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Interwoven: Andean Lives in Colonial Ecuador's Textile Industry by Rachel Corr

Reviewed by: Interwoven: Andean Lives in Colonial Ecuador's Textile Industry by Rachel Corr Roger P. Davis Interwoven: Andean Lives in Colonial Ecuador's Textile Industry. Rachel Corr. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2018. Pp. x+219, illustrations, maps, appendices, glossary, notes, index. $55.00, hardcover, ISBN 978-0-8165-3773-0. In this well-written and engaging ethnohistory, Rachel Corr, professor of anthropology at Florida Atlantic University, offers readers a primer on the colonial Andean textile economy, details on the nature of labor within that economy, and a catalog of indigenous strategies of survival. Most significantly she also engages the dynamics of ethnogenesis as the essential context for insight into the long-term consequences for these Andean lives. The principle focus of this study is the labor patterns on the obraje of San Ildefonso, one of the largest and longest-lasting textile production centers in the Ecuadorian highlands, located in the community of Pelileo in the central sierra region of Ambato. Corr presents an effective synopsis of the fundamentals of the foundation, rise, and fall of the colonial textile industry through acknowledgment of the classic scholarship on the topic presented by John Leddy Phelan, Robson Brines Tyrer, Javier Ortiz de la Tabla, Nicolas Cushner, and Kenneth Andrien. She notes that while this historical compendium has ample mention of the corruptions and problems attending the administration of the obrajes, the history of the indigenous experience is full of "silences." In an effort to provide voice to the lived experience of the indigenous, Corr has analyzed an impressive array of wills, legal suites, notarial archives, land transactions, and administrative and church resources to bring into focus the indigenous labor experience and their creation of a variety of survival strategies. She begins her analysis with a review of the human landscape. Within the geographical confines of the region, Corr identifies a diversity of indigenous communities. In the era of the Inca, local communities of place and purpose were known as ayllu and identified by location. This category included the Pilalata, Chumaqui, and Guambalo. Added to these were communities of mitamaes, camayos, and foresteros. The mitamaes were groups relocated by the Inca administration. Camayos were members of other ayllus from different regions, directed by their leaders to relocate to acquire an agricultural asset to benefit their homeland. Foresteros emerged as a consequence of colonial rule. These indigenous [End Page 144] people were those who departed from their original ayllu to avoid tribute and other obligations. This untethered community is given formal standing in Hispanic law as a workforce administered by colonial offi-cials. Consequently, some indigenous are anchored in place while others have more fluid ties. These communities make up the labor pool for the obraje of San Ildefonso. With the arrival of the Hispanic, the local economies shift from coca production to sugar, sheep, and the manufacture of textiles. Grants of encomienda obligate the Pilata, Chumaqui, and Guambalo to provide labor for San Ildefonso. Colonial administration of the foresteros similarly ties this group to the obraje. Leaving family and routine agricultural duties, these indigenous people performed tasks of shearing, carding, spinning, weaving, and dyeing wool. Labor obligations fell on men, women, and children alike. Failure to meet production quotas often meant lashes with twisted-hide whips, withholding food, imprisonment, and the extension of the responsibility to meet quotas to other family members. Workers also incurred debts for food, clothing, and unmet quotas, and soon found themselves and their families enmeshed in debt servitude. Corr also highlights a distinct regional dynamic as obraje masters incorporated African slaves as overseers and enforcers undermining potential empathy or support from either group. Through the array of colonial documentation, Corr gives voice to the indigenous by noting their formal complaints to authority and variety of actions, both subtle and dramatic. Wives provided food and clothing to support family members in their tasks, and often stepped in to ensure quotas were met. Despite reprisals, men and women traveled to Quito to formally present complaints to colonial authorities. Foresteros, free of kinship ties, fled the obraje. Resistance ultimately peaks with the brief but bloody indigenous rebellion of 1768. Corr ultimately builds a case for indigenous strategies of survival through...

Postcards from the Chihuahua Border: Revisiting a Pictorial Past, 1900s–1950s by Daniel D. Arreola

Reviewed by: Postcards from the Chihuahua Border: Revisiting a Pictorial Past, 1900s–1950s by Daniel D. Arreola Rita Marie Velasco Postcards from the Chihuahua Border: Revisiting a Pictorial Past, 1900s–1950s. By Daniel D. Arreola. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2019. Pp. 339. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index.) Drawing upon an unlikely source, author Daniel D. Arreola presents a model for how postcards can teach historians to read the landscape and find broader historical trends there. Postcards from the Chihuahua Border is a work of both geography and history and visually reconstructs the Chihuahua border towns of Ciudad Juárez, Ojinaga, and Palomas. Arreola asserts that postcards are markers of change over time because they offer a “serial view of place” (29). With the exception of Paul Vanderwood and Frank Samponaro in Border Fury: A Picture Postcard Record of Mexico’s Revolution and U.S. War Preparedness, 1910–1917 (University of New Mexico Press, 1988), Arreola believes that scholars have overlooked postcards as both documents and textual evidence. [End Page 94] Postcards from the Chihuahua Border unfolds over four parts. Part I, composed of two chapters, studies the border geographically and historically from the early to mid-twentieth century. Arreola examines the everyday significance of postcards by delving into how publishers chose their subject matter and production methods. Part II concentrates solely on Ciudad Juárez, making up the bulk—six chapters—of the study. Ciudad Juárez is the star of this book because of its importance in the region, its unique relationship to nearby El Paso, Texas, and the availability of objects for analysis. Through postcards, Arreola explores its transit systems, tourist border-crossing experiences, popular venues, commercial tourism, and daily life. As El Paso residents increasingly traveled to Ciudad Juárez regularly, they created a thriving tourism market, creating a “visitor identity” that contributed to trade and a regional population surge. When Prohibition passed into law, Ciudad Juárez became a prime destination for its bars and breweries, and postcards documented this trade. City business owners also showcased the town’s food and entertainment venues, and postcards from the region reinforced this image. Additionally, curio shops and historical sites drew tourists, which helped the growth of El Paso and Ciudad Juárez. Postcards depicting street scenes showed how people lived as the city grew. Part III covers much of the same thematic ground but is devoted to the towns of Ojinaga and Palomas, Chihuahua. These towns receive much less attention from the author, which reflects their size and where they live within the popular imagination of the U.S.–Mexico border region. Part IV concludes the work by reinforcing its theoretical framework and providing a short discussion about the author’s intervention in the current scholarship focused on the border. Arreola accomplished his goal of bringing attention to an often-overlooked historical artifact in an accessible text that is both illuminating and entertaining. Postcards demonstrate that seemingly innocuous objects can transmit a great deal of information through their subject matter, the miles they traveled, and who sent and received them, while their production can also document advancements in technology. The book contains an extensive array of beautiful color-postcard images, maps, and advertisements from the period. Although written for a general audience, the book does not lack academic rigor. Postcards from the Chihuahua Border is an interdisciplinary work that can be used by historians, anthropologists, and geographers. The book sheds light on processes and themes as diverse as foreign relations, tourism, modernization, and business practices but is not jargon-laden, making it a text for the intermediate student, professor, or undergraduate classroom. [End Page 95] Rita Marie Velasco Northwestern University Copyright © 2020 The Texas State Historical Association

A Diné History of Navajoland by Klara Kelley, Harris Francis

Reviewed by: A Diné History of Navajoland by Klara Kelley, Harris Francis Jon Reyhner A Diné History of Navajoland. By Klara Kelley and Harris Francis. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2019. Pp. 344. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index.) Klara Kelley, an ethnohistorian, and Harris Francis, a Diné (Navajo) cultural resource consultant, provide some interesting detail from Diné oral history, but the authors mention on the first page of their introduction that they only tell “pieces” of this history (3). This partial approach results in a decidedly uneven book in three areas: Diné history, the book’s own purpose, and its lack of attention to science. The first is Diné history. While Kelley and Francis include interesting chapters on Diné trading post operators and coal mine workers, many other aspects of Diné history are missing: influential Diné leaders Peter McDonald and Peterson Zah do not appear in the index, for example. Also, in the authors’ focus on oral history collected from Diné informants, an important side of the long and conflicted Diné relationship with the U.S. government is either largely left out or, when included, often slanted. For instance, like many historians, the authors comment on “boarding school miseries” suffered by Diné children (24). However, others have found that many Diné appreciated the educational opportunities boarding schools provided them (see Jon Reyhner and Jeanne Eder, American Indian Education: A History, University of Oklahoma Press, 2017). Second, Kelley and Francis write of their purpose, “We have made [End Page 467] this book first and foremost for Diné youngsters,” telling them to “Learn Diné traditional stories and other traditions about the places on the land” (271). However, it can be argued that in the process they are perpetuating some questionable discourse, such as that reported by Deborah House, who took Navajo Studies classes and taught at Diné College in the 1990s. In her book, Language Shift among the Navajos: Identity Politics and Cultural Continuity (University of Arizona Press, 2002), House writes, “[N]on-Navajo students (Anglo, Hispanic, and others) were encouraged to disparage their own upbringing and cultural experiences. Furthermore, their language, literature, religion, family life, and ethnic identities are routinely, and at times painfully, denigrated and devalued by Navajo and non-Navajo instructors, administrators, and other students” (38). House heard about the importance of revitalizing Diné language and culture as is encouraged by Kelley and Francis, but she saw very little being done. An ideal Navajo lifestyle promoted in some classes—“sheepherding and growing a small garden, living in a hogan, and driving a team of horses” (House, 87)—was not really viable anymore, especially because of the great increase in the Navajo population in the last 150 years. Kelley and Francis mention the Diné population growth only near the end of their book and admit, “there’s no going back to the old stockraising way of life” (266). Third, Kelley and Francis seem to distrust science. Along with the “Long Walk,” when many Navajos were forcefully sent to a concentration camp in eastern New Mexico near the border with Texas and kept there from 1864 to 1867, the federal government’s enforced livestock reduction of the 1930s and 1940s, justified with scientific evidence, was especially traumatic for the Diné. In much the same way climate change is questioned today, Kelley and Francis mistrust the science that the government used then to justify livestock reduction, writing, “Supposedly, overgrazing was destroying the land by erosion” (19). In doing so, the authors help promote the idea found in Diné oral histories (see Ruth Roessel and Broderick Johnson’s Navajo Livestock Reduction: A National Disgrace, Navajo Community College, 1974) that the lack of rain was caused by livestock reduction mandated by U.S. government officials. But the continued challenge that livestock reduction sought to resolve can be seen in a May 6, 2018, Washington Post report by Kristine Philips on the drought-caused death of nearly two hundred Diné horses. The authors also take exception to the many archeologists who find evidence that the Diné were late arrivals to the area they now inhabit. This dispute was central to the contentious land litigation between the Navajo and Hopi tribes. While A Diné History of Navajoland...

Publishing the Southwest: An Editorial Farewell

Publishing the Southwest: An Editorial Farewell Joseph Carleton Wilder After 34 years, with this (Spring 2020) issue, I am retiring as editor of Journal of the Southwest. When historian Jack Carroll started Arizona and the West in 1959, he suggested the journal would “burn its own cigarettes,” which it continued to do under Harwood Hinton (1963–1986). Under my editorship since 1986, I have similarly endeavored to follow an innovative path. In 1987, we renamed and refocused the journal. As Journal of the Southwest we began publishing a distinctive regional quarterly attuned to multidisciplinary studies of the American Southwest, the Mexican Northwest, and the borderlands. Over the years, there have been many intellectuals and scholars who have made major contributions to JSW, indeed, too numerous to name them all. I had the good fortune to publish Bernard L. (Bunny) Fontana, Helen Ingram, Bill Broyles, Bruce Dinges, Tom Sheridan, David Yetman, Charles Bowden, Tom McGuire, Celestino Fernández, Raymond Thompson, Alberto Búrquez, Francisco (“Paco”) Manzo Taylor, Julian Hayden, James (“Big Jim”) Griffith, David Weber, Elizabeth A. H. John, James Officer, Rev. Kieran McCarty, Lawrence Clark Powell, Barbara Babcock, Marta Weigle, Alan Ferg, and Nancy Parezo; Sylvia Rodríguez, JPS Brown, and Curtis Hinsley; David Burckhalter, Susan Deeds, and Gary Nabhan. Also, Martin Padget, Diana Hadley, Helga Teiwes, Stephen Cox, and Nieves Zedeño; Gwyneth Harrington and Mary Beck Moser, Eva Antonia Wilbur-Cruce, Emil Haury, Ned and Rosamond Spicer, Donald Bahr, Miki Maaso, Felipe Molina, Larry Evers; Nicolás Pineda Pablos, Stephen Mumme, Jim Hills, Thomas Bowen, Greg McNamee, Joaquin Murrieta, and Bob Vint. Many of these close colleagues are no longer with us. We introduced special thematic issues, among many: “Dry Borders” (Bill Broyles and Richard Felger, eds.), “The Southwest Defined” (James Byrkit), “Mata Ortiz Pottery” (Jim Hills), Larry Evers and Felipe Molina’s “Hiakim: The Yaqui Homeland,” and “Seri Hands,” a collaborative grouping of essays and a photo portfolio; also special issues on “The Vikita Ceremony of the Papago” (Julian Hayden and others), “Chinese Sojourners in Territorial Prescott” (Florence Lister and Robert Lister), and southwestern anthropologists Edward (Ned) Spicer and Emil Haury. In recent years, we published a festschrift double issue “Ways of Knowing: Helen Ingram and Water Scholarship” (Margaret Wilder, ed.); one on Agnese Nelms Haury (Bill Broyles and Rein Vanderpot, eds.); and one on Charles Bowden, whose writing shaped our understanding of the southwestern environment and the borderlands (Bill Broyles [End Page 3] and Bruce Dinges, eds.). In addition to the journal, I started two Southwest Center book series, at the University of Arizona Press (UAP) and the University of New Mexico Press (acquiring editor Larry Ball), to bring out important books with our imprint, and enjoyed a fruitful relationship with both presses, especially with directors Stephen Cox, Christine Szuter, and Kathryn Conrad at UAP. Along the way, associate editor Jeff Banister and I introduced some innovations to the journal, including full-color photos and individually designed covers, with the assistance of Bill Benoit early on and later Christine Hubbard, and hand-drawn maps and illustrations by Don Bufkin and Paul Mirocha. Alene Randklev capably handles typesetting. We have relied on Jim Wigginton and Becky Wigginton-Colon at West Press for fine production of the journal, and on Debra Makay for excellent copyediting. We published pieces bilingually in Spanish, Yaqui, and O’odham (with English), and we printed extra copies to share within the communities. We transitioned the journal from a fully print format to a hybrid online and print format, successfully weathering a challenging period and creating a digital legacy (on JSTOR and Project MUSE) of JSW stretching back to 1959. In the effort to move online, the support of the Southwestern Foundation for Education and Historical Preservation, then led by Dianne Bret Harte, was crucial to our success. In the first few years, W. David Laird, then director of libraries and Southwest bookman extraordinaire, provided office space on the third floor of the Main Library at the University of Arizona. Randi Kisiel, director, and Constance Bryden have been our gracious landlords at the Little Chapel of All Nations for about 30 years. In the early years, Rita Arnett and Adela Hice provided administrative support...

The Intimate Frontier: Friendship and Civil Society in Northern New Spain by Ignacio Martínez

Reviewed by: The Intimate Frontier: Friendship and Civil Society in Northern New Spain by Ignacio Martínez Jean A. Stuntz The Intimate Frontier: Friendship and Civil Society in Northern New Spain. By Ignacio Martínez. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2019. Pp. 240. Notes, index.) Scholars of the Spanish Borderlands have long used societal relationships to analyze public behavior in New Spain. These relationships could be built on blood kinship or the powerful godparent/godchild relationship. Spaniards also had to abide by a strict code of honor in their public activities. Ignacio Martínez seeks to reframe these male relationships as friendships. He does not include female friendships and public actions. [End Page 88] The first chapter is an intellectual history of male friendships in the classical Mediterranean world, beginning with the Epic of Gilgamesh. Martínez then uses the Las Siete Partidas, a never-adopted law code sponsored (not written) by the Spanish king Alphonso X to show how male friendships were part of idealized Spanish society. To show that medieval Spaniards had a concept of amicable relations, he includes other legal documents, novels, and a variety of other ephemera that mention friendships. In New Spain, Spanish administrators referred to Native Americans as either “Friendly Indians” or “Hostile Indians.” Martínez interprets this to mean that Indians were operating under Spanish ideals of friendship. However, recent scholarship has shown that each Indian group reacted to the Spanish in ways that were most beneficial to themselves and that these Indians might sometimes be amenable to Spanish proposals but at other times were not. Martínez does not take into account that Indians acted in their own best interests but instead tries to impose this idea of friendship (under Spanish definitions) on Native groups. Arguing that the best way to define male friendships was in the breach, Martínez uses two case studies of Father Eusebio Kino. In the first example, Father Kino destroyed the career of a Mexican academic by not treating him with sufficient respect in his publications. In the second, Kino’s feud with Francisco Xavier Mora is presented as a betrayal of their supposed friendship. In neither of these cases does Martínez make a compelling argument that true friendship had actually existed or that Kino’s actions constituted betrayal. The author examines the actions of Spaniards and Native Americans during and after the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, again framing events in terms of friendship and betrayal. The final chapter looks at the ways that unequal social relationships caused and affected the Pima Uprising of 1781. In both of these revolts, Indians had, unsurprisingly, pretended to be friendly to their Spanish overlords before the uprising. Martínez concludes that the Spanish, expecting the Pueblos and Pimas to obey the Spanish and to adopt Spanish codes of honor and friendship, saw these rebellions as betrayals of friendship. However, this conclusion is not supported by the evidence presented. Readers, even scholars of the Spanish borderlands, may have difficulty following the book’s argument because it lacks sufficient transitions and explanations. Most information comes from secondary sources, and the absence of a bibliography leaves unclear how much original research was conducted. Events, ascribed motivations, and official documents are applied to the author’s thesis that friendship was the most important factor in New Spain’s society, while other types of relationships or causal factors are ignored. In addition, Martínez does not reference much recently [End Page 89] published material that counters his argument. Overall, those studying the Spanish Borderlands would do best to rely on more traditional interpretations. Jean A. Stuntz West Texas A&M University Copyright © 2020 The Texas State Historical Association

‘Carried off in their hundreds’: Epidemic diseases as structural violence among Indigenous peoples in Northwestern Australia

ABSTRACT As in several other settler colonial societies, Australia has come some way to recognising the suffering inflicted upon its First Peoples as a consequence of colonisation. Such historical reassessment of the nation’s origins has given rise to a backlash of unsettlement. Australia’s History Wars feature claims and counter claims regarding the number of Aboriginal people intentionally murdered by colonists as distinct from ‘unintentional’ Indigenous fatalities resulting from introduced infectious diseases. Following recent critiques of the ‘virgin soil’ hypothesis in context of the Columbian Exchange (for example Cameron, Catherine M., Paul Kelton, and Alan C. Swedlund, eds. 2015. Beyond Germs: Native Depopulation in North America. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.), I argue that biological determinism has similarly obscured the violence of Australian settler colonialism. Focussing on observations of a mid-nineteenth century outbreak of smallpox in Australia’s Northwest, I seek to expand the horizons of debates concerning the scope and extent of settler colonial violence to include the appraisal of introduced diseases as a form of structural violence.

Review: Pasadena Before the Roses: Race, Identity, and Land Use in Southern California, 1771–1890 by Yvette J. Saavedra

Book Review| November 01 2019 Review: Pasadena Before the Roses: Race, Identity, and Land Use in Southern California, 1771–1890 by Yvette J. Saavedra Pasadena Before the Roses: Race, Identity, and Land Use in Southern California, 1771–1890. By Yvette J. Saavedra (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2018, 280 pp. $45 cloth). Amy Essington Amy Essington Amy Essington is a lecturer in the history departments at California State University, Fullerton, and Cal Poly Pomona. She is the Executive Director of the Historical Society of Southern California. She completed a Ph.D. at Claremont Graduate University and is the author of The Integration of the Pacific Coast League: Race, Baseball, and the West (University of Nebraska Press, 2018). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Southern California Quarterly (2019) 101 (4): 467–469. https://doi.org/10.1525/scq.2019.101.4.467 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Amy Essington; Review: Pasadena Before the Roses: Race, Identity, and Land Use in Southern California, 1771–1890 by Yvette J. Saavedra. Southern California Quarterly 1 November 2019; 101 (4): 467–469. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/scq.2019.101.4.467 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentSouthern California Quarterly Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2019 by The Historical Society of Southern California2019 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez, Hegemonies of language and their discontents: The Southwest North American region since 1540. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2017. Pp. 352. Hb. $60.

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Between the Andes and the Amazon: Language and Social Meaning in Bolivia. Anna M.Babel. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2018. xii + 265.

Journal of Linguistic AnthropologyVolume 29, Issue 3 p. 444-445 Book Review Between the Andes and the Amazon: Language and Social Meaning in Bolivia. Anna M. Babel. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2018. xii + 265. Claudia Brosseder, Corresponding Author cbrossed@illinois.edu University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignSearch for more papers by this author Claudia Brosseder, Corresponding Author cbrossed@illinois.edu University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignSearch for more papers by this author First published: 26 September 2019 https://doi.org/10.1111/jola.12253 Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume29, Issue3December 2019Pages 444-445 RelatedInformation

Hegemonies of Language and Their Discontents: The Southwest North American Region Since 1540.Carlos G.Vélez‐Ibáñez, Tuscan: The University of Arizona Press, 2017, 352 pp.

Hegemonies of Language and Their Discontents: The Southwest North American Region Since 1540<i>.</i>Carlos G.Vélez‐Ibáñez, Tuscan: The University of Arizona Press, 2017, 352 pp.

A Road Map to Collaboration

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook and Film ReviewsA Road Map to Collaboration Footprints of Hopi History: Hopihiniwtiput Kukveni’at. Edited by Leigh J. Kuwanwisiwma, T. J. Ferguson, and Chip Colwell. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2018.Scott NicolayScott NicolaySchool of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, University of California, Merced, 5200 North Lake Road, Merced, California 95343, USA ([email protected]). Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Current Anthropology Volume 60, Number 4August 2019 Sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/704881 Views: 66Total views on this site HistoryAccepted February 03, 2019 For permission to reuse, please contact [email protected]PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Karina O. Alvarado, Alicia Ivonne Estrada and Ester E. Hernández (eds.), U.S. Central Americans: Reconstructing Memories, Struggles, and Communities of Resistance (Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2017), pp. xi + 242, $30.00, pb.

Karina O. Alvarado, Alicia Ivonne Estrada and Ester E. Hernández (eds.), U.S. Central Americans: Reconstructing Memories, Struggles, and Communities of Resistance (Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2017), pp. xi + 242, $30.00, pb. - Volume 51 Issue 3

Jacob Blanc and Frederico Freitas (eds.), Big Water: The Making of the Borderlands between Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay (Tuscon, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2018), pp. xii + 329, $55.00, hb.

Jacob Blanc and Frederico Freitas (eds.), Big Water: The Making of the Borderlands between Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay (Tuscon, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2018), pp. xii + 329, $55.00, hb.

Extractivism and Racialized Landscapes - Landscapes of Freedom: Building a Postemancipation Society in the Rainforests of Western Colombia. By Claudia Leal. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2018. Pp. 336. $55.00 cloth.

Extractivism and Racialized Landscapes - Landscapes of Freedom: Building a Postemancipation Society in the Rainforests of Western Colombia. By Claudia Leal. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2018. Pp. 336. $55.00 cloth.

Review: Laura Zanotti. 2016. Radical Territories in the Brazilian Amazon: The Kayapo’s Fight for Just Livelihoods. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press.

Review: Laura Zanotti. 2016. Radical Territories in the Brazilian Amazon: The Kayapo’s Fight for Just Livelihoods. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press.

Reclaiming Indigeneity: Recent Publications at the University of Arizona Press

Colonial voices have often attempted to silence Indigenous voices, but contemporary publisher the University of Arizona Press is dedicated to disseminating scholarly texts that give voice to colonized peoples. The press’s fall 2017 catalogue is particularly interesting because of its dedication to Indigenous activism, publishing three texts that depict varied ways in which Indigenous communities are attempting to overcome stereotypes and colonial trauma while also reflecting upon one another, allowing for new discussions to build within academia and beyond. Native Apparitions focuses on visual sovereignty and reclaiming Indigenous identity, Sovereign Acts includes various contributions that add to political activism and explore issues of sovereignty, while Marking Indigeneity elaborates on Tongan communities, in particular, the concepts of time and space in contemporary society. Highlighting current trends within one press’s catalogue, this review discusses the authors’ expressed need to reclaim Indigenous identities, cultures, and languages separately, yet it also examines larger Indigenous concerns across multiple communities.

Liberdade e Coexistência: A Sociedade Pós-Emancipação nas Planícies Colombianas do Pacífico

Book Review: Leal C 2018. Landscapes of freedom: building a postemancipation society in the rainforests of western Colombia. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 352 pp.

Jennifer P. Mathews and Thomas H. Guderjan, The Value of Things: Prehistoric to Contemporary Commodities in the Maya Region (Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2017), pp. vi + 309, $65.00, hb.

Jennifer P. Mathews and Thomas H. Guderjan, The Value of Things: Prehistoric to Contemporary Commodities in the Maya Region (Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2017), pp. vi + 309, $65.00, hb. - Volume 51 Issue 1

Review of Jim Igoe. 2017. The nature of spectacle: on images, money, and conserving capitalism. University of Arizona Press.

Review of Jim Igoe. 2017. The nature of spectacle: on images, money, and conserving capitalism. University of Arizona Press.

In Search of the “Goodlife”: Border Crossing and Agency in Luis Alberto Urrea's Into the Beautiful North and Graciela Limón's The River Flows North

ABSTRACTThis article explores representations of complex diasporic subjectivities that resist, or attempt to resist, obsolete nationalist notions of citizenship and identity by crossing the US– Mexico border (and, in so doing, crossing other intangible borders) in search of a better life. Two examples of border literature, Luis Alberto Urrea's Into the Beautiful North (2009) and Graciela Limón's The River Flows North (2009), have been selected for analysis. These texts, in describing various diaspora spaces—to enlist Avtar Brah's term (Cartographies of Diaspora. London: Routledge, 1996)—also examine how those who do not migrate are affected by migration. In Writing the Goodlife: Mexican American Literature and the Environment (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2016), Priscilla Solis Ybarra reveals how the past century and a half's Mexican-American literature contains valuable new approaches to creating and sustaining new forms of transnational relations between humans, and ecologically sound relationships between humans and nature. In many ways, the primary texts selected can be viewed as examples of “goodlife” writing because they highlight the socio-political as well as the environmental and economic crises in Latin America which force impoverished Mexicans to migrate north. As examples of border literature, these texts add a twist to “goodlife” writing by describing the border region as a hazardous diaspora space, and by emphasising the agency of the migrant characters who attempt to embrace their liminality and multiply located identities as they make the perilous journey across the border.