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World of Our Mothers

World of Our Mothers

Mexican Revolution–Era Immigrants and Their Stories

By Miguel Montiel and Yvonne de la Torre Montiel

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.

Children Crossing Borders

Children Crossing Borders

Latin American Migrant Childhoods

Edited by Alejandra J Josiowicz and Irasema Coronado

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.

Dance of the Returned

Dance of the Returned

By Devon A. Mihesuah

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.

The Mountains Next Door

The Mountains Next Door

By Janice Emily Bowers

The University of Arizona Press

The Desert Smells Like Rain

The Desert Smells Like Rain

A Naturalist in O'odham Country

By Gary Paul Nabhan

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.

Michael Chiago

Michael Chiago

O’odham Lifeways Through Art

By Michael Chiago and Amadeo M. Rea

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.

Indigenous Economics

Indigenous Economics

Sustaining Peoples and Their Lands

By Ronald L. Trosper

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.

The Border and Its Bodies

The Border and Its Bodies

The Embodiment of Risk Along the U.S.-México Line

Edited by Thomas E. Sheridan and Randall H. McGuire

The University of Arizona Press

The increasingly militarized U.S.-México border is an intensely physical place, affecting the bodies of all who encounter it. The essays in this volume explore how crossing becomes embodied in individuals on the most basic social unit possible: the human body.

Narrating Nature

Narrating Nature

Wildlife Conservation and Maasai Ways of Knowing

By Mara Jill Goldman

The University of Arizona Press

Narrating Nature opens up dialogue that counters traditional conservation narratives. It offers conservation efforts that not only include people as beneficiaries but also demonstrate how they are essential and knowledgeable members of the conservation landscape itself.

Mineralogy of Arizona, Fourth Edition

Mineralogy of Arizona, Fourth Edition

By Raymond W. Grant, Ron Gibbs, Harvey Jong, Jan Rasmussen, and Stanley Keith

The University of Arizona Press

This is most comprehensive book yet to describe the minerals known to occur in Arizona. It presents a framework of Arizona’s mineralogy and a set of mineral district maps that can help identify new mineral occurrences. A must-have resource for anyone interested in Arizona minerals, gemstones, fluorescent minerals, and geology.

LGBTQ Politics in Nicaragua

LGBTQ Politics in Nicaragua

Revolution, Dictatorship, and Social Movements

By Karen Kampwirth

The University of Arizona Press

LGBTQ Politics in Nicaragua provides the previously untold history of the LGBTQ community’s emergence as political actors—from revolutionary guerillas to civil rights activists.

Unwriting Maya Literature

Unwriting Maya Literature

Ts'íib as Recorded Knowledge

By Paul M. Worley and Rita M. Palacios

The University of Arizona Press

Unwriting Maya Literature provides an important decolonial framework for reading Maya and other Indigenous texts. Through insightful analyses of Maya cultural productions—whether textiles or poetry—this perspective offers a point of departure for the study of Maya literature and art that is situated in an Indigenous way of performing the act of reading.

The Aztecs at Independence

The Aztecs at Independence

Nahua Culture Makers in Central Mexico, 1799–1832

By Miriam Melton-Villanueva

The University of Arizona Press

This ethnohistory uses colonial-era native-language texts written by Nahuas to construct history from the indigenous point of view. The book offers the first internal ethnographic view of central Mexican indigenous communities in the critical time of independence, when modern Mexican Spanish developed its unique character, founded on indigenous concepts of space, time, and grammar. The Aztecs at Independence opens a window into the cultural life of writers, leaders, and worshippers—Nahua women and men in the midst of creating a vibrant community.

Crafting Wounaan Landscapes

Crafting Wounaan Landscapes

Identity, Art, and Environmental Governance in Panama's Darién

By Julie Velásquez Runk

The University of Arizona Press

In Crafting Wounaan Landscapes, Julie Velásquez Runk upends long-standing assumptions about the people that call Panama's Darién home, and she demonstrates the agency of the Wounaan people to make their living and preserve and transform their way of life in the face of continuous and tremendous change. She unpacks environmental governance efforts that illustrate what happens when conservation is confronted with people in a purportedly peopleless place.

A Love Letter to This Bridge Called My Back

A Love Letter to This Bridge Called My Back

Edited by gloria j wilson, Joni Boyd Acuff, and Amelia M Kraehe

The University of Arizona Press

In 1981, Chicana feminist intellectuals Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa published what would become a foundational legacy for generations of feminist women of color—the seminal This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. To celebrate and honor this important work, editors gloria j. wilson, Joni B. Acuff, and Amelia M. Kraehe offer new generations A Love Letter to This Bridge Called My Back.

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