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Damming the Gila
The Gila River Indian Community and the San Carlos Irrigation Project, 1900–1942
The University of Arizona Press
The third in a series, this volume continues to chronicle the history of water rights and activities on the Gila River Indian Reservation. Centered on the San Carlos Irrigation Project and Coolidge Dam, this book details the history and development of the project, including the Gila Decree. Embedded in the narrative is the underlying tension between tribal growers on the Gila River Indian Reservation and upstream users. Told in seven chapters, the story underscores the idea that the Gila River Indian Community believed the San Carlos Irrigation Project was first and foremost for their benefit and how the project and the Gila Decree fell short of restoring their water and agricultural economy.
- Publication year: 2024
Indigenous Health and Justice
Edited by Karen Jarratt-Snider and Marianne O. Nielsen
The University of Arizona Press
Indigenous communities are practicing de facto sovereignty to resolve public health issues that are a consequence of settler colonialism. This work delves into health and justice through a range of topics and examples and demonstrates the resilience of Indigenous communities.
- Publication year: 2024
Growing Up in the Gutter
Diaspora and Comics
By Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo; Foreword by Frederick Luis Aldama
The University of Arizona Press
Growing Up in the Gutter is the first book-length exploration of contemporary graphic coming-of-age narratives written in the context of diasporic and immigrant communities in the United States by and for young BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and diasporic readers. The book analyzes the complex identity formation of first- and subsequent-generation diasporic protagonists in globalized rural and urban environments and dissects the implications that marginalized formative processes have for the genre in its graphic version.
- Publication year: 2024
Indigenous Science and Technology
Nahuas and the World Around Them
The University of Arizona Press
Indigenous Science and Technology focuses on how Nahuas have explored, understood, and explained the world around them in pre-invasion, colonial, and contemporary time periods.
- Publication year: 2024
Ancient Mesoamerican Population History
Urbanism, Social Complexity, and Change
The University of Arizona Press
Including research from both highland central Mexico and the tropical lowlands of the Maya and Olmec areas, this book reexamines demography in ancient Mesoamerica. Through new technology such as LiDAR (light detecting and ranging), the book provides new understandings of ancient Mesoamerican societies and how they changed over time.
- Publication year: 2024
Five Suns
A Fire History of Mexico
The University of Arizona Press
Narrating Mexico’s evolution of fire through five eras—pre-human, pre-Hispanic, colonial, industrializing (1880–1980), and contemporary (1980–2015)—this volume relies on the myth of the “five suns” that the Aztecs used to characterize their history. It completes a North American trilogy of fire histories that also includes the United States and Canada.
- Publication year: 2024
On a Trail of Southwest Discovery
The Expedition Diaries of Frederick W. Hodge and Margaret W. Magill, 1886–1888
Edited by Curtis M. Hinsley and David R. Wilcox
The University of Arizona Press
This volume examines the Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition, directed by Frank Hamilton Cushing, through the diaries of two participants who fell in love on the expedition: the field secretary, Fred Hodge—who became a major figure in early twentieth-century anthropology—and the expedition artist, Margaret Magill. Divided into three parts, the book’s first two sections chronicle the field operations of the expedition, while the third part describes the anthropological career of Hodge after the end of the expedition.
- Publication year: 2024
Ancient Communities in the Mimbres Valley
Continuity and Change from AD 750 to 1350
By Roger Anyon and Steven A. LeBlanc
The University of Arizona Press
Spanning from the end of the Late Pithouse period through the Black Mountain phase, this volume contains the final report on the excavations of the Mimbres Foundation. The authors consider the nature of the relationship between the Classic Mimbres period population of the valley and the people of the succeeding Black Mountain phase, as well as relationships among the Black Mountain phase people and those of neighboring parts of the region.
- Publication year: 2024
In a Wounded Land
Conservation, Extraction, and Human Well-Being in Coastal Tanzania
The University of Arizona Press
Focusing on the human element of marine conservation and the extractive industry in Tanzania, this volume illuminates what happens when impoverished people living in underdeveloped regions of Africa are suddenly subjected to state-directed conservation and natural resource extraction projects. Drawing on ethnographically rich case studies and vignettes, the book documents the impacts of these projects on local populations and their responses to these projects over a ten-year period.
- Publication year: 2024
Coastal Foragers of the Gran Desierto
Investigations of Prehistoric Shell Middens along the Northern Sonoran Coast
The University of Arizona Press
The result of nearly twenty years of interdisciplinary research, this volume contributes to the archaeological and paleoenvironmental knowledge of an important but lightly investigated hyperarid coastline at the heart of the Sonoran Desert. Focused on the coast near Puerto Peñasco, Sonora, Mexico, it examines the diverse groups occupying the coast for salt, abundant food sources, and shells for ornament manufacturing.
- Publication year: 2024
Central American Counterpoetics
Diaspora and Rememory
By Karina Alma
The University of Arizona Press
Connecting past and present, this book proposes the concepts of rememory (rememoria) and counterpoetics as decolonial tools for studying the art, popular culture, literature, music, and healing practices of Central America and the diaspora in the United States. Building on the theory of rememory articulated in Toni Morrison’s Beloved, the volume examines the concept as an embodied experience of a sensory place and time lived in the here and now. By employing a wide array of sources, Alma’s research breaks ground in subject matter and methods, considering cultural and historical ties across countries, regions, and traditions while offering critical perspectives on topics such as immigration, forced assimilation, maternal love, gender violence, community arts, and decolonization.
- Publication year: 2024
Mujeres de Maiz en Movimiento
Spiritual Artivism, Healing Justice, and Feminist Praxis
The University of Arizona Press
Mujeres de Maiz (MdM) is an L.A.-based Indigenous Xicana–led spiritual artist-activist organization and movement by and for women and feminists of color. The contributors to this edited volume weave together their stories to collectively document MdM’s twenty-five-year herstory and its larger sociopolitical context. Intergenerational contributors include emerging and professional writers, scholars, visual and performance artists, and community organizers. They trace MdM’s genealogy, providing critical insight into emerging definitions of Xicanisma and contemporary grassroots feminist praxis.
- Publication year: 2024
Resistance and Abolition in the Borderlands
Confronting Trump's Reign of Terror
Edited by Arturo J. Aldama and Jessica Ordaz; Foreword by Leo R. Chavez; Afterword by Karma R. Chávez
The University of Arizona Press
Resistance and Abolition in the Borderlands is an interdisciplinary collection of cultural, historic, activist, and artistic essays that discuss the impacts of Trump’s policies and rhetoric toward BIPOC and Latinx migrants.
- Publication year: 2024
The Space Age Generation
Lives and Lessons from the Golden Age of Solar System Exploration
Edited by William Sheehan and Klaus R. Brasch
The University of Arizona Press
The Space Age Generation shares the lives and careers of a dozen men and women whose passion for science was sparked by an astounding era—the golden age of space science. These scientists, historians, and astronomers lived and participated in an amazing time that not only saw humans step foot on the Moon but also saw human-made spacecraft travel throughout our solar system.
- Publication year: 2024
Ojo en Celo / Eye in Heat
Poems
By Margarita Pintado Burgos; Translated by Alejandra Quintana Arocho
The University of Arizona Press
Ojo en celo / Eye in Heat is a book about the burning desire to see beyond appearances and find meaning in the visible and the invisible.
- Publication year: 2024
Restoring the Pitchfork Ranch
How Healing a Southwest Oasis Holds Promise for Our Endangered Land
The University of Arizona Press
Restoring the Pitchfork Ranch tells the story of a decades-long habitat restoration project in southwestern New Mexico. Rancher-owner A. Thomas Cole explains what inspired him and his wife, Lucinda, to turn their retirement into years dedicated to hard work and renewal on 11,300 acres of grass- and wetlands. The Pitchfork Ranch is an inspiring promise for the future in the face of crippling climate change.
- Publication year: 2024
Yaguareté White
Poems
By Diego Báez
The University of Arizona Press
Yaguareté White is a lyrical exploration of Paraguayan whiteness, or white Latinidad, and what it means to see through a colored whiteness, with all of its tangled contradictions. Diego Baéz’s poems reconcile the incomplete, contradictory, and inconsistent experiences that reside between languages, nations, and generations.
- Publication year: 2024
Border Economies
Cities Bridging the U.S.-Mexico Divide
By James Gerber
The University of Arizona Press
Using a combination of economic history and analysis, Border Economies explores how the location of U.S. and Mexican communities on the border are shaped by forces that originate on the other side.
- Publication year: 2024
Elephant Trees, Copales, and Cuajiotes
A Natural History of Bursera
The University of Arizona Press
Predominantly native to the U.S. Southwest, Mexico, and the Caribbean, the various species of the genus Bursera have been prized throughout history for their distinctive aromas, medicinal properties, and workable woods. Highlighting its importance and impact within the desert Southwest and Mexico, this volume will be the first book to describe the ecology, evolution, ethnobotany, and peculiar chemistry of the many species of Bursera. Written in an engaging style, enhanced with two hundred color photographs, and complete with a compendium of species descriptions, this book will be an essential reference on a significant North American plant.
- Publication year: 2024
Ancient Light
Poems
The University of Arizona Press
Ancient Light is a timely and innovative collection by renowned Anishinaabe poet Kimberly Blaeser. It looks squarely at pressing social issues of our time while simultaneously invoking Indigenous pathways of kinship, healing, and renewal.
- Publication year: 2024
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