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The University of Arizona Press is the premier publisher of academic, regional, and literary works in the state of Arizona. They disseminate ideas and knowledge of lasting value that enrich understanding, inspire curiosity, and enlighten readers. They advance the University of Arizona’s mission by connecting scholarship and creative expression to readers worldwide.

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Famine Foods

Plants We Eat to Survive

The University of Arizona Press

How people eat today is a record of food use through the ages, and Famine Foods offers the first ever overview of the use of alternative foods during food shortages. Paul E. Minnis explores the unusual plants that have helped humanity survive throughout history.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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The Hatak Witches

The University of Arizona Press

A baffling museum murder that appears to be the work of twisted human killers results in an unexpected and violent confrontation with powerful shape-shifters for Choctaw detective Monique Blue Hawk. Blending tribal beliefs and myths into a modern context, The Hatak Witches continues the storyline of Choctaw cosmology and cultural survival that are prominent in Devon A. Mihesuah’s award-winning novel, The Roads of My Relations.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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The Diné Reader

An Anthology of Navajo Literature

The University of Arizona Press

The Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature is a comprehensive collection of creative works by Diné poets and writers. This anthology is the first of its kind.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Narratives of Persistence

Indigenous Negotiations of Colonialism in Alta and Baja California

The University of Arizona Press

Narratives of Persistence charts the remarkable persistence of California’s Ohlone and Paipai people over the past five centuries. Lee M. Panich draws connections between the events and processes of the deeper past and the way the Ohlone and Paipai today understand their own histories and identities.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Danzirly

The University of Arizona Press

Danzirly is a stunning bilingual poetry collection that considers multigenerational Latinx identities in the rapidly changing United States. Winner of the Academy of American Poets’ Ambroggio Prize, Gloria Muñoz’s collection is an unforgettable reckoning of the grief and beauty that pulses through twenty-first-century America.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Strong Hearts and Healing Hands

Southern California Indians and Field Nurses, 1920–1950

The University of Arizona Press

In 1924, the United States began a bold program in public health. The Indian Service of the United States hired its first nurses to work among Indians living on reservations. Strong Hearts and Healing Hands shows how field nurses and Native people formed a positive working relationship that resulted in the decline of mortality from infectious diseases. With strong hearts, Indians eagerly participated in the tuberculosis campaign of 1939–40 to x-ray tribal members living on twenty-nine reservations. Through their cooperative efforts, Indians and health-care providers decreased deaths, cases, and misery among the tribes of Southern California.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Federico

One Man’s Remarkable Journey from Tututepec to L.A.

The University of Arizona Press

From the day he was born, Federico Jiménez Caballero was predicted to be a successful man. So, how exactly did a young boy from Tututepec, Oaxaca, become a famous Indigenous jewelry artist and philanthropist in Los Angeles? Federico tells the remarkable story of willpower, curiosity, hard work, and passion coming together to change one man’s life forever.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Undocuments

The University of Arizona Press

UNDOCUMENTS is an expansive multi-genre exploration of Greater Mexican documentality that reveals the complicated ways all Latinx peoples, including the author, become objectified within cultures. John-Michael Rivera remixes the Florentine Codex and other documents as he takes an intense look at the anxieties and physical detriments tied to immigration.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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New Deal Art in Arizona

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Indigenous Women and Violence

Feminist Activist Research in Heightened States of Injustice

The University of Arizona Press

Indigenous Women and Violence offers an intimate view of how settler colonialism and other structural forms of power and inequality created accumulated violences in the lives of Indigenous women. The chapters in this book are engaged, feminist, collaborative, and activism focused, conveying powerful messages about the resilience of Indigenous women in the face of violence and systemic oppression.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Transversal

Poems

The University of Arizona Press

Transversal takes a groundbreaking, disruptive approach to poetic translation, opening up alternative ways of reading as poems get translated or transcreated into entirely new pieces. In this collection, Noel masterfully examines his native Puerto Rico and the broader Caribbean as sites of transversal poetics and politics.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Rewriting the Chicano Movement

New Histories of Mexican American Activism in the Civil Rights Era

The University of Arizona Press

Rewriting the Chicano Movement is an insightful new history of the Chicano Movement that expands the meaning and understanding of this seminal historical period in Chicano history. The essays introduce new individuals and struggles previously omitted from Chicano Movement history.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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The Great Ages of Discovery

How Western Civilization Learned About a Wider World

The University of Arizona Press

The Great Ages of Discovery is a fascinating conceptual framework for understanding the past 600 years of exploration by Western civilization and its relationship to contemporary society. Stephen J. Pyne expertly organizes the vast narrative of Western exploration into three distinctive ages of discovery.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Renewing Our Rivers

Stream Corridor Restoration in Dryland Regions

The University of Arizona Press

Renewing Our Rivers guides readers through the main steps in designing and implementing successful dryland stream corridor restoration. Ecologists, geomorphologists, and hydrologists from Australia, Mexico, and the United States share their case studies and key lessons learned for successful restoration and renewal of our most vital resource.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Voices of Play

Miskitu Children's Speech and Song on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua

The University of Arizona Press

Voices of Play is an ethnography of multilingual play and performance among indigenous Miskitu children growing up in a diverse region of the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua. Minks reveals the intertwining of speech and song and the emergence of self and other in a mobile, mixed indigenous community.

  • Copyright year: 2013
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Decolonizing Indigenous Histories

Exploring Prehistoric/Colonial Transitions in Archaeology

The University of Arizona Press

This leading-edge volume explores how the inclusion of indigenous histories in analyses of colonialism, collaboration with contemporary communities and scholars across the subfields of anthropology, and the engagement with these histories and with indigenous peoples contributes constructively to the decolonization of archaeology as well as to broader projects of social justice.

  • Copyright year: 2012
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Mexico’s Community Forest Enterprises

Success on the Commons and the Seeds of a Good Anthropocene

The University of Arizona Press

David Barton Bray has spent more than thirty years researching and studying Mexican community forest enterprises (CFEs). In this book he shares the scientific evidence for Mexico’s social and environmental achievements and how, in its most successful manifestations, it became a global model for common-property forest management, sustainable social-ecological systems, and climate change mitigation in developing countries.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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The Prehispanic Ethnobotany of Paquimé and Its Neighbors

The University of Arizona Press

This volume is a major ethnobotanical study for the ancient U.S. Southwest and northwestern Mexico. The results reorient our perspective in the rise of one of the most impressive communities in the international region.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Revitalization Lexicography

The Making of the New Tunica Dictionary

The University of Arizona Press

A unique look under the hood of lexicography in a small community, highlighting how the creation of the Tunica dictionary was intentionally leveraged to shape the revitalization of the Tunica language. It details both the theoretical and the practical aspects that contributed to the Tunica dictionary in manner compelling to readers from all walks of life.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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The Nature of Desert Nature

The University of Arizona Press

The desert inspires wonder. Attending to history, culture, science, and spirit, The Nature of Desert Nature celebrates the bounty and the significance of desert places.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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