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Ready Player Juan
Latinx Masculinities and Stereotypes in Video Games
Landscapes and Social Transformations on the Northwest Coast
Colonial Encounters in the Fraser Valley
Construction of Maya Space
Causeways, Walls, and Open Areas from Ancient to Modern Times
Our Hidden Landscapes
Indigenous Stone Ceremonial Sites in Eastern North America
Nihikéyah
Navajo Homeland
Living and Leaving
A Social History of Regional Depopulation in Thirteenth-Century Mesa Verde
In the Arms of Saguaros
Iconography of the Giant Cactus
Bringing Home the Wild
A Riparian Garden in a Southwest City
All That Rises
A Novel
Chicana Portraits
Critical Biographies of Twelve Chicana Writers
Latinos and Nationhood
Two Centuries of Intellectual Thought
Race, Place, and Reform in Mexican Los Angeles
A Transnational Perspective, 1890-1940
Mexico’s Valleys of Cuicatlán and Tehuacán
From Deserts to Clouds
La Plonqui
The Literary Life and Work of Margarita Cota-Cárdenas
This volume’s essays analyze her work’s themes of Chicana identity, the Chicanx movement, and the sociopolitical climate of Arizona and the larger U.S.-Mexico border region, as well as issues of gender, sexuality, and identity related to the Chicanx experience over time.
Urban Indigeneities
Being Indigenous in the Twenty-First Century
The Ecolaboratory
Environmental Governance and Economic Development in Costa Rica
Diverting the Gila
The Pima Indians and the Florence-Casa Grande Project, 1916–1928
Diverting the Gila explores the complex web of tension, distrust, and political maneuvering to divide and divert the scarce waters of Arizona’s Gila River among residents of Florence, Casa Grande, and the Pima Indians in the early part of the twentieth century. It is the sequel to David H. DeJong’s 2009 Stealing the Gila, and it continues to tell the story of the forerunner to the San Carlos Irrigation Project and the Gila River Indian Community’s struggle to regain access to their water.
Alone but Not Lonely
Exploring for Extraterrestrial Life
Listening to Laredo
A Border City in a Globalized Age
Bennu 3-D
Anatomy of an Asteroid
Birds of the Sun
Macaws and People in the U.S. Southwest and Mexican Northwest
Urban Imaginaries in Native Amazonia
Tales of Alterity, Power, and Defiance
Featuring analysis from historical, ethnological, and philosophical perspectives, this volume dissects Indigenous Amazonians’ beliefs about urban imaginaries and their ties to power, alterity, domination, and defiance. Contributors analyze how ambiguous urban imaginaries express a singular view of cosmopolitical relations, how they inform and shape forest-city interactions, and the history of how they came into existence, as well as their influence in present-day migration and urbanization.
No Place for a Lady
The Life Story of Archaeologist Marjorie F. Lambert
Marjorie Lambert’s life story is intricately entwined in the development of archaeology in the American Southwest. In Shelby Tisdale’s compelling biography, Lambert’s work as an archaeologist, museologist, and museum curator in Santa Fe comes to life and serves as inspiration for today.
Juan Felipe Herrera
Migrant, Activist, Poet Laureate
Becoming Hopi
A History
Where We Belong
Chemehuevi and Caxcan Preservation of Sacred Mountains
Pyrocene Park
A Journey into the Fire History of Yosemite National Park
Persistence of Good Living
A’uwe Life Cycles and Well-Being in the Central Brazilian Cerrados
For the Indigenous A’uwẽ (Xavante) people in the tropical savannas of Brazil, special forms of intimate and antagonistic social relations, camaraderie, suffering, and engagement with the environment are fundamental aspects of community well-being. In this work, the author transparently presents ethnographic insights from long-term anthropological fieldwork in two A’uwẽ communities, addressing how distinctive constructions of age organization contribute to social well-being in an era of major ecological, economic, and sociocultural change.
Mexican Waves
Radio Broadcasting Along Mexico's Northern Border, 1930–1950
Indigenous Justice and Gender
This new book offers a broad overview of topics pertaining to gender-related health, violence, and healing. Employing a strength-based approach (as opposed to a deficit model), the chapters address the resiliency of Indigenous women and two-spirit people in the face of colonial violence and structural racism.