Already posted/talked about how excited Iāve been for the release of this newly-published book (Decolonizing āPrehistoryā: Deep Time and Indigenous Knowledges in North America ā 2021). But here are a few other cool-looking newly-published books (with publisherās descriptions) from the same publisher, the University of Arizona Press.Ā
From the publisherās description: āDecolonizing āPrehistoryā combines a critical investigation of the documentation of the American deep past with perspectives from Indigenous traditional knowledges and attention to ongoing systems of intellectual colonialism. Bringing together experts from American studies, archaeology, anthropology, legal studies, history, and literary studies, this interdisciplinary volume offers essential information about the complexity and ambivalence of colonial encounters [ā¦] and their impact on American scientific d!scourse. [ā¦] Constructions of Americaās ancient past ā or the invention of American āprehistoryā ā occur in national and international political frameworks, which are characterized by struggles over racial and ethnic identities, access to resources and environmental stewardship, the commodification of culture for touristic purposes, and the exploitation of Indigenous knowledges and histories by industries ranging from education to film and fashion. The pastās ongoing appeal reveals the relevance of these narratives to current-day concerns about individual and collective identities and pursuits of sovereignty and self-determination, as well as to questions of the origin ā and destiny ā of humanity. Decolonizing āPrehistoryā critically examines and challenges the paradoxical role that modern scholarship plays in adding legitimacy to, but also delegitimizing, contemporary colonialist practices.ā
The Dine Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature ā 2021.
This wide-ranging anthology brings together writers who offer perspectives that span generations and perspectives on life and DinƩ history. The collected works display a rich variety of and creativity in themes: home and history; contemporary concerns about identity, historical trauma, and loss of language; and economic and environmental inequalities. The DinƩ Reader developed as a way to demonstrate both the power of DinƩ literary artistry and the persistence of the Navajo people. The volume opens with a foreword by poet Sherwin Bitsui, who offers insight into the importance of writing to the Navajo people. The editors then introduce the volume by detailing the literary history of the DinƩ people, establishing the context for the tremendous diversity of the works that follow, which includes free verse, sestinas, limericks, haiku, prose poems, creative nonfiction, mixed genres, and oral traditions reshaped into the written word. This volume combines an array of literature with illuminating interviews, biographies, and photographs of the featured DinƩ writers and artists.
Moral Ecology of a Forest: The Nature Industry and Maya Post-Conservation ā Jose E. Martinez-Reyes, 2021
Forests are alive, filled with rich, biologically complex life forms and the interrelationships of multiple species and materials. Vulnerable to a host of changing conditions in this global era, forests are in peril as never before. New markets in carbon and environmental services attract speculators. In the name of conservation, such speculators attempt to undermine local land control in these desirable areas. Moral Ecology of a Forest provides an [ā¦] account of conservation politics, particularly the conflict between Western conservation and Mayan ontological ecology. The difficult interactions of the Maya of central Quintana Roo, Mexico, for example, or the Mayan communities of the Sain Kaāan Biosphere, demonstrate the clashing interests with Western biodiversity conservation initiatives. The conflicts within the forest of Quintana Roo represent the outcome of nature in this global era, where the forces of land grabbing, conservation promotion and organizations, and capitalism vie for control of forests and land. [ā¦] The Maya Forest of Quintana Roo is a historically disputed place in which these three questions come together.ā
Food Plants of the Sonoran Desert ā Wendy C. Hodgson, 2015
āThe seemingly inhospitable Sonoran Desert has provided sustenance to indigenous peoples for centuries. Although it is to all appearances a land bereft of useful plants, fully one-fifth of the desertās flora are edible. This volume presents information on nearly 540 edible plants used by people of more than fifty traditional cultures of the Sonoran Desert and peripheral areas. [ā¦] Food Plants of the Sonoran Desert includes not only plants such as gourds and legumes but also unexpected food sources such as palms, lilies, and cattails, all of which provided nutrition to desert peoples. [ā¦]
Moveable Gardens: Itineraries and Sanctuaries of Memory ā 2021
āMoveable Gardens explores how biodiversity and food can counter the alienation caused by displacement. By offering in-depth studies on a variety of regions, this volume carefully considers various forms of sanctuary making within communities, and seeks to address how carrying seeds, plants, and other traveling companions is an ongoing response to the grave conditions of displacement [ā¦]. The destruction of homelands, fragmentation of habitats, and post-capitalist conditions of modernity are countered by thoughtful remembrance of tradition and the migration of seeds, which are embodied in gardening, cooking, and community building. Moveable Gardens highlights itineraries and sanctuaries in an era of massive dislocation, addressing concerns about finding comforting and familiar refuges in the Anthropocene. [ā¦]ā
La Raza Cosmetica: Beauty, Identity, and Settler Colonialism in Postrevolutionary Mexico ā Natasha Varner, 2020
āIn the decades following the Mexican Revolution, nation builders, artists, and intellectuals manufactured ideologies that continue to give shape to popular understandings of indigeneity and mestizaje today. Postrevolutionary identity tropes emerged as part of broader efforts to reunify the nation and solve pressing social concerns, including what was posited in the racist rhetoric of the time as the āIndian problem.ā Through a complex alchemy of appropriation and erasure, indigeneity was idealized as a relic of the past while mestizaje was positioned as the race of the future. This period of identity formation coincided with a boom in technology that introduced a sudden proliferation of images on the streets and in homes: there were more photographs in newspapers, movie houses cropped up across the country, and printing houses mass-produced calendar art and postcards. La Raza CosmĆ©tica traces postrevolutionary identity ideals and debates as they were dispersed to the greater public through emerging visual culture. [ā¦]ā
No Species Is an Island: Bats, Cacti, and Secrets of the Sonoran Desert ā Theodore H. Fleming, 2017
āIn the darkness of the star-studded desert, bats and moths feed on the nectar of night-blooming cactus flowers. By day, birds and bees do the same, taking to blooms for their sweet sustenance. In return these special creatures polĀlinate the equally intriguing plants in an ecological circle of sustainability. The Sonoran Desert is the most biologically diverse desert in the world. Four species of columnar cacti, including the iconic saguaro and organ pipe, are among its most conspicuous plants. No Species Is an Island describes Theodore H. Flemingās eleven-year study of the pollination biology of these species at a site he named Tortilla Flats in Sonora [ā¦]. Among the novel findings are one of the worldās rarest plant-breeding sysĀtems in a giant cactus; the ability of the organ pipe cactus to produce fruit with another speciesā pollen; the highly specialized moth-cactus pollination system of the senita cactus; and the amazing lifestyle of the lesser long-nosed bat, the major nocturnal pollinator of three of these species. [ā¦]ā
Whale Snow: Inupiat, Climate Change, and Multispecies Resilience in Arctic Alaska ā Chie Sakakibara, 2020
āWhale Snow explores how everyday the relatedness of the IƱupiat of Arctic Alaska and the bowhead whale forms and transforms āthe humanā through their encounters with modernity. Whale Snow shows how the people live in the world that intersects with other beings, how these connections came into being, and, most importantly, how such intimate and intense relations help humans survive the social challenges incurred by climate change [ā¦].ā
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