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Jesus and the Gang
Youth Violence and Christianity in Urban Honduras
By Jon Wolseth
The University of Arizona Press
We Are Our Language
The University of Arizona Press
In presenting the case of Kaska, an endangered language in an Athapascan community in the Yukon, Barbra Meek asserts that language revitalization requires more than just linguistic rehabilitation; it demands a social transformation. The process must mend rips and tears in the social fabric of the language community that result from an enduring colonial history.
Exoplanets
Edited by Sara Seager
The University of Arizona Press
For the first time in human history, we are certain of the existence of planets around other stars. Exoplanets serves as both an introduction for the non-specialist and a foundation for the techniques and equations used in exoplanet observation by those dedicated to the field. This volume lays the foundation for the field’s continued growth.
Controlling the Past, Owning the Future
The Political Uses of Archaeology in the Middle East
The University of Arizona Press
Burnt Corn Pueblo
Conflict and Conflagration in the Galisteo Basin, A.D. 1250–1325
Edited by James E. Snead and Mark W. Allen
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Becoming Villagers
Comparing Early Village Societies
Edited by Matthew S. Bandy and Jake R. Fox
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An Impossible Living in a Transborder World
Culture, Confianza, and Economy of Mexican-Origin Populations
The University of Arizona Press
With this extensively researched book, Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez updates and expands upon his major 1983 study of rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs), incorporating new data that reflect the explosion of Mexican-origin populations in the United States. This book examines the way in which these practices are part of greater transnational economies and how these populations engage in—and suffer through—the twenty-first century global economy.
A Prehistory of Ordinary People
The University of Arizona Press
Monica L. Smith examines how the archaeological record of ordinary objects—used by ordinary people—constitutes a manifestation of humankind’s cognitive and social development. A Prehistory of Ordinary People offers an impressive synthesis and accessible style that will appeal to archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, and others interested in the long history of human decision-making.
The Argentine Folklore Movement
Sugar Elites, Criollo Workers, and the Politics of Cultural Nationalism, 1900–1955
The University of Arizona Press
No Communication with the Sea
Searching for an Urban Future in the Great Basin
By Tim Sullivan
The University of Arizona Press
torch song tango choir
The University of Arizona Press
These fine poems are connected by—and evoke—the music of lost homelands. Paegle, the daughter of immigrants from Argentina and Latvia, takes us through the tumult of displacement and migration with a strong sense for the folk songs and tango music of her youth.
The Good Rainbow Road
By Simon J. Ortiz; Illustrated by Michael Lacapa
The University of Arizona Press