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Hottest of the Hotspots
The Rise of Eco-precarious Conservation Labor in Madagascar
The University of Arizona Press
Continually recognized as one of the “hottest” of all the world’s biodiversity hotspots, the island of Madagascar has become ground zero for the most intensive market-based conservation interventions on Earth. This book details the rollout of market conservation programs, including the finding drugs from nature—or “bioprospecting”—biodiversity offsetting, and the selling of blue carbon credits from mangroves. It documents the tensions that exist at the local level and provides a voice for community workers many times left out of environmental policy discussions, ultimately in the hope of offering critiques that build better conservation interventions with perspectives of the locals.
From the Skin
Defending Indigenous Nations Using Theory and Praxis
The University of Arizona Press
In this edited volume, J. Jeffery Clark and Elise Boxer deploy the term practitioner-theorist to describe Indigenous studies graduates who theorize, produce, and apply knowledge within and between their nations and academia.
Central American Migrations in the Twenty-First Century
The University of Arizona Press
Central American Migrations in the Twenty-First Century tackles head-on the way Central America has been portrayed as a region profoundly marked by the migration of its people. The essays use an intersectional approach to demonstrate the complexity of the migration experience. This volume opens a dialogue between humanities and social sciences scholars on the complex migratory processes of the region.
Ready Player Juan
Latinx Masculinities and Stereotypes in Video Games
The University of Arizona Press
This book fuses Latinx studies and video game studies to document how Latinx masculinities are portrayed in high-budget action-adventure video games. Developing an original approach to video game experiences, the author theorizes video games as border crossings, and defines a new concept—digital mestizaje—that pushes players, readers, and scholars to deploy a Latinx way of seeing constructive as well as destructive qualities.
Landscapes and Social Transformations on the Northwest Coast
Colonial Encounters in the Fraser Valley
By Jeff Oliver
The University of Arizona Press
Construction of Maya Space
Causeways, Walls, and Open Areas from Ancient to Modern Times
Edited by Thomas H. Guderjan and Jennifer P. Mathews
The University of Arizona Press
This volume focuses on how powerful people of the ancient, historical, and contemporary periods in the Maya world used features such as walls, roads, rails, and symbolic boundaries to control those without power—and how the powerless pushed back.
Our Hidden Landscapes
Indigenous Stone Ceremonial Sites in Eastern North America
Edited by Lucianne Lavin and Elaine Thomas
The University of Arizona Press
Our Hidden Landscapes introduces people to eastern North America’s Indigenous ceremonial stone landscapes (CSLs)—sacred sites whose principal identifying characteristics are built stone structures that cluster within specific physical landscapes. This volume presents these often unrecognized sites as significant cultural landscapes in need of protection and preservation. Chapters from Indigenous community members, archaeologists, and anthropologists provide a variety of approaches for better understanding, protecting, and preserving these important sacred spaces.
Nihikéyah
Navajo Homeland
Edited by Lloyd L. Lee
The University of Arizona Press
This anthology of essays offers Diné perspectives on the experiences, observations, and examinations of their homeland. Together, the contributors thoughtfully illustrate the complex state of nihikéyah, “our land,” as viewed by Diné people.
Living and Leaving
A Social History of Regional Depopulation in Thirteenth-Century Mesa Verde
The University of Arizona Press
Mesa Verde migrations were an integral part of a transformative period that forever changed the course of Pueblo history. Bringing together multiple lines of evidence, including settlement patterns, pottery exchange networks, and changes in ceremonial and civic architecture, Donna M. Glowacki takes a historical perspective that forefronts the social factors underlying the depopulation of Mesa Verde, showing how “living and leaving” were experienced across the region.
In the Arms of Saguaros
Iconography of the Giant Cactus
The University of Arizona Press
In the Arms of Saguaros pictures how nature’s sharpest curves became a symbol of the American West. From the botanical explorers of the nineteenth century to the tourism boosters in our own time, saguaros and their images have fulfilled attention-getting needs and expectations.
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