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The Documented Child
Migration, Personhood, and Citizenship in Twenty-First-Century U.S. Latinx Children's Literature
Looking at picture books and middle-grade and young adult literature written from 1997 to 2020, The Documented Child demonstrates how the portrayal of Latinx children has dramatically shifted and discusses how these shifts map onto broader changes in immigration policy and discourse in the United States.
Blue Corn Tongue
Poems in the Mouth of the Desert
Blue Corn Tongue is a like mixtape from a thirty-something Diné punk girl. It offers poetry about love, friendship, environmental destruction, and language loss.
The Neighbors of Casas Grandes
Medio Period Communities of Northwestern Chihuahua
Huaorani Transformations in Twenty-First-Century Ecuador
Treks into the Future of Time
Ancient Paquimé and the Casas Grandes World
Sentient Lands
Indigeneity, Property, and Political Imagination in Neoliberal Chile
Naming the World
Language and Power Among the Northern Arapaho
Nature and Antiquities
The Making of Archaeology in the Americas
Brazil's Long Revolution
Radical Achievements of the Landless Workers Movement
Gerard P. Kuiper and the Rise of Modern Planetary Science
Heritage in the Body
Sensory Ecologies of Health Practice in Times of Change
Through storytelling, ethnography, and interviews, this volume examines how Indigenous Maya and Garifuna Belizeans—both in Belize and in the United States—navigate macro-level processes such as economic development, climate change, political shifts, and global health crises in the context of changes in their own lives. Employing an embodied ecological heritage (EEH) framework, this work explores the links between health and heritage. It offers insights into how heritage practices become embodied as ways to maintain and support happy, healthy lives.
Embodying Biodiversity
Sensory Conservation as Refuge and Sovereignty
This interdisciplinary volume argues for the importance of everyday sensuous conservation and its ability to grow diverse, livable worlds where human embodiment is understood as part of—not separate from—plant life. Contributors argue that the majority of biodiversity conservation worldwide is carried out not by large-scale conservation projects but by ordinary people engaging in sensory-motivated, caretaking relationships with specific plants.
Birds, Bats, and Blooms
The Coevolution of Vertebrate Pollinators and Their Plants
Birds, Bats, and Blooms provides an in-depth look at the ecology and evolution of two groups of vertebrate pollinators: New World hummingbirds and nectar-feeding bats and their Old World counterparts. Alongside engaging prose, this work includes fourteen color photographs of birds and flowers taken by the author.
Unsettling Mobility
Mediating Mi'kmaw Sovereignty in Post-contact Nova Scotia
Since contact, attempts by institutions such as the British Crown and the Catholic Church to assimilate indigenous peoples have served to mark those people as “Other” than the settler majority. In Unsettling Mobility, Michelle A. Lelièvre examines how mobility has complicated, disrupted, and—at times—served this contradiction at the core of the settler colonial project. Drawing on archaeological, ethnographic, and archival fieldwork conducted with the Pictou Landing First Nation—one of thirteen Mi’kmaw communities in Nova Scotia—Lelièvre argues that, for the British Crown and the Catholic Church, mobility has been required not only for the settlement of the colony but also for the management and conversion of the Mi’kmaq.
