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Land, Liberty, and Water
Morelos After Zapata, 1920–1940
Blue Desert
Desert Monologues
A classic work of new journalism by a revered voice of the Southwest.
Upstream
Trust Lands and Power on the Feather River
Upstream relates the history behind the nation’s largest state-built water and power conveyance system, California’s State Water Project, with a focus on Indigenous perspectives. Author Beth Rose Middleton Manning illustrates how Indigenous history should inform contemporary conservation measures. She uses a multidisciplinary and multitemporal approach and offers a vision of policy reform that will lead to improved Indigenous futures around the U.S.
Frog Mountain Blues
The Motions Beneath
Indigenous Migrants on the Urban Frontier of New Spain
Global Indigenous Health
Reconciling the Past, Engaging the Present, Animating the Future
México Beyond 1968
Revolutionaries, Radicals, and Repression During the Global Sixties and Subversive Seventies
Sor Juana
Or, the Persistence of Pop
Brazil's Long Revolution
Radical Achievements of the Landless Workers Movement
Hegemonies of Language and Their Discontents
The Southwest North American Region Since 1540
Yaqui Indigeneity
Epistemology, Diaspora, and the Construction of Yoeme Identity
The Shadow of the Wall
Violence and Migration on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Vernacular Sovereignties
Indigenous Women Challenging World Politics
Indigenous women strategically use international norms to shape legal authority locally, defying Western practices of authority as they build what the author calls vernacular sovereignties.
The Lives of Stone Tools
Crafting the Status, Skill, and Identity of Flintknappers
Beyond Alterity
Destabilizing the Indigenous Other in Mexico
Ten Thousand Years of Inequality
The Archaeology of Wealth Differences
Crime and Social Justice in Indian Country
Immigration and the Law
Race, Citizenship, and Social Control
Savage Kin
Indigenous Informants and American Anthropologists
In this provocative new book, Margaret M. Bruchac, an Indigenous anthropologist, turns the word savage on its head. Savage Kin explores the nature of the relationships between Indigenous informants such as Gladys Tantaquidgeon (Mohegan), Jesse Cornplanter (Seneca), and George Hunt (Tlingit), and early twentieth-century anthropological collectors such as Frank Speck, Arthur C. Parker, William N. Fenton, and Franz Boas.
Interwoven
Andean Lives in Colonial Ecuador’s Textile Economy
Big Water
The Making of the Borderlands Between Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay
Latinas and Latinos on TV
Colorblind Comedy in the Post-racial Network Era
Latino Placemaking and Planning
Cultural Resilience and Strategies for Reurbanization
Landscapes of Freedom
Building a Postemancipation Society in the Rainforests of Western Colombia
Ciudad Juárez
Saga of a Legendary Border City
Between the Andes and the Amazon
Language and Social Meaning in Bolivia
The Interior West
A Fire Survey
Pushing Our Limits
Insights from Biosphere 2
A fresh look at one of the most important experiments of the twentieth century and what it continues to teach us.
The Real Horse
Poems
Discovering Pluto
Exploration at the Edge of the Solar System
In Discovering Pluto, Dale P. Cruikshank and William Sheehan recount the grand story of our unfolding knowledge and exploration of Pluto, its moons, and the outer Solar System. They explain the efforts of scientists, mathematicians, and researchers over the centuries to understand the outer Solar System, leading to the discovery and detailed exploration of Pluto as the premier body in the Kuiper Belt, the so-called third zone of our Solar System.
Connected Communities
Networks, Identity, and Social Change in the Ancient Cibola World
Finding Meaning
Kaona and Contemporary Hawaiian Literature
The first extensive study of contemporary Hawaiian literature, Finding Meaning examines kaona, the practice of hiding and finding meaning, for its profound connectivity. Through kaona, author Brandy Nalani McDougall affirms the tremendous power of Indigenous stories and genealogies to give lasting meaning to decolonization movements.
A Natural History of the Mojave Desert
A Natural History of the Mojave Desert provides a lively and informed guide to understanding how life has adapted to the hidden riverbeds, huge salt flats, tiny wetlands, and windswept hills that characterize this iconic desert.