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Named in Stone and Sky

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Arizona is a land whose natural beauty many have sought to capture in words.

Gregory McNamee has combed a body of literature that spans centuries to create this anthology of writings on the widely varied landscapes of Arizona. Named in Stone and Sky includes works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry; represents Native ...

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Born a Chief

The Nineteenth Century Hopi Boyhood of Edmund Nequatewa, as told to Alfred F. Whiting

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Being Comanche

The Social History of an American Indian Community

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The Hatchet's Blood

Separation, Power, and Gender in Ehing Social Life

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Winner of the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology, The Hatchet's Blood is the first ethnography of the Ehing, a farming people of southern Senegal. The ritual complexes of the Ehing embody an elaborate set of prohibitions on social behavior and prescribe the general rules of Ehing social organization. Power is distributed and maintained by the concept of Odieng (“hatchet”), which as a spirit acts upon human beings much as an ax does upon a tree, falling from above to punish its victims for transgression. Marc R. Schloss’s ethnography is a study of the meaning of Odieng’s power, explaining why its rules are so essential to the Ehing way of life.
 

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Woven Stone

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Kachina Dolls

The Art of Hopi Carvers

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The Hawk Is Hungry and Other Stories

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State and Reservation

New Perspectives on Federal Indian Policy

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Essays

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Plaintext has won critical acclaim and a wide audience for author Nancy Mairs’s unapologetic views on agoraphobia, multiple sclerosis, and the challenges of being a woman in a patriarchal world. The provocative collection includes the widely anthologized essays “On Being a Cripple” and “On Not Liking Sex.”

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New Chicana/Chicano Writing, Volume 2

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Desert Landscaping

How to Start and Maintain a Healthy Landscape in the Southwest

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Western Apache Language and Culture

Essays in Linguistic Anthropology

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The Dawn of Belief

Religion in the Upper Paleolithic of Southwestern Europe

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Songs My Mother Sang to Me

An Oral History of Mexican American Women

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Motivated by a love of her Mexican American heritage, Patricia Preciado Martin set out to document the lives and memories of the women of her mother's and grandmother's eras; for while the role of women in Southwest has begun to be chronicled, that of Hispanic women largely remains obscure. In Songs My Mother Sang to Me, she has preserved the oral histories of many of these women before they have been lost or forgotten.

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Soldiers of the Virgin

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In the early summer of 1712, a young Maya woman from the village of Cancuc in southern Mexico encountered an apparition of the Virgin Mary while walking in the forest. The miracle soon attracted Indian pilgrims from pueblos throughout the highlands of Chiapas. When alarmed Spanish authorities stepped in to put a stop to the ...

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Chilies to Chocolate

Food the Americas Gave the World

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Blazing the Trail

Waymarks in the Exploration of Symbols

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A View From Black Mesa

The Changing Face of Archaeology

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The Portable Radio in American Life

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As an artifact of culture, the portable radio is an unusual but perfect subject for investigation by archaeologist Schiffer. Seeing the history of everyday objects as the history of the life of a people, he shows how the portable radio has reflected changes in American society as surely as clay pots have for ancient cultures.

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Going Back to Bisbee

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Renewing the World

Plains Indian Religion and Morality

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Mud Woman

Poems from the Clay

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Los Tucsonenses

The Mexican Community in Tucson, 1854–1941

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Canyon

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No Short Journeys

The Interplay of Cultures in the History and Literature of the Borderlands

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The Sun in Time

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