University Of Arizona Press imprint: 459 books
The Continuous Path
Pueblo Movement and the Archaeology of Becoming
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Southwestern archaeology has long been fascinated with the scale and frequency of movement in Pueblo history, from great migrations to short-term mobility. By collaborating with Pueblo communities, archaeologists are learning that movement was—and is—much more than the result of economic opportunity...
Looking Like the Enemy
Japanese Mexicans, the Mexican State, and US Hegemony, 1897–1945
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
At the beginning of the twentieth century, thousands of Japanese citizens sought new opportunities abroad. By 1910, nearly ten thousand had settled in Mexico. Over time, they found work, put down roots, and raised families. But until now, very little has been written about their lives. Looking Like...
by Michael G. Callaghan, Nina Neivens de Estrada
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Sequencing the ceramics in Guatemala’s Holmul region has the potential to answer important questions in Maya archaeology. The Holmul region, located in northeastern Guatemala between the central Peten lowlands to the west and the Belize River Valley to the east, encompasses roughly ten square kilometers...
Naming the World
Language and Power Among the Northern Arapaho
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Naming the World examines language shift among the Northern Arapaho of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming, and the community’s diverse responses as it seeks social continuity. Andrew Cowell argues that, rather than a single “Arapaho culture,” we find five distinctive communities of practice...
Transformation by Fire
The Archaeology of Cremation in Cultural Context
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Ash, bone, and memories are all that remains after cremation. Yet for societies and communities, the act of cremation after death is highly symbolic, rich with complex meaning, touching on what it means to be human. In the process of transforming the dead, the family, the community, and society as...
Mesoamerican Plazas
Arenas of Community and Power
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Until now, archaeological and historical studies of Mesoamerican plazas have been scarce compared to studies of the surrounding monumental architecture such as pyramidal temples and palaces. Many scholars have assumed that ancient Mesoamericans invested their labor, wealth, and symbolic value in pyramids...
Community-Based Participatory Research
Testimonios from Chicana/o Studies
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
Members of communities of color in the United States often struggle for equity, autonomy, survival, and justice. Community-Based Participatory Research is an edited volume from activist-scholars who present personal testimonies showcasing how community-based participatory research (CBPR) can lead...
A Tale of Three Villages
Indigenous-Colonial Interactions in Southwestern Alaska, 1740–1950
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
People are often able to identify change agents. They can estimate possible economic and social transitions, and they are often in an economic or social position to make calculated—sometimes risky—choices. Exploring this dynamic, A Tale of Three Villages is an investigation of culture change among...
Don't Let the Sun Step Over You
A White Mountain Apache Family Life, 1860–1975
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
When the Apache wars ended in the late nineteenth century, a harsh and harrowing time began for the Western Apache people. Living under the authority of nervous Indian agents, pitiless government-school officials, and menacing mounted police, they knew that resistance to American authority would be...
From Enron to Evo
Pipeline Politics, Global Environmentalism, and Indigenous Rights in Bolivia
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Throughout the Americas, a boom in oil, gas, and mining development has pushed the extractive frontier deeper into Indigenous territories. Centering on a long-term study of Enron and Shell’s Cuiabá pipeline, From Enron to Evo traces the struggles of Bolivia’s Indigenous peoples for self-determination...
Becoming Brothertown
Native American Ethnogenesis and Endurance in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Histories of New England typically frame the region’s Indigenous populations in terms of effects felt from European colonialism: the ravages of epidemics and warfare, the restrictions of reservation life, and the influences of European-introduced ideas, customs, and materials. Much less attention...