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Agrarian Revolt in the Sierra of Chihuahua, 1959–1965

The University of Arizona Press

The early 1960s are remembered for the emergence of new radical movements. One such protest movement rose in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. With large timbering companies moving in on the forested sierra highlands, campesinos and rancheros did not sit by as their lands and livelihoods were threatened. This is the story of how they organized and demanded agrarian rights—ultimately with deadly consequences.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Sonoran Desert Journeys

Ecology and Evolution of Its Iconic Species

The University of Arizona Press

This book explores the evolution and natural history of iconic animals and plants of the northern Sonoran Desert through the eyes of a curious naturalist.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Corporate Nature

An Insider's Ethnography of Global Conservation

The University of Arizona Press

Drawing from personal experience, Sarah Milne looks inside the black box of mainstream conservation NGOs and finds that corporate behavior and technical thinking dominate global efforts to save nature, opening the door to unethical conduct and failure on the ground.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Nuclear Nuevo México

Colonialism and the Effects of the Nuclear Industrial Complex on Nuevomexicanos

The University of Arizona Press

Nuclear Nuevo México recovers the voices and stories that have been lost or ignored in the telling of U.S. nuclear history. By recuperating these narratives, Myrriah Gómez tells a new story of New Mexico, one in which the nuclear history is not separate from the collective colonial history of Nuevo México but instead demonstrates how earlier eras of settler colonialism laid the foundation for nuclear colonialism in New Mexico.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Visualizing Genocide

Indigenous Interventions in Art, Archives, and Museums

The University of Arizona Press

Visualizing Genocide engages the often sparse and biased discourses of genocidal violence against Indigenous communities documented in exhibits, archives, and museums. Essayists and artists from a range of disciplines identify how Native knowledge can be effectively incorporated into memory spaces.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Cornerstone at the Confluence

Navigating the Colorado River Compact's Next Century

The University of Arizona Press

Forty million people rely on the Colorado River system’s flows. Commemorating the Colorado River Compact’s 2022 centennial, this volume explores the past, present, and future of the “Law of the River” and its cornerstone, amid a twenty-two-year megadrought and ongoing negotiations over new water management rules that must be completed by 2026.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Guarded by Two Jaguars

A Catholic Parish Divided by Language and Faith

The University of Arizona Press

This ethnography examines the role of language and embodied behaviors in producing a congregational split in a Catholic parish serving Guatemala’s Q’eqchi’ Maya people. Drawing on a range of methods from linguistic and cultural anthropology, author Eric Hoenes del Pinal examines how the introduction of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal movement in the parish produced a series of debates between parishioners that illustrate the fundamentally polyvocal nature of Catholic Christianity.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Raven's Echo

The University of Arizona Press

In Raven’s Echo, Tlingit artist and poet Robert Davis Hoffmann’s poetry grapples with reconstructing a life within Tlingit tradition and history. The destructiveness of colonialism brings a profound darkness to some of the poems in Raven’s Echo, but the collection also explores the possibility of finding spiritual healing in the face of historical and contemporary traumas.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Gardening at the Margins

Convivial Labor, Community, and Resistance

The University of Arizona Press

This book explores how a group of home gardeners grow food in the Santa Clara Valley to transform their social relationships, heal from past traumas, and improve their health, communities, and environments.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Latinx Belonging

Community Building and Resilience in the United States

The University of Arizona Press

Accessible and engaging, Latinx Belonging underscores and highlights Latinxs’ continued presence and contributions to everyday life in the United States as they both carve out and defend their place in society.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Debating American Identity

Southwestern Statehood and Mexican Immigration

The University of Arizona Press

Debating American Identity is an innovative look at four national debates over the inclusion of the Mexican-origin population in the United States in the early twentieth century. Linda C. Noel explores different conceptions of American identity through disputes over Arizona and New Mexico statehood, temporary workers, immigration, and repatriation.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Bountiful Deserts

Sustaining Indigenous Worlds in Northern New Spain

The University of Arizona Press

Set in the arid lands of northwestern Mexico, this book foregrounds the knowledge of Indigenous peoples who harvested the desert as bountiful in its material resources and sacred spaces. Author Cynthia Radding uses the tools of history, anthropology, geography, and ecology to re-create the means of defending Indigenous worlds through colonial encounters, the formation of mixed societies, and the direct conflicts over forests, grasslands, streams, and coastal estuaries that sustained wildlife, horticulture, foraging, hunting, fishing, and—after European contact—livestock and extractive industries. She returns in each chapter to the spiritual power of nature and the enduring cultural significance of the worlds that Indigenous communities created and defended.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Cenizas

Poems

The University of Arizona Press

Cenizas offers an arresting portrait of a Salvadoran family whose lives were shaped by tumultuous global politics. Cynthia Guardado’s poems argue that the Salvadoran Civil War permanently altered the Salvadoran people’s reality by forcing them to become refugees who continue to leave their homeland, even decades after the war.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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World of Our Mothers

Mexican Revolution–Era Immigrants and Their Stories

The University of Arizona Press

World of Our Mothers highlights the largely forgotten stories of forty-five women immigrants in the early twentieth century. Through interviews in Arizona mining towns, Phoenix barrios, and selected areas of California, Texas, and the Midwest, we learn how they negotiated their lives with their circumstances.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Children Crossing Borders

Latin American Migrant Childhoods

The University of Arizona Press

This volume draws attention to the plight of migrant children and their families, illuminating the human and emotional toll that children experience as they crisscross the Americas. Exploring the connections between education, policy, cultural studies, and anthropology, the essays in this volume navigate a space of transnational children’s rights central to Latin American life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Dance of the Returned

The University of Arizona Press

The disappearance of a young Choctaw leads Detective Monique Blue Hawk to investigate a little-known ceremonial dance. As she traces the steps of the missing man, she discovers that the seemingly innocuous Renewal Dance is not what it appears to be. After Monique embarks on a journey that she never thought possible, she learns that the past and future can converge to offer endless possibilities for the present. She must also accept her own destiny of violence and peacekeeping.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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The Mountains Next Door

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The Desert Smells Like Rain

A Naturalist in O'odham Country

The University of Arizona Press

Published more than forty years ago, The Desert Smells Like Rain remains a classic work about nature, how to respect it, and what transplants can learn from the longtime residents of the Sonoran Desert, the Tohono O’odham people.

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Michael Chiago

O’odham Lifeways Through Art

The University of Arizona Press

O’odham artist Michael Chiago Sr.’s paintings provide a window into the lifeways of the O’odham people. This book offers a rich account of how Tohono O’odham and Akimel O’odham live in the Sonoran Desert now and in the recent past.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Indigenous Economics

Sustaining Peoples and Their Lands

The University of Arizona Press

The book explains how Indigenous peoples organize their economies for good living by supporting relationships between humans and the natural world. This work argues that creating such relationships is a major alternative to economic models that stress individualism and domination of nature.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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