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Spanish Colonial Tucson

A Demographic History

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Sonoran Strongman

Ignacio Pesqueira and His Times

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People of the Desert and Sea

Ethnobotany of the Seri Indians

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Northern New Spain

A Research Guide

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Mission of Sorrows

Jesuit Guevavi and the Pimas, 1691–1767

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Life and Labor on the Border

Working People of Northeastern Sonora, Mexico, 1886–1986

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This book traces the development of the urban working class in northern Sonora over the period of a century. Drawing on an extensive collection of life histories over several generations, Heyman describes what has happened to families as people have left the countryside to work for American-owned companies in northern Sonora or to cross the border to find other employment.

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John Spring's Arizona

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Friars, Soldiers, and Reformers

Hispanic Arizona and the Sonora Mission Frontier, 1767–1856

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Forging the Copper Collar

Arizona's Labor-Management War of 1901–1921

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Ceramic Ethnoarchaeology

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An Arizona Chronology

Statehood, 1913–1936

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An Arizona Chronology

The Territorial Years, 1846–1912

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With the River on Our Face

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Emmy Pérez’s With the River on Our Face flows through the Southwest and the Texas borderlands to the river’s mouth in the Rio Grande Valley/El Valle. The poems celebrate the land, communities, and ecology of the borderlands while merging and diverging like the iconic river in this long-awaited collection.

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Ancient Plants and People

Contemporary Trends in Archaeobotany

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Ancient Plants and People is a timely discussion of the global perspectives on archaeobotany and the rich harvest of knowledge it yields. Contributors examine the importance of plants to human culture over time and geographic regions and what it teaches of humans, their culture, and their landscapes.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Dodger Blue Will Fill Your Soul

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In Dodger Blue Will Fill Your Soul Bryan Allen Fierro brings to life the people and places that form the fragile heart of East Los Angeles. Bearing witness to transformation, the Latino boys and men in this collection defy masculine stereotypes, while the girls and women challenge gender roles. Dodger Blue Will Fill Your Soul is a tour de force—the first collection of an authentic new voice examining community with humor, hope, and brutal honesty.

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Critical Indigenous Studies

Engagements in First World Locations

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Aileen Moreton-Robinson and the contributors to this important volume deploy incisive critique and analytical acumen to propose new directions for critical Indigenous studies in the First World. Leading scholars offer thought-provoking essays on the central epistemological, theoretical, political, and pedagogical questions and debates that constitute the discipline of Indigenous studies, including a brief history of the discipline.

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Stealing the Gila

The Pima Agricultural Economy and Water Deprivation, 1848-1921

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The Southwest

A Fire Survey

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Through a mixture of journalism, history, and literary imagination, fire expert Stephen J. Pyne provides a lively survey of what makes this region distinctive, moving us beyond the usual conversations of science and policy. Pyne explores the Southwest’s sacred mountains, including the Jemez, Mogollon, Huachucas, and Kaibab; its sky islands, among them the Chiricahuas, Mount Graham, and Tanque Verde; and its famous rims and borders. Together, the essays provide a cross-section of how landscape fire looks in the early years of the 21st century, what is being done to manage it, and how fire connects with other themes of southwestern life and culture.

The Southwest is part of the multivolume series describing the nation’s fire scene region by region. The volumes in To the Last Smoke also cover California, the Northern Rockies, the Great Plains, Florida, and several other critical fire regions. The series serves as an important punctuation point to Pyne’s 50-year career with wildland fire—both as a firefighter and a fire scholar. These unique surveys of regional pyrogeography are Pyne’s way of “keeping with it to the end,” encompassing the directive from his rookie season to stay with every fire “to the last smoke.”
 

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The Northern Rockies

A Fire Survey

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The Northern Rockies are one of three major hearths for America’s fire culture. They hold a major fire laboratory, an equipment development center, an aerial fire depot, and a social engagement with fire—even a literature. Missoula is to fire in the big backcountry what Tallahassee is to prescribed burning and what Southern California is to urban-wildland hybrids. On its margins, Boise hosts the National Interagency Fire Center. In this structured collection of essays on the region, Stephen J. Pyne explores what makes the Northern Rockies distinctive and what sets it apart from other regions of the country. Surprisingly, perhaps, the story is equally one of big bureaucracies and of generations that encounter the region’s majestic landscapes through flame.

The Northern Rockies is part of the multivolume series describing the nation’s fire scene region by region. The volumes in To the Last Smoke also cover Florida, the Northern Rockies, the Great Plains, the Southwest, and several other critical fire regions. The series serves as an important punctuation point to Pyne’s 50-year career with wildland fire—both as a firefighter and a fire scholar. These unique surveys of regional pyrogeography are Pyne’s way of “keeping with it to the end,” encompassing the directive from his rookie season to stay with every fire “to the last smoke.”

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Discovering Paquimé

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Based on a half century of modern research since the Joint Casas Grades Project, this book explores the recent discoveries about important site and its neighbors. Drawing the expertise of fourteen  scholars from the U.S., Mexico , and Canada, who have long worked in the region, the chapters revel new insights about Paquime and its influence, bringing this fascinating place and its story to light.

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New Lives for Ancient and Extinct Crops

Edited by Paul E. Minnis
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New Lives for Ancient and Extinct Crops profiles nine plant species that were important contributors to human diets and medicinal uses in antiquity: maygrass, chenopod, marsh elder, agave, little barley, chia, arrowroot, little millet, and bitter vetch. Each chapter is written by a well-known scholar, who illustrates the value of the ancient crop record to inform the present.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Learning the Possible

Mexican American Students Moving from the Margins of Life to New Ways of Being

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Learning the Possible chronicles the experiences of five academically underprepared Mexican American students in their first year of college, aided by a federally funded one-year scholarship and support program called the College Assistance Migrant Program. CAMP works, says Reyes, and does so primarily by helping students develop new identities as successful learners.

  • Copyright year: 2013
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Archaeological Anthropology

Perspectives on Method and Theory

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In this collection, four generations of Longacre protégés show how they are building upon and developing—but also modifying—the theoretical paradigm that remains at the core of Americanist archaeology. The contributions focus on six themes prominent in Longacre’s career: the intellectual history of the field in the late twentieth century, archaeological methodology, analogical inference, ethnoarchaeology, cultural evolution, and reconstructing ancient society.

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Object and Apparition

Envisioning the Christian Divine in the Colonial Andes

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Based on thorough archival research combined with stunning visual analysis, Maya Stanfield-Mazzi demonstrates that Andeans were active agents in Catholic image-making and created a particularly Andean version of Catholicism. Object and Apparition describes the unique features of Andean Catholicism while illustrating its connections to both Spanish and Andean cultural traditions.

  • Copyright year: 2013
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Beyond Germs

Native Depopulation in North America

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Beyond Germs: Native Depopulation in North America challenges the hypothesis that the massive depopulation of the New World was primarily caused by diseases brought by Europeans, which scholars used for decades to explain the decimation of the indigenous peoples of North America. Contributors expertly argue that blaming germs downplays the active role of Europeans in inciting wars, destroying livelihoods, and erasing identities.

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Tribal Water Rights

Essays in Contemporary Law, Policy, and Economics

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The Tropical Deciduous Forest of Alamos

Biodiversity of a Threatened Ecosystem in Mexico

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The Learned Ones

Nahua Intellectuals in Postconquest Mexico

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In The Learned Ones Kelly S. McDonough gives sustained attention to the complex nature of Nahua intellectualism and writing from the colonial period through the present day. This collaborative ethnography shows the heterogeneity of Nahua knowledge and writing, as well as indigenous experiences in Mexico.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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A Zapotec Natural History

Trees, Herbs, and Flowers, Birds, Beasts, and Bugs in the Life of San Juan Gbëë

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Inland Fishes of the Greater Southwest

Chronicle of a Vanishing Biota

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O'odham Creation and Related Events

As Told to Ruth Benedict in 1927

Edited by Donald M. Bahr, with Ruth Benedict; Foreword by Barbara Babcock
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Anthropologies of Guayana

Cultural Spaces in Northeastern Amazonia

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This important collection brings together the work of scholars from North America, South America, and Europe to reveal the anthropological significance of Guayana, the ancient realm of El Dorado and still the scene of gold and diamond mining. Beginning with the earliest civilizations of the region, the chapters focus on the historical ecology of the rain forest and the archaeological record up to the sixteenth century, as well as ethnography, ethnology, and perceptions of space. The book features extensive discussions of the history of a range of indigenous groups, such as the Waiwai, Trio, Wajãpi, and Palikur. Contributions analyze the emergence of a postcolonial national society, the contrasts between the coastlands and upland regions, and the significance of race and violence in contemporary politics.

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At the Desert's Green Edge

An Ethnobotany of the Gila River Pima

By Amadeo M. Rea; Foreword by Gary Paul Nabhan; Illustrated by Takashi Ijichi
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Winner of the Society for Economic Botany’s Klinger Book Award, this is the first complete ethnobotany of the Gila River Pima, presented from the perspective of the Pimas themselves.

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Staking Claim

Settler Colonialism and Racialization in Hawai'i

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Staking Claim analyzes Hawai‘i at the crossroads of competing claims for identity, belonging, and political status. Judy Rohrer argues that the dual settler colonial processes of racializing native Hawaiians (erasing their indigeneity), and indigenizing non-Hawaiians, enable the staking of non-Hawaiian claims to Hawai‘i.

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Huaorani Transformations in Twenty-First-Century Ecuador

Treks into the Future of Time

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Like the Amazon forest where the Huaorani people find so much natural abundance, Laura Rival’s book is rich in insights. Capitalizing on her decades-long study and interactions in the community, Huaorani Transformations in Twenty-First-Century Ecuador brings new insights to the Huaorani’s unique way of relating to humans, to other-than-humans, and to the forest landscape they have inhabited for centuries.

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Stand Up and Fight

Participatory Indigenismo, Populism, and Mobilization in Mexico, 1970–1984

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Stand Up and Fight is the opening analysis of the First National Congress of Indigenous Peoples in Mexico. The author uses never-before-available documents to trace the political history of a group of indigenous leaders and government representatives who defined politics in their own terms during the 1970s and early 1980s.

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Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl and His Legacy

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Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl and His Legacy provides a much-needed overview of the life, work, and contribution of an important seventeenth-century historian. The volume explores the complexities of Alva Ixtlilxochitl’s life and works, revising and broadening our understanding of his racial and cultural identity and his contribution to Mexican history.

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Uprooting Community

Japanese Mexicans, World War II, and the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

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Uprooting Community examines the political cross-currents that resulted in detention of Japanese Mexicans during World War II. Selfa A. Chew reveals how the entire multiethnic social fabric of the borderlands was reconfigured by the absence of Japanese Mexicans.

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Intimate Grammars

An Ethnography of Navajo Poetry

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Through the work of poets such as Luci Tapahonso, Laura Tohe, Rex Lee Jim, Gloria Emerson, Blackhorse Mitchell, Esther Belin, Sherwin Bitsui, and many others, Webster provides new ways of thinking about contemporary Navajo poets and poetry. Intimate Grammars offers an exciting new ethnography of speaking, ethnopoetics, and discourse-centered examinations of language and culture.

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Capture These Indians for the Lord

Indians, Methodists, and Oklahomans, 1844-1939

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Exploring larger issues associated with western expansion, Capture These Indians for the Lord details the history of the Southern Methodist Church in Oklahoma’s Indian Territory and the complex relationship between its white and Indian membership.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Archaeology and Apprenticeship

Body Knowledge, Identity, and Communities of Practice

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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.

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A Passion for the True and Just

Felix and Lucy Kramer Cohen and the Indian New Deal

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A Passion for the True and Just reveals the moral underpinnings of Felix and Lucy Kramer Cohen and their important contribution to the Indian New Deal. Alice Beck Kehoe illuminates Felix Cohen’s uncompromising commitment to the “true and the just,” rooted in his Jewish intellectual and moral heritage, and Social Democrat principles, that changed American legal philosophy.

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Ethnobiology for the Future

Linking Cultural and Ecological Diversity

Edited by Gary Paul Nabhan; Foreword by Paul E. Minnis
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Ethnobiology is dedicated to celebrating the knowledge and values of some of the most distinctive cultures and practices on Earth. In this important new collection, MacArthur Fellow Gary Paul Nabhan lays out the case for the future of the field. Nabhan and his colleagues from across disciplines and cultures call for an ethnobiology that is provocative, problem-driven, and, above all, inspiring.

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Asegi Stories

Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory

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Drawing on oral histories and archival research, this book develops the concept of asegi stories. Asegi translates as “strange,” and it is also used by some Cherokees as a term similar to “Queer.” This book provides a LGBTQ2 lens to interpret the Cherokee past, understand the present, and imagine decolonial futures.

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A Tale of Three Villages

Indigenous-Colonial Interactions in Southwestern Alaska, 1740–1950

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A Tale of Three Villages tracks the histories of three villages ancestrally linked to Chevak, a contemporary village in southwestern Alaska. Through an innovative interdisciplinary methodology that respectfully and creatively investigates the spatial and material past, the author convincingly demonstrates that, in order to understand colonial history, we must actively incorporate indigenous people as actors, not merely as reactors.

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Weathering Risk in Rural Mexico

Climatic, Institutional, and Economic Change

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