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In the Smaller Scope of Conscience
The Struggle for National Repatriation Legislation, 1986–1990
The University of Arizona Press
In the Smaller Scope of Conscience is a thoughtful and detailed study of the ins and outs of the four-year process behind the creation of NMAIA and NAGPRA. It is a singular contribution to the history of these issues, with the potential to help mediate the ongoing debate by encouraging all sides to retrace the steps of the legislators responsible for the acts.
Warfare in Cultural Context
Practice, Agency, and the Archaeology of Violence
Edited by Axel E. Nielsen and William H. Walker
The University of Arizona Press
Warfare is a constant in human history. Contributors to this book contend that agency and culture, inherited values and dispositions (such as religion and other cultural practices), beliefs, and institutions are always woven into the conduct of war. Using archaeological and ethnohistorical data from various parts of the world, the contributors explore the multiple avenues for the cultural study of warfare that these ideas make possible. Contributions focus on cultural aspects of warfare in Mesoamerica, South America, North America, and Southeast Asia.
Comparative Climatology of Terrestrial Planets
The University of Arizona Press
Through the contributions of more than sixty leading experts in the field, Comparative Climatology of Terrestrial Planets sets forth the foundations for this emerging new science and brings the reader to the forefront of our current understanding of atmospheric formation and climate evolution.
Foundational Arts
Mural Painting and Missionary Theater in New Spain
The University of Arizona Press
Foundational Arts examines how the relationships between mural painting and missionary theater became a transcultural process for mass conversion of Native populations to Christianity. Michael K. Schuessler studies the New World expressions of dramatic and plastic arts and how they became the tools of European friars to Christianize Native peoples and ultimately create a new and unique literary and artistic tradition.
Ambitious Rebels
Remaking Honor, Law, and Liberalism in Venezuela, 1780-1850
The University of Arizona Press
By examining everyday life in Venezuela’s post-colonial period, Reuben Zahler provides a broad perspective on conditions throughout the Americas, and the tension between traditional norms and new liberal standards during Venezuela’s transformation from a Spanish colony to a modern republic.
The Archaeology of Kinship
Advancing Interpretation and Contributions to Theory
The University of Arizona Press
This book explains how kinship is relevant to contemporary archaeological theory, detailing methods appropriate for archaeological analysis, and provides long-overdue solutions to problems plaguing ethnological hypotheses on the origins and contexts of kinship behaviors.
Silent Violence
Global Health, Malaria, and Child Survival in Tanzania
The University of Arizona Press
Seeking to link social, economic, and political forces to local experiences of sickness and suffering, Silent Violence analyzes the experiences and practices of people most deeply affected by malaria. Vinay Kamat explores the experience of individuals and households confronted by malaria against the backdrop of social and health issues.
Seeds of Resistance, Seeds of Hope
Place and Agency in the Conservation of Biodiversity
The University of Arizona Press
Without denying the gravity of the problems of feeding the earth’s population while conserving its natural resources, Seeds of Resistance, Seeds of Hope reminds us that there are many positive movements and developments, especially at the grass-roots level, that demonstrate the power of opposition and optimism.
Knowing the Day, Knowing the World
Engaging Amerindian Thought in Public Archaeology
By Lesley Green and David R. Green
The University of Arizona Press
Based on more than a decade of research in Palikur lands known as Arukwa in the state of Amapá, Brazil, Knowing the Day, Knowing the World demonstrates both the challenges of comprehending alternative cosmologies and the rich rewards of grappling with Amerindian ways of thinking and knowing.
Uncharted Terrains
New Directions in Border Research Methodology, Ethics, and Practice
The University of Arizona Press
New Directions in Border Research Methodology, Ethics, and Practice looks at the stigmatization of immigrants since the U.S. began focusing on securing its border with Mexico in 2001. These researchers explore ethical questions concerning border research methodology, and the political and social implications of U.S. immigration policies and programs.
Complex Communities
The Archaeology of Early Iron Age West-Central Jordan
The University of Arizona Press
Complex Communities explores how sustainable communities developed and flourished in the Middle East nearly four thousand years ago. From archaeological evidence, Benjamin W. Porter reconstructs how the residents of small villages were able to adapt to changes in their environment, including climate change, and maintain their communities over time.
Broken Souths
Latina/o Poetic Responses to Neoliberalism and Globalization
The University of Arizona Press
Broken Souths puts Latina/o and Latin American poets into sustained conversation in original and rewarding ways.
Encountering Life in the Universe
Ethical Foundations and Social Implications of Astrobiology
The University of Arizona Press
Encountering Life in the Universe examines the intersection of scientific research and society to determine the philosophy and ethics of relating to the Earth and beyond.
Brewing Arizona
A Century of Beer in the Grand Canyon State
By Ed Sipos
The University of Arizona Press
Brewing Arizona is the first comprehensive book of Arizona beer. Beautifully illustrated, it includes every brewery known to have operated in the state, from the first to the latest, from crude brews to craft brews. Like a fine beer, the contents are deep and rich with just a little froth on top.
A War that Can’t Be Won
Binational Perspectives on the War on Drugs
The University of Arizona Press
Forty years after Richard Nixon declared a “War on Drugs,” this sobering book offers views of the “narco wars” from scholars on both sides of the US-Mexico border. With evidence newly obtained through freedom-of-information inquiries in Mexico, it proposes practical solutions to a seemingly intractable crisis.
Where the Wind Blows Us
Practicing Critical Community Archaeology in the Canadian North
The University of Arizona Press
This useful book—part case study, part handbook—unites critical practice with a community-based approach to archaeology. It describes an inclusive archaeology that rests on a flexible but rigorous research design and incorporates responsible, ethical practice.
Telling and Being Told
Storytelling and Cultural Control in Contemporary Yucatec Maya Literatures
The University of Arizona Press
Oral literature has been excluded from the analysis of Yucatec Maya literature, but it is a key component and a vital force in the cultural communities and their contemporary writing. Telling and Being Told shows the vital role Yucatec storytelling claims in Mayan ways of knowing and in the Mexican literary canon.
Milk and Filth
The University of Arizona Press
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Milk and Filth is a collection of forty-two poems exploring issues of gender, equality, sexuality and the artist-as-thinker in modern culture. Deftly blending a variety of tones, styles, and structure, Giménez Smith’s poems evocatively explores deep cultural issues.
Indian Resilience and Rebuilding
Indigenous Nations in the Modern American West
The University of Arizona Press
This illuminating and comprehensive analysis of Native nations' resilience in the twentieth century demonstrates how Native Americans reinvented themselves, rebuilt their nations, and ultimately became major forces in the United States. Written by Donald L. Fixico, Indian Resilience and Rebuilding redefines how modern American history can and should be told.
Oral History, Community, and Work in the American West
Edited by Jessie L. Embry
The University of Arizona Press
The essays in this volume show how oral history can increase understanding of work and community in the twentieth century American West. Here an array of oral historians—including folklorists, librarians, and public historians—record what they have learned from people who have made their communities and have made history.
More Than Two to Tango
Argentine Tango Immigrants in New York City
The University of Arizona Press
The world of Argentine tango presents a glamorous façade of music and movement. Yet the immigrant dancers whose livelihoods depend on the US tango industry receive little attention beyond their enigmatic public personas. More Than Two to Tango gives a detailed portrait of the Argentine immigrant community, where tango is both an art form and a means of survival.
Coconut Milk
The University of Arizona Press
Coconut Milk is the first book-length collection of poems by contemporary queer Samoan writer and painter Dan Taulapapa McMullin. His poems humorously attack cultural appropriation, gender, and the hypocrisies of Western influence in Oceania today. Pulling at the stereotype of a beautiful Polynesia available for the taking, his poems challenge and carve out new avenues of meaning for Pacific Islanders.
Indigeneity in the Mexican Cultural Imagination
Thresholds of Belonging
The University of Arizona Press
Pueblo Indians and Spanish Colonial Authority in Eighteenth-Century New Mexico
The University of Arizona Press
Tracy L. Brown explores the impact of Spanish colonial interactions on Pueblo culture, using little-researched Spanish language documents from the eighteenth century. Pueblo peoples negotiated Spanish authority to maintain their own distinct ethnic identity.
Mexico, Nation in Transit
Contemporary Representations of Mexican Migration to the United States
The University of Arizona Press
Spanning the social sciences and the humanities, Mexico, Nation in Transit poses a new, transnational alternative to the postnational view that geopolitical borders are being erased by the forces of migration and globalization, and the nationalist view that borders must be strictly enforced. It shows that borders, like identities, are not easy to locate precisely.
Mañana Means Heaven
The University of Arizona Press
In this love story of impossible odds, award-winning writer Tim Z. Hernandez weaves a rich and visionary portrait of Bea Franco, the real woman behind famed American author Jack Kerouac’s “The Mexican Girl.” Set against an ominous backdrop of California in the 1940’s, deep in the agricultural heartland of the Great Central Valley, Mañana Means Heaven reveals the desperate circumstances that lead a married woman to an illicit affair with an young, aspiring writer.
Baja California Missions
In the Footsteps of the Padres
The University of Arizona Press
Baja California Missions is a beautiful and informative book about the lovely but seldom-seen missions of Baja that remain intact today. With gorgeous photographs and useful descriptions that include both historical backgrounds and contemporary driving directions, Baja California Missions is both a photography book and a guidebook.
Women and Ledger Art
Four Contemporary Native American Artists
The University of Arizona Press
Although ledger art has long been considered a male art form, Women and Ledger Art calls attention to the extraordinary achievements of four contemporary female Native artists—Sharron Ahtone Harjo (Kiowa), Colleen Cutschall (Oglala Lakota), Linda Haukaas (Sicangu Lakota), and Dolores Purdy Corcoran (Caddo). The book examines these women’s interpretations of their artwork and their thoughts on tribal history and contemporary life.
Communities of Practice
An Alaskan Native Model for Language Teaching and Learning
Edited by Patrick E. Marlow and Sabine Siekmann
The University of Arizona Press
This book describes an innovative project in native-language instruction that has wide applicability in second-language classrooms. Although the project it describes was developed in Alaska, the program can serve as a model throughout the world.
The Affinity of the Eye
Writing Nikkei in Peru
By Ignacio Lopez-Calvo; Foreword by Fernando Iwasaki
The University of Arizona Press
López-Calvo uses contemporary Nikkei texts such as fiction, testimonies, and poetry to construct an account of the cultural formation of Japanese migrant communities, and in so doing challenges fixed notions of Japanese Peruvian identity.
When Worlds Collide
Hunter-Gatherer World-System Change in the 19th Century Canadian Arctic
The University of Arizona Press
The Inuvialuit region is the most under-reported and least-known portion of the North American Arctic, beyond its immediate community of anthropological/archaeological practitioners, and this book helps address that lacuna.
The Ecological Other
Environmental Exclusion in American Culture
The University of Arizona Press
This book engages recent scholarship on trans-corporeality, disability studies, and environmental justice. Ray argues that environmental discourse often frames ecological crisis as a crisis of the body, therefore promoting ecological health at the cost of social equality. Ray urges us to be careful about the ways in which we construct “others” in our arguments to protect nature.
Mapping Wonderlands
Illustrated Cartography of Arizona, 1912–1962
By Dori Griffin
The University of Arizona Press
Mapping Wonderlands explores popular, illustrated maps of Arizona as a tourism destination, investigating the relationship between landscapes, visual culture, and narratives of place. These aesthetically appealing maps offer tourists an Arizona landscape at once historical and imaginary—just as their makers intended.
Latin American Documentary Filmmaking
Major Works
The University of Arizona Press
Latin American Documentary Filmmaking is the first volume written in English to examine themes in major works of Latin American documentary films. Foster looks at the major ideological issues raised and the approaches to Latin American social and political history taken by key documentary films.
Chicana and Chicano Mental Health
Alma, Mente y Corazón
The University of Arizona Press
Chicana and Chicano Mental Health offers a model to understand and to address the mental health challenges and service disparities affecting Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans/Chicanos. Yvette G. Flores, who has more than thirty years of experience as a clinical psychologist, provides in-depth analysis of the major mental health challenges facing these groups: depression, anxiety disorders, including post-traumatic stress disorder, substance abuse, and intimate partner violence.
Neandertal Lithic Industries at La Quina
The University of Arizona Press
This book employs new analytical techniques to expand our knowledge of Neandertal life in what is now southwestern France. Written by a senior researcher who developed sophisticated methods for analyzing chipped stone and animal bone artifacts, it adds significantly to scientific understanding of the Neandertals.
Crafting History in the Northern Plains
A Political Economy of the Heart River Region, 1400–1750
The University of Arizona Press
In Crafting History in the Northern Plains Mark D. Mitchell shows the crucial role archaeological methods and archaeological data can play in producing trans-Columbian histories. Mitchell provides a regional synthesis of communities located at the confluence of the Heart and Missouri rivers, home to the Mandan people for more than five centuries.
Senegal Taxi
The University of Arizona Press
Juan Felipe Herrera is at his best in his first original collection in several years. In Senegal Taxi, Herrera brings attention to global oppression and injustice through poems that address genocide and hope in Africa.
Leaving Tulsa
The University of Arizona Press
Leaving Tulsa, a book of road elegies and laments, travels from Oklahoma to the edges of the American continent through landscapes at once stark and lush, ancient and apocalyptic. Each poem gives the collection a rich lyrical-dramatic texture. Ultimately, these brave and luminous poems engage and shatter the boundaries of time, self, and continent.
Red-Inked Retablos
The University of Arizona Press
In the Mexican Catholic tradition, retablos are ornamental structures made of carved wood framing an oil painting of a devotional image, usually a patron saint. Acclaimed author and essayist Rigoberto González commemorates the passion and the pain of these carvings in his new volume Red-Inked Retablos, a moving memoir of human experience and thought. The collection offers an in-depth meditation on the development of gay Chicano literature and the responsibilities of the Chicana/o writer.
Rebozos de Palabras
An Helena María Viramontes Critical Reader
Edited by Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs
The University of Arizona Press
This is the first book to collect new essays written by multiple scholars that examine a Chicana or Latina author’s entire oeuvre. Focusing on the work of Helena María Viramontes, a scholar, critic, and author of both fiction and nonfiction, it also addresses the evolution of the Chicana image.
Orientalism and Identity in Latin America
Fashioning Self and Other from the (Post)Colonial Margin
Edited by Erik Camayd-Freixas
The University of Arizona Press
Building on the pioneering work of Edward Said in fresh and useful ways, contributors consider both historical contacts and literary influences in the formation of Latin American constructs of the “Orient” and the “Self” from colonial times to the present. In the process, they unveil wide-ranging manifestations of Orientalism.
Barry Goldwater and the Remaking of the American Political Landscape
Edited by Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
The University of Arizona Press
Barry Goldwater lost the race for the presidency in 1964, but his conservative agenda sparked a movement that has had profound and far-reaching effects on American politics and society. This is a long-overdue reconsideration of the life, times, and legacy of a polarizing politician who is as reviled as he is revered.
Natural Takeover of Small Things
The University of Arizona Press
Natural Takeover of Small Things is a collection of poetry that offers an unflinching view of “California’s Heartland,” the San Joaquin Valley. In his distinctive, lyrical, pull-no-punches style, Tim Z. Hernandez offers a glimpse of the people, the landscape, the rhythm, and the detritus of the rural West. As Hernandez peels back the façade of the place, he reveals that home is not always where the heart is.
Indigenous Agency in the Amazon
The Mojos in Liberal and Rubber-Boom Bolivia, 1842–1932
The University of Arizona Press
Indigenous Agency in the Amazon explores the underexamined story of indigenous people who accepted Jesuit mission life and then, nearly two centuries later, withstood the challenges of the rubber boom and the imposition of European liberalism.
Indigenous Writings from the Convent
Negotiating Ethnic Autonomy in Colonial Mexico
By Mónica Díaz
The University of Arizona Press
Indigenous Writings from the Convent examines ways in which indigenous women participated in one of the most prominent institutions in colonial times—the Catholic Church—and what they made of their experiences with convent life.
The Occult Life of Things
Native Amazonian Theories of Materiality and Personhood
Edited by Fernando Santos-Granero
The University of Arizona Press
Combining linguistic, ethnological, and historical perspectives, the contributors to this volume draw on a wealth of information gathered from ten Amerindian peoples belonging to seven different linguistic families to identify the basic tenets of what might be called a native Amazonian theory of materiality and personhood.
North American Indigenous Warfare and Ritual Violence
Edited by Richard J. Chacon and Rubén G. Mendoza
The University of Arizona Press
This groundbreaking book presents clear evidence—from multiple academic disciplines—that indigenous populations engaged in warfare and ritual violence long before European contact.
Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology as Historical Process
Edited by Kenneth E. Sassaman and Donald H. Holly
The University of Arizona Press
Combining the latest empirical studies of archaeological practice with the latest conceptual tools of anthropological and historical theory, this volume seeks to set a new course for hunter-gatherer archaeology.
A New American Family
A Love Story
By Peter Likins
The University of Arizona Press
This poignant but ultimately empowering memoir tells the story of Peter Likins, his wife Patricia, and the six children they adopted in the 1960s, building a family beset by challenges that ultimately strengthened all bonds.
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