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The Prehispanic Ethnobotany of Paquimé and Its Neighbors
By Paul E. Minnis and Michael E. Whalen
The University of Arizona Press
This volume is a major ethnobotanical study for the ancient U.S. Southwest and northwestern Mexico. The results reorient our perspective in the rise of one of the most impressive communities in the international region.
The Nature of Desert Nature
Edited by Gary Paul Nabhan
The University of Arizona Press
The desert inspires wonder. Attending to history, culture, science, and spirit, The Nature of Desert Nature celebrates the bounty and the significance of desert places.
The Edible Gardens of Ethiopia
An Ethnographic Journey into Beauty and Hunger
The University of Arizona Press
Based on prolonged engagement with this “virtuous” plant of southwestern Ethiopia, this book provides a nuanced reading of the ensete ventricosum (avant-)garden and explores how the life in tiny, diverse, and womanly plots may indeed offers alternative visions of nature, food policy, and conservation efforts.
Narrating Nature
Wildlife Conservation and Maasai Ways of Knowing
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.
La Gente
Struggles for Empowerment and Community Self-Determination in Sacramento
The University of Arizona Press
La Gente traces the rise of the Chicana/o Movement in Sacramento and the role of everyday people in galvanizing a collective to seek lasting and transformative change during the 1960s and 1970s. In their efforts to be self-determined, la gente contested multiple forms of oppression at school, at work sites, and in their communities.
Cultura y Corazón
A Decolonial Methodology for Community Engaged Research
The University of Arizona Press
Cultura y Corazón is a cultural approach to research that requires a long-term commitment to community-based and engaged research methodologies. This book presents case studies in the fields of education and health that recognize and integrate communities’ values, culture, and funds of knowledge in the research process.
Reflections of a Transborder Anthropologist
From Netzahualcóyotl to Aztlán
The University of Arizona Press
Taking us on a journey of remembering and rediscovery, anthropologist Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez shares important insights into his development as a scholar and in so doing the development of the interdisciplinary field of transborder anthropology.
A Marriage Out West
Theresa and Frank Russell’s Explorations in Arizona, 1900–1903
The University of Arizona Press
A Marriage Out West is an intimate biographical account of two fascinating figures of twentieth-century archaeology. Frances Theresa Peet Russell, an educator, married Harvard anthropologist Frank Russell in June 1900. They left immediately on a busman’s honeymoon to the Southwest. Their goal was twofold: to travel to an arid environment to quiet Frank’s tuberculosis and to find archaeological sites to support his research.
Activist Leaders of San José
En sus propias voces
The University of Arizona Press
Challenging stereotypes, this book unearths and makes visible lived experiences of Chicana and Latino activists from San José, California, who made contributions to the cultural and civic life of the city. Through oral histories, we see a portrait of grassroots leadership in the twentieth century.
La Raza Cosmética
Beauty, Identity, and Settler Colonialism in Postrevolutionary Mexico
The University of Arizona Press
La Raza Cosmética examines postrevolutionary identity construction as a project of settler colonialism that at once appropriated and erased indigeneity. In its critique of Indigenous representation, it also shows how Indigenous women strategically engaged with and resisted these projects as they played out in beauty pageants, films, tourism, art, and other realms of popular culture.
Colonial Legacies in Chicana/o Literature and Culture
Looking Through the Kaleidoscope
The University of Arizona Press
Colonial Legacies in Chicana/o Literature and Culture traces the development of Chicana/o literature and cultural production from the Spanish colonial period to the present. In doing so, it challenges us to look critically at how we simultaneously embody colonial constructs and challenge their legacies.
Binational Commons
Institutional Development and Governance on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Edited by Tony Payan and Pamela L Cruz
The University of Arizona Press
Binational Commons focuses on whether the institutions that presently govern the U.S.-Mexico transborder space are effective in providing solutions to difficult binational problems as they manifest themselves in the borderlands. The volume addresses key binational issues and explores where there are strong levels of institutional governance development, where it is failing, how governance mechanisms have evolved over time, and what can be done to improve it to meet the needs of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands in the next decades.
Conserving Migratory Pollinators and Nectar Corridors in Western North America
Edited by Gary Paul Nabhan
The University of Arizona Press
Teaching Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Pedagogy and Practice for Our Classrooms and Communities
The University of Arizona Press
Teaching Gloria E. Anzaldúa provides pedagogical applications of Anzaldúa’s noted theories, including la facultad, the path of conocimiento, and autohistoria, among others. This text provides examples, lesson plans, and activities for scholars, professors, teachers, and community members in various disciplines—such as history, composition, literature, speech and debate, and more—and for those interested in teaching the theories of Gloria Anzaldúa.
A Desert Feast
Celebrating Tucson's Culinary Heritage
The University of Arizona Press
This book offers a food pilgrimage, where stories and recipes demonstrate why the desert city of Tucson became American’s first UNESCO City of Gastronomy. You’ll meet the farmers, small-scale food entrepreneurs, and chefs who are dedicated to making Tucson taste like nowhere else.
Innocent Until Interrogated
The True Story of the Buddhist Temple Massacre and the Tucson Four
The University of Arizona Press
Decolonizing Latinx Masculinities
Edited by Arturo J. Aldama and Frederick Luis Aldama
The University of Arizona Press
With unity of heart and mind, the creative and the scholarly, Decolonizing Latinx Masculinities opens wide its arms to all non-binary, decolonial masculinities today to grow a stronger, resilient, and more compassionate new generation of Latinxs tomorrow.
Oysters in the Land of Cacao
Archaeology, Material Culture, and Societies at Islas de Los Cerros and the Western Chontalpa, Tabasco, Mexico
The University of Arizona Press
Oysters in the Land of Cacao delivers a long-overdue presentation of the archaeology, material culture, and regional synthesis on the Formative to Late Classic period societies of the western Chontalpa region (Tabasco, Mexico) through contemporary theory. It offers a significant new understanding of the Mesoamerican Gulf Coast.
America's Early Whalemen
Indian Shore Whalers on Long Island, 1650–1750
The University of Arizona Press
The Native Americans of Long Island were integral to the origin and development of the first American whaling enterprise in the years 1650 to 1750. John A. Strong has produced the authoritative source on Indians and shore whaling.