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Building the King’s Highway
Labor, Society, and Family on Mexico’s Caminos Reales, 1757-1804
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Beyond the Reach of Time and Change
Native American Reflections on the Frank A. Rinehart Photograph Collection
Edited by Simon J. Ortiz
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The Religion of Hands
Prose Poems and Flash Fictions
By Ray Gonzalez
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The Pyramid under the Cross
Franciscan Discourses of Evangelization and the Nahua Christian Subject in Sixteenth-century Mexico
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Journeys in the Canyon Lands of Utah and Arizona, 1914-1916
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George C. Fraser was an easterner who loved to vacation on horseback in the American Southwest. Frederick H. Swanson has edited Fraser’s voluminous journals into a single volume covering three trips taken from 1914 to 1916. Accompanied by a selection of photographs taken by Fraser and his fellow travelers, Journeys in the Canyon Lands brings to life the Southwest’s breathtaking backcountry on the brink of discovery.
Beyond Desert Walls
Essays from Prison
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A teacher and family man incarcerated in Arizona State Prison—the result of a transgression that would cost him a dozen years of his life—Ken Lamberton can see beyond his desert walls. In essays that focus on the natural history of the region and on his own personal experiences with desert places, the Burroughs Medal-winning author takes readers along as he revisits the Southwest he knew when he was free, and as he makes an inner journey toward self-awareness. Whether considering the seemingly eternal cacti or the desolate beauty of the Pinacate, he draws on sharp powers of observation to re-create what lies beyond his six-by-eight cell and to contemplate the thoughts that haunt his mind as tenaciously as the kissing bugs that haunt his sleep.
Language Shift among the Navajos
Identity Politics and Cultural Continuity
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Hopi Oral Tradition and the Archaeology of Identity
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As contemporary Native Americans assert the legacy of their ancestors, there is increasing debate among archaeologists over the methods and theories used to reconstruct prehistoric identity and the movement of social groups. This is especially problematic with respect to the emergence of southwestern tribes, which involved shifting ...
Fields of Power, Forests of Discontent
Culture, Conservation, and the State in Mexico
By Nora Haenn
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Chia
Rediscovering a Forgotten Crop of the Aztecs
By Ricardo Ayerza and Wayne Coates
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Thirty Years Into Yesterday
A History of Archaeology at Grasshopper Pueblo
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Animals and the Maya in Southeast Mexico
By E. N. Anderson and Felix Medina Tzuc
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