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meXicana Roots and Routes

Listening to People, Places, and Pasts

The University of Arizona Press

This collection highlights how meXicana scholars center their community-engaged research to reflect on important regional themes in the U.S. Southwest and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Divided into five sections, authors explore what it means to cultivate spaces of belonging, navigate language policies, and excavate silences in various spaces, among other important themes, with a particular emphasis on Arizona in each section.

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Life Undocumented

Latinx Youth Navigating Place and Belonging

The University of Arizona Press
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Severalty

Poems

The University of Arizona Press

Severalty begins in a garden and moves through ancestral and contemporary hometowns that shimmer between wholeness and severing. Poems consider illness, resurrection, tribal sovereignty, and language.

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Mimbres Far from the Heartland

Identity at the Powers Ranch Site of East-Central Arizona

The University of Arizona Press

This volume explores the formation of social identity and cultural affiliation at the Powers Ranch site, a small settlement at the western edge of the Mimbres region. The authors conclude that the people at Powers Ranch were quintessentially Mimbres and were more closely affiliated with Mimbres settlements on the Gila River drainage in southeast Arizona and New Mexico than with those living in the Mimbres Valley core area.

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Warfare and the Dynamics of Political Control

The University of Arizona Press

Warfare and the Dynamics of Political Control explores how warfare shapes the establishment, maintenance, and collapse of political institutions across diverse societies and historical periods. The chapters cover a wide range of topics and time periods to bring into focus the material and ideological drivers of conflict, offering deep insights into the complex interplay between violence and political power.

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Conservation Biology and Applied Zooarchaeology

The University of Arizona Press

This book shows how zooarchaeology can productively inform conservation science. It both introduces applied zooarchaeology to conservation biologists and offers case studies that use animal remains from archaeological and paleontological sites to provide information that has direct implications for wildlife management and conservation biology today.

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Indigenous Agency in the Amazon

The Mojos in Liberal and Rubber-Boom Bolivia, 1842–1932

The University of Arizona Press

Indigenous Agency in the Amazon explores the underexamined story of indigenous people who accepted Jesuit mission life and then, nearly two centuries later, withstood the challenges of the rubber boom and the imposition of European liberalism.

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Au Te Waate / We Remember It

Hiaki Survival Through a Bitter War

The University of Arizona Press

Au Te Waate / We Remember It offers the personal narratives of Hiaki (Yaqui) individuals who endured the tumultuous period from 1900 to 1930, when they faced systematic attacks, conscription, deportation, and enslavement under Mexican government policies. Presented in both the original Hiaki language and English translation, these accounts offer an unparalleled glimpse into the lives of those who resisted and survived the era’s harsh realities, completely from the Hiaki perspective.
 

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The Archaeology of Kinship

Advancing Interpretation and Contributions to Theory

The University of Arizona Press

This book explains how kinship is relevant to contemporary archaeological theory, detailing methods appropriate for archaeological analysis, and provides long-overdue solutions to problems plaguing ethnological hypotheses on the origins and contexts of kinship behaviors.

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Mapping Neshnabé Futurity

Celestial Currents of Sovereignty in Potawatomi Skies, Lands, and Waters

The University of Arizona Press

Mapping Neshnabé Futurity is an essential read that offers a rethinking of how we conceive of futurity and sovereignty. Morseau’s interdisciplinary approach, blending anthropological research with literary critique, shows how counter-mapping projects both on the ground and in the skies reclaim space in the Great Lakes region—Neshnabé homelands—and are part of Anishinaabé/Neshnabé communities’ constellations of Indigenous futurities and stories of survivance.

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Transformation by Fire

The Archaeology of Cremation in Cultural Context

The University of Arizona Press

Transformation by Fire offers a current assessment of the archaeological research on the widespread social practice of cremation. Editors Ian Kuijt, Colin P. Quinn, and Gabriel Cooney chart a path for the development of interpretive archaeology surrounding this complex social process.

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Betrayal U

The Politics of Belonging in Higher Education

The University of Arizona Press

Betrayal U: The Politics of Belonging in Higher Education is a timely and incisive anthology edited by Rebecca G. Martínez and Monica J. Casper. This groundbreaking volume dives into the heart of institutional betrayal within academia, offering a diverse range of narratives, art, and poetry that address why belonging matters in higher education.
 

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Nature Inc.

Environmental Conservation in the Neoliberal Age

The University of Arizona Press

With global wildlife populations and biodiversity riches in peril, it is obvious that innovative methods of addressing our planet’s environmental problems are needed. But is “the market” the answer? Nature™ Inc. brings together cutting-edge research by respected scholars from around the world to analyze how “neoliberal conservation” is reshaping human–nature relations.

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A Tale of Three Villages

Indigenous-Colonial Interactions in Southwestern Alaska, 1740–1950

The University of Arizona Press

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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