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Acequia Culture

José a Rivera

• Paperback | Engels
• Conflicts between Hispanic farmers and developers made for compelling reading in The Milagro Beanfield War , the famous novel of life in a northern Ne... Lees meer

Ghost Singer

Ann Lee Walters

• Paperback | Engels
• Human ears, strung like beads on a cord; scalps with hair and ears still intact; infant bones in a medicine bundle; corpses, whole, in a cardboard box... Lees meer

Beyond Wari Walls

• Hardcover | Engels
• During the Middle Horizon (600-1000), the Wari civilization swept across the central Andes. The nature and importance of this civilization has long be... Lees meer

Archaeologies of the Pueblo Revolt

• Paperback | Engels
• The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 is a popular topic in Borderlands history and southwestern anthropology. Historians have generally regarded it as an extraor... Lees meer

Lore of New Mexico

Marta Weigle, Peter White

• Paperback | Engels
• First published in 1988, this award-winning compendium of New Mexico's folklore is now available in a shorter, easier to use, updated edition. "A mast... Lees meer

Gold Mountain Turned to Dust

John R Wunder

• Paperback | Engels
• Some half million Chinese immigrants settled in the American West in the nineteenth century. In spite of their vital contributions to the economy in g... Lees meer

Frontier Naturalist

Russell M Lawson

• Hardcover | Engels
• This is a true story of discovery and discoverers in what was the northern frontier region of Mexico in the years before the Mexican War. In 1826, whe... Lees meer

The Maya World of Communicating Objects

Miguel Angel Astor-Aguilera

• Hardcover | Engels
• Although anthropologists have been observing and analyzing the religious practices of Mayan people for about a hundred years, this perceptive study su... Lees meer

South Mountain Park and Preserve

Andrew Lenartz

• Paperback | Engels | Southwest Adventure
• In the heart of the city of Phoenix, Arizona, sits the natural wonder of South Mountain Park and Preserve. It is an oasis of mountain terrain and dese... Lees meer

The Mermaid and the Lobster Diver

Laura Hobson Herlihy

• Paperback | Engels
• Approximately 90 percent of Miskitu boys and men in the Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve along the north coast of Honduras have worked as deepwater diver... Lees meer

Killing Civilization

Justin Jennings

• Paperback | Engels
• The concept of civilization has long been the basis for theories about how societies evolve. This provocative book challenges that concept. The author... Lees meer

Maya Imagery, Architecture, and Activity

• Hardcover | Engels
• Maya Imagery, Architecture, and Activity privileges art historical perspectives in addressing the ways the ancient Maya organized, manipulated, create... Lees meer

The Limits of Gender Domination

Chad Thomas Black

• Paperback | Engels
• Set against the backdrop of the tumultuous late colonial and early republican periods in Quito (1765-1830), this study examines women's legal, economi... Lees meer

Mexico Otherwise

Jurgen Buchenau

• Paperback | Engels | Diálogos
• This rich anthology provides a glimpse of modern Mexico through the eyes of foreign observers. Some of these selections are by well-known authors (Ale... Lees meer

Say the Name

Judith H Sherman

• Paperback | Engels
• Say the Name vividly describes in the voice of a fourteen-year-old the experiences of a Jewish girl who was imprisoned in Ravensbruck Concentration Ca... Lees meer

Searching for Madre Matiana

Edward Wright-Rios

• Paperback | Engels | Diálogos
• In the mid-nineteenth century prophetic visions attributed to a woman named Madre Matiana roiled Mexican society. Pamphlets of the time proclaimed tha... Lees meer

A Navajo/English Bilingual Dictionary

Alyse Neundorf

• Hardcover | Engels
• This practical, easy-to-use Navajo dictionary is intended primarily for Navajo children learning to read and write the language in bilingual classroom... Lees meer

Marking the Land No. 1

Melissa Cicetti

• Paperback
• A road trip from Santa Fe to Santa Monica was the genesis of Marking the Land 1, which presents photographs taken on highways and byways that cut thro... Lees meer

Banana Cowboys

James W Martin

• Paperback | Engels
• The iconic American banana man of the early twentieth century--the white "banana cowboy" pushing the edges of a tropical frontier--was the product of ... Lees meer

Memory and Architecture

Eleni Bastea

• Hardcover | Engels
• Using the analytical perspectives of architecture, comparative literature, and cultural studies, the essays in Memory and Architecture examine the rol... Lees meer

Mexico Between Hitler and Roosevelt

Friedrich E Schuler

• Paperback | Engels
• Now in paperback, this is the first book to analyze the link between Mexico's foreign and domestic relations in the 1930s. By studying the regime of P... Lees meer

Nación Genízara

• Hardcover | Engels | Querencias
• Winner of the 2021 Heritage Publication Award from the New Mexico Historic Preservation Division Nación Genízara examines the history, cultural evolut... Lees meer

The Legacy of Rulership in Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl's Historia de la Nación Chichimeca

Leisa A Kauffmann

• Paperback | Engels
• In this book Leisa A. Kauffmann takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the writings of one of Mexico's early chroniclers, Fernando de Al... Lees meer

Evaluations of Us Poetry Since 1950, Volume 2

• Paperback | Engels | Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century
• Horace speaks of poetry delighting and instructing. While Evaluations of US Poetry since 1950 , Volume 1 explores the pleasures of poetry--its languag... Lees meer