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Amazonian Indians from Prehistory to the Present
Anthropological Perspectives
The Southwest in American Literature and Art
The Rise of a Desert Aesthetic
The Desert Grassland
Tarahumara
Where Night is the Day of the Moon
Chicanismo
The Forging of a Militant Ethos among Mexican Americans
The Road to Mexico
Hispanic Nation
Culture, Politics, and the Constructing of Identity
Molded in the Image of Changing Woman
Navajo Views on the Human Body and Personhood
Koviashuvik
Making a Home in the Brooks Range
Fear Falls Away
and Other Essays from Hard and Rocky Places
Race and Class on Campus
Conversations with Ricardo’s Daughter
Cultural Politics in Revolution
Teachers, Peasants, and Schools in Mexico, 1930-1940
Ceramic Commodities and Common Containers
The Production and Distribution of White Mountain Red Ware in the Grasshopper Region, Arizona
Indians and Anthropologists
Vine Deloria, Jr., and the Critique of Anthropology
Homicide, Race, and Justice in the American West, 1880-1920
Breathing Between the Lines
Demetria Martínez has entered the public consciousness by way of the heart. In 1994, she captured a Western States Book Award with her first novel, Mother Tongue, which went on to win widespread national attention. Now, in Breathing between the Lines, the writer returns to poetry, her first love.
Many of the poems in this book touch on the themes from Mother Tongue, about an American activist who falls in love with a Salvadoran political refugee. Weaving together threads of love and family, social conviction and activism, loss and renewal, Breathing between the Lines carries the reader deep inside the head and heart of a talented Chicana writer.
Page by page, the journey is an exhilarating one. What we find at the end is up to us.
The Telling Distance
Winner of the 1990 Western States Book Award for Creative Nonfiction, The Telling Distance evokes the yearning expanses of our southwestern deserts and finds them full of sensuous marvels, erratic life forms, eccentric fellow travelers, dry humor, and surprise. In prose that revels in paradox, it reveals desert distances to ...
If a Chimpanzee Could Talk and Other Reflections on Language Acquisition
Settlement Ecology
The Social and Spatial Organization of Kofyar Agriculture
Canals and Communities
Small-Scale Irrigation Systems
Border Visions
Mexican Cultures of the Southwest United States
Where the Dove Calls
The Political Ecology of a Peasant Corporate Community in Northwestern Mexico
Riparian Ecosystem Recovery in Arid Lands
Strategies and References
Peyote
Dry whiskey, Divine herb, Devil's root, Medicine of God, Peyote: for some people, to use it is to hear colors and see sounds. For many Native Americans, it brings an ability to reach out of their physical lives, to communicate with the spirits, and to become complete. For chemists, pharmacologists, and psychiatrists, the plant is ...