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Carib-Speaking Indians
Culture, Society, and Language
Edited by Ellen B. Basso
The University of Arizona Press
Broken K Pueblo
Prehistoric Social Organization in the American Southwest
The University of Arizona Press
Between Desert and River
Hohokam Settlement and Land Use in the Los Robles Community
The University of Arizona Press
Basketmaker Caves in the Prayer Rock District, Northeastern Arizona
The University of Arizona Press
Archaeological Explorations in Caves of the Point of Pines Region, Arizona
The University of Arizona Press
Anadarko
A Kiowa Country Mystery
By Tom Holm
The University of Arizona Press
In Anadarko, a small bootlegger town full of corruption and murder, J.D. Daugherty and Hoolie Smith investigate the disappearances of geologist Frank Shotz and community member Louisa Welbourne. Tackling difficult issues involving racial prejudice with ease, Tom Holm weaves a vivid, suspenseful tale of the fight between good and evil.
The Darling
The University of Arizona Press
While classic works of literature inspire Caridad’s longing for love, the wisdom she finds in books helps her to end disastrous relationships. Inspired by fictional heroines, Caridad gradually replaces the models they offer with her own life lessons as she struggles for independence and fulfillment.
Buzzing Hemisphere / Rumor Hemisférico
By Urayoán Noel
The University of Arizona Press
Buzzing Hemisphere / Rumor Hemisférico imagines an alternative to the monolingualism of the U.S. literary and political landscape, and it proposes a geo-neuro-political performance attuned to damaged or marginalized forms of knowledge, perception, and identity. Poet Urayoán Noel maps the spaces between and across languages, cities, and bodies, creating a hemispheric poetics that is both broadly geopolitical and intimately neurological.
Ladies of the Canyons
A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest
The University of Arizona Press
Ladies of the Canyons is the true story of a group of remarkable women whose lives were transformed by the people and landscape of the American Southwest in the first decades of the twentieth century.
De Grazia
The Man and the Myths
The University of Arizona Press
This is the first comprehensive biography of artist Ted DeGrazia (1909–1982), who was known as much for his colorful paintings of the Southwest and Mexico as his eccentric personality. De Grazia: The Man and the Myths mines private archival sources, memoirs, and interviews to draw an intriguing new portrait of this western legend.
Burton Barr
Political Leadership and the Transformation of Arizona
By Philip VanderMeer; Foreword by Alfredo Gutierrez
The University of Arizona Press
Arizona House Majority Leader Burton Barr’s leadership style not only illuminated his personality and ideas, but also explained the larger political development of Arizona. Barr’s career is instructive because of his considerable success, the criticism it engendered, and the forces he contested, all taking place during an era of significant change.
Border Oasis
Water and the Political Ecology of the Colorado River Delta, 1940–1975
By Evan R. Ward
The University of Arizona Press
Across a Great Divide
Continuity and Change in Native North American Societies, 1400–1900
Edited by Laura L. Scheiber and Mark D. Mitchell
The University of Arizona Press
Archaeological research is uniquely positioned to show how native history and native culture affected the course of colonial interaction, but to do so it must transcend colonialist ideas about Native American technological and social change. This book applies that insight to five hundred years of native history. Using data from a wide variety of geographical, temporal, and cultural settings, the contributors examine economic, social, and political stability and transformation in indigenous societies before and after the advent of Europeans and document the diversity of native colonial experiences. The book’s case studies range widely, from sixteenth-century Florida, to the Great Plains, to nineteenth-century coastal Alaska.
The Colorado Plateau VI
Science and Management at the Landscape Scale
The University of Arizona Press
With a plethora of updates and insights into land conservation and management questions on the Colorado Plateau, The Colorado Plateau VI is the sixth installment in a series of research on the region. Contributors show how new technologies for monitoring, spatial analysis, restoration, and collaboration improve our understanding, management, and conservation of outcomes at the appropriate landscape scale for the Colorado Plateau.
From Tribute to Communal Sovereignty
The Tarascan and Caxcan Territories in Transition
The University of Arizona Press
From Tribute to Communal Sovereignty brings together well-regarded scholars to examine both continuity and change over the last five centuries for the indigenous peoples of Central Western Mexico, providing the first sweeping and comprehensive regional history of this important region in Mesoamerica.
Crafting Identity
Transnational Indian Arts and the Politics of Race in Central Mexico
The University of Arizona Press
Crafting Identity explores the complex interplay of social relations, values, dominations, and performances present in the world of Mexican mask making. The book examines how art, media, and tourism mediate Mexican culture from the margins (“arte popular”), making Mexican indigeneity “palatable” for Mexican nationalism and American and global markets for folklore.
Taking Charge
Native American Self-Determination and Federal Indian Policy, 1975–1993
The University of Arizona Press
We Are the State!
Barrio Activism in Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution
The University of Arizona Press
We Are the State! provides a new perspective on the Chavistas, a diverse social movement and a driving force behind Venezuela’s social revolution. Cristobal Valencia dramatically challenges top-down understandings of the state and power in Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution. His ethnographic research reveals the shift in power relationships and the evolving political practices amongst the Chavistas, the Chávez government, and the larger state apparatus.
Native Studies Keywords
The University of Arizona Press
Native Studies Keywords is a genealogical project that looks at the history of words that claim to have no history. The end goal is not to determine which words are appropriate but to critically examine words that are crucial to Native studies, in hopes of promoting debate and critical interrogation.
Mesoamerican Plazas
Arenas of Community and Power
Edited by Kenichiro Tsukamoto and Takeshi Inomata
The University of Arizona Press
This is the first book to examine the roles of plazas in ancient Mesoamerica. It argues persuasively that physical interactions among people in communal events were not the outcomes of political machinations held behind the scenes, but were the actual political processes through which people created, negotiated, and subverted social realities.
Mapping Indigenous Presence
North Scandinavian and North American Perspectives
The University of Arizona Press
Mapping Indigenous Presence promises to become a benchmark for future conversations concerning comparative Indigenous scholarly methodologies. Shanley and Evjen’s work attests to the importance of the roles Indigenous peoples have played as overseers of their own lands and resources and as political entities capable of governing themselves.
Living with the Dead in the Andes
Edited by Izumi Shimada and James L. Fitzsimmons
The University of Arizona Press
Living with the Dead in the Andes provides new data and insights informed by general anthropological theory; the extensive bibliography alone is an important contribution. Scholars working with Andean mortuary practices (and prehistory generally) will be citing these chapters for years.
Universities and Indian Country
Case Studies in Tribal-Driven Research
Edited by Dennis K. Norman and Joseph P. Kalt
The University of Arizona Press
Building on the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development’s experience with more than 120 nation-building projects over two decades, Universities and Indian Country posits that the tenets of nation building can provide a strategy for expanding and diversifying universities’ perspectives of knowledge in a multicultural world, while also producing results that are requested by and useful to Native communities. It is a valuable resource for any student, professional, and community member working to assert powers of self-determination, strengthen culture, and develop economies.
Minorities in Phoenix
A Profile of Mexican American, Chinese American, and African American Communities, 1860-1992
The University of Arizona Press
The Sagebrush Trail
Western Movies and Twentieth-Century America
The University of Arizona Press
The Sagebrush Trail is a history of Western movies but also a history of twentieth-century America. Richard Aquila’s fast-paced narrative includes classic Westerns such as Stagecoach, A Fistful of Dollars, and Unforgiven. This engaging volume shows how the mythic West continues to ride tall in the saddle along a “sagebrush trail,” which reveals valuable clues about American life and thought.
Mexican Americans and Health
¡Sana! ¡Sana!
By Adela de la Torre and Antonio Estrada
The University of Arizona Press
Mexican Americans and Health, 2nd Edition provides new and updated information on health and health care topics regarding people of Mexican origin. New additions include analysis of emerging diseases and populations, current health-care events, and predictions for the next ten years. De la Torre and Estrada’s collaboration brings scholarship that is both cross-disciplinary and highly readable.
Mexican Americans and Education
El saber es poder
The University of Arizona Press
In Mexican Americans and Education, Estela Godinez Ballón provides students and educators alike with an indispensable overview of the relationship between Mexican Americans and the U.S. public schooling system. She examines controversial issues, such as standardized testing, segregation, and curriculum tracking, as well as a historical analysis of the barriers that Mexican American students have and continue to regularly face.
Tributaries
By Laura Da'
The University of Arizona Press
Tributaries lyrically surveys Shawnee history alongside personal identity and memory. With the eye of a storyteller, poet Laura Da’ creates an arc that flows from the personal to the historical and back again. With narrative content from the period of Indian Removal in the 1830s to the present, the collection is composed of four sections that come together to create an important new telling of Shawnee past and present.
Occupying Our Space
The Mestiza Rhetorics of Mexican Women Journalists and Activists, 1875–1942
By Cristina Devereaux Ramírez; Foreword by Jacqueline Jones Royster
The University of Arizona Press
Occupying our Space examines the contributions of Mexican women journalists and writers during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, marked as the zenith of Mexican journalism. Through her analysis of the women’s writings, Cristina D. Ramírez coins the phrase rhetorical puestos, or rhetorical public spaces, meant to create an authentic speaking arena for the women. Allowing the women to speak first, Ramírez deftly reframes the conversation about the rhetorical and intellectual role women played in the shifting political and identity culture in Mexico.
More or Less Dead
Feminicide, Haunting, and the Ethics of Representation in Mexico
By Alice Driver
The University of Arizona Press
More or Less Dead is a rigorous critical work that asks us to reexamine conversations about human rights. This provocative book offers a penetrating portrayal of life and death in Ciudad Juárez.
Mexico in Verse
A History of Music, Rhyme, and Power
The University of Arizona Press
Mexico in Verse, edited by Stephen Neufeld and Michael Matthews, examines Mexican history through its poetry and music, the spoken and the written word. The book provides a window to the beliefs and aspirations of ordinary people, fresh and vigorous and honest, in Mexico during a period of dynamic and turbulent change.
Women Who Stay Behind
Pedagogies of Survival in Rural Transmigrant Mexico
The University of Arizona Press
Women Who Stay Behind examines the social, educational, and cultural resources rural Mexican women employ to creatively survive the conditions created by the migration of loved ones. Using narrative, research, and theory, Ruth Trinidad Galván presents a hopeful picture of what is traditionally viewed as the abject circumstances of poor and working-class people in Mexico who are forced to migrate to survive.
Searching for Golden Empires
Epic Cultural Collisions in Sixteenth-Century America
The University of Arizona Press
In Searching for Golden Empires, William K. Hartmann tells a true-life adventure story that recounts the shared history of the United States and Mexico, unveiling episodes both tragic and uplifting. Hernan Cortés, Montezuma, Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, and Viceroy Antonio Mendoza are just some of the principal eyewitnesses in this vivid history of New World exploration.
Ancient Paquimé and the Casas Grandes World
Edited by Paul E. Minnis and Michael E. Whalen
The University of Arizona Press
Sixteen scholars on both sides of the border present recent research on the economy, history, religion, and far-reaching influence of Casas Grandes. Macaw feathers, copper, shells, ritual mounds, and ball fields all reveal the secrets of Casas Grandes, a massive town whose trading network extended from the Chihuahua Desert up through the American Southwest.
Reconnaissance in Sonora
Charles D. Poston’s 1854 Exploration of Mexico and the Gadsden Purchase
The University of Arizona Press
Reconnaissance in Sonora is based on Charles D. Poston’s handwritten report about his 1854 journey from San Francisco to Sonora, Mexico, and his return through the Gadsden Purchase territory of southern Arizona. Along the way, C. Gilbert Storms explores the national debate over a route for a transcontinental railroad and the legends of rich gold and silver mines in 1850s northern Mexico.
George Hunt
Arizona's Crusading Seven-Term Governor
The University of Arizona Press
George Hunt is the political biography of Arizona’s first elected governor, a nuanced, penetrating portrait of a colorful and controversial man. David Berman has written a well-researched, unvarnished portrayal of a complicated and controversial figure, George W. P. Hunt.
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