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Nature's Northwest

The North Pacific Slope in the Twentieth Century

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People of Pascua

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The American Café

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The Book of Want

A Novel

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The Neolithic Revolution in the Near East

Transforming the Human Landscape

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Wild Horses of the West

History and Politics of America's Mustangs

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Bitter Water

Diné Oral Histories of the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute

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Forty Miles from the Sea

Xalapa, the Public Sphere, and the Atlantic World in Nineteenth-Century Mexico

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Planning Paradise

Politics and Visioning of Land Use in Oregon

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The Life-Giving Stone

Ethnoarchaeology of Maya Metates

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Northern Arizona University

Buildings as History

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Memories of a Hyphenated Man

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  • Copyright year: 2003
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Ethnographic Contributions to the Study of Endangered Languages

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The eleven case studies assembled here strive to fill a gap in the study of endangered languages by providing much-needed sociohistorical and ethnographic context and thus connecting specific language phenomena to larger national and international issues.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Imprints on Native Lands

The Miskito-Moravian Settlement Landscape in Honduras

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  • Copyright year: 2011
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Natives Making Nation

Gender, Indigeneity, and the State in the Andes

Edited by Andrew Canessa
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White Man's Water

The Politics of Sobriety in a Native American Community

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  • Copyright year: 2011
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Calexico

True Lives of the Borderlands

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  • Copyright year: 2011
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From This Wicked Patch of Dust

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  • Copyright year: 2011
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Mario Vargas Llosa

Public Intellectual in Neoliberal Latin America

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Mario Vargas Llosa has enjoyed considerable influence in the political arena, thanks in no small part to his run for the Peruvian presidency in 1990. Though he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2010 for his literary achievements, he is as well known in the Spanish-speaking world for his political columns as his novels. In his widely syndicated columns, Vargas Llosa asserts a “liberal” position, in the classical sense of affirming the importance of a free market and individual rights, though he has often aligned himself with groups that emphasize the former at the expense of the latter. While his early literary output seemed to proclaim an allegiance with the Left, Vargas Llosa took a right turn that Juan E. De Castro argues was anticipatory and representative of the Latin American embrace of the free market in the 1990s. Thus, Vargas Llosa’s political thought provides a key for understanding social and cultural shifts that have taken place throughout Latin America.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Rascuache Lawyer

Toward a Theory of Ordinary Litigation

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  • Copyright year: 2011
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Revolutionary Parks

Conservation, Social Justice, and Mexico’s National Parks, 1910–1940

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Revolutionary Parks tells the surprising story of how forty national parks were created in Mexico during the latter stages of the first social revolution of the twentieth century. What emerges in Emily Wakild’s deft inquiry is the story of a nature protection program that takes into account the history, society, and culture of the times. Wakild employs case studies of four parks to show how the revolutionary momentum coalesced to create early environmentalism in Mexico.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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The Big Empty

The Great Plains in the Twentieth Century

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  • Copyright year: 2011
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Winning Their Place

Arizona Women in Politics, 1883-1950

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A Common Humanity

Ritual, Religion, and Immigrant Advocacy in Tucson, Arizona

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  • Copyright year: 2011
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Chicano Studies

The Genesis of a Discipline

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Part intellectual history, part social criticism, and part personal meditation, Chicano Studies attempts to make sense of the collision (and occasional wreckage) of politics, culture, scholarship, ideology, and philosophy that created a new academic discipline. Along the way, it identifies a remarkable cast of scholars and administrators who added considerable zest to the drama.


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Codex Chimalpopoca

The Text in Nahuatl with a Glossary and Grammatical Notes

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Cooking the Wild Southwest

Delicious Recipes for Desert Plants

By Carolyn Niethammer; Illustrated by Paul Mirocha
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  • Copyright year: 2011
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Sing

Poetry from the Indigenous Americas

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This multilingual collection of Indigenous American poetry gathers more than eighty poets from across the Americas, covering territory from Alaska to Chile, and featuring familiar names like Sherwin Bitsui, Louise Erdrich, Joy Harjo, Lee Maracle, and Simon Ortiz alongside international poets—both emerging and acclaimed—from regions underrepresented in anthologies.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Sovereign Erotics

A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature

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  • Copyright year: 2011
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State Healthcare and Yanomami Transformations

A Symmetrical Ethnography

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Until now, anthropological writing on Amazonian peoples has been divided between “traditional” topics (e.g., kinship, cosmology, and ritual) and struggles with the nation-state. In this ethnography, José Antonio Kelly challenges that dichotomy, placing the study of culture and cosmology within the context of the modern nation-state and its institutions. He explores Indian-white relations through the operation of a state-run health system among the indigenous Yanomami of southern Venezuela.

With theoretical foundations in medical and Amazonian anthropology, Kelly shows how Amerindian cosmology shapes concepts of the state at the community level. His symmetrical anthropology treats white and Amerindian perceptions of each other within a single theoretical framework, thus expanding our understanding of the groups and their mutual influences. This book will be valuable to scholars and students of Amazonian peoples, medical anthropology, development, and Latin American studies.

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The Archaeology of Native-Lived Colonialism

Challenging History in the Great Lakes

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The Other Latin@

Writing Against a Singular Identity

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  • Copyright year: 2011
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Twelve Hundred Miles by Horse and Burro

J. Stokley Ligon and New Mexico’s First Breeding Bird Survey

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  • Copyright year: 2011
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Aconcagua

The Invention of Mountaineering on America’s Highest Peak

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  • Copyright year: 2011
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Earth Wisdom

A California Chumash Woman

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  • Copyright year: 2011
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From Beneath the Volcano

The Story of a Salvadoran Campesino and His Family

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Ideologies in Archaeology

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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.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Immigration Law and the U.S.–Mexico Border

¿Sí se puede?

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  • Copyright year: 2011
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Smugglers, Brothels, and Twine

Historical Perspectives on Contraband and Vice in North America’s Borderlands

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Women and Knowledge in Mesoamerica

From East L.A. to Anahuac

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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.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Death and Dying in Colonial Spanish America

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  • Copyright year: 2011
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Field Man

Life as a Desert Archaeologist

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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.

  • Copyright year: 2012
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Latino Los Angeles

Transformations, Communities, and Activism

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Along These Highways

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Rene Perez has the ability to stop time. In fact, time stops as soon as you start reading one of his short stories. You find yourself transported into the minds and lives of people you thought you didn’t know. Suddenly they are your best friends. They live in Texas. Most of them are Hispanic. But their problems are universal.

  • Copyright year: 2012
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Arizona

A History, Revised Edition

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Now, just in time for Arizona’s centennial, Sheridan has revised and expanded this already top-tier state history to incorporate events and changes that have taken place in recent years. Addressing contemporary issues like land use, water rights, dramatic population increases, suburban sprawl, and the US–Mexico border, the new material makes the book more essential than ever. It successfully places the forty-eighth state’s history within the context of national and global events. No other book on Arizona history is as integrative or comprehensive.


  • Copyright year: 2012
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Bolivia's Radical Tradition

Permanent Revolution in the Andes

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  • Copyright year: 2012
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Exploring Mars

Chronicles from a Decade of Discovery

By Scott Hubbard; Foreword by Bill Nye
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  • Copyright year: 2012
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