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Nikkei in the Interior West
Japanese Immigration and Community Building, 1882–1945
- Copyright year: 2012
Looking North
Writings from Spanish America on the US, 1800 to the Present
Editors John J. Hassett and Braulio Muñoz present a collection of writings that provides a look into the ways in which Spanish America has viewed its northern neighbor over the past two centuries.
- Copyright year: 2012
Eating the Landscape
American Indian Stories of Food, Identity, and Resilience
“Eating is not only a political act, it is also a cultural act that reaffirms one’s identity and worldview,” Enrique Salmon writes in Eating the Landscape. Traversing a range of cultures, including the Tohono O’odham of the Sonoran Desert and the Rarámuri of the Sierra Tarahumara, the book is an illuminating journey through the southwest United States and northern Mexico. Salmon weaves his historical and cultural knowledge as a renowned indigenous ethnobotanist with stories American Indian farmers have shared with him to illustrate how traditional indigenous foodways—from the cultivation of crops to the preparation of meals—are rooted in a time-honored understanding of environmental stewardship.
- Copyright year: 2012
Constructing Citizenship
Transnational Workers and Revolution on the Mexico-Guatemala Border, 1880--1950
- Copyright year: 2012
Western Avenue and Other Fictions
In this soulful collection of short stories, Arroyo shows us internal and external conflicts that are deeply rooted in—and affected by—place. A bodega, a university town, a factory, a Chicago street, some dusty potato fields: here is where we encounter ordinary people who work, dream, love, and persist in the face of violence, bereavement, disappointment, and loss—particularly the loss of mothers, fathers, and loved ones.
- Copyright year: 2012
The Only One Living to Tell
The Autobiography of a Yavapai Indian
- Copyright year: 2012
Reimagining Marginalized Foods
Global Processes, Local Places
This volume brings together ethnographically based anthropological analyses of shifting meanings and representations associated with the foods, ingredients, and cooking practices that of marginalized and/or indigenous cultures. Contributors are particularly interested in how these foods intersect with politics, nationhood and governance, identity, authenticity, and conservation.
- Copyright year: 2012
Red Weather
- Copyright year: 2012
Population Circulation and the Transformation of Ancient Zuni Communities
- Copyright year: 2012
I Don't Cry, But I Remember
A Mexican Immigrant's Story of Endurance
In I Don’t Cry, But I Remember, Joyce Lackie shares with us an intimate portrait of Viviana Salgeuro’s life. Based on hours of recorded conversations, Lackie skillfully translates the interviews into an engaging, revealing narrative that details the migrant experience from a woman’s point of view and fills a gap in our history by examining the role of women of color in the American Southwest.
- Copyright year: 2012
Cell Traffic
New and Selected Poems
Cell Traffic presents new poems and uncollected prose poetry along with selected work from award-winning poet Heid Erdrich’s three previous poetry collections. Erdrich’s new work reflects her continuing concerns with the tensions between science and tradition, between spirit and body. She finds surprising common ground while exploring indigenous experience in multifaceted ways: personal, familial, biological, and cultural.
- Copyright year: 2012
Walking the Clouds
An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction
In this first-ever anthology of Indigenous science fiction Grace Dillon collects some of the finest examples of the craft with contributions by Native American, First Nations, Aboriginal Australian, and New Zealand Maori authors.
- Copyright year: 2012
The New Politics of Protest
Indigenous Mobilization in Latin America's Neoliberal Era
- Copyright year: 2012
Southwestern Pithouse Communities, AD 200-900
- Copyright year: 2012
Outside the Hacienda Walls
The Archaeology of Plantation Peonage in Nineteenth-Century Yucatán
Drawing on a dozen years of archaeological and historical investigation, Allan Meyers breaks new ground in the study of Yucatán haciendas. He presents original data and fresh interpretations on settlement organization, social stratification, and spatial relationships.
- Copyright year: 2012
Hogs, Mules, and Yellow Dogs
Growing Up on a Mississippi Subsistence Farm
To ensure that the world of Jimmye Hillman’s childhood in Greene County, Mississippi during the Great Depression doesn’t slip away, he has gathered together accounts of his family and the other people of Old Washington village. More than just childhood memories and a family saga, though, this book serves as a snapshot of the natural, historical, and linguistic details of the time and place. It is a remarkable record of Southern life.
- Copyright year: 2012
We Are Our Language
An Ethnography of Language Revitalization in a Northern Athabaskan Community
We Are Our Language provides an investigation of language revitalization based on local language renewal efforts. This book reveals the subtle ways in which different conceptions and practices—historical, material, and interactional—can variably affect the state of an indigenous language, and it offers a critical step toward redefining success and achieving revitalization.
- Copyright year: 2012
Toward a Behavioral Ecology of Lithic Technology
Cases from Paleoindian Archaeology
The Archaeology of Environmental Change
Socionatural Legacies of Degradation and Resilience
In this book, a diverse collection of case studies reveal how archaeology can contribute to a better understanding of humans' relation to the environment. The Archaeology of Environmental Change shows that the environmental challenges facing humanity today can be better approached through an attempt to understand how past societies dealt with similar circumstances.
- Copyright year: 2009
Sueños Americanos
Barrio Youth Negotiating Social and Cultural Identities
For nearly a decade, Julio Cammarota interviewed and observed Latino youth—researching how they negotiated myriad social conditions and hostile economic and political pressures in their daily lives. One of the most extensive studies of barrio youth, Sueños Americanos illuminates the complex relationships among low-wage employment, cultural standards, education, class oppression, and gender expectations.
- Copyright year: 2012
Religious Transformation in the Late Pre-Hispanic Pueblo World
The contributors to this volume employ a wide range of archaeological evidence to examine the origin and development of religious ideologies and the ways they shaped Pueblo societies across the Southwest in the centuries prior to European contact.
- Copyright year: 2012
Out of Nature
Why Drugs from Plants Matter to the Future of Humanity
Through stories of drug revelation in nature and forays into botany, human behavior, and conservation, Kara Rogers sheds light on the multiple ways in which humans, medicine, and plants are interconnected. With accessible and engaging writing, she explores the relationships between humans and plants, relating the stories of plant hunters of centuries past and examining the impact of human activities on the environment and the world's biodiversity.
- Copyright year: 2012
Leaving Mesa Verde
Peril and Change in the Thirteenth-Century Southwest
A great mystery in the archaeology of the Southwest is the depopulation of the northern San Juan in the late thirteenth-century AD. Leaving Mesa Verde confronts this mystery with new paleoenvironmental data and much archaeological research. What arises is a story of conflict and disruption as a result of climate change, environmental degradation, social rigidity, and conflict.
- Copyright year: 2012
Gender Violence at the U.S.–Mexico Border
Media Representation and Public Response
- Copyright year: 2012
Exploring Mars
Chronicles from a Decade of Discovery
- Copyright year: 2012
Bolivia's Radical Tradition
Permanent Revolution in the Andes
- Copyright year: 2012
Arizona
A History, Revised Edition
Now, just in time for Arizona’s centennial, Sheridan has revised and expanded this already top-tier state history to incorporate events and changes that have taken place in recent years. Addressing contemporary issues like land use, water rights, dramatic population increases, suburban sprawl, and the US–Mexico border, the new material makes the book more essential than ever. It successfully places the forty-eighth state’s history within the context of national and global events. No other book on Arizona history is as integrative or comprehensive.
- Copyright year: 2012
Along These Highways
Rene Perez has the ability to stop time. In fact, time stops as soon as you start reading one of his short stories. You find yourself transported into the minds and lives of people you thought you didn’t know. Suddenly they are your best friends. They live in Texas. Most of them are Hispanic. But their problems are universal.
- Copyright year: 2012
Latino Los Angeles
Transformations, Communities, and Activism
Field Man
Life as a Desert Archaeologist
Field Man is the memoir of renowned southwestern archaeologist Julian Dodge Hayden—a blue-collar scholar who challenged conventional thinking on the antiquity of man in the New World, brought a formidable pragmatism to the identification of stone tools, and who is remembered as the leading authority on the prehistory of the Sierra Pinacate.
- Copyright year: 2012
Death and Dying in Colonial Spanish America
- Copyright year: 2011
Women and Knowledge in Mesoamerica
From East L.A. to Anahuac
- Copyright year: 2011
Smugglers, Brothels, and Twine
Historical Perspectives on Contraband and Vice in North America’s Borderlands
Native American Performance and Representation
Immigration Law and the U.S.–Mexico Border
¿Sí se puede?
- Copyright year: 2011
Ideologies in Archaeology
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.
- Copyright year: 2011
From Beneath the Volcano
The Story of a Salvadoran Campesino and His Family
- Copyright year: 2011