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Ladies of the Canyons
A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest
The University of Arizona Press
Ladies of the Canyons is the true story of a group of remarkable women whose lives were transformed by the people and landscape of the American Southwest in the first decades of the twentieth century.
De Grazia
The Man and the Myths
The University of Arizona Press
This is the first comprehensive biography of artist Ted DeGrazia (1909–1982), who was known as much for his colorful paintings of the Southwest and Mexico as his eccentric personality. De Grazia: The Man and the Myths mines private archival sources, memoirs, and interviews to draw an intriguing new portrait of this western legend.
Burton Barr
Political Leadership and the Transformation of Arizona
By Philip VanderMeer; Foreword by Alfredo Gutierrez
The University of Arizona Press
Arizona House Majority Leader Burton Barr’s leadership style not only illuminated his personality and ideas, but also explained the larger political development of Arizona. Barr’s career is instructive because of his considerable success, the criticism it engendered, and the forces he contested, all taking place during an era of significant change.
Border Oasis
Water and the Political Ecology of the Colorado River Delta, 1940–1975
By Evan R. Ward
The University of Arizona Press
Across a Great Divide
Continuity and Change in Native North American Societies, 1400–1900
Edited by Laura L. Scheiber and Mark D. Mitchell
The University of Arizona Press
Archaeological research is uniquely positioned to show how native history and native culture affected the course of colonial interaction, but to do so it must transcend colonialist ideas about Native American technological and social change. This book applies that insight to five hundred years of native history. Using data from a wide variety of geographical, temporal, and cultural settings, the contributors examine economic, social, and political stability and transformation in indigenous societies before and after the advent of Europeans and document the diversity of native colonial experiences. The book’s case studies range widely, from sixteenth-century Florida, to the Great Plains, to nineteenth-century coastal Alaska.
The Colorado Plateau VI
Science and Management at the Landscape Scale
The University of Arizona Press
With a plethora of updates and insights into land conservation and management questions on the Colorado Plateau, The Colorado Plateau VI is the sixth installment in a series of research on the region. Contributors show how new technologies for monitoring, spatial analysis, restoration, and collaboration improve our understanding, management, and conservation of outcomes at the appropriate landscape scale for the Colorado Plateau.
From Tribute to Communal Sovereignty
The Tarascan and Caxcan Territories in Transition
The University of Arizona Press
From Tribute to Communal Sovereignty brings together well-regarded scholars to examine both continuity and change over the last five centuries for the indigenous peoples of Central Western Mexico, providing the first sweeping and comprehensive regional history of this important region in Mesoamerica.
Crafting Identity
Transnational Indian Arts and the Politics of Race in Central Mexico
The University of Arizona Press
Crafting Identity explores the complex interplay of social relations, values, dominations, and performances present in the world of Mexican mask making. The book examines how art, media, and tourism mediate Mexican culture from the margins (“arte popular”), making Mexican indigeneity “palatable” for Mexican nationalism and American and global markets for folklore.
Taking Charge
Native American Self-Determination and Federal Indian Policy, 1975–1993
The University of Arizona Press
We Are the State!
Barrio Activism in Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution
The University of Arizona Press
We Are the State! provides a new perspective on the Chavistas, a diverse social movement and a driving force behind Venezuela’s social revolution. Cristobal Valencia dramatically challenges top-down understandings of the state and power in Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution. His ethnographic research reveals the shift in power relationships and the evolving political practices amongst the Chavistas, the Chávez government, and the larger state apparatus.
Native Studies Keywords
The University of Arizona Press
Native Studies Keywords is a genealogical project that looks at the history of words that claim to have no history. The end goal is not to determine which words are appropriate but to critically examine words that are crucial to Native studies, in hopes of promoting debate and critical interrogation.
Mesoamerican Plazas
Arenas of Community and Power
Edited by Kenichiro Tsukamoto and Takeshi Inomata
The University of Arizona Press
This is the first book to examine the roles of plazas in ancient Mesoamerica. It argues persuasively that physical interactions among people in communal events were not the outcomes of political machinations held behind the scenes, but were the actual political processes through which people created, negotiated, and subverted social realities.
Mapping Indigenous Presence
North Scandinavian and North American Perspectives
The University of Arizona Press
Mapping Indigenous Presence promises to become a benchmark for future conversations concerning comparative Indigenous scholarly methodologies. Shanley and Evjen’s work attests to the importance of the roles Indigenous peoples have played as overseers of their own lands and resources and as political entities capable of governing themselves.