University Of Arizona Press: 461 books
The Affinity of the Eye
Writing Nikkei in Peru
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
In The Affinity of the Eye: Writing Nikkei in Peru, Ignacio López-Calvo rises above the political emergence of the Fujimori phenomenon and uses politics and literature to provide one of the first comprehensive looks at how the Japanese assimilated and inserted themselves into Peruvian culture. Through...
Modern Mexican Culture
Critical Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Diego Rivera’s mural Sueño de una tarde dominical en la Alameda Central is a fascinating critique of high society and wealthy elites. It also offers a multitude of other stories that intersect in a web of historical memory. The massive mural, the histories it depicts, and even its physical journey...
Huaorani Transformations in Twenty-First-Century Ecuador
Treks into the Future of Time
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
The indigenous people of the Amazon Basin known as the Huaorani are one of the world’s most intriguing peoples. The community of just under four thousand in Ecuador has been known to the public primarily for their historical identity as a violent society. But Laura Rival reveals the Huaorani in...
Beyond the Page
Poetry and Performance in Spanish America
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Poetry began as a spoken art and remains one to this day, but readers tend to view the poem on the page as an impenetrable artifact. This book examines the performance of poetry to show how far beyond the page it can travel. Exploring a range of performances from early twentieth-century recitations...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
It is little wonder that relationships between things and humans are front-and-center in the contemporary social sciences, given the presence of technologies in every conceivable aspect of our lives. From Bruno Latour to Ian Hodder, anthropologists and archaeologists are embracing “thing theory”...
Dude Lit
Mexican Men Writing and Performing Competence, 1955–2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
How did men become the stars of the Mexican intellectual scene? Dude Lit examines the tricks of the trade and reveals that sometimes literary genius rests on privileges that men extend one another and that women permit.
The makings of the “best” writers have to do with superficial aspects,...
The Learned Ones
Nahua Intellectuals in Postconquest Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
They were the healers, teachers, and writers, the “wise ones” of Nahuatl-speaking cultures in Mexico, remembered in painted codices and early colonial manuscripts of Mesoamerica as the guardians of knowledge. Yet they very often seem bound to an unrecoverable past, as stereotypes prevent some...
Bodies at War
Genealogies of Militarism in Chicana Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
In the wake of U.S. military intervention abroad and collapsing domestic economies, scholars have turned their attention to neoliberalism and militarization, two ideological and material projects that are often treated as coincident, though not interdependent. Bodies at War examines neoliberal militarism,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Nurses, show girls, housewives, farm workers, casino managers, and government inspectors—together these hard-working members of society contributed to the development of towns across the West. The essays in this volume show how oral history increases understanding of work and community in the twentieth...
Indian Pilgrims
Indigenous Journeys of Activism and Healing with Saint Kateri Tekakwitha
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
In 2012 Kateri Tekakwitha became the first North American Indian to be canonized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church, an event that American Indian Catholics have awaited for generations. Saint Kateri, known as the patroness of the environment, was born in 1656 near present-day Albany, New York,...
Reimagining National Belonging
Post-Civil War El Salvador in a Global Context
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Reimagining National Belonging is the first sustained critical examination of post–civil war El Salvador. It describes how one nation, after an extended and divisive conflict, took up the challenge of generating social unity and shared meanings around ideas of the nation. In tracing state-led efforts...
Minorities in Phoenix
A Profile of Mexican American, Chinese American, and African American Communities, 1860-1992
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Phoenix is the largest city in the Southwest and one of the largest urban centers in the country, yet less has been published about its minority populations than those of other major metropolitan areas. Bradford Luckingham has now written a straightforward narrative history of Mexican Americans, Chinese...
Canyon de Chelly
Its People and Rock Art
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
With the exception of the Grand Canyon itself, none of the great gorges of the American Southwest is more uniquely beautiful than Canyon de Chelly, with its sheer red cliffs and innumerable prehistoric Indian dwellings. Of all the important centers of prehistoric Anasazi culture, only this magnificent...
Hopi Dwellings
Architectural Change at Orayvi
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The dramatic split of the Hopi community of Orayvi in 1906 had lasting consequences not only for the people of Third Mesa but also for the very buildings around which they centered their lives. This book examines architectural and other effects of that split, using architectural change as a framework...