University Of Arizona Press imprint: 459 books
Foreign Objects
Rethinking Indigenous Consumption in American Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Brass tinklers and pendants. Owl effigies, copper kettles, crucifixes with blue glass stones. What do they have in common? The answer spans thousands of years and a multitude of peoples and places, and reveals how people made sense of their world as they collected and used the objects they encountered.
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Sovereign Acts
Contesting Colonialism Across Indigenous Nations and Latinx America
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
While the sovereign nation-state is considered the world’s political norm, millions of colonial subjects, immigrants, refugees, and native peoples appear to be without sovereignty. What claims have they to sovereignty? If they cannot ever constitute themselves into sovereign nation-states, are they...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
The Andean idea of death differs markedly from the Western view. In the Central Andes, particularly the highlands, death is not conceptually separated from life, nor is it viewed as a permanent state. People, animals, and plants simply transition from a soft, juicy, dynamic life to drier, more lasting...
Broken Souths
Latina/o Poetic Responses to Neoliberalism and Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Broken Souths offers the first in-depth study of the diverse field of contemporary Latina/o poetry. Its innovative angle of approach puts Latina/o and Latin American poets into sustained conversation in original and rewarding ways. In addition, author Michael Dowdy presents ecocritical readings that...
Howling for Justice
New Perspectives on Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
More than twenty years after its publication in 1991, Leslie Marmon Silko’s monumental novel Almanac of the Dead continues to disconcert, move, provoke, and outrage readers. In a work that is overtly and often uncomfortably political, Silko’s overflowing cast of characters includes representatives...
Buried in Shades of Night
Contested Voices, Indian Captivity, and the Legacy of King Philip's War
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
The captivity narrative of Mary Rowlandson, The Soveraignty and Goodness of God, published in 1682, is often considered the first “best seller” to be published in North America. Since then, it has long been read as a first-person account of the trials of Indian captivity. After an attack on the...
Mapping Indigenous Presence
North Scandinavian and North American Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
Despite centuries of colonization, many Indigenous peoples’ cultures remain distinct in their ancestral territories, even in today’s globalized world. Yet they exist often within countries that hardly recognize their existence. Struggles for political recognition and cultural respect have occurred...
No Species Is an Island
Bats, Cacti, and Secrets of the Sonoran Desert
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
In the darkness of the star-studded desert, bats and moths feed on the nectar of night-blooming cactus flowers. By day, birds and bees do the same, taking to blooms for their sweet sustenance. In return these special creatures pollinate the equally intriguing plants in an ecological circle of sustainability.
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Activist Biology
The National Museum, Politics, and Nation Building in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Brazilian society was shaken by turmoil in the 1920s and 1930s. The country was rocked by heated debates over race and immigration, burgeoning social movements in cities and the countryside, entrenched oligarchies clinging to power, and nature being despoiled. Against this turbulent backdrop, a group...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Take a good look at the American West and you'll see that the frontier is undergoing constant changes—not only changes made to the land but also changes in attitudes about the land held by the people who live there.
In this book Mike Davis, Stephen Pyne, William deBuys, Donald Worster, Dan...
When Worlds Collide
Hunter-Gatherer World-System Change in the 19th Century Canadian Arctic
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Interactions between societies are among the most powerful forces in human history. However, because they are difficult to reconstruct from archaeological data, they have often been overlooked and understudied by archaeologists. This is particularly true for hunter-gatherer societies, which are frequently...
Crafting History in the Northern Plains
A Political Economy of the Heart River Region, 1400–1750
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
The histories of post-1500 American Indian and First Nations societies reflect a dynamic interplay of forces. Europeans introduced new technologies, new economic systems, and new social forms, but those novelties were appropriated, resisted, modified, or ignored according to indigenous meanings, relationships,...
Literature as History
Autobiography, Testimonio, and the Novel in the Chicano and Latino Experience
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2016
Historical documents—and, for that matter, historical sources—exist in many forms. The traditional archival sources such as official documents, newspapers, correspondence, and diaries can be supplemented by personal archives, oral histories, and even works of fiction in order for historians to...
A Land Between Waters
Environmental Histories of Modern Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Mexico is one of the most ecologically diverse nations on the planet, with landscapes that range from rainforests to deserts and from small villages to the continent’s largest metropolis. Yet historians are only beginning to understand how people’s use of the land, extraction of its resources,...