University Of Arizona Press: 461 books
Tarahumara
Where Night is the Day of the Moon
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Inhabiting the Sierra Madre Occidental of southwestern Chihuahua in Mexico, the Tarahumara (or Rarámuri) are known in their language as the "foot runners" due to the way in which they must navigate their rugged terrain. This book offers an accessible ethnography of their history, customs,...
Finding Meaning
Kaona and Contemporary Hawaiian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Winner of the Native American Literature Symposium's Beatrice Medicine Award for Published Monograph
In this first extensive study of contemporary Hawaiian literature, Brandy Nalani McDougall examines a vibrant selection of fiction, poetry, and drama by emerging and established Hawaiian authors,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
What is considered a good life in contemporary societies? Can we measure well-being and happiness? Reflecting a global interest on the topics of well-being, happiness, and the good life in the face of the multiple failures of millennial capitalism, Images of Public Wealth or the Anatomy of Well-Being...
Yaqui Indigeneity
Epistemology, Diaspora, and the Construction of Yoeme Identity
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
The Yaqui warrior is a persistent trope of the Mexican nation. But using fresh eyes to examine Yoeme indigeneity constructs, appropriations, and efforts at reclamation in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Mexican and Chicana/o literature provides important and vivid new opportunities for understanding....
Voices of Play
Miskitu Children’s Speech and Song on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
While indigenous languages have become prominent in global political and educational discourses, limited attention has been given to indigenous children’s everyday communication. Voices of Play is a study of multilingual play and performance among Miskitu children growing up on Corn Island, part...
by Michael P. Ghiglieri
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Fasten your life jackets for a ride you'll never forget. Now the excitement of a raft trip through the Grand Canyon has been re-created by a seasoned whitewater guide with a passion to share one of the world's most fantastic journeys. Michael Ghiglieri, a professional river guide for more than 17...
Off-Trail Adventures in Baja California
Exploring Landscapes and Geology on Gulf Shores and Islands
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Baja California is one of the Earth’s last great wilderness areas that is easily accessible to travelers. Whether you enter from the United States to the north or from Cabo San Lucas to the south, it doesn’t take long to find yourself passing through a unique desert ecosystem of islands and land...
Discovering Pluto
Exploration at the Edge of the Solar System
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Discovering Pluto is an authoritative account of the exploration of Pluto and its moons, from the first inklings of tentative knowledge through the exciting discoveries made during the flyby of the NASA New Horizons research spacecraft in July 2015. Co-author Dale P. Cruikshank was a co-investigator...
by Patricia Preciado Martin
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Ticking clocks and tolling bells, scents of roses and warm tortillas: this is the barrio of years past as captured in the words of Patricia Preciado Martin. Cuentos, recuerdos, stories, memories—all are stirred into a simmering caldo by a writer whose love for her heritage shines through every page.
Reminiscent...
Sueños Americanos
Barrio Youth Negotiating Social and Cultural Identities
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Education is a primary route to rewarding employment and economic security. It is particularly significant for the future prospects of children who are ethnic minorities, were born into disadvantaged economic circumstances, or are dealing with language barriers.
For nearly a decade Julio Cammarota...
Telling and Being Told
Storytelling and Cultural Control in Contemporary Yucatec Maya Literatures
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Through performance and the spoken word, Yucatec Maya storytellers have maintained the vitality of their literary traditions for more than five hundred years. Telling and Being Told presents the figure of the storyteller as a symbol of indigenous cultural control in contemporary Yucatec Maya literatures....
The Lives of Stone Tools
Crafting the Status, Skill, and Identity of Flintknappers
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
The Lives of Stone Tools gives voice to the Indigenous Gamo lithic practitioners of southern Ethiopia. For the Gamo, their stone tools are alive, and their work in flintknapping is interwoven with status, skill, and the life histories of their stone tools.
Anthropologist Kathryn Weedman Arthur...
Red Medicine
Traditional Indigenous Rites of Birthing and Healing
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Patrisia Gonzales addresses "Red Medicine" as a system of healing that includes birthing practices, dreaming, and purification rites to re-establish personal and social equilibrium. The book explores Indigenous medicine across North America, with a special emphasis on how Indigenous knowledge...
Massacre at the Yuma Crossing
Spanish Relations with the Quechans, 1779-1782
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
The quiet of the dawn was rent by the screams of war. Scores, perhaps hundreds, of Quechan and Mohave warriors leaped from concealment, rushing the plaza from all sides. Painted for battle and brandishing lances, bows, and war clubs, the Indians killed every Spaniard they could catch.
The route...