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Latino Los Angeles
Transformations, Communities, and Activism
Edited by Enrique C. Ochoa and Gilda L. Ochoa
The University of Arizona Press
Field Man
Life as a Desert Archaeologist
The University of Arizona Press
Field Man is the memoir of renowned southwestern archaeologist Julian Dodge Hayden—a blue-collar scholar who challenged conventional thinking on the antiquity of man in the New World, brought a formidable pragmatism to the identification of stone tools, and who is remembered as the leading authority on the prehistory of the Sierra Pinacate.
Death and Dying in Colonial Spanish America
Edited by Martina Will de Chaparro and Miruna Achim
The University of Arizona Press
Women and Knowledge in Mesoamerica
From East L.A. to Anahuac
The University of Arizona Press
This book disrupts Euro-based intellectual hegemony and makes a case for the epistemic authority of Native women. Written from a Chicana perspective, this study is learned, personal, and engaging for anyone who is interested in the wisdom that prevailing analytical cultures have deemed “unintelligible.” As it turns out, those who are unacquainted with the sometimes surprising extent and depth of wisdom of indigenous women healers simply haven’t been looking in the right places—outside the texts from which they have been consistently excluded.
Smugglers, Brothels, and Twine
Historical Perspectives on Contraband and Vice in North America’s Borderlands
Edited by Elaine Carey and Andrae M. Marak
The University of Arizona Press
Native American Performance and Representation
Edited by S. E. Wilmer
The University of Arizona Press
Immigration Law and the U.S.–Mexico Border
¿Sí se puede?
By Kevin R. Johnson and Bernard Trujillo
The University of Arizona Press
Ideologies in Archaeology
Edited by Reinhard Bernbeck and Randall H. McGuire
The University of Arizona Press
Archaeologists have often used the term ideology to vaguely refer to a “realm of ideas.” Scholars from Marx to Zizek have developed a sharper concept, arguing that ideology works by representing—or misrepresenting—power relations through concealment, enhancement, or transformation of real social relations between groups. Ideologies in Archaeology examines the role of ideology in this latter sense as it pertains to both the practice and the content of archaeological studies. This is the first work to address in any detail the mutual relationship between ideologies of the past and present ideological conditions producing archaeological knowledge.
Contributors to this volume focus on elements of life in past societies that “went without saying” and uncover complex manipulations of power that have often gone unrecognized. They show that Occam’s razor—the tendency to favor simpler explanations—is sometimes just an excuse to avoid dealing with the historical world in its full complexity.
Contributors to this volume focus on elements of life in past societies that “went without saying” and uncover complex manipulations of power that have often gone unrecognized. They show that Occam’s razor—the tendency to favor simpler explanations—is sometimes just an excuse to avoid dealing with the historical world in its full complexity.
From Beneath the Volcano
The Story of a Salvadoran Campesino and His Family
The University of Arizona Press