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Households on the Mimbres Horizon

Excavations at La Gila Encantada, Southwestern New Mexico

The University of Arizona Press

This book explores variability in Mimbres Mogollon pithouse sites using a case study from La Gila Encantada to further our understanding of the full range of pithouse occupations in the area. Because the site is away from the major river valleys, the data from excavations at the site provides valuable information on the differences in cultural practices that occurred away from the riverine villages, as well as environmental differences, economic practices, and social constructs.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Border Water

The Politics of U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Water Management, 1945–2015

The University of Arizona Press

Border Water places transboundary water management in the frame of the larger binational relationship, offering a comprehensive history of transnational water management between the United States and Mexico. As we move into the next century of transnational water management, this important work offers critical insights into lessons learned and charts a path for the future.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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The Carbon Calculation

Global Climate Policy, Forests, and Transnational Governance in Brazil and Mozambique

The University of Arizona Press

The Carbon Calculation critically highlights the ways in which politics has reinforced a scientific focus on one possible solution to the problem of climate change—namely those that largely absolve the industrialized world from undertaking politically painful transformations in its own economic model.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Lotería

Nocturnal Sweepstakes

The University of Arizona Press

Lotería is a collection of deeply evocative coming-of-age poems that take the reader on a voyage through the intimate experiences of displacement. In this bilingual collection, Colombian American poet Elizabeth Torres threads together the stories of family dynamics and the realities of migration with the archetypes of tarot and the traditional Lotería game, used for centuries as an object of divination and entertainment. Through these themes and images, the poems in Lotería narrate intimate moments in the lives and journeys of migrants, refugees, and all who have been forced into metamorphosis in order to reach the other side of the river.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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My Heart Is Bound Up with Them

How Carlos Montezuma Became the Voice of a Generation

The University of Arizona Press

Centering historically neglected Indigenous voices as its primary source material, author David Martínez shows how Carlos Montezuma’s correspondence and interactions with his family and their community influenced his advocacy—and how his important work in Arizona specifically motivated his work on a national level.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Running After Paradise

Hope, Survival, and Activism in Brazil's Atlantic Forest

The University of Arizona Press

This book looks at social-environmental activism in one of the world’s most important and threatened tropical forests—Southern Bahia, Brazil. It explores what it means to be in and of a place through the lenses of history, environment, identity, class, and culture. It uncovers not only what separates people but also what brings them together as they struggle and strive to create their individual and collective paradise.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Chicano-Chicana Americana

Pop Culture Pluralism Starring Anthony Quinn, Katy Jurado, Robert Beltran, and Lupe Ontiveros

The University of Arizona Press

This exciting new cultural history documents how Mexican Americans in twentieth-century film, television, and theater surpassed stereotypes, fought for equal opportunity, and subtly transformed the mainstream American imaginary. Through biographical sketches of underappreciated Mexican American actors, this work sheds new light on our national character and reveals the untold story of a multicentered, polycultural America.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Reading the Illegible

Indigenous Writing and the Limits of Colonial Hegemony in the Andes

The University of Arizona Press

Reading the Illegible weaves together the stories of the peoples, places, objects, and media that surrounded the creation of the anonymous Huarochirí Manuscript (c. 1598–1608) to demonstrate how Andean people endowed the European technology of writing with a new social role in the context of a multimedia society.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Translation and Epistemicide

Racialization of Languages in the Americas

The University of Arizona Press

From the early colonial period to the War on Terror, translation practices have facilitated colonialism and resulted in epistemicide, or the destruction of Indigenous and subaltern knowledge. This book discusses translation-as-epistemicide in the Americas and providing accounts of decolonial methods of translation.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Lavender Fields

Black Women Experiencing Fear, Agency, and Hope in the Time of COVID-19

The University of Arizona Press

Lavender Fields uses autoethnography to explore how Black girls and women are living with and through COVID-19. It centers their pain, joys, and imaginations for a more just future as we confront all the inequalities that COVID-19 exposes.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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