaas (Sicangu Lakota), and Dolores Purdy Corcoran (Caddo). The book examines these women’s interpretations of their artwork and their thoughts on tribal history and contemporary life.
Communities of Practice
An Alaskan Native Model for Language Teaching and Learning
Edited by Patrick E. Marlow and Sabine Siekmann
The University of Arizona Press
This book describes an innovative project in native-language instruction that has wide applicability in second-language classrooms. Although the project it describes was developed in Alaska, the program can serve as a model throughout the world.
The Affinity of the Eye
Writing Nikkei in Peru
By Ignacio López-Calvo; Foreword by Fernando Iwasaki
The University of Arizona Press
López-Calvo uses contemporary Nikkei texts such as fiction, testimonies, and poetry to construct an account of the cultural formation of Japanese migrant communities, and in so doing challenges fixed notions of Japanese Peruvian identity.
When Worlds Collide
Hunter-Gatherer World-System Change in the 19th Century Canadian Arctic
The University of Arizona Press
The Inuvialuit region is the most under-reported and least-known portion of the North American Arctic, beyond its immediate community of anthropological/archaeological practitioners, and this book helps address that lacuna.
The Ecological Other
Environmental Exclusion in American Culture
The University of Arizona Press
This book engages recent scholarship on trans-corporeality, disability studies, and environmental justice. Ray argues that environmental discourse often frames ecological crisis as a crisis of the body, therefore promoting ecological health at the cost of social equality. Ray urges us to be careful about the ways in which we construct “others” in our arguments to protect nature.
Mapping Wonderlands
Illustrated Cartography of Arizona, 1912–1962
By Dori Griffin
The University of Arizona Press
Mapping Wonderlands explores popular, illustrated maps of Arizona as a tourism destination, investigating the relationship between landscapes, visual culture, and narratives of place. These aesthetically appealing maps offer tourists an Arizona landscape at once historical and imaginary—just as their makers intended.
Latin American Documentary Filmmaking
Major Works
The University of Arizona Press
Latin American Documentary Filmmaking is the first volume written in English to examine themes in major works of Latin American documentary films. Foster looks at the major ideological issues raised and the approaches to Latin American social and political history taken by key documentary films.
Chicana and Chicano Mental Health
Alma, Mente y Corazón
The University of Arizona Press
Chicana and Chicano Mental Health offers a model to understand and to address the mental health challenges and service disparities affecting Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans/Chicanos. Yvette G. Flores, who has more than thirty years of experience as a clinical psychologist, provides in-depth analysis of the major mental health challenges facing these groups: depression, anxiety disorders, including post-traumatic stress disorder, substance abuse, and intimate partner violence.
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