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Twelve Clocks
The University of Arizona Press
Twelve Clocks consists of interconnected poems concerned with various modes of time and its relation to personal and historical events. It transports the reader across six cities around the world while simultaneously traveling through time from the age of Troy to the present.
Ponderosa
Big Pine of the Southwest
The University of Arizona Press
After spending almost three decades studying among ponderosa pine trees, Allred shares his experiences and observations in Ponderosa, an introduction to ponderosa pine forests. With color photographs and multidisciplinary explanations throughout, Allred invites readers to join him in his exploration of the forest.
Chasing Arizona
One Man’s Yearlong Obsession with the Grand Canyon State
The University of Arizona Press
It seemed like a simple plan—visit fifty-two places in fifty-two weeks. But for author Ken Lamberton, a forty-five-year veteran of life in the Sonoran Desert, the entertaining results were anything but easy. Chasing Arizona takes readers on a yearlong, twenty-thousand-mile joy ride across Arizona during its centennial, racking up more than two hundred points of interest along the way. This book is an adventure story, a tale of Arizona, and a celebration of what makes the state a great place to visit and live.
Wandering Time
Western Notebooks
The University of Arizona Press
Fleeing a failed marriage and haunted by ghosts of his past, Luis Alberto Urrea jumped into his car and wandered the West from one year’s spring through the next. Hiking into aspen forests and poking alongside creeks in the Rockies, he sought solace and wisdom. As nature opened Urrea’s eyes, writing opened his heart. In journal entries that sparkle with discovery, Urrea ruminates on music, poetry, and the landscape, reminding us all to experience the magic and healing of small gestures, ordinary people, and common creatures. Wandering Time offers Urrea’s most intimate work to date, a luminous account of his own search for healing and redemption.
The Last Grizzly and Other Southwestern Bear Stories
Edited by David E. Brown and John A. Murray
The University of Arizona Press
Pilgrimage and Healing
Edited by Jill Dubisch and Michael Winkelman
The University of Arizona Press
Cultural Capital
Mountain Zapotec Migrant Associations in Mexico City
The University of Arizona Press
Planets and Perception
Telescopic Views and Interpretations, 1609-1909
The University of Arizona Press
Winner of the Astronomy Book of the Year from Mercury Magazine (Astronomical Society of the Pacific), Planets and Perception is a provocative book that will intrigue anyone who has ever looked through a telescope. Drawing on both astronomical and psychological data, William Sheehan offers the first systematic analysis of the perceptual and cognitive factors that go into the initial structuring of a planetary image and its subsequent elaboration. Sheehan details the development of lunar and planetary astronomy, underscoring perceptual and psychological themes.
Fluid Arguments
Five Centuries of Western Water Conflict
Edited by Char Miller
The University of Arizona Press
Battle for the BIA
G.E.E. Lindquist and the Missionary Crusade against John Collier
The University of Arizona Press
Archaeology at El Perú-Waka'
Ancient Maya Performances of Ritual, Memory, and Power
Edited by Olivia C. Navarro-Farr and Michelle Rich
The University of Arizona Press
This is the first book to summarize the results of long-term field research at the major Maya site of Waka’. Bringing together findings from diverse research programs of the El Perú-Waka’ Regional Archaeological Project, its fifteen wide-ranging contributions lead to a greater understanding of the richness and complexity of Classic-period Maya culture.
Transformation by Fire
The Archaeology of Cremation in Cultural Context
The University of Arizona Press
Transformation by Fire offers a current assessment of the archaeological research on the widespread social practice of cremation. Editors Ian Kuijt, Colin P. Quinn, and Gabriel Cooney chart a path for the development of interpretive archaeology surrounding this complex social process.
Howling for Justice
New Perspectives on Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead
Edited by Rebecca Tillett
The University of Arizona Press
Almanac of the Dead is a demanding, polarizing, and unique novel. Howling for Justice offers a fresh collection of essays by international scholars that examine and explain some of the book’s key themes in new and useful ways. Included is a never-before-published interview with Leslie Marmon Silko.
Constructing Community
The Archaeology of Early Villages in Central New Mexico
The University of Arizona Press
In Constructing Community, Alison E. Rautman uses the Salinas District in New Mexico to examine the relationships of subsistence practices, mobility, and settlement. Rautman tackles a very broad topic: how archaeologists use material evidence to infer and imagine how people lived in the past, how they coped with everyday decisions and tensions, and how they created a sense of themselves and their place in the world.
The Borders of Inequality
Where Wealth and Poverty Collide
By Íñigo Moré; Translated by Lyn Dominguez
The University of Arizona Press
The Borders of Inequality illustrates how longstanding “multidirectional misunderstandings” can exacerbate cross-border problems—and consequent public opinion. Perpetuating these misunderstandings can inflame and complicate the situation, but purposeful efforts to reduce inequality can produce promising results.
Heirloom Seeds and Their Keepers
Marginality and Memory in the Conservation of Biological Diversity
The University of Arizona Press
Heirloom Seeds and Their Keepers offers a much-needed, scientifically researched perspective on the contribution of seedsaving that illustrates its critical significance to the preservation of both cultural knowledge and crop diversity around the world. It opens new conversations between anthropology and biology, and between researchers and practitioners, as it honors conservation as a way of life.
Mestizaje and Globalization
Transformations of Identity and Power
Edited by Stefanie Wickstrom and Philip D. Young
The University of Arizona Press
Mestizaje and Globalization contributes to an emerging multidisciplinary effort to explore how identities are imposed, negotiated, and reconstructed. The volume offers a comprehensive and empirically diverse collection of insights that look beyond nationalistic mestizaje projects to a diversity of local concepts, understandings, and resistance, with particular attention to cases in Latin America and the United States.
Demigods on Speedway
The University of Arizona Press
Demigods on Speedway is dramatic and poetic, a work of linked stories that together paint a gritty portrait of the Southwest. Well-drawn characters, sprung from Greek mythology into the realities of modern life, face the dilemma of struggling to survive under siege while passionately seeking to make something immortal in their lives.
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