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Huaorani Transformations in Twenty-First-Century Ecuador
Treks into the Future of Time
By Laura Rival
The University of Arizona Press
Like the Amazon forest where the Huaorani people find so much natural abundance, Laura Rival’s book is rich in insights. Capitalizing on her decades-long study and interactions in the community, Huaorani Transformations in Twenty-First-Century Ecuador brings new insights to the Huaorani’s unique way of relating to humans, to other-than-humans, and to the forest landscape they have inhabited for centuries.
Stand Up and Fight
Participatory Indigenismo, Populism, and Mobilization in Mexico, 1970–1984
The University of Arizona Press
Stand Up and Fight is the opening analysis of the First National Congress of Indigenous Peoples in Mexico. The author uses never-before-available documents to trace the political history of a group of indigenous leaders and government representatives who defined politics in their own terms during the 1970s and early 1980s.
Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl and His Legacy
Edited by Galen Brokaw and Jongsoo Lee
The University of Arizona Press
Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl and His Legacy provides a much-needed overview of the life, work, and contribution of an important seventeenth-century historian. The volume explores the complexities of Alva Ixtlilxochitl’s life and works, revising and broadening our understanding of his racial and cultural identity and his contribution to Mexican history.
Uprooting Community
Japanese Mexicans, World War II, and the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
The University of Arizona Press
Uprooting Community examines the political cross-currents that resulted in detention of Japanese Mexicans during World War II. Selfa A. Chew reveals how the entire multiethnic social fabric of the borderlands was reconfigured by the absence of Japanese Mexicans.
Intimate Grammars
An Ethnography of Navajo Poetry
The University of Arizona Press
Through the work of poets such as Luci Tapahonso, Laura Tohe, Rex Lee Jim, Gloria Emerson, Blackhorse Mitchell, Esther Belin, Sherwin Bitsui, and many others, Webster provides new ways of thinking about contemporary Navajo poets and poetry. Intimate Grammars offers an exciting new ethnography of speaking, ethnopoetics, and discourse-centered examinations of language and culture.
Capture These Indians for the Lord
Indians, Methodists, and Oklahomans, 1844-1939
By Tash Smith
The University of Arizona Press
Exploring larger issues associated with western expansion, Capture These Indians for the Lord details the history of the Southern Methodist Church in Oklahoma’s Indian Territory and the complex relationship between its white and Indian membership.
Archaeology and Apprenticeship
Body Knowledge, Identity, and Communities of Practice
Edited by Willeke Wendrich
The University of Arizona Press
Apprenticeship is broadly defined as the transmission of culture through a formal or informal teacher–pupil relationship. This collection invites a wide discussion, citing case studies from all over the world and yet focuses the scholarship into a concise set of contributions. This book also examines apprenticeship in archaeology against a backdrop of sociological and cognitive psychology literature, to enrich the understanding of the relationship between material remains and enculturation.
A Passion for the True and Just
Felix and Lucy Kramer Cohen and the Indian New Deal
The University of Arizona Press
A Passion for the True and Just reveals the moral underpinnings of Felix and Lucy Kramer Cohen and their important contribution to the Indian New Deal. Alice Beck Kehoe illuminates Felix Cohen’s uncompromising commitment to the “true and the just,” rooted in his Jewish intellectual and moral heritage, and Social Democrat principles, that changed American legal philosophy.
Ethnobiology for the Future
Linking Cultural and Ecological Diversity
Edited by Gary Paul Nabhan; Foreword by Paul E. Minnis
The University of Arizona Press
Ethnobiology is dedicated to celebrating the knowledge and values of some of the most distinctive cultures and practices on Earth. In this important new collection, MacArthur Fellow Gary Paul Nabhan lays out the case for the future of the field. Nabhan and his colleagues from across disciplines and cultures call for an ethnobiology that is provocative, problem-driven, and, above all, inspiring.
Asegi Stories
Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory
The University of Arizona Press
Drawing on oral histories and archival research, this book develops the concept of asegi stories. Asegi translates as “strange,” and it is also used by some Cherokees as a term similar to “Queer.” This book provides a LGBTQ2 lens to interpret the Cherokee past, understand the present, and imagine decolonial futures.