University Of Arizona Press imprint: 459 books
Blonde Indian
An Alaska Native Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
In the spring, the bear returns to the forest, the glacier returns to its source, and the salmon returns to the fresh water where it was spawned. Drawing on the special relationship that the Native people of southeastern Alaska have always had with nature, Blonde Indian is a story about returning.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
In Indigenous America, human rights and justice take on added significance. The special legal status of Native Americans and the highly complex jurisdictional issues resulting from colonial ideologies have become deeply embedded into federal law and policy. Nevertheless, Indigenous people in the United...
Human Spaceflight
From Mars to the Stars
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Mars, the red planet named for the god of war, a mysterious dust-ridden place, is most like Earth in its climate and seasons. Of all the possible destinations in space to travel, Mars is the most likely for humans to reach. According to esteemed scientist Louis Friedman, it may be the only destination...
Navajo Sovereignty
Understandings and Visions of the Diné People
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
The last few decades have given rise to an electrifying movement of Native American activism, scholarship, and creative work challenging five hundred years of U.S. colonization of Native lands. Indigenous communities are envisioning and building their nations and are making decolonial strides toward...
Sonora
A Description of the Province
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
"The bloodsucking bat, construction of bows and arrows, the punishment for adultery among the Apaches... all was grist that dropped into the industrious mill of Father Pfefferkorn's eyes, ears, and brain."—Saturday Review
"To be read for enjoyment; nevertheless, the historian...
by Charles Lummis
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Lummis's prose portraits of the Grand Canyon, Petrified Forest, Montezuma Castle, and other sites reflect the author's knowledge of Southwest anthropology and history.
Occupying Our Space
The Mestiza Rhetorics of Mexican Women Journalists and Activists, 1875–1942
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award Winner
Occupying Our Space sheds new light on the contributions of Mexican women journalists and writers during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, marked as the zenith of Mexican journalism. Journalists played a significant role in...
Sor Juana
Or, the Persistence of Pop
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
A sixteenth-century Mexican nun, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, has become one of the most rebellious and lasting icons in modern times, on par with Mahatma Gandhi, Ernesto “Che” Guevara, and Nelson Mandela. Referenced in ranchera, tejana, and hip-hop lyrics, and celebrated in popular art as a guerrillera...
Discovering the Desert
The Legacy of the Carnegie Desert Botanical Laboratory
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Now you can share the experiences of the first U.S. scientists who set about discovering the nature of North American deserts. "This is a fascinating account of how these pioneer ecologists laid the foundations for our modern knowledge of plant adaptation to desert environments. . . . It is well done." (American Scientist)
by R. G. Matson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Presents a new model for the origins of Basketmaker II culture based on the evolution of maize use, focusing on the changes in maize growing rather than on the changes in, or to, the people involved.
by Ray Gonzalez
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
In this collection, which the poet calls his “rebirth in the search for home,” Ray Gonzalez expresses the gentle, humble intelligence that has made him a leading voice in Latino letters. He shares with the reader the voice of a soul searcher who has passed through middle age and still vibrates...
Radical Territories in the Brazilian Amazon
The Kayapó’s Fight for Just Livelihoods
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Indigenous groups are facing unprecedented global challenges in this time of unparalleled environmental and geopolitical change, a time that has intensified human-rights concerns and called for political and economic restructuring. Within this landscape of struggle, the Kayapó, an indigenous nation...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Native Studies Keywords explores selected concepts in Native studies and the words commonly used to describe them, words whose meanings have been insufficiently examined. This edited volume focuses on the following eight concepts: sovereignty, land, indigeneity, nation, blood, tradition, colonialism,...
Gardening in the Desert
A Guide to Plant Selection and Care
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Newcomers to the Southwest usually find that their favorite landscape plants aren't suited to the hot, dry climate. Many authors offer advice on adapting plants to the desert; now Mary Irish tells how gardeners can better adapt themselves to the challenge.
Drawing on her experience with public...