University Of Arizona Press: 461 books
The Archaeology of Kinship
Advancing Interpretation and Contributions to Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Archaeology has been subjected to a wide range of misunderstandings of kinship theory and many of its central concepts. Demonstrating that kinship is the foundation for past societies’ social organization, particularly in non-state societies, Bradley E. Ensor offers a lucid presentation of kinship...
Silent Violence
Global Health, Malaria, and Child Survival in Tanzania
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Silent Violence engages the harsh reality of malaria and its effects on marginalized communities in Tanzania. Vinay R. Kamat presents an ethnographic analysis of the shifting global discourses and practices surrounding malaria control and their impact on the people of Tanzania, especially mothers...
Inheriting the Past
The Making of Arthur C. Parker and Indigenous Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
In recent years, archaeologists and Native American communities have struggled to find common ground even though more than a century ago a man of Seneca descent raised on New York’s Cattaraugus Reservation, Arthur C. Parker, joined the ranks of professional archaeology. Until now, Parker’s life...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2014
The early development of life, a fundamental question for humankind, requires the presence of a suitable planetary climate. Our understanding of how habitable planets come to be begins with the worlds closest to home. Venus, Earth, and Mars differ only modestly in their mass and distance from the...
Blood and Voice
Navajo Women Ceremonial Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Adulthood in the Navajo world is marked by the onset of menstruation in females and by the deepening of the voice in males. Accordingly, young adults must accept responsibility over the powers manifest in blood and voice: for women, the forces that control reproduction and growth; for men, the powers...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
The remains of hunter-gatherer groups are the most commonly discovered archaeological resources in the world, and their study constitutes much of the archaeological research done in North America. In spite of paradigm-shifting discoveries elsewhere in the world that may indicate that hunter-gatherer...
by Lawrence R. Walker, Frederick H. Landau
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
The Mojave Desert has a rich natural history. Despite being sandwiched between the larger Great Basin and Sonoran Deserts, it has enough mountains, valleys, canyons, and playas for any eager explorer. Ancient and current waterways carve the bajadas and valley bottoms. This diverse topography gives...
Biography of a Hacienda
Work and Revolution in Rural Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Winner, James Deetz Book Award (Society for Historical Archaeology)
Biography of a Hacienda is a many-voiced reconstruction of events leading up to the Mexican Revolution and the legacy that remains to the present day. Drawing on ethnohistorical, archaeological, and ethnographic data, Elizabeth...
Behind the Mask
Gender Hybridity in a Zapotec Community
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
The image of biologically male people dancing while dressed in the traditional, colorful attire of Zapotec, Juchiteca, females stands in sharp contrast to the prevailing view of Mexico as the land of charros, machismo, and unbridled ranchero masculinity. These indigenous people are called los muxes,...
Seriously Funny
Mexican Political Jokes as Social Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Political jokes exist around the world and across many types of political systems. But what purposes do they serve? Do they have an impact on politics—or on politicians? Surprisingly, scholars have paid scant attention to these significant questions. And, until the publication of this book, no one...
Landscapes of Freedom
Building a Postemancipation Society in the Rainforests of Western Colombia
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
After emancipation in 1851, the African descendants living in the extra-humid rainforests of the Pacific coast of Colombia attained levels of autonomy hardly equaled anywhere else in the Americas. This autonomy rested on their access to a diverse environment—including small strips of fertile soils,...
Uncharted Terrains
New Directions in Border Research Methodology, Ethics, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
“We must secure our borders” has become an increasingly common refrain in the United States since 2001. Most of the “securing” has focused on the US–Mexico border. In the process, immigrants have become stigmatized, if not criminalized. This has had significant implications for social scientists...
The Nature of Spectacle
On Images, Money, and Conserving Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Today crisis appears to be the normal order of things. We seem to be turning in widening gyres of economic failure, species extinction, resource scarcity, war, and climate change. These crises are interconnected ecologically, economically, and politically. Just as importantly, they are connected—and...
Learning the Possible
Mexican American Students Moving from the Margins of Life to New Ways of Being
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Learning the Possible demonstrates that it is truly possible for underprepared high school graduates to be successful in college. It chronicles the struggles and triumphs of five Mexican American students in their first year of college, aided by a one-year scholarship and support program called the...