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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “paul formisano”
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  • Tributary Voices

    Literary and Rhetorical Exploration of the Colorado River

    by Paul A. Formisano ...
    Series series Waterscapes: History, Cultures, and Controversies
    The Colorado River is in crisis. Persistent drought, climate change, and growing demands from ongoing urbanization threaten this life-source that provides water to more than forty million people in the U.S. and Mexico. Coupled with these challenges are our nation’s deeply rooted beliefs about the region as a frontier, garden, and wilderness that have created competing agendas about the river as ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Reading Aridity in Western American Literature

    by Cordelia Barrera, Ron Broglio, Jennifer Dawes, Paul Formisano, Quinn Grover, Amy T. Hamilton, Zachary R. Hernandez, Tom Lynch, Kyoko Matsunaga, Celina Osuna, Holly Jean Richard0, Jada Ach2, Gary Reger4 ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    In literary and cinematic representations, deserts often betoken collapse and dystopia. Reading Aridity in Western American Literature offers readings of literature set in the American Southwest from ecocritical and new materialist perspectives. This book explores the diverse epistemologies, histories, relationships, futures, and possibilities that emerge from the representation of American ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

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  • Why Indigenous Literatures Matter

    by Daniel Heath Justice ...
    Series series Indigenous Studies
    Part survey of the field of Indigenous literary studies, part cultural history, and part literary polemic, Why Indigenous Literatures Matter asserts the vital significance of literary expression to the political, creative, and intellectual efforts of Indigenous peoples today.In considering the connections between literature and lived experience, this book contemplates four key questions at the ... Read more

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  • Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature

    Rethinking the Human Place in Nature

    Edited by William Cronon ...
    A controversial, timely reassessment of the environmentalist agenda by outstanding historians, scientists, and critics.In a lead essay that powerfully states the broad argument of the book, William Cronon writes that the environmentalist goal of wilderness preservation is conceptually and politically wrongheaded. Among the ironies and entanglements resulting from this goal are the sale of nature ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Skull Wars

    Kennewick Man, Archaeology, And The Battle For Native American Identity

    by David Hurst Thomas ...
    The 1996 discovery, near Kennewick, Washington, of a 9,000-year-old Caucasoid skeleton brought more to the surface than bones. The explosive controversy and resulting lawsuit also raised a far more fundamental question: Who owns history? Many Indians see archeologists as desecrators of tribal rites and traditions; archeologists see their livelihoods and science threatened by the 1990 Federal ... Read more

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  • American Indians

    Stereotypes & Realities

    by Devon A. Mihesuah ...
    American Indians: Stereotypes & Realities provides an informative and engaging Indian perspective on common misconceptions concerning American Indians which afflict public and even academic circles to this very day. Written in a highly accessible stereotype/reality format, it includes numerous illustrations and brief bibliographies on each topic PLUS these appendices: * Do's and Don'ts for those ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Critically Sovereign

    Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies

    Edited by Joanne Barker ...
    Critically Sovereign traces the ways in which gender is inextricably a part of Indigenous politics and U.S. and Canadian imperialism and colonialism. The contributors show how gender, sexuality, and feminism work as co-productive forces of Native American and Indigenous sovereignty, self-determination, and epistemology. Several essays use a range of literary and legal texts to analyze the ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Reclaiming Two-Spirits

    Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America

    by Gregory Smithers ...
    Series Book 12 - Queer Ideas/Queer Action
    **Winner of the 2023 Prose Award in Cultural Anthropology and SociologyFinalist for the 2023 Publishing Triangle Randy Shilts Award for Gay NonfictionA sweeping history of Indigenous traditions of gender, sexuality, and resistance that reveals how, despite centuries of colonialism, Two-Spirit people are reclaiming their place in Native nations.**Reclaiming Two-Spirits decolonizes the history of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • California through Native Eyes

    Reclaiming History

    by William J. Bauer, Jr. Jr. ...
    Series series Indigenous Confluences
    Bauer tells California history strictly through Native perspectives.Most California histories begin with the arrival of the Spanish missionaries in the late eighteenth century and conveniently skip to the Gold Rush of 1849. Noticeably absent from these stories are the perspectives and experiences of the people who lived on the land long before European settlers arrived. Historian William Bauer ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Real Indians

    Identity and the Survival of Native America

    by Eva Garroutte ...
    At the dawn of the twenty-first century, America finds itself on the brink of a new racial consciousness. The old, unquestioned confidence with which individuals can be classified (as embodied, for instance, in previous U.S. census categories) has been eroded. In its place are shifting paradigms and new norms for racial identity. Eva Marie Garroutte examines the changing processes of racial ... Read more

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  • Three Nations, One Place

    by Martha McCollough ...
    Series series Native Americans: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
    An intensive exploration of the changes experienced by the Comanches and Caddoans during Spain's occupation of the Southern Plains (1689-1921), McCollough focuses on the relationship between political and economic conditions and patterns of settlement, production and social reproduction. Challenging historical views that structure a dichotomy of the colonizers and the colonized, this study ... Read more

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  • Blood and Land

    The Story of Native North America

    by J. C. H. King ...
    Blood and Land is a dazzling, panoramic account of the history and achievements of Native North Americans, and why they matter today. It is about why no understanding of the wider world is possible without comprehending the original inhabitants of the United States and Canada: Native Americans, First Nations and Arctic peoples.This highly personal book, based on years of travel and first-hand ... Read more

    $14.29 USD