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This provocative examination of Aztec marriage practices offers a powerful analysis of the dynamics of society and politics in Mexico before and after the Spanish conquest. The author surveys what it means to be polygynous by comparing the practice in other cultures, past and present, and he uses its demographic consequences to flesh out this understudied topic in Aztec history.

Microfinance has become one of the most popular international development policies of all time and a mainstay of local development and antipoverty programs across the Global South. The contributors to this multidisciplinary volume consider the origins, evolution, and outcomes of microfinance from a variety of perspectives and contend that it has been an unsuccessful approach to development.

In the United States more than thirty thousand deaths each year can be attributed to firearms. This book on the history of guns in America examines the Second Amendment and the laws and court cases it has spawned. The author's thorough and objective account shows the complexities of the issue, and suggests ways in which gun violence in the US can be reduced.

Bringing together sixty-five primary documents vital to understanding the history of art in Latin America since 1900, Patrick Frank shows how modern art developed in Latin America in this important new work complementing his previous book, Twentieth-Century Art of Latin America, Revised and Expanded Edition.

Scholars have long argued that the developmental state of the human infant at birth is unique. This volume expands that argument, pointing out that many distinctively human characteristics can be traced to the fact that we give birth to infants who are highly dependent on others and who learn how to be human while their brains are experiencing growth unlike that seen in other primates.

Molas, the distinctive blouses made and worn by Kuna women in Panama, are collected by thousands of enthusiasts as well as by anthropological museums all over the world. This book, based on original research, explores the origin of the mola in the early twentieth century, how it became part of the everyday dress of Kuna women, and its role in creating Kuna identity.

Weaving together landscape and memory, this book presents historical photographs of the Rio Grande of the American Southwest. Photography arrived in the region at the beginning of the river's great transformation by trade, industry, and cultivation. In Rio Savage has collected images that document the sweeping history of that transformation.

Winner of the Kenyon Review Earthworks Prize for Indigenous Poetry, Midge deftly weaves Plains Indian myths into the present day and seeks to define love, the nature of desire, and identity in the twenty-first century.

In this thoughtful novel Kimberly D. Schmidt brings to life the history of Plains Indian women and the white invasion - an account not solely of violence and bloodshed but also of healing and forgiveness.

Internationally renowned photographer Lucian Niemeyer and National Park Service historian Art Gomez have combined talents in this stunning presentation of the Land of Enchantment. Niemeyer's more than 150 colour photographs and Gomez's sweeping history encompass the entire state throughout the seasons, presenting the region's people, cultures, and magnificent scenery.

Pilgrims travel thousands of miles to visit Salvation Mountain, a unique religious structure in the Southern California desert. Built by Leonard Knight (1931-2014), Salvation Mountain offers a message of divine love for humanity. In Middle of Nowhere Sara M. Patterson examines how Knight constructed a sacred space, one that is now crumbling since the death of its creator.

Synthesizes ethnographic field research, museum and archival research, and participation in cultural-revival and rights-based organising to show how women craft Ainu and indigenous identities through clothwork and how they also fashion lived connections to ancestral values and lifestyles.

Presents a study of the ways places are created and how they attain meaning. Smith presents archaeological data from Khonkho Wankane in the southern Lake Titicaca basin of Bolivia to explore how landscapes were imagined and constructed during processes of political centralization in this region.

First published in 1995, this invaluable guide to the trees, shrubs, ground covers, and smaller plants that thrive in New Mexico's many life zones and growing areas is now available in a long-awaited new edition. Landscape architect Baker H. Morrow considers the significant factors that impact planting in New Mexico to provide the tools for successful gardens and landscapes in the state.

At the dawn of the twentieth century the consensus was that the American Indian was about to "vanish". Yet American Indians did not disappear. Rather, they have adapted and thrived. This encyclopaedia provides a comprehensive overview of this dramatic process through profiles of key individuals, organisations, government policies, and events that have defined Native history since 1900.

Awarded a 1961 Newbery Honor, Old Ramon tells the timeless coming-of-age story of a young boy who spends a summer with an old shepherd in the Mojave Desert. Written in Schaefer's charming and engaging style, the novel details a boy's discovery of both the value of friendship and the hardship of life.

After a minor car accident shatters her equilibrium, forty-three-year-old Amanda Ferguson wakes up to a memory of being terrorized by her older brother Adrian, whom she holds responsible for the death of her twin brother thirty years before. Set against the background of the theatre, The Day after Death explores how loss and family trauma affect our ability to connect, trust, and love.

Set in places as diverse as Fort Sumner, Taos, Chimayo, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Clovis, the fourteen stories in The Tombstone Race explore the surprising connections and disjunctions between rich and poor, urban and rural, old and new, ugly and beautiful.

Roland Miller's colour photographs document the NASA, air force, and army facilities across the US that once played a crucial role in the space race. The haunting images collected here impart artistic insight while preserving an important period in history.

Hatfield examines for the first time the military campaigns on both sides of the border against Apaches and other native peoples in the late nineteenth century.

This original contribution to hemispheric American literary studies comprises readings of three important novels from Mexico, Canada, and the United States: Carlos Fuentes's Terra Nostra, Quebecois writer Jacques Poulin's Volkswagen Blues, and Native American writer Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead.

Winner of the 2015 Wordcraft Circle Honor and Award for Academic Book. "What roles do literary and community texts and social media play in the memory, politics, and lived experience of those dispossessed?" Fitzgerald sets out to answer this in her study of literature and social media by (primarily) Native women.

Here some of New Mexico's most qualified policy experts answer two vital questions: New Mexico 2050 - What can we be? What will we be? They have produced in this volume a dynamic blueprint for New Mexico's future - a manual for leaders and public officials, a text for students, a sourcebook for teachers and researchers, and a guide for citizens.

In this companion volume to John Bisney and J.L. Pickering's extraordinary book of rare photographs from the Mercury and Gemini missions, the authors present the rest of the Golden Age of US manned space flight with a photographic history of Project Apollo. Beginning in 1967, it chronicles the programme's twelve missions and its two follow-ons, Skylab and the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.

What is the evolving relationship between words and images in the photographic essay? How do the purpose and form of the photographic essay change over time? And how are relationships between the contributors, subject, and readers communicated explicitly and implicitly? Klingensmith explores these questions as she traces the development of the photographic essay from the 1890s to the present.

This book became an immediate bestseller when it was published in hardcover in October 1982. Available in a paperback edition since 1983, this enduring favorite is now even more useful with a new spiral binding.