Sharing the Desert

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Author: Winston P. Erickson

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2021-10-12

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 081654672X

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This book marks the culmination of fifteen years of collaboration between the University of Utah's American West Center and the Tohono O'oodham Nation's Education Department to collect documents and create curricular materials for use in their tribal school system. . . . Erickson has done an admirable job compiling this narrative.—Pacific Historical Review

People of the Desert and Sea

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Author: Richard Stephen Felger

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2016-10-11

Total Pages: 455

ISBN-13: 0816534756

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"People of the Desert and Sea is one of those books that should not have to wait a generation or two to be considered a classic. A feast for the eye as well as the mind, this ethnobotany of the Seri Indians of Sonora represents the most detailed exploration of plant use by a hunting-and-gathering people to date. . . . Scholarship in the best sense of the term—precise without being pedantic, exhaustive without exhausting its readers."—Journal of Arizona History "To read and gaze through this elegantly illustrated book is to be exposed, as if through a work of science fiction, to an astonishing and unknown cultural world."—North Dakota Quarterly

Gathering the Desert

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Author: Gary Paul Nabhan

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780816510146

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Looks at the history and uses of plants of the Sonoran Desert, including creosote, palm trees, mesquite, organpipe cactus, amaranth, chiles, and Devil's claw

Blue Desert

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Author: Charles Bowden

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 1988-04-01

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780816510818

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Contains essays that depict and decry the rapid growth and disappearing natural landscapes of the Sunbelt

Desert Indian Woman

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Author: Frances Sallie Manuel

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2001-10

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780816520084

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Basket weaver, storyteller, and tribal elder, Frances Manuel is a living preserver of Tohono O'odham culture. Speaking to anthropologist Deborah Neff, who has known her for over twenty years, she tells of O'odham culture and society and of the fortunes and misfortunes of Native Americans in the southwestern borderlands over the past century.

The Lamp in the Desert

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Author: Douglas D. Martin

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2014-09-10

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1941451020

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With six teachers, no books, and thirty-two students, Old Main opened its doors to the first pupils of the University of Arizona in 1891. A rugged beacon among the cacti, the campus emerged from a forty-acre donation from two gamblers and a saloonkeeper. The Lamp in the Desert is Douglas D. Martin’s history of the first seventy-five years of the University of Arizona. From early football wins by Coach McKale to the work of celebrated scholars, this is a story of the places and the people whose names are still visible reminders of the early innovators that helped to build a world-class institution.

At the Desert's Green Edge

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Author: Amadeo M. Rea

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2016-06

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 0816534292

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Winner of the Society for Economic Botany's Klinger Book Award, this is the first complete ethnobotany of the Gila River Pima, presented from the perspective of the Pimas themselves.

Wings in the Desert

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Author: Amadeo M. Rea

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2022-04-26

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0816548455

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There is a common but often unspoken arrogance on the part of outside observers that folk science and traditional knowledge—the type developed by Native communities and tribal groups—is inferior to the “formal science” practiced by Westerners. In this lucidly written and humanistic account of the O’odham tribes of Arizona and Northwest Mexico, ethnobiologist Amadeo M. Rea exposes the limitations of this assumption by exploring the rich ornithology that these tribes have generated about the birds that are native to their region. He shows how these peoples’ observational knowledge provides insights into the behaviors, mating habits, migratory patterns, and distribution of local bird species, and he uncovers the various ways that this knowledge is incorporated into the communities’ traditions and esoteric belief systems. Drawing on more than four decades of field and textual research along with hundreds of interviews with tribe members, Rea identifies how birds are incorporated, both symbolically and practically, into Piman legends, songs, art, religion, and ceremonies. Through highly detailed descriptions and accounts loaded with Native voice, this book is the definitive study of folk ornithology. It also provides valuable data for scholars of linguistics and North American Native studies, and it makes a significant contribution to our understanding of how humans make sense of their world. It will be of interest to historians of science, anthropologists, and scholars of indigenous cultures and folk taxonomy.

The Desert Year

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Author: Joseph Wood Krutch

Publisher: University of Iowa Press

Published: 2010-04-15

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 158729947X

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Originally published: New York: W. Sloane Associates, c1952.