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The Visions of Sor María de Agreda

Writing Knowledge and Power

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Prehistoric Culture Change on the Colorado Plateau

Ten Thousand Years on Black Mesa

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Packrat Middens

The Last 40,000 Years of Biotic Change

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Empire of Sand

The Seri Indians and the Struggle for Spanish Sonora, 1645–1803

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Early Stages in the Evolution of Mesopotamian Civilization

Soviet Excavations in Northern Iraq

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A Frontier Documentary

Sonora and Tucson, 1821–1848

Edited by Kieran McCarty
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Asteroids IV

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150 international authorities through more than 40 chapters convey the definitive state of the field by detailing our current astronomical, compositional, geological, and geophysical knowledge of asteroids, as well as their unique physical processes and interrelationships with comets and meteorites. Most importantly, this volume outlines the outstanding questions that will focus and drive researchers and students of all ages toward new advances in the coming decade and beyond.

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The Body as Capital

Masculinities in Contemporary Latin American Fiction

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The Body as Capital analyzes and develops the notion of the male body as a dialogic site of enunciation, arguing that the writing of masculinities is a project that centers socioeconomic and political concerns, anxieties, and paradigms both on the male anatomy and on the matrices of masculinities presented in fiction. It forges a new path in the critical debates over gender and sexuality in Latin American writing.

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Other Country

Barry Lopez and the Community of Artists

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A deep concern with landscape, animals, indigenous cultures, and essential moral values runs through Other Country as author James Perrin Warren reveals the dynamic relationship between Barry Lopez and the artistic community in their quest to lead cultural change.

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Born of Resistance

Cara a Cara Encounters with Chicana/o Visual Culture

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Born of Resistance revisits and updates resistance as a complex underlying force in Chicana/o art and visual cultural expression. This groundbreaking volume includes nine clustered discussions that interface scholarly, critical, curatorial, and historical discussions alongside artist statements and interviews. Landmark artistic works in several media, including prints, paintings, sculpture, photography, film, and television, anchor each cluster of essays.

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Speaking Mexicano

Dynamics of Syncretic Language in Central Mexico

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  • Copyright year: 1986
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Food Plants of the Sonoran Desert

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Winner of the Society for Economic Botany’s Mary W. Klinger Book Award, this volume presents information on nearly 540 edible plants used by people of more than fifty traditional cultures of the Sonoran Desert and peripheral areas. Drawing on thirty years of research, Wendy Hodgson has synthesized the widely scattered literature and added her own experiences to create an exhaustive catalog of desert plants and their many and varied uses. Accessible to general readers, this book is an invaluable compendium for anyone interested in the desert’s hidden bounty.

  • Copyright year: 2001
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Badmen, Bandits, and Folk Heroes

The Ambivalence of Mexican American Identity in Literature and Film

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Badmen, Bandits, and Folk Heroes compares the literary and cinematic representation of Mexican American masculine identity from early twentieth-century adventure stories and Westerns through contemporary self-representations by Chicano/a writers and filmmakers. Juan J. Alonzo proposes a reconsideration of the early stereotypical depictions of Mexicans in fiction and film: rather than viewing stereotypes as unrelentingly negative, Alonzo presents them as part of a complex apparatus of identification and disavowal. Alonzo reassesses Chicano/a self-representation in literature and film, and argues that the Chicano/a expression of identity is characterized by an acknowledgment of the contingent status of present-day identity formations.

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Images of Public Wealth or the Anatomy of Well-Being in Indigenous Amazonia

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Reflecting a global interest in the topics of well-being, happiness, and the good life, this book explores local notions of public wealth in indigenous Amazonia. The contributors place particular importance in how indigenous views of wealth are linked to the creation of strong, productive, and moral individuals and collectivities, providing thought-provoking new approaches to understanding wealth in non-capitalist, kin-based societies.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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The Ancient Maya Marketplace

The Archaeology of Transient Space

Edited by Eleanor M. King
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The Ancient Maya Marketplace, edited by Eleanor M. King, reviews the debate on prehispanic Maya markets. The volume’s contributors challenge the model of a non-commercialized Maya economy and offer compelling new evidence for the existence and identification of ancient marketplaces among the Maya.

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Practicing Materiality

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Practicing Materiality focuses on the job of applying materiality to anthropological investigations. It demonstrates a practical way to focus on the entangled lives of things without losing sight of their political and social implications.

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Moquis and Kastiilam

Hopis, Spaniards, and the Trauma of History, Volume I, 1540–1679

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The first of a two-volume series, Moquis and Kastiilam tells the story of the encounter between the Hopis, who the Spaniards called Moquis, and the Spaniards, who the Hopis called Kastiilam, from the first encounter in 1540 until the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. Balancing historical documents with oral histories, it creates a fresh perspective on the interface of Spanish and Hopi in the period of missionization.

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Human Spaceflight

From Mars to the Stars

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Human Spaceflight lays out a new model for the future of humans in space, where robotic technologies extend human presence beyond the solar system. Louis Friedman argues for settlement of Mars, serving as a base for humans to explore the rest of the universe with an expanding arsenal of technology.

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Potters and Communities of Practice

Glaze Paint and Polychrome Pottery in the American Southwest, AD 1250 to 1700

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The contributors to this volume present results of their collaborative research into the production and distribution of these new wares, including cutting-edge chemical and petrographic analyses. They use the insights gained to reflect on the changing nature of communities of potters as they participated in the dynamic social conditions of their world.

  • Copyright year: 2012
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Senator Dennis DeConcini

From the Center of the Aisle

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Senator Dennis DeConcini is an Arizona icon. His political memoir provides the reader with penetrating and revealing insights into the inner workings and colorful characters of Arizona politics and the United States Senate. A vigilant centrist who got results by building coalitions on both sides of the aisle, Senator DeConcini was not bound to strict party alliances but was deeply rooted in the independent political environment of Arizona.

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Local Governments and Rural Development

Comparing Lessons from Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Peru

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The Quiet Extinction

Stories of North America’s Rare and Threatened Plants

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The Quiet Extinction explores the reasons many of our native plants are disappearing, noting their significance to the continent’s natural heritage. Kara Rogers captures the excitement of their discovery, the tragedy that has come to define their existence, and the remarkable efforts underway to save them.

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Shameful Victory

The Los Angeles Dodgers, the Red Scare, and the Hidden History of Chavez Ravine

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Enhancing our understanding of the Mexican American experience and urban renewal in LA, Shameful Victory focuses on Chavez Ravine and the eventual building of Dodger Stadium at the expense of the community. Author John H. M. Laslett shows how urban renewal led to the eviction of Mexican Americans and the introduction of the Dodgers, placing the Chavez Ravine affair into a broader social and historical context.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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For All of Humanity

Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala

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For All of Humanity examines the first public health campaigns in Guatemala, southern Mexico, and Central America in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It reconstructs a rich and complex picture of the ways colonial doctors, surgeons, Indigenous healers, midwives, priests, government officials, and ordinary people engaged in efforts to prevent and control epidemic disease.

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Earth and Mars

A Reflection

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Earth and Mars relates the life story of two planets, celestial siblings in space. The book is a fusion of art and science, a blend of images and essays celebrating the successful creation of our life-sustaining planet. A collection of simple and profoundly beautiful forms, Earth and Mars provides a context to appreciate the common forces responsible for these haunting shapes as well as the divergent paths that led to an Earth teeming with life-forms, while its sibling, Mars, is seemingly devoid of all life.

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Capturing the Landscape of New Spain

Baltasar Obregón and the 1564 Ibarra Expedition

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Rebecca A. Carte sheds new light on sixteenth-century Spanish exploration and mining expansion in the borderlands of Mexico and the United States. She shows how history and geography, past and present, people and land, come together to fashion the landscape of northern New Spain.

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In the Shadow of Cortés

Conversations Along the Route of Conquest

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In the Shadow of Cortés offers a visual and cultural history of the legacy of the contact between Spaniards and indigenous civilizations of Mexico. Kathleen Ann Myers reveals how the symbolic geography of the conquest fuels a historical memory of colonialism that continues to shape lives today.

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Between Two Fires

A Fire History of Contemporary America

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Between Two Fires is a story of ideas, institutions, and fires. Stephen J. Pyne tells the history of America’s fire revolution, a reaction to the decades-long policy of fire suppression touched off by the Great Fires of 1910. It is the real history of contemporary America’s management of one billion burnable acres. Pyne has once again constructed a history of record that will shape our next century of wildland fire management.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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The Maricopas

An Identification from Documentary Sources

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The House Cross of the Mayo Indians of Sonora, Mexico

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  • Copyright year: 1965
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The Hodges Ruin

A Hohokam Community in the Tucson Basin

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The Chinese of Early Tucson

Historic Archaeology from the Tucson Urban Renewal Project

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The Asturian of Cantabria

Early Holocene Hunter-Gatherers in Northern Spain

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The Albuquerque Navajos

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  • Copyright year: 1969
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