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The Ópatas

In Search of a Sonoran People

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The Argentine Folklore Movement

Sugar Elites, Criollo Workers, and the Politics of Cultural Nationalism, 1900–1955

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No Communication with the Sea

Searching for an Urban Future in the Great Basin

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La Calle

Spatial Conflicts and Urban Renewal in a Southwest City

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torch song tango choir

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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.

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The Good Rainbow Road

By Simon J. Ortiz; Illustrated by Michael Lacapa
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Populism in Twentieth Century Mexico

The Presidencies of Lázaro Cárdenas and Luis Echeverría

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Bring Down the Little Birds

On Mothering, Art, Work, and Everything Else

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Combining fragments of thought, daydreams, entries from notebooks both real and imaginary, and real-life experiences, Carmen Giménez Smith interrogates everything involved in becoming and being a mother for both the first and second times. She wonders what her children will one day know about her own “secret life,” meditates on the physical effects of pregnancy, and questions the myths about, nostalgia for, and glorification of motherhood.

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Lessons from a Quechua Strongwoman

Ideophony, Dialogue, and Perspective

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Using the intriguing stories and words of an Ecuadoran Quechua-speaking woman, Janis B. Nuckolls reveals a complex language system in which ideophony, dialogue, and perspective are all at the core of cultural and grammatical communications among Amazonian Quechua speakers.

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Indigenous Miracles

Nahua Authority in Colonial Mexico

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Each and Her

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Classic Maya Provincial Politics

Xunantunich and Its Hinterlands

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