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Ritual and Remembrance in the Ecuadorian Andes
By Rachel Corr
The University of Arizona Press
Ritual and Remembrance in the Ecuadorian Andes is, in its portrayal of Salasacan religious culture, both thorough and all-encompassing. Sections of the book cover everything from the performance of death rituals to stories about Amazonia as Salasacans interacted with outsiders—conquistadors and camera-toting tourists alike. Corr also investigates the role of shamanism in modern Salasacan culture, including shamanic powers and mountain spirits, and the use of reshaped, Andeanized Catholicism to sustain collective memory.
Archaeology and Apprenticeship
Body Knowledge, Identity, and Communities of Practice
Edited by Willeke Wendrich
The University of Arizona Press
Apprenticeship is broadly defined as the transmission of culture through a formal or informal teacher–pupil relationship. This collection invites a wide discussion, citing case studies from all over the world and yet focuses the scholarship into a concise set of contributions. This book also examines apprenticeship in archaeology against a backdrop of sociological and cognitive psychology literature, to enrich the understanding of the relationship between material remains and enculturation.
The Village Is Like a Wheel
Rethinking Cargos, Family, and Ethnicity in Highland Mexico
The University of Arizona Press
This manifesto proposes a radical but commonsensical change to how anthropologists study people whose value systems are not their own. It focuses on rural highland peoples in Mexico, but its larger argument is that anthropologists’ approaches can distract them from what is truly important to the people whose lives they study.
The Neighborhood as a Social and Spatial Unit in Mesoamerican Cities
The University of Arizona Press
Recent realizations that prehispanic cities in Mesoamerica were fundamentally different from western cities of the same period have led to increasing examination of the neighborhood as an intermediate unit at the heart of prehispanic urbanization. This book addresses the subject of neighborhoods in archaeology as analytical units between households and whole settlements.
Gendered Scenarios of Revolution
Making New Men and New Women in Nicaragua, 1975–2000
The University of Arizona Press
Employing an approach that combines political economy and cultural analysis, Montoya argues that the Sandinistas collapsed gender contradictions into class ones, and the Sandinistas increasingly ruled by mandate as vanguard party instead of creating the participatory democracy that they professed to work toward. This book offers a reinterpretation of the revolution’s supposed failure.
Conservation Biology and Applied Zooarchaeology
Edited by Steve Wolverton and R. Lee Lyman
The University of Arizona Press
This book shows how zooarchaeology can productively inform conservation science. It both introduces applied zooarchaeology to conservation biologists and offers case studies that use animal remains from archaeological and paleontological sites to provide information that has direct implications for wildlife management and conservation biology today.
Time Commences in Xibalbá
The University of Arizona Press
Time Commences in Xibalbá tells the story of a violent village crisis in Guatemala sparked by the return of a prodigal son, Pascual. He had been raised tough by a poor, single mother in the village before going off with the military. When Pascual comes back, he is changed—both scarred and “enlightened” by his experiences. To his eyes, the village has remained frozen in time. After experiencing alternative cultures in the wider world, he finds that he is both comforted and disgusted by the village’s lingering “indigenous” characteristics.
The Colorado Plateau V
Research, Environmental Planning, and Management for Collaborative Conservation
The University of Arizona Press
This volume, the fifth from the University of Arizona Press and the tenth overall, focuses on adaptation of resource management and conservation to climate change and water scarcity, protecting biodiversity through restructured energy policies, ensuring wildlife habitat connectivity across barriers, building effective conservation networks, and exploring new opportunities for education and leadership in conservation science.
Crow-Omaha
New Light on a Classic Problem of Kinship Analysis
Edited by Thomas R. Trautmann and Peter M. Whiteley
The University of Arizona Press
Why do people in a few societies scattered around the globe call relatives of different generations by the same terms? This question has perplexed anthropologists since 1871. A successor to the landmark 1998 book Transformations of Kinship, this volume includes the latest work on the “Crow-Omaha problem” from the world’s leading scholars.
Rim Country Exodus
A Story of Conquest, Renewal, and Race in the Making
The University of Arizona Press
Herman examines the complex, contradictory, and very human relations between Indians, settlers, and Federal agents in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Arizona—a time that included Arizona’s brutal Indian wars. But while most tribal histories stay within the borders of the reservation, Herman also chronicles how Indians who left the reservation helped build a modern state with dams, hydroelectricity, roads, and bridges. With thoughtful detail and incisive analysis, Herman discusses the complex web of interactions between Apache, Yavapai, and Anglos that surround every aspect of the story.
Red Medicine
Traditional Indigenous Rites of Birthing and Healing
The University of Arizona Press
Patrisia Gonzales addresses “Red Medicine” as a system of healing that includes birthing practices, dreaming, and purification rites to re-establish personal and social equilibrium. The book explores Indigenous medicine across North America, with a special emphasis on how Indigenous knowledge has endured and persisted among peoples with a legacy to Mexico.
High Country Summers
The Early Second Homes of Colorado, 1880–1940
The University of Arizona Press
High Country Summers considers the emergence of the “summer home” in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains as both an architectural and a cultural phenomenon. Writing with affection and insight, Melanie Shellenbarger shows that these summer residences crossed boundaries of class, race, and gender—and helped shape our ideas about the American West.
Forced Marches
Soldiers and Military Caciques in Modern Mexico
Edited by Ben Fallaw and Terry Rugeley
The University of Arizona Press
Forced Marches is a collection of innovative essays that analyze the influence of the military and militias in the century that followed Mexican independence. Contributors from the U.S. and the U.K. employ the “new military history” to engage with recent scholarship on the early national period, the Reform, the Porfiriato, and the Revolution.
Hell of a Vision
Regionalism and the Modern American West
The University of Arizona Press
Focusing on the American West from the 1890s to the present, Richard Dorman provides a wide-ranging view of the impact of regionalist ideas in pop culture and diverse fields such as geography, land-use planning, anthropology, journalism, and environmental policy-making.
Corpse Whale
The University of Arizona Press
A self-proclaimed, “vessel in which stories are told from time immemorial,” poet dg nanouk okpik seamlessly melds both traditional and contemporary narrative, setting her apart from her peers. The result is a collection of poems that are steeped in the perspective of an Inuit of the twenty-first century—a perspective that is fresh, vibrant, and rarely seen in contemporary poetics.
A New Deal for Native Art
Indian Arts and Federal Policy, 1933-1943
The University of Arizona Press
Available for the first time in paperback!
Comparative Indigeneities of the Américas
Toward a Hemispheric Approach
The University of Arizona Press
Comparative Indigeneities of the Américas highlights intersecting themes such as indigenismo, mestizaje, migration, displacement, autonomy, sovereignty, borders, spirituality, and healing that have historically shaped the experiences of Native peoples across the Américas. In doing so, it promotes a broader understanding of the relationships between Native communities in the United States and Canada and those in Latin America and the Caribbean and invites a hemispheric understanding of the relationships between Native and mestiza/o peoples.
A Place All Our Own
Lives Entwined in a Desert Garden
By Mary Irish
The University of Arizona Press
Intertwined Lives is the delightful tale of creating a very special garden in one of the most extreme climates in the inhabited world. Told with wit and obvious affection, it will appeal to anyone who enjoys the pleasures of gardening—and everyone who enjoys a well-told, true-life nature tale.
Pregnancy, Motherhood, and Choice in Twentieth-Century Arizona
The University of Arizona Press
Mary Melcher’s Pregnancy, Motherhood, and Choice in Twentieth-Century Arizona provides a deep and diverse history of the dramatic changes in childbirth, birth control, infant mortality, and abortion over the course of the last century. Using oral histories, memoirs, newspaper accounts, government documents, letters, photos, and biographical collections, this fine-grained study of women’s reproductive health places the voices of real women at the forefront of the narrative, providing a personal view into some of the most intense experiences of their lives.
Full Foreground
The University of Arizona Press
Tejada’s innovative work dramatically widens the scope of Latina/o literature, showing us exactly it can accomplish. The poems move very much like a three-act play, in which the first act is one of origins; the second, a staging of desire; and the third, a symbiosis. These acts magnify one another when unified. Each poem within the collection positions itself within the avant-garde, in which the artful use of language aims to dazzle, surprise, and enliven. The poems dance by, preserving a tension between hurry and delay, momentum and stasis, and every line is like a newly launched firecracker, sending out startling patterns of spark and flare.
Butterfly Moon
Short Stories
The University of Arizona Press
Butterfly Moon is a collection of short stories based on folk tales from around the world. But the stories freely mingle fantasy and reality, witches and tricksters and everyday folks. Compellingly and poetically recounted, these enjoyably disturbing tales lead us to question what is real—and why reality matters.
Ecology and Conservation of the San Pedro River
Edited by Juliet C. Stromberg and Barbara Tellman
The University of Arizona Press
Available for the first time in paperback!
We Will Secure Our Future
Empowering the Navajo Nation
By Peterson Zah and Peter Iverson
The University of Arizona Press
Walking the Land, Feeding the Fire
Knowledge and Stewardship Among the Tlicho Dene
By Allice Legat; Foreword by Joanne Barnaby
The University of Arizona Press
Sea Turtles of the Eastern Pacific
Advances in Research and Conservation
The University of Arizona Press
The oceanographic conditions that make this an epicenter of sea turtle activity promote massive artisanal and industrial fishing efforts that, coupled with illegal harvesting of eggs and turtles, have led to declines of several turtle populations in the region. The essays and stories in Sea Turtles of the Eastern Pacific describe for the first time the history of this exploitation, as well as recent sea turtle conservation initiatives and scientific research in the region.
Nikkei in the Interior West
Japanese Immigration and Community Building, 1882–1945
By Eric Walz
The University of Arizona Press
Looking North
Writings from Spanish America on the US, 1800 to the Present
Edited by John J. Hassett and Braulio Muñoz
The University of Arizona Press
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.
Eating the Landscape
American Indian Stories of Food, Identity, and Resilience
The University of Arizona Press
“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.
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