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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.
Walking Together
Central Americans and Transit Migration Through Mexico
Revealing Rebellion in Abiayala
The Insurgent Poetics of Contemporary Indigenous Literature
Foodways of the Ancient Andes
Transforming Diet, Cuisine, and Society
Black Women and da ’Rona
Community, Consciousness, and Ethics of Care
The Unequal Ocean
Living with Environmental Change along the Peruvian Coast
Carbon Sovereignty
Coal, Development, and Energy Transition in the Navajo Nation
Households on the Mimbres Horizon
Excavations at La Gila Encantada, Southwestern New Mexico
This book explores variability in Mimbres Mogollon pithouse sites using a case study from La Gila Encantada to further our understanding of the full range of pithouse occupations in the area. Because the site is away from the major river valleys, the data from excavations at the site provides valuable information on the differences in cultural practices that occurred away from the riverine villages, as well as environmental differences, economic practices, and social constructs.
Border Water
The Politics of U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Water Management, 1945–2015
Border Water places transboundary water management in the frame of the larger binational relationship, offering a comprehensive history of transnational water management between the United States and Mexico. As we move into the next century of transnational water management, this important work offers critical insights into lessons learned and charts a path for the future.
The Carbon Calculation
Global Climate Policy, Forests, and Transnational Governance in Brazil and Mozambique
Occupying Our Space
The Mestiza Rhetorics of Mexican Women Journalists and Activists, 1875–1942
Lotería
Nocturnal Sweepstakes
My Heart Is Bound Up with Them
How Carlos Montezuma Became the Voice of a Generation
Voluntourism and Multispecies Collaboration
Life, Death, and Conservation in the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef
Running After Paradise
Hope, Survival, and Activism in Brazil's Atlantic Forest
Chicano-Chicana Americana
Pop Culture Pluralism Starring Anthony Quinn, Katy Jurado, Robert Beltran, and Lupe Ontiveros
Reading the Illegible
Indigenous Writing and the Limits of Colonial Hegemony in the Andes
Translation and Epistemicide
Racialization of Languages in the Americas
Lavender Fields
Black Women Experiencing Fear, Agency, and Hope in the Time of COVID-19
Agrarian Revolt in the Sierra of Chihuahua, 1959–1965
Sonoran Desert Journeys
Ecology and Evolution of Its Iconic Species
This book explores the evolution and natural history of iconic animals and plants of the northern Sonoran Desert through the eyes of a curious naturalist.
Corporate Nature
An Insider's Ethnography of Global Conservation
Nuclear Nuevo México
Colonialism and the Effects of the Nuclear Industrial Complex on Nuevomexicanos
Nuclear Nuevo México recovers the voices and stories that have been lost or ignored in the telling of U.S. nuclear history. By recuperating these narratives, Myrriah Gómez tells a new story of New Mexico, one in which the nuclear history is not separate from the collective colonial history of Nuevo México but instead demonstrates how earlier eras of settler colonialism laid the foundation for nuclear colonialism in New Mexico.