University Of Arizona Press: 461 books
Diabetes among the Pima
Stories of Survival
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
For the past forty years, the Pima Indians living in the Gila River Indian Community have been among the most consistently studied diabetic populations in the world. But despite many medical advances, the epidemic is continuing and prevalence rates are increasing. Diabetes among the Pima is the first...
Pre-Hispanic Occupance in the Valley of Sonora, Mexico
Archaeological Confirmations of Early Spanish Reports
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
“[This book] presents a great amount of new information for a poorly known or understood area of northern Mexico, and provides a pleasant integration of the methods and theories of anthropology, geography, and ecology in a well-organized manner. . . . This report represents an important contribution...
Postcards from the Sonora Border
Visualizing Place Through a Popular Lens, 1900s–1950s
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Young men ride horses on a dusty main road through town. Cars and gas stations gradually intrude on the land, and, years later, curiosity shops and cantinas change the face of Mexican border towns south of Arizona. Between 1900 and the late 1950s, Mexican border towns came of age both as centers of...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
In considerations of societal change, the application of classic evolutionary schemes to prehistoric southwestern peoples has always been problematic for scholars. Because recent theoretical developments point toward more variation in the scale, hierarchy, and degree of centralization of complex societies,...
Divided Waters
Bridging the U.S.-Mexico Border
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Among all natural resource and environmental problems between the United States and Mexico, water has been the most troublesome, with ongoing historic contests over water supply becoming superseded by new controversies over water quality. Divided Waters analyzes the politics of water management along...
The Shadow of the Wall
Violence and Migration on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Mass deportation is at the forefront of political discourse in the United States. The Shadow of the Wall shows in tangible ways the migration experiences of hundreds of people, including their encounters with U.S. Border Patrol, cartels, detention facilities, and the deportation process. Deportees...
A Place All Our Own
Lives Entwined in a Desert Garden
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2012
For twenty years Mary Irish, along with her husband Gary, tended a garden in Scottsdale, Arizona. Over the years they transformed it into a lively and lovely spot that reflected both its place in the world—hot, dry, and often hostile to gardeners who don’t understand its ways—and the particular...
Sabino Canyon
The Life of a Southwestern Oasis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Nestled in the Santa Catalina Mountains near Tucson, Arizona, Sabino Canyon demonstrates the beauty and resiliency of life in what many would assume to be a most inhospitable place. For thousands of visitors each year, this oasis in the Sonoran Desert offers the opportunity to experience biodiversity...
O'odham Creation and Related Events
As Told to Ruth Benedict in 1927
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The origin stories of the O’odham (Pima) Indians of Arizona are renowned for their beauty and complexity but have been collected in only a handful of books. This volume—the third full O’odham telling of ancientness to appear in print—brings together dozens of stories collected in 1927 by anthropologist...
Phoenix
The History of a Southwestern Metropolis
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
More than half of all Arizonans live in Phoenix, the center of one of the most urbanized states in the nation. This history of the Sunbelt metropolis traces its growth from its founding in 1867 to its present status as one of the ten largest cities in the United States. Drawing on a wide variety of...
Landscape of the Spirits
Hohokam Rock Art at South Mountain Park
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
High above the noise and traffic of metropolitan Phoenix, Native American rock art offers mute testimony that another civilization once thrived in the Arizona desert. In the city's South Mountains, prehispanic peoples pecked thousands of images into the mountains' boulders and outcroppings—images...
by Amadeo M. Rea
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Knowledge held about animals by Pima-speaking Native Americans of Arizona and northwest Mexico is intimately entwined with their way of life—a way that is fading from memory as beavers and wolves vanish also from the Southwest. Ethnobiologist Amadeo Rea has conducted extensive fieldwork among the...
by David R. Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Among desert farmers of the prehistoric Southwest, irrigation played a crucial role in the development of social complexity. This innovative study examines the changing relationship between irrigation and community organization among the Hohokam and shows through ceramic data how that dynamic relationship...
Miranda
The Story of America’s Right to Remain Silent
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
One of the most significant Supreme Court cases in U.S. history has its roots in Arizona and is closely tied to the state’s leading legal figures. Miranda has become a household word; now Gary Stuart tells the inside story of this famous case, and with it the legal history of the accused’s right...