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Birds, Bats, and Blooms

The Coevolution of Vertebrate Pollinators and Their Plants

The University of Arizona Press

Birds, Bats, and Blooms provides an in-depth look at the ecology and evolution of two groups of vertebrate pollinators: New World hummingbirds and nectar-feeding bats and their Old World counterparts. Alongside engaging prose, this work includes fourteen color photographs of birds and flowers taken by the author.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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House of Grace, House of Blood

Poems

The University of Arizona Press

An innovative collection of archival poetry, House of Grace, House of Blood weaves images and documents from the 1782 massacre of pacifist Delawares in Gnadenhutten, Ohio into poems that explore contradictions: settler colonists and Indigenous people; violence and reconciliation; body and spirit; history and silence. Ultimately, these poems not only reconstruct an important historical event, but they also put pressure on the archive, asking us to question not only what is remembered, but how history is remembered—and who is forgotten from it.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Forging a Sustainable Southwest

The Power of Collaborative Conservation

The University of Arizona Press

Forging a Sustainable Southwest is the story of how diverse groups of citizens in the Southwest have worked collaboratively to develop visions for land use that harmonize ecological, economic, cultural, and community needs.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Accompaniment with Im/migrant Communities

Engaged Ethnography

The University of Arizona Press

This edited volume is a collective conversation between anthropologists, activists, students, im/migrants, and community members about accompaniment—a feminist care-based, decolonial mode of ethnographic engagement. Across the chapters, contributors engage with accompaniment with im/migrant communities in a variety of ways that challenge traditional boundaries between researcher-participant, scholar-activist, and academic-community member to explicitly address issues of power, inequality, and well-being for the communities they work with and alongside.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Silver “Thieves," Tin Barons, and Conquistadors

Small-Scale Mineral Production in Southern Bolivia

The University of Arizona Press

This book traces the history of Indigenous mining in southern Bolivia from Inka times to the present using archaeological and historical sources. It argues that small-scale mineral production can only be understood in relation to large-scale mining in the context of colonialism and its aftermath.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Damming the Gila

The Gila River Indian Community and the San Carlos Irrigation Project, 1900–1942

The University of Arizona Press

The third in a series, this volume continues to chronicle the history of water rights and activities on the Gila River Indian Reservation. Centered on the San Carlos Irrigation Project and Coolidge Dam, this book details the history and development of the project, including the Gila Decree. Embedded in the narrative is the underlying tension between tribal growers on the Gila River Indian Reservation and upstream users. Told in seven chapters, the story underscores the idea that the Gila River Indian Community believed the San Carlos Irrigation Project was first and foremost for their benefit and how the project and the Gila Decree fell short of restoring their water and agricultural economy.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Indigenous Health and Justice

The University of Arizona Press

Indigenous communities are practicing de facto sovereignty to resolve public health issues that are a consequence of settler colonialism. This work delves into health and justice through a range of topics and examples and demonstrates the resilience of Indigenous communities.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Growing Up in the Gutter

Diaspora and Comics

The University of Arizona Press

Scholars interested in Graphic Arts, Postcolonial & Decolonial Studies, Global South Studies, Diaspora & Migration Studies, American Literature, African American Studies, Asian & Asian American Studies, Chicanx & Latinx Studies, and Gender and Sexuality Studies.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Kneeling Before Corn

Recuperating More-than-Human Intimacies on the Salvadoran Milpa

The University of Arizona Press

Focusing on the intimate relations that develop between plants and humans in the northern rural region of El Salvador, this book explores the ways in which more-than-human intimacies travel away from and return to the milpa through human networks. The chapters present innovative methodological and conceptual contributions to the study of relationships that form between plants and people.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Indigenous Science and Technology

Nahuas and the World Around Them

The University of Arizona Press

Indigenous Science and Technology focuses on how Nahuas have explored, understood, and explained the world around them in pre-invasion, colonial, and contemporary time periods.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Border Killers

Neoliberalism, Necropolitics, and Mexican Masculinity

The University of Arizona Press

Focusing on both Mexico’s northern and southern borders, Border Killers uses Achille Mbembe’s concept of necropolitics and various theories of masculinity to argue that contemporary Mexico is home to a form of necropolitical masculinity that has flourished in the neoliberal era and made the exercise of death both profitable and necessary for the functioning of Mexico’s state-cartel-corporate governance matrix.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Ancient Mesoamerican Population History

Urbanism, Social Complexity, and Change

The University of Arizona Press

Including research from both highland central Mexico and the tropical lowlands of the Maya and Olmec areas, this book reexamines demography in ancient Mesoamerica. Through new technology such as LiDAR (light detecting and ranging), the book provides new understandings of ancient Mesoamerican societies and how they changed over time.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Five Suns

A Fire History of Mexico

The University of Arizona Press

Narrating Mexico’s evolution of fire through five eras—pre-human, pre-Hispanic, colonial, industrializing (1880–1980), and contemporary (1980–2015)—this volume relies on the myth of the “five suns” that the Aztecs used to characterize their history. It completes a North American trilogy of fire histories that also includes the United States and Canada.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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We Stay the Same

Subsistence, Logging, and Enduring Hopes for Development in Papua New Guinea

The University of Arizona Press

Written in a clear and relatable style for students, We Stay the Same combines ethnographic and ecological research to show how the people of New Hanover, Papua New Guinea, continue to survive and make meaningful lives in a situation where their own hopes for economic development via logging and commercial agriculture have often been used against them as a mechanism of a more distantly profitable dispossession.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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On a Trail of Southwest Discovery

The Expedition Diaries of Frederick W. Hodge and Margaret W. Magill, 1886–1888

The University of Arizona Press

This volume examines the Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition, directed by Frank Hamilton Cushing, through the diaries of two participants who fell in love on the expedition: the field secretary, Fred Hodge—who became a major figure in early twentieth-century anthropology—and the expedition artist, Margaret Magill. Divided into three parts, the book’s first two sections chronicle the field operations of the expedition, while the third part describes the anthropological career of Hodge after the end of the expedition.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Ancient Communities in the Mimbres Valley

Continuity and Change from AD 750 to 1350

The University of Arizona Press

Spanning from the end of the Late Pithouse period through the Black Mountain phase, this volume contains the final report on the excavations of the Mimbres Foundation. The authors consider the nature of the relationship between the Classic Mimbres period population of the valley and the people of the succeeding Black Mountain phase, as well as relationships among the Black Mountain phase people and those of neighboring parts of the region.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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In a Wounded Land

Conservation, Extraction, and Human Well-Being in Coastal Tanzania

The University of Arizona Press

Focusing on the human element of marine conservation and the extractive industry in Tanzania, this volume illuminates what happens when impoverished people living in underdeveloped regions of Africa are suddenly subjected to state-directed conservation and natural resource extraction projects. Drawing on ethnographically rich case studies and vignettes, the book documents the impacts of these projects on local populations and their responses to these projects over a ten-year period.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Writing that Matters

A Handbook for Chicanx and Latinx Studies

The University of Arizona Press

Writing that Matters is a handbook on the craft of research and writing in the fields of Chicanx and Latinx studies. Geared toward students, Heidenreich and Urquijo-Ruiz walk scholars through the critical roots of these fields. They provide step-by-step instructions and examples of how to produce quality Chicanx and Latinx history and literature papers, while centering feminist and queer writings to create scholarship that matters.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Mujeres de Maiz en Movimiento

Spiritual Artivism, Healing Justice, and Feminist Praxis

The University of Arizona Press

Mujeres de Maiz (MdM) is an L.A.-based Indigenous Xicana–led spiritual artist-activist organization and movement by and for women and feminists of color. The contributors to this edited volume weave together their stories to collectively document MdM’s twenty-five-year herstory and its larger sociopolitical context. Intergenerational contributors include emerging and professional writers, scholars, visual and performance artists, and community organizers. They trace MdM’s genealogy, providing critical insight into emerging definitions of Xicanisma and contemporary grassroots feminist praxis.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Coastal Foragers of the Gran Desierto

Investigations of Prehistoric Shell Middens along the Northern Sonoran Coast

The University of Arizona Press

The result of nearly twenty years of interdisciplinary research, this volume contributes to the archaeological and paleoenvironmental knowledge of an important but lightly investigated hyperarid coastline at the heart of the Sonoran Desert. Focused on the coast near Puerto Peñasco, Sonora, Mexico, it examines the diverse groups occupying the coast for salt, abundant food sources, and shells for ornament manufacturing.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Resistance and Abolition in the Borderlands

Confronting Trump's Reign of Terror

Edited by Arturo J. Aldama and Jessica Ordaz; Foreword by Leo R. Chavez; Afterword by Karma R. Chávez
The University of Arizona Press

Resistance and Abolition in the Borderlands is an interdisciplinary collection of cultural, historic, activist, and artistic essays that discuss the impacts of Trump’s policies and rhetoric toward BIPOC and Latinx migrants.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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The Space Age Generation

Lives and Lessons from the Golden Age of Solar System Exploration

The University of Arizona Press

The Space Age Generation shares the lives and careers of a dozen men and women whose passion for science was sparked by an astounding era—the golden age of space science. These scientists, historians, and astronomers lived and participated in an amazing time that not only saw humans step foot on the Moon but also saw human-made spacecraft travel throughout our solar system.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Restoring the Pitchfork Ranch

How Healing a Southwest Oasis Holds Promise for Our Endangered Land

The University of Arizona Press

Restoring the Pitchfork Ranch tells the story of a decades-long habitat restoration project in southwestern New Mexico. Rancher-owner A. Thomas Cole explains what inspired him and his wife, Lucinda, to turn their retirement into years dedicated to hard work and renewal on 11,300 acres of grass- and wetlands. The Pitchfork Ranch is an inspiring promise for the future in the face of crippling climate change.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Ojo en Celo / Eye in Heat

Poems

The University of Arizona Press

Ojo en celo / Eye in Heat is a book about the burning desire to see beyond appearances and find meaning in the visible and the invisible.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Yaguareté White

Poems

The University of Arizona Press

Yaguareté White is a lyrical exploration of Paraguayan whiteness, or white Latinidad, and what it means to see through a colored whiteness, with all of its tangled contradictions. Diego Báez’s poems reconcile the incomplete, contradictory, and inconsistent experiences that reside between languages, nations, and generations.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Rim to River

Looking into the Heart of Arizona

The University of Arizona Press

A sharp examination of Arizona by a nationally acclaimed writer, Rim to River follows Tom Zoellner on a 790-mile walk across his home state as he explores key elements of Arizona culture, politics, and landscapes. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in learning more about a vibrant and baffling place.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Border Economies

Cities Bridging the U.S.-Mexico Divide

The University of Arizona Press

Using a combination of economic history and analysis, Border Economies explores how the location of U.S. and Mexican communities on the border are shaped by forces that originate on the other side.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Elephant Trees, Copales, and Cuajiotes

A Natural History of Bursera

The University of Arizona Press

Predominantly native to the U.S. Southwest, Mexico, and the Caribbean, the various species of the genus Bursera have been prized throughout history for their distinctive aromas, medicinal properties, and workable woods. Highlighting its importance and impact within the desert Southwest and Mexico, this volume will be the first book to describe the ecology, evolution, ethnobotany, and peculiar chemistry of the many species of Bursera. Written in an engaging style, enhanced with two hundred color photographs, and complete with a compendium of species descriptions, this book will be an essential reference on a significant North American plant.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Woven from the Center

Native Basketry in the Southwest

The University of Arizona Press

Woven from the Center presents breathtaking basketry from some of the greatest weavers in the Greater Southwest. Each sandal and mat fragment, each bowl and jar, every water bottle and whimsy is infused with layers of aesthetic, cultural, and historical meanings. This book offers stunning photos and descriptions of woven works from Indigenous communities across the U.S. Southwest and Northwest Mexico.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Ancient Light

Poems

The University of Arizona Press

Ancient Light is a timely and innovative collection by renowned Anishinaabe poet Kimberly Blaeser. It looks squarely at pressing social issues of our time while simultaneously invoking Indigenous pathways of kinship, healing, and renewal.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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When Language Broke Open

An Anthology of Queer and Trans Black Writers of Latin American Descent

The University of Arizona Press

This collection of creative offerings by forty-three queer and trans Black writers of Latin American descent helps illustrate Blackness as a geopolitical experience that is always changing. In centering the multifaceted realities of the LGBTQ community, the anthology's contributors challenge everything we think we know about gender, sexuality, race, and what it means to experience a livable life.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Light As Light

Poems

The University of Arizona Press

Light As Light is acclaimed poet Simon J. Ortiz’s first collection in twenty years. The poems in this volume are a powerful journey through the poet’s life—both a love letter to the future, and a sentimental, authentic celebration of the past.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Ordinary Injustice

Rascuache Lawyering and the Anatomy of a Criminal Case

The University of Arizona Press

Ordinary Injustice shows how the legal and judicial system is stacked against Latinos, documenting the racial inequities in the system from the time of arrest and incarceration to final deposition and post-conviction experiences. The book chronicles the obstacles and injustices faced by a young Latino student with no previous criminal record and how a simple misdemeanor domestic violence case morphed into a very serious case with multiple felonies, and potential life sentence without the possibility of parole.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Hottest of the Hotspots

The Rise of Eco-precarious Conservation Labor in Madagascar

The University of Arizona Press

Continually recognized as one of the “hottest” of all the world’s biodiversity hotspots, the island of Madagascar has become ground zero for the most intensive market-based conservation interventions on Earth. This book details the rollout of market conservation programs, including the finding drugs from nature—or “bioprospecting”—biodiversity offsetting, and the selling of blue carbon credits from mangroves. It documents the tensions that exist at the local level and provides a voice for community workers many times left out of environmental policy discussions, ultimately in the hope of offering critiques that build better conservation interventions with perspectives of the locals.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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From the Skin

Defending Indigenous Nations Using Theory and Praxis

Edited by Jerome Jeffery Clark and Elise Boxer; Foreword by Nick Estes
The University of Arizona Press

In this edited volume, J. Jeffery Clark and Elise Boxer deploy the term practitioner-theorist to describe Indigenous studies graduates who theorize, produce, and apply knowledge within and between their nations and academia.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Central American Migrations in the Twenty-First Century

The University of Arizona Press

Central American Migrations in the Twenty-First Century tackles head-on the way Central America has been portrayed as a region profoundly marked by the migration of its people. The essays use an intersectional approach to demonstrate the complexity of the migration experience. This volume opens a dialogue between humanities and social sciences scholars on the complex migratory processes of the region.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Ready Player Juan

Latinx Masculinities and Stereotypes in Video Games

The University of Arizona Press

This book fuses Latinx studies and video game studies to document how Latinx masculinities are portrayed in high-budget action-adventure video games. Developing an original approach to video game experiences, the author theorizes video games as border crossings, and defines a new concept—digital mestizaje—that pushes players, readers, and scholars to deploy a Latinx way of seeing constructive as well as destructive qualities.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Landscapes and Social Transformations on the Northwest Coast

Colonial Encounters in the Fraser Valley

The University of Arizona Press
  • Copyright year: 2010
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Construction of Maya Space

Causeways, Walls, and Open Areas from Ancient to Modern Times

The University of Arizona Press

This volume focuses on how powerful people of the ancient, historical, and contemporary periods in the Maya world used features such as walls, roads, rails, and symbolic boundaries to control those without power—and how the powerless pushed back.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Our Hidden Landscapes

Indigenous Stone Ceremonial Sites in Eastern North America

The University of Arizona Press

Our Hidden Landscapes introduces people to eastern North America’s Indigenous ceremonial stone landscapes (CSLs)—sacred sites whose principal identifying characteristics are built stone structures that cluster within specific physical landscapes. This volume presents these often unrecognized sites as significant cultural landscapes in need of protection and preservation. Chapters from Indigenous community members, archaeologists, and anthropologists provide a variety of approaches for better understanding, protecting, and preserving these important sacred spaces.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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