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Women's Seclusion and Men's Honor

Sex Roles in North India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan

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Feminist Readings of Native American Literature

Coming to Voice

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Reopening the American West

Edited by Hal K. Rothman
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Culture across Borders

Mexican Immigration and Popular Culture

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Contested Ground

Comparative Frontiers on the Northern and Southern Edges of the Spanish Empire

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Portraits of Clay

Potters of Mata Ortíz

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History and Mythology of the Aztecs

The Codex Chimalpopoca

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Organizing the Lakota

The Political Economy of the New Deal on the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Reservations

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Zuñi Coyote Tales

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Crossing Borders

Changing Social Identities in Southern Mexico

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Cultural Memory and Biodiversity

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Interweaving a wealth of ecological and cognitive data with oral history, Nazarea details a "memory banking" protocol for collecting and conserving cultural information to complement the genetic, agronomic, and biochemical characterization of important crops.

  • Copyright year: 1998
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Nobody's Son

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Here's a story about a family that comes from Tijuana and settles into the 'hood, hoping for the American Dream.

. . . I'm not saying it's our story. I'm not saying it isn't. It might be yours. "How do you tell a story that cannot be told?" writes Luis Alberto Urrea in this potent memoir of a childhood divided. Born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and an Anglo mother from Staten Island, Urrea moved to San Diego when he was three. His childhood was a mix of opposites, a clash of cultures and languages. In prose that seethes with energy and crackles with dark humor, Urrea tells a story that is both troubling and wildly entertaining.

Urrea endured violence and fear in the black and Mexican barrio of his youth. But the true battlefield was inside his home, where his parents waged daily war over their son's ethnicity. "You are not a Mexican!" his mother once screamed at him. "Why can't you be called Louis instead of Luis?" He suffers disease and abuse and he learns brutal lessons about machismo. But there are gentler moments as well: a simple interlude with his father, sitting on the back of a bakery truck; witnessing the ultimate gesture of tenderness between the godparents who taught him the magical power of love.

"I am nobody's son. I am everybody's brother," writes Urrea. His story is unique, but it is not unlike thousands of other stories being played out across the United States, stories of other Americans who have waged war—both in the political arena and in their own homes—to claim their own personal and cultural identity. It is a story of what it means to belong to a nation that is sometimes painfully multicultural, where even the language both separates and unites us. Brutally honest and deeply moving, Nobody's Son is a testament to the borders that divide us all.

  • Copyright year: 1998
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The Nearsighted Naturalist

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The New Western History

The Territory Ahead

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Gentry's Rio Mayo Plants

The Tropical Deciduous Forest and Environs of Northwest Mexico

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Shelter

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The Birds of Sonora

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The Power of Kiowa Song

A Collaborative Ethnography

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Expanding the View of Hohokam Platform Mounds

An Ethnographic Perspective

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The Emperor's Mirror

Understanding Cultures through Primary Sources

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The Sierra Pinacate

By Julian D. Hayden; By (photographer) Jack Dykinga
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Border-Crosser with a Lamborghini Dream

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With dazzling poems that roar from the darkest corners of our minds toward an ecstatic celebration of the lushness of language, Border-Crosser with a Lamborghini Dream is a celebration of a world that is both sacred and cruel, a world of “Poesy Chicano style undone wild” by one of the most daring poets of our time.

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Bisbee '17

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Chicano Culture, Ecology, Politics

Subversive Kin

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Ethnoecology

Situated Knowledge/Located Lives

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Mountain Sheep of North America

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