University Of Arizona Press: 461 books
Innocent Until Interrogated
The True Story of the Buddhist Temple Massacre and the Tucson Four
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2012
On a sweltering August morning, a woman walked into a Buddhist temple near Phoenix and discovered the most horrific crime in Arizona history. Nine Buddhist temple members—six of them monks committed to lives of non-violence—lay dead in a pool of blood, shot execution style. The massive manhunt...
Beyond Chaco
Great Kiva Communities on the Mogollon Rim Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
During the eleventh and twelfth centuries A.D., the Mogollon Rim region of east-central Arizona was a frontier, situated beyond and between larger regional organizations such as Chaco, Hohokam, and Mimbres. On this southwestern edge of the Puebloan world, past settlement poses a contradiction to those...
Expanding the View of Hohokam Platform Mounds
An Ethnographic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
For more than a hundred years, archaeologists have investigated the function of earthen platform mounds in the American Southwest. Built by the Hohokam groups between A.D. 1150 and 1350, these mounds are among the few monumental structures in the Southwest, yet their use and the nature of the groups...
Field Man
Life as a Desert Archaeologist
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Field Man is the captivating memoir of renowned southwestern archaeologist Julian Dodge Hayden, a man who held no professional degree or faculty position but who camped and argued with a who's who of the discipline, including Emil Haury, Malcolm Rogers, Paul Ezell, and Norman Tindale. This is the...
by Jack S. States
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The American Southwest is not usually thought of as a habitat for mushrooms, yet its various life zones are home to a surprising number of fungi and related species. This first book on the region's mushrooms and truffles provides descriptions and color illustrations for 156 major species and additional...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
In the prehispanic Southwest, Pueblo Grande was the site of the largest platform mound in the Phoenix basin and the most politically prominent village in the region. It has long been held to represent the apex of Hohokam culture that designates the Classic period.
New data from major excavations...
Beliefs and Holy Places
A Spiritual Geography of the Pimería Alta
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
The region once known as Pimería Alta—now southern Arizona and northern Sonora—has for more than three centuries been a melting pot for the beliefs of native Tohono O'odham and immigrant Yaquis and those of colonizing Spaniards and Mexicans. One need look no further than the roadside crosses...
Searching for Golden Empires
Epic Cultural Collisions in Sixteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
This lively book recounts the explorations of the first generations of Spanish conquistadors and their Native allies. Author William K. Hartmann brings readers along as the explorers probe from Cuba to the Aztec capital of Mexico City, and then northward through the borderlands to New Mexico, the...
Western Pueblo Identities
Regional Interaction, Migration, and Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Identifying distinct social groups of the past has always challenged archaeologists because understanding how people perceived their identity is critical to the reconstruction of social organization. Material culture has been the standard measure of distinction between groups, and the distribution...
Connected Communities
Networks, Identity, and Social Change in the Ancient Cibola World
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
The Cibola region on the Arizona–New Mexico border has fascinated archaeologists for more than a century. The region’s core is recognized as the ancestral homeland of the contemporary Zuni people, and the area also spans boundaries between the Ancestral Puebloan and Mogollon culture areas. The...
by Robert Houston
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Bisbee, Arizona, queen of the western copper camps, 1917. The protagonists in a bitter strike: the Wobblies (the IWW), the toughest union in the history of the West; and Harry Wheeler, the last of the two-gun sheriffs. In this class-war western, they face each other down in the streets of Bisbee,...
Ceramic Commodities and Common Containers
The Production and Distribution of White Mountain Red Ware in the Grasshopper Region, Arizona
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
For more than a century, the study of ceramics has been a fundamental base for archaeological research and anthropological interpretaion in the American Southwest. The widely distributed White Mountain Red Ware has frequently been used by archaeologists to reconstruct late 13th and 14th century Western...
An Anthropologist's Arrival
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Ruth M. Underhill (1883–1984) was one of the twentieth century’s legendary anthropologists, forged in the same crucible as Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead. After decades of trying to escape her Victorian roots, Underhill took on a new adventure at the age of forty-six, when she entered...
by G. M. Mullett
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
"This is a fine introduction to Hopi mythology and values. It recreates an authentic poetic spirit and makes the reader eager to read more Hopi tales." —New Mexico Humanities Review