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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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Earth Wisdom

A California Chumash Woman

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Aconcagua

The Invention of Mountaineering on America’s Highest Peak

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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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The Other Latin@

Writing Against a Singular Identity

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The Archaeology of Native-Lived Colonialism

Challenging History in the Great Lakes

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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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Sovereign Erotics

A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature

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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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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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Codex Chimalpopoca

The Text in Nahuatl with a Glossary and Grammatical Notes

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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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A Common Humanity

Ritual, Religion, and Immigrant Advocacy in Tucson, Arizona

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Winning Their Place

Arizona Women in Politics, 1883-1950

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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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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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Rascuache Lawyer

Toward a Theory of Ordinary Litigation

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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.

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From This Wicked Patch of Dust

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Calexico

True Lives of the Borderlands

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  • Copyright year: 2011
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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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Natives Making Nation

Gender, Indigeneity, and the State in the Andes

Edited by Andrew Canessa
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Imprints on Native Lands

The Miskito-Moravian Settlement Landscape in Honduras

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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.

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Memories of a Hyphenated Man

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  • Copyright year: 2003
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Northern Arizona University

Buildings as History

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The Life-Giving Stone

Ethnoarchaeology of Maya Metates

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Planning Paradise

Politics and Visioning of Land Use in Oregon

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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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Bitter Water

Diné Oral Histories of the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute

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Wild Horses of the West

History and Politics of America's Mustangs

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The Neolithic Revolution in the Near East

Transforming the Human Landscape

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The Book of Want

A Novel

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The American Café

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People of Pascua

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Nature's Northwest

The North Pacific Slope in the Twentieth Century

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Global Maya

Work and Ideology in Rural Guatemala

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Wild Sea

Eco-Wars and Surf Stories from the Coast of the Californias

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Queer Indigenous Studies

Critical Interventions in Theory, Politics, and Literature

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Dry River

Stories of Life, Death, and Redemption on the Santa Cruz

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Trust in the Land

New Directions in Tribal Conservation

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Jesus and the Gang

Youth Violence and Christianity in Urban Honduras

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A New American Family

A Love Story

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Empire

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Doubters and Dreamers

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We Are Our Language

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In presenting the case of Kaska, an endangered language in an Athapascan community in the Yukon, Barbra Meek asserts that language revitalization requires more than just linguistic rehabilitation; it demands a social transformation. The process must mend rips and tears in the social fabric of the language community that result from an enduring colonial history.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Exoplanets

Edited by Sara Seager
The University of Arizona Press

For the first time in human history, we are certain of the existence of planets around other stars. Exoplanets serves as both an introduction for the non-specialist and a foundation for the techniques and equations used in exoplanet observation by those dedicated to the field. This volume lays the foundation for the field’s continued growth.

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Maguey Journey

Discovering Textiles in Guatemala

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Controlling the Past, Owning the Future

The Political Uses of Archaeology in the Middle East

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Burnt Corn Pueblo

Conflict and Conflagration in the Galisteo Basin, A.D. 1250–1325

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  • Copyright year: 2011
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Becoming Villagers

Comparing Early Village Societies

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