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Flows of Violence

Water, Infrastructures, and the State in Buenaventura, Colombia

The University of Arizona Press

Flows of Violence offers a profound ethnographic exploration of the intricate relationship between violence and water infrastructure in one of Colombia’s most marginalized cities. This timely contribution underscores the urgent need for equitable infrastructure development and social justice, making it a pivotal text for understanding urban poverty and state dynamics in Latin America and beyond.

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Restless Ecologies

Climate Change and Socioecological Futures in the Peruvian Highlands

The University of Arizona Press

This book explores how Quechua alpaca herders in the Peruvian highlands sense and make sense of climate change through subtle shifts in their interactions with humans, animals, and landscapes. It draws our attention to complicated practices of being-in-relation in a time of global instability. By analyzing climate change from the ground up, this book asks what the alpaca herders of the Andes can tell us about the state of the planet.

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Indigenizing Japan

Ainu Past, Present, and Future

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Archaeological Structuration

A Critical Engagement for the Twenty-First Century

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Archaeological Structuration is a critical analysis of the theory of structuration and its utility in the study of societal development over deep time. Structuration theory was originally developed by Anthony Giddens in sociology and adopted piecemeal into archaeology. This book takes a closer look at its contributions to new materialism and develops novel ways to operationalize the theory in archaeological research in the twenty-first century.

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Alterhumanism

Becoming Human on a Conservation Frontier

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On the conservation frontier of southern Chile, the lives of smallholding settlers, Indigenous Mapuche farmers, environmental activists, entrepreneurs, and conservation scientists all grapple with the enduring impacts of settler-caused environmental depletion, aspirations for a new ethics of care, and the promises of an ecotourism boom. Here, the question of what it means to be human is not simply an existential concern but the reflexive result of experiences of becoming human through and with nonhuman others in an increasingly uncertain world.

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Mother Tongues of the High Andes

Gender, Language, and Indigenous Difference in Peru

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This book analyzes how inter-Indigenous linguistic and social difference in Puno, Peru, has been maintained and negotiated over time. Central to these processes are Indigenous women and how their linguistic and social practices—as well as the ways that they are discursively interpreted and idealized—influence the maintenance of Indigenous linguistic and social differences in the past while shaping new ideologies and understandings of Indigenous linguistic praxis and Indigenous ethnic differences.

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Avocado Dreams

Remaking Salvadoran Life and Art in the Washington, D.C. Metro Area

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Avocado Dreams tells the story of how and why Salvadorans migrated to the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and how in the process they both transformed and were transformed by the region through their labor, culture, language, art, and ingenuity.

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Rooted in Place

Botany, Indigeneity, and Art in the Construction of Mexican Nature, 1570–1914

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Rooted in Place traces historical transformations in the relationship between nature and imagined communities across three interlinked moments in the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the late nineteenth century in Mexico. It is the first major study of the relationship between understandings of nature and the creation of structures of rule within Mexico. The book intentionally weaves between environmental history, history of science, visual culture, and political history.

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Gathering Together, We Decide

Archives of Dispossession, Resistance, and Memory in Ndé Homelands

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Gathering Together, We Decide foregrounds the voices of Ndé (Lipan Apache) women and their allies as they defiantly struggle against the construction of the border wall and militarization in South Texas and along the U.S.-Mexico bordered-lands. This archive of diverse materials—legal briefs, essays, poetry, and works of visual art—speaks to larger issues of Indigenous resistance, historical memory, and Indigenous self-determination.

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Carne de Dios

A Novel

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In Carne de Dios, Homero Aridjis transports readers to the world of María Sabina, the revered Mazatec healer, and the sacred mushroom ceremonies that would captivate the global imagination during the 1960s counterculture movement. Through Aridjis’s lyrical prose, vividly translated by Chloe Garcia Roberts, we first journey to the mountains of Huautla de Jiménez in 1957, where Sabina’s veladas—mushroom rituals—draw seekers from across the world forever altering the course of Sabina’s life and the world’s perception of Mexico’s Indigenous traditions.

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A Song for the Horses

Musical Heritage for More-than-Human Futures in Mongolia

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A Song for the Horses examines the role of nonhuman animals (and other beings) in the performance and maintenance of musical traditions in Mongolia. By playing their morin khuur, or ‘horse fiddles,’ to build more-than-human networks of relation, anthropologist K. G. Hutchins shows how Mongolian musicians use cultural heritage to imagine and build toward alternative futures beyond climate change and neoliberalism.

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We Gon’ Be Alright

Resistance and Healing in Black Movement Spaces, 2012–2021

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We Gon’ Be Alright: Resistance and Healing in Black Movement Spaces, 2012–2021 opens up the inner lives of Black activists and organizers to share their survival struggles and strategies for collective thriving. Rev. Dr. Stephanie M. Crumpton explores these dynamics during a period of Black radicalism that emerged with the election of the first Black president of the United States, white racist retaliation, social upheaval over police violence, and the impact of the COVID-19’s exposure of deep social inequities.  

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Indigenous Alliance Making

Histories of Agency in Colonial Lowland South America

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This volume foregrounds agency in examining histories of how Indigenous people in lowland South America intentionally engaged with outsiders in colonial and postcolonial eras. Anthropologists and historians show how local people formed strategic partnerships to defend livelihoods, territory, and symbolic values, as well as to curb exploitation, predation, and threats.

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Scarred Landscapes

Place, Trauma, and Memory in Caribbean Latinx Art

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Scarred Landscapes is a groundbreaking exploration of the rich and complex works of Caribbean Latinx artists. This book documents the work of ten influential artists of Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican descent, based in New York City from the 1970s to the present. Through their diverse practices, including painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, installation, video, and performance art, these artists confront the legacies of colonial trauma and their own experiences of diasporic unbelonging and artworld marginality.

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The Tarahumara Rebellion of 1690

Embattled Settlers and Missionaries in Northern New Spain

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The Tarahumara Rebellion of 1690 examines a seventeenth-century Indigenous uprising in northern Mexico aimed at driving out Spanish miners, missionaries, and settlers from Tarahumara (Rarámuri) and Tepehuanes homelands. Historian Joseph P. Sánchez shows how the Indigenous rebellions in the northern Mexican borderlands during the colonial period were part of the overall Indigenous struggle for defense of homeland throughout the Americas.

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meXicana Roots and Routes

Listening to People, Places, and Pasts

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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

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Severalty

Poems

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Hopi Dwellings

Architectural Change at Orayvi

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Visions of Transformation

Hegemony, Plurinationality, and Revolution in Bolivia

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Visions of Transformation provides an analytical framework through which to interpret and understand the process of social change in Bolivia during the era of Evo Morales.

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Seeds of Resistance, Seeds of Hope

Place and Agency in the Conservation of Biodiversity

The University of Arizona Press

Without denying the gravity of the problems of feeding the earth’s population while conserving its natural resources, Seeds of Resistance, Seeds of Hope reminds us that there are many positive movements and developments, especially at the grass-roots level, that demonstrate the power of opposition and optimism.

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Rainforest Radio

Language Reclamation and Community Media in the Ecuadorian Amazon

The University of Arizona Press

Rainforest Radio follows Napo Kichwa media producers, performers, and consumers across a disrupted Amazon rainforest to understand the effects of different methods and media in language reclamation projects.

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Mestizaje and Globalization

Transformations of Identity and Power

The University of Arizona Press

Mestizaje and Globalization contributes to an emerging multidisciplinary effort to explore how identities are imposed, negotiated, and reconstructed. The volume offers a comprehensive and empirically diverse collection of insights that look beyond nationalistic mestizaje projects to a diversity of local concepts, understandings, and resistance, with particular attention to cases in Latin America and the United States.

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Living with the Dead in the Andes

The University of Arizona Press

Living with the Dead in the Andes provides new data and insights informed by general anthropological theory; the extensive bibliography alone is an important contribution. Scholars working with Andean mortuary practices (and prehistory generally) will be citing these chapters for years.

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George Hunt

Arizona's Crusading Seven-Term Governor

The University of Arizona Press

George Hunt is the political biography of Arizona’s first elected governor, a nuanced, penetrating portrait of a colorful and controversial man. David Berman has written a well-researched, unvarnished portrayal of a complicated and controversial figure, George W. P. Hunt.

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Barry Goldwater and the Remaking of the American Political Landscape

The University of Arizona Press

Barry Goldwater lost the race for the presidency in 1964, but his conservative agenda sparked a movement that has had profound and far-reaching effects on American politics and society. This is a long-overdue reconsideration of the life, times, and legacy of a polarizing politician who is as reviled as he is revered.

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Reframing Paquimé

Community Formation in Northwest Chihuahua

The University of Arizona Press

Based on twenty-five years of survey and excavation work in the Casas Grandes region, this book presents an interpretation of Paquimé that differs greatly from the traditional ideas that have dominated the literature for the last half-century. This massive reinterpretation of the inner workings of the Casas Grandes region tackles the essential question of how Paquimé affected its near neighbors and also addresses the enigmatic end to the great city. An essential archaeological text, Reframing Paquimé will generate debate for a generation of future scholars of Northwest Mexico and the adjacent U.S. Southwest.

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Net Values

Environmental, Economic, and Social Entanglements in the Gulf of California

The University of Arizona Press

In Net Values, Nicole D. Peterson provides new perspectives around fishing, conservation, and community well-being effectively. The book uses narratives and examples to challenge the current approaches toward rational individual choices and offers suggestions about better directions for understanding choice in real-world contexts.

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