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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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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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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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Illegalized

Undocumented Youth Movements in the United States

The University of Arizona Press

Illegalized situates undocumented youth movements’ trajectories in the twenty-first century. It invites readers to explore how undocumented youth activists changed the way immigrant rights are discussed in the United States today.

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House of Grace, House of Blood

Poems

The University of Arizona Press

An innovative collection of archival poetry, House of Grace, House of Blood weaves images and documents from the 1782 massacre of pacifist Delawares in Gnadenhutten, Ohio into poems that explore contradictions: settler colonists and Indigenous people; violence and reconciliation; body and spirit; history and silence. Ultimately, these poems not only reconstruct an important historical event, but they also put pressure on the archive, asking us to question not only what is remembered, but how history is remembered—and who is forgotten from it.

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Five Hundred Years of LGBTQIA+ History in Western Nicaragua

The University of Arizona Press

This groundbreaking book reframes five hundred years of western Nicaraguan history by giving gender and sexuality the attention they deserve. González-Rivera decenters nationalist narratives of triumphant mestizaje and argues that western Nicaragua’s LGBTQIA+ history is a profoundly Indigenous one.

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Reconnaissance in Sonora

Charles D. Poston's 1854 Exploration of Mexico and the Gadsden Purchase

The University of Arizona Press

Reconnaissance in Sonora is based on Charles D. Poston’s handwritten report about his 1854 journey from San Francisco to Sonora, Mexico, and his return through the Gadsden Purchase territory of southern Arizona. Along the way, C. Gilbert Storms explores the national debate over a route for a transcontinental railroad and the legends of rich gold and silver mines in 1850s northern Mexico.

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