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  • Moquis and Kastiilam

    Hopis, Spaniards, and the Trauma of History, Volume II, 1680–1781

    The second in a two-volume series, Moquis and Kastiilam, Volume II, 1680–1781 continues the story of the encounter between the Hopis, who the Spaniards called Moquis, and the Spaniards, who the Hopis called Kastiilam, from the Pueblo Revolt in 1680 through the Spanish expeditions in search of a land route to Alta California until about 1781. By comparing and contrasting Spanish documents with Hopi ... Read more

    $55.49 USD

  • Memories of Earth and Sea

    An Ethnographic History of the Islands of Chiloé

    Memories of Earth and Sea recounts the history of more than two dozen islands clustered along the Patagonian flank of South America. Settled over the centuries by nomadic seafarers, indigenous farmers, and Spanish explorers, southern Chile’s Archipelago of Chiloé remained until recently a rural outpost resistant to cultural pressures from the mainland. Islanders developed a way of life heavily ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Moquis and Kastiilam

    Hopis, Spaniards, and the Trauma of History, Volume I, 1540–1679

    The first of a two-volume series, Moquis and Kastiilam tells the story of the encounter between the Hopis, who the Spaniards called Moquis, and the Spaniards, who the Hopis called Kastiilam, from the first encounter in 1540 until the eve of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. By comparing and contrasting Spanish documents with Hopi oral traditions, the editors portray a balanced presentation of their ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • Chiloé

    The Ethnobiology of an Island Culture

    Edited by Anton Daughters, Ana Pitchon ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This volume focuses on the ethnobiology of southern Chile’s Archipelago of Chiloé. Chiloé presents a unique perspective on the intersection of society and biology owing to its vast natural resources, historic culture of cooperation, geographic isolation, and external resource exploitation. Contributions to this volume cover knowledge bases in both marine and terrestrial systems, and how specific ... Read more

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  • Lost in the Long Transition

    Struggles for Social Justice in Neoliberal Chile

    In Lost in the Long Transition, a group of scholars who conducted fieldwork research in post-dictatorship Chile during the transition to democracy critically examine the effects of the country's adherence to neoliberal economic development and social policies. Shifting government responsibility for social services and public resources to the private sector, reducing restrictions on foreign ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

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  • A Cree Healer and His Medicine Bundle

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  • Power Lines

    Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest

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    How high energy consumption transformed postwar Phoenix and deepened inequalities in the American SouthwestIn 1940, Phoenix was a small, agricultural city of sixty-five thousand, and the Navajo Reservation was an open landscape of scattered sheepherders. Forty years later, Phoenix had blossomed into a metropolis of 1.5 million people and the territory of the Navajo Nation was home to two of the ... Read more

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