University Of Arizona Press: 461 books
Out of Nature
Why Drugs from Plants Matter to the Future of Humanity
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
About half of all species under threat of extinction in the world today are plants. The loss of plant biodiversity is disturbing for many reasons, but especially because it is a reflection of the growing disconnect between humans and nature. Plants have been used for millennia in traditional systems...
Transcontinental Dialogues
Activist Alliances with Indigenous Peoples of Canada, Mexico, and Australia
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
Transcontinental Dialogues brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous anthropologists from Mexico, Canada, and Australia who work at the intersections of Indigenous rights, advocacy, and action research. These engaged anthropologists explore how obligations manifest in differently situated alliances,...
Zuni Origins
Toward a New Synthesis of Southwestern Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
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The Zuni are a Southwestern people whose origins have long intrigued anthropologists. This volume presents fresh approaches to that question from both anthropological and traditional perspectives, exploring the origins of the tribe and the influences that...
Unsettling Mobility
Mediating Mi’kmaw Sovereignty in Post-contact Nova Scotia
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Since contact, attempts by institutions such as the British Crown and the Catholic Church to assimilate indigenous peoples have served to mark those people as “Other” than the settler majority. In Unsettling Mobility, Michelle A. Lelièvre examines how mobility has complicated, disrupted, and—at...
The Aztecs at Independence
Nahua Culture Makers in Central Mexico, 1799–1832
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Nahuatl-speaking women and men left last wills in their own tongue during an era when the written tradition of their language was generally assumed to have ended. Describing their world in testaments clustered around epidemic cycles, they responded to profound changes in population, land use, and...
Foundational Arts
Mural Painting and Missionary Theater in New Spain
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
The languages of two hemispheres collided when Spain conquered Mexico, and as a result, a dynamic expression of visual and dramatic arts emerged. Mural painting and missionary theater quickly became the media to explain and comprehend the encounter of indigenous peoples with Christ and the crucifixion,...
Crossing the Yard
Thirty Years as a Prison Volunteer
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Ever since he was asked to critique the poetry of a convicted murderer, he has lived in two worlds.
Richard Shelton was a young English professor in 1970 when a convict named Charles Schmid—a serial killer dubbed the “Pied Piper of Tucson” in national magazines—shared his brooding verse....
Nomads of a Desert City
Personal Stories from Citizens of the Street
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
You see them as faceless shapes on the median or in city parks. You recognize them by their cardboard signs, their bags of aluminum cans, or their weathered skin. But you do not know them.
In Nomads of a Desert City Barbara Seyda meets the gazes of our homeless neighbors and, with an open heart...
by Wesley Bernardini
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
As contemporary Native Americans assert the legacy of their ancestors, there is increasing debate among archaeologists over the methods and theories used to reconstruct prehistoric identity and the movement of social groups. This is especially problematic with respect to the emergence of southwestern...
by Bryan Allen Fierro
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Two brothers bury a statue of Saint Jude for their grieving nana. A Griffith Park astronomer makes his own discovery at an East L.A. wedding. A young man springs his Cherokee-obsessed grandfather from the confines of senility. The common thread? Each is weaving their way through the challenging field...
by Patricia Preciado Martin
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
For Patricia Preciado Martin, the past is every bit as real as the present. In Days of Plenty, Days of Want, past and present meet in a collection of strikingly crafted short stories that show us a heritage being irreverently pushed aside by "progress" yet passed along from person to person,...
by Mia Leonin
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Mia Leonin spent the first sixteen years of her life believing her father was dead. All she knew of the man came through stories told by her mother. At times he had been a surgeon, at others a psychiatrist. In truth, he had been a fantasy.
Shortly after her sixteenth birthday, Leonin learned...
Global Indigenous Health
Reconciling the Past, Engaging the Present, Animating the Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Indigenous peoples globally have a keen understanding of their health and wellness through traditional knowledge systems. In the past, traditional understandings of health often intersected with individual, community, and environmental relationships of well-being, creating an equilibrium of living...
Rosa's Einstein
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
Rosa’s Einstein is a Latinx retelling of the Brothers Grimm’s Snow-White and Rose-Red, reevaluating border, identity, and immigration narratives through the unlikely amalgamation of physics and fairy tale.
In this full-length poetry collection, the girls of Rosa’s Einstein embark on a...