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Latino Los Angeles
Transformations, Communities, and Activism
Field Man
Life as a Desert Archaeologist
Field Man is the memoir of renowned southwestern archaeologist Julian Dodge Hayden—a blue-collar scholar who challenged conventional thinking on the antiquity of man in the New World, brought a formidable pragmatism to the identification of stone tools, and who is remembered as the leading authority on the prehistory of the Sierra Pinacate.
Death and Dying in Colonial Spanish America
Women and Knowledge in Mesoamerica
From East L.A. to Anahuac
Smugglers, Brothels, and Twine
Historical Perspectives on Contraband and Vice in North America’s Borderlands
Native American Performance and Representation
Immigration Law and the U.S.–Mexico Border
¿Sí se puede?
Ideologies in Archaeology
Contributors to this volume focus on elements of life in past societies that “went without saying” and uncover complex manipulations of power that have often gone unrecognized. They show that Occam’s razor—the tendency to favor simpler explanations—is sometimes just an excuse to avoid dealing with the historical world in its full complexity.
From Beneath the Volcano
The Story of a Salvadoran Campesino and His Family
Twelve Hundred Miles by Horse and Burro
J. Stokley Ligon and New Mexico’s First Breeding Bird Survey
The Other Latin@
Writing Against a Singular Identity
The Archaeology of Native-Lived Colonialism
Challenging History in the Great Lakes
State Healthcare and Yanomami Transformations
A Symmetrical Ethnography
With theoretical foundations in medical and Amazonian anthropology, Kelly shows how Amerindian cosmology shapes concepts of the state at the community level. His symmetrical anthropology treats white and Amerindian perceptions of each other within a single theoretical framework, thus expanding our understanding of the groups and their mutual influences. This book will be valuable to scholars and students of Amazonian peoples, medical anthropology, development, and Latin American studies.
Sing
Poetry from the Indigenous Americas
Cooking the Wild Southwest
Delicious Recipes for Desert Plants
Codex Chimalpopoca
The Text in Nahuatl with a Glossary and Grammatical Notes
Chicano Studies
The Genesis of a Discipline
Part intellectual history, part social criticism, and part personal meditation, Chicano Studies attempts to make sense of the collision (and occasional wreckage) of politics, culture, scholarship, ideology, and philosophy that created a new academic discipline. Along the way, it identifies a remarkable cast of scholars and administrators who added considerable zest to the drama.