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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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Being Comanche

The Social History of an American Indian Community

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  • Copyright year: 1991
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Born a Chief

The Nineteenth Century Hopi Boyhood of Edmund Nequatewa, as told to Alfred F. Whiting

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Named in Stone and Sky

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Arizona is a land whose natural beauty many have sought to capture in words.

Gregory McNamee has combed a body of literature that spans centuries to create this anthology of writings on the widely varied landscapes of Arizona. Named in Stone and Sky includes works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry; represents Native ...

  • Copyright year: 1993
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Sáanii Dahataal/The Women Are Singing

Poems and Stories

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The Mesoamerican Ballgame

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War Dance

Plains Indian Musical Performance

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Sabino Canyon

The Life of a Southwestern Oasis

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The Missions of Northern Sonora

A 1935 Field Documentation

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Infinite Divisions

An Anthology of Chicana Literature

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An Eagle Nation

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Counting Sheep

Twenty Ways of Seeing Desert Bighorn

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Counting Sheep

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Imagine sending a number of nature writers out into the same unrelenting stretch of Sonoran Desert. Then consider telling them to focus their attention on just one animal—Ovis canadensis, popularly called the desert bighorn or borrego cimarrón—and have them write about it. Have them write from makeshift blinds or from behind a gun barrel. Have them write while walking across the Cabeza Prieta at night, or while flying over it trying to radio-collar the creatures. Have them write from actual sightings of the animals or simply from their tracks and droppings.

What would result from such an exercise is Counting Sheep, an unusual anthology that demonstrates the range of possibilities in nature writing. While ostensibly a collection of writings about these desert sheep that live along the U.S.-Mexico border, it also represents an attempt to broaden the scope of the natural history essay.

Writers trained in a wide range of disciplines spanning the natural and social sciences here offer a similarly diverse collection of writings, with women's, Hispanic, and Native American views complementing those in a genre long dominated by Anglo men. The four sections of the anthology comprise pre-Anglo-American tradition, examples of early nature writing, varied responses by modern writers to actually counting sheep, and a selection of essays that place bighorns in the context of the larger world.

Counting Sheep celebrates the diversity of cultural responses to this single animal species in its Sonoran Desert habitat and invites readers to change the way in which they view their relationship to wild creatures everywhere. It also shows how nature writers can delight us all by the varied ways in which they practice their craft.

Contributors:

Charles Bowden

David E. Brown

Bill Broyles

Julian Hayden

William T. Hornaday

Paul Krausman

Danny Lopez

Eric Mellink

Mauricio Mixco

Gale Monson

Gary Paul Nabhan

Doug Peacock

Kermit Roosevelt

Harley G. Shaw

Charles Sheldon

Peter Steinhart

Anita Alvarez de Williams

Terry Tempest Williams

Ann Zwinger

  • Copyright year: 1993
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Charrería Mexicana

An Equestrian Folk Tradition

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Beliefs and Holy Places

A Spiritual Geography of the Pimería Alta

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Ranch Wife

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Early Observations of Marquesan Culture, 1595–1813

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  • Copyright year: 1993
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Keepers of the Sacred Chants

The Poetics of Ritual Power in an Amazonian Society

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Bone Dance

New and Selected Poems, 1965-1993

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The Sound of Rattles and Clappers

A Collection of New California Indian Writing

Edited by Greg Sarris
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Alaska

Reflections on Land and Spirit

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Breaking Into the Current

Boatwomen of the Grand Canyon

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Breaking Into the Current is a story of romance between women and a place, profiling eleven of the first professional women river guides in the Grand Canyon and weaving together their various experiences in their own words.

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Early Stages in the Evolution of Mesopotamian Civilization

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Between 1969 and 1980, Soviet archaeologists conducted excavations of Mesopotamian villages occupied from pre-agricultural times through the beginnings of early civilization. This volume brings together translations of Russian articles along with new work.

  • Copyright year: 1994
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Sonoran Desert Spring

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Sonoran Desert Summer

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Myths and Tales of the White Mountain Apache

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These fifty-seven tales (with seven variants) gathered between 1931 and 1936 include major cycles dealing with Creation and Coyote, minor tales, and additional stories derived from Spanish and Mexican tradition. The tales are of two classes: holy tales said by some to explain the origin of ceremonies and holy powers, and tales which have to do with the creation of the earth, the emergence, the flood, the slaying of monsters, and the origin of customs. As Grenville Goodwin was the first anthropologist to work with the White Mountain Apache, his insights remain a primary source on this people.

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Tewa Tales

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The Mexican Border Cities

Landscape Anatomy and Place Personality

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Desert Time

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Bighorse the Warrior

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  • Copyright year: 1994
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Border People

Life and Society in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

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Pastoralists at the Periphery

Herders in a Capitalist World

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After and Before the Lightning

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Luminaries of the Humble

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Navajo Textiles

The William Randolph Hearst Collection

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When Is a Kiva?

And Other Questions About Southwestern Archaeology

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Returning the Gift

Poetry and Prose from the First North American Native Writers' Festival

Edited by Joseph Bruchac
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Sourcing Prehistoric Ceramics at Chodistaas Pueblo, Arizona

The Circulation of People and Pots in the Grasshopper Region

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There Was a River

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On October 7, 1962, Bruce Berger and three friends embarked on what may have been the last trip taken through the Colorado River's Glen Canyon before the floodgates were closed at Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell began to fill. After thirty years, one can grieve for what was lost and then, like Berger, take another look around.

The Southwest Berger sees is an unusual, even odd, place, with inhabitants that are just as strange. In this collection of essays he introduces us to people and places that define a region and a way of life. We meet eccentric desert dwellers like Cactus Pete, who claimed to have mapped the mountains of Venus long before NASA penetrated its clouds. We chart the canals of Phoenix, which have created a Martian landscape out of an irrigation system dating back to the ancient Hohokam; stay at a "wigwam" motel in Holbrook, whose kitsch appeals even to Hopis; and dim our lights for the International Dark-Sky Association's efforts to keep night skies safe for astronomy.

Focusing on the interaction of people with the environment, Berger reveals an original vision of the Southwest that encompasses both city and wilderness. In a concluding essay centering on the sale of his mother's estate in Phoenix, he concedes that "our intention to leave the desert alone has resulted, unwittingly, in loss after loss, simply by our being here." Sometimes there are losses—a canyon, a house—but Berger attunes us to the prodigies of change.

  • Copyright year: 1994
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Anthropology and Politics

Visions, Traditions, and Trends

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