University Of Arizona Press: 461 books
Plaintext
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Plaintext has won critical acclaim and a wide audience for author Nancy Mairs’s unapologetic views on agoraphobia, multiple sclerosis, and the challenges of being a woman in a patriarchal world. The provocative collection includes the widely anthologized essays “On Being a Cripple” and “On Not Liking Sex.”
Ambitious Rebels
Remaking Honor, Law, and Liberalism in Venezuela, 1780-1850
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Murder, street brawls, marital squabbles, infidelity, official corruption, public insults, and rebellion are just a few of the social layers Reuben Zahler investigates as he studies the dramatic shifts in Venezuela as it transformed from a Spanish colony to a modern republic. His book Ambitious Rebels...
Voices of Crime
Constructing and Contesting Social Control in Modern Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Crime exists in every society, revealing not only the way in which societies function but also exposing the standards that society holds about what is harmful and punishable. Criminalizing individuals and actions is not the exclusive domain of the state; it emerges from the collective consciousness—the...
Revolt
An Archaeological History of Pueblo Resistance and Revitalization in 17th Century New Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University.
The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 is the most renowned colonial uprisings in the history of the American Southwest. Traditional text-based accounts tend to focus on the revolt and the...
Jardinería desértica
Mes por mes
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 1, 2016
¿Cuál es el mejor tiempo del año para plantar? ¿Cuándo es el mejor tiempo para fertilizar el árbol frutal? ¿Cuándo se debe plantar la mata de tomate en la primavera? Los jardineros que viven en el desierto del sudoeste no pueden contar con las prácticas recomendadas para otras partes del...
Anadarko
A Kiowa Country Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Anadarko, a small bootlegger town in Oklahoma’s Kiowa Country, shakes off its sleepy veneer when J.D. Daugherty, an Irish ex-cop turned private eye, and Hoolie Smith, a Cherokee war veteran, show up to investigate the mysterious disappearance of oilman and geologist Frank Shotz.
J.D. and...
by Sara Sue Hoklotubbe
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Suspicions run high when murder mixes with identity theft in the latest installment of the popular Sadie Walela mystery series set in Cherokee Country. No sooner does Sadie embark on an unexpected business trip to the beautiful island of Maui when her long-time neighbor, Buck Skinner, a full-blood...
by Tom Miller
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Critically acclaimed author Tom Miller reveals the making and marketing of one Panama hat, from the straw fields of Ecuador’s coastal lowland to a hat shop in Southern California. Along the way, the hat becomes a literary device allowing Miller to give us his impressions from the tributaries of...
Me and Mine
The Life Story of Helen Sekaquaptewa
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
An energetic Hopi woman emerges from a traditional family background to embrace the more conventional way of life in American today. Enchanting and enlightening—a rare piece of primary source anthropology.
Savage Kin
Indigenous Informants and American Anthropologists
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
In this provocative new book, Margaret M. Bruchac, an Indigenous anthropologist, turns the word savage on its head. Savage Kin explores the nature of the relationships between Indigenous informants, such as Gladys Tantaquidgeon (Mohegan), Jesse Cornplanter (Seneca), and George Hunt (Tlingit), and...
by Frederick Luis Aldama, Javier Hernandez
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Winner of the 2018 Eisner Award Winner for Best Scholarly/Academic Work
Whether good or evil, beautiful or ugly, smart or downright silly, able-bodied or differently abled, gay or straight, male or female, young or old, Latinx superheroes in mainstream comic book stories are few and far between....
by Vickie Vértiz
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Palm Frond with Its Throat Cut uses both humor and sincerity to capture moments in time with a sense of compassion for the hard choices we must make to survive. Vértiz’s poetry shows how history, oppression, and resistance don’t just refer to big events or movements; they play out in our everyday...
Native Apparitions
Critical Perspectives on Hollywood’s Indians
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
In Cherokee, the term for motion picture is a-da-yv-la-ti or a-da-yu-la-ti, meaning “something that appears.” In essence, motion pictures are machine-produced apparitions. While the Cherokee language recognizes that movies are not reality, Western audiences may on some level assume that film portrayals...
by Carmen Giménez Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
Adding to the Latina tradition, Carmen Giménez Smith, politically aware and feminist-oriented, focuses on general cultural references rather than a sentimental personal narrative. She speaks of sexual politics and family in a fierce, determined tone...