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Smugglers, Brothels, and Twine
Historical Perspectives on Contraband and Vice in North America’s Borderlands
Edited by Elaine Carey and Andrae M. Marak
The University of Arizona Press
Native American Performance and Representation
Edited by S. E. Wilmer
The University of Arizona Press
Immigration Law and the U.S.–Mexico Border
¿Sí se puede?
By Kevin R. Johnson and Bernard Trujillo
The University of Arizona Press
Ideologies in Archaeology
Edited by Reinhard Bernbeck and Randall H. McGuire
The University of Arizona Press
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.
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.
From Beneath the Volcano
The Story of a Salvadoran Campesino and His Family
The University of Arizona Press
Twelve Hundred Miles by Horse and Burro
J. Stokley Ligon and New Mexico’s First Breeding Bird Survey
By Harley Shaw and Mara E. Weisenberger
The University of Arizona Press
The Other Latin@
Writing Against a Singular Identity
Edited by Blas Falconer and Lorraine M. López
The University of Arizona Press
The Archaeology of Native-Lived Colonialism
Challenging History in the Great Lakes
By Neal Ferris
The University of Arizona Press
State Healthcare and Yanomami Transformations
A Symmetrical Ethnography
The University of Arizona Press
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.
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.
Sing
Poetry from the Indigenous Americas
Edited by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
The University of Arizona Press
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.
Cooking the Wild Southwest
Delicious Recipes for Desert Plants
By Carolyn Niethammer; Illustrated by Paul Mirocha
The University of Arizona Press
Codex Chimalpopoca
The Text in Nahuatl with a Glossary and Grammatical Notes
The University of Arizona Press
Chicano Studies
The Genesis of a Discipline
The University of Arizona Press
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.
A Common Humanity
Ritual, Religion, and Immigrant Advocacy in Tucson, Arizona
By Lane Van Ham
The University of Arizona Press
Revolutionary Parks
Conservation, Social Justice, and Mexico’s National Parks, 1910–1940
By Emily Wakild
The University of Arizona Press
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.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Public Intellectual in Neoliberal Latin America
The University of Arizona Press
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.
White Man's Water
The Politics of Sobriety in a Native American Community
The University of Arizona Press
Natives Making Nation
Gender, Indigeneity, and the State in the Andes
Edited by Andrew Canessa
The University of Arizona Press
Imprints on Native Lands
The Miskito-Moravian Settlement Landscape in Honduras
The University of Arizona Press
Ethnographic Contributions to the Study of Endangered Languages
Edited by Tania Granadillo and Heidi A. Orcutt-Gachiri
The University of Arizona Press
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.
Northern Arizona University
Buildings as History
By Lee C. Drickamer and Peter J. Runge
The University of Arizona Press
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