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Indigenous Science and Technology
Nahuas and the World Around Them
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CA$43.95
ISBN: 9780816550388
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: 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.
Kneeling Before Corn
Recuperating More-than-Human Intimacies on the Salvadoran Milpa
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CA$43.95
ISBN: 9780816553372
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: 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.
Indigenous Science and Technology
Nahuas and the World Around Them
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CA$125.00
ISBN: 9780816550395
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: 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.
Border Killers
Neoliberalism, Necropolitics, and Mexican Masculinity
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CA$81.00
ISBN: 9780816553068
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: 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.
Growing Up in the Gutter
Diaspora and Comics
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CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780816553310
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Arizona Press
Growing Up in the Gutter: Diaspora & Comics is the first book-length exploration of contemporary graphic coming-of-age narratives written in the context of diasporic and immigrant communities in the United States by and for young, BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and diasporic readers. The book analyzes the complex identity formation of first- and subsequent-generation diasporic protagonists in globalized rural and urban environments and dissects the implications that marginalized formative processes have for the genre in its graphic version.
A New Deal for Navajo Weaving
Reform and Revival of Diné Textiles
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CA$43.95
ISBN: 9780816553747
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Arizona Press
A New Deal for Navajo Weaving provides a history of early to mid-twentieth-century Diné weaving projects by non-Natives who sought to improve the quality and marketability of Diné weaving but in so doing failed to understand the cultural significance of weaving and its role in the lives of Diné women.
Ancient Mesoamerican Population History
Urbanism, Social Complexity, and Change
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CA$100.00
ISBN: 9780816553181
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: 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.
Five Suns
A Fire History of Mexico
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CA$55.95
ISBN: 9780816553396
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: 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.
Indigenous Health and Justice
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CA$43.95
ISBN: 9780816553167
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: 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.
We Stay the Same
Subsistence, Logging, and Enduring Hopes for Development in Papua New Guinea
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CA$81.00
ISBN: 9780816548149
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: 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.
On a Trail of Southwest Discovery
The Expedition Diaries of Frederick W. Hodge and Margaret W. Magill, 1886-1888
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CA$94.00
ISBN: 9780816553013
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: 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.
Ancient Communities in the Mimbres Valley
Continuity and Change from AD 750 to 1350
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CA$106.00
ISBN: 9780816552740
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: 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.
Damming the Gila
The Gila River Indian Community and the San Carlos Irrigation Project, 1900-1942
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CA$81.00
ISBN: 9780816553266
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: 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.
In a Wounded Land
Conservation, Extraction, and Human Well-Being in Coastal Tanzania
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CA$81.00
ISBN: 9780816553082
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: 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.
Mujeres de Maiz en Movimiento
Spiritual Artivism, Healing Justice, and Feminist Praxis
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CA$36.95
ISBN: 9780816552931
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: 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.
Writing that Matters
A Handbook for Chicanx and Latinx Studies
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CA$24.95
ISBN: 9780816542673
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: 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.
Indigenous Science and Technology
Nahuas and the World Around Them
CA$43.95
ISBN: 9780816550388
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Arizona Press
Kneeling Before Corn
Recuperating More-than-Human Intimacies on the Salvadoran Milpa
CA$43.95
ISBN: 9780816553372
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Arizona Press
Indigenous Science and Technology
Nahuas and the World Around Them
CA$125.00
ISBN: 9780816550395
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Arizona Press
Border Killers
Neoliberalism, Necropolitics, and Mexican Masculinity
CA$81.00
ISBN: 9780816553068
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Arizona Press
Growing Up in the Gutter
Diaspora and Comics
CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780816553310
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Arizona Press
Growing Up in the Gutter: Diaspora & Comics is the first book-length exploration of contemporary graphic coming-of-age narratives written in the context of diasporic and immigrant communities in the United States by and for young, BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and diasporic readers. The book analyzes the complex identity formation of first- and subsequent-generation diasporic protagonists in globalized rural and urban environments and dissects the implications that marginalized formative processes have for the genre in its graphic version.
A New Deal for Navajo Weaving
Reform and Revival of Diné Textiles
CA$43.95
ISBN: 9780816553747
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Arizona Press
Ancient Mesoamerican Population History
Urbanism, Social Complexity, and Change
CA$100.00
ISBN: 9780816553181
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Arizona Press
Five Suns
A Fire History of Mexico
CA$55.95
ISBN: 9780816553396
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: University of Arizona Press
Indigenous Health and Justice
CA$43.95
ISBN: 9780816553167
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: University of Arizona Press
We Stay the Same
Subsistence, Logging, and Enduring Hopes for Development in Papua New Guinea
CA$81.00
ISBN: 9780816548149
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: University of Arizona Press
On a Trail of Southwest Discovery
The Expedition Diaries of Frederick W. Hodge and Margaret W. Magill, 1886-1888
CA$94.00
ISBN: 9780816553013
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: University of Arizona Press
Ancient Communities in the Mimbres Valley
Continuity and Change from AD 750 to 1350
CA$106.00
ISBN: 9780816552740
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: University of Arizona Press
Damming the Gila
The Gila River Indian Community and the San Carlos Irrigation Project, 1900-1942
CA$81.00
ISBN: 9780816553266
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: University of Arizona Press
In a Wounded Land
Conservation, Extraction, and Human Well-Being in Coastal Tanzania
CA$81.00
ISBN: 9780816553082
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: University of Arizona Press
Mujeres de Maiz en Movimiento
Spiritual Artivism, Healing Justice, and Feminist Praxis
CA$36.95
ISBN: 9780816552931
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: University of Arizona Press
Writing that Matters
A Handbook for Chicanx and Latinx Studies
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9780816542673
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: University of Arizona Press