The Anthropological Papers of the University of Arizona is a peer-reviewed monograph series sponsored by the School of Anthropology. Established in 1959, the series publishes archaeological and ethnographic papers that use contemporary method and theory to investigate problems of anthropological importance in the southwestern United States, Mexico, and related areas.
Selected volumes in the series are now open-access titles available through the University of Arizona Campus Repository.
The Southwest Center Series publishes critical new books about the peoples, places, and landscapes of the Southwestern United States, northwestern Mexico, and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. The series comprises exemplary monographs, translations, editions of important documents, reissues of previously published works, and books of general interest in a variety of fields, especially in history, anthropology, geography, natural history, ethnobiology, borderlands studies, gender and women’s studies, and LGBTQ studies. The series especially welcomes new voices from indigenous and regional communities of color.
A research unit of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences of the University of Arizona, the Southwest Center has a threefold mission: to sponsor and facilitate research on the Greater Southwest, to publish exemplary work growing from that research, and to act in service to citizens of the region through programs of teaching and outreach. In all three areas special emphasis is given to strengthening individual and institutional ties to our colleagues at universities and cultural centers in the Republic of Mexico. The Center’s activities are based in three disciplines—ethnoecology, architecture, and folklore—and extend into five broad areas: native peoples of the Mexican northwest; contemporary cultural studies and folklore of the region; ethnobotany, ecology, and rural development of the region; history of anthropology; and architectural cultures of the Southwest.
The Southwest Center Series carries out the mission of the Center by contributing to scholarship and research on diverse cultures native to the Southwest, and offering the larger world the Center’s and University’s regional interest and expertise.
Volumes in the Society, Environment, and Place series explore the broad relations between people and the natural environment, and are geared towards geographers, environmental historians, anthropologists, and sociologists.
Native Peoples of the Americas is an ambitious series whose scope ranges from North to South America and includes Middle America and the Caribbean. Each volume takes unique methodological approaches—archaeological, ethnographic, ecological, and/or ethno-historical—to frame cultural regions. Volumes cover select theoretical approaches that link regions, such as Native responses to conquest and the imposition of authority, environmental degradation, loss of Native lands, and the appropriation of Native knowledge and cosmologies. These books illuminate the strategies that Native Peoples have employed to maintain both their autonomies and identities. The series encourages the participation of Native, well-established, and emerging scholars as authors, contributors, and editors for the books.
Global Change/Global Health: Revealing Critical Interactions Between Social and Environmental Processes is a new series for scholarly monographs that treat global change and human health as interconnected phenomena. The goals of the series are to advance scholarship across the social and health sciences, contribute to public debates, and inform public policies about the human dimensions of global change.
The series editors seek single-authored monographs by scholars working in the social, behavioral, and health sciences, addressing key convergences of global change and global health:
Prospective authors are encouraged to submit manuscripts at any stage of development. Please contact the series editors for a full description and submission guidelines.
About the Series Editors
Janelle Baker is Associate Professor in Anthropology and the Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies programs at Athabasca University in what is now known as northern Alberta, Canada. Her research is on traditional wild food and medicine security and sovereignty. Since 2006, she has studied sakâwiyiniwak (Northern Bush Cree) experiences with contamination of wild foods in Treaty No. 8 territory, which is an area of extreme extraction of oil and forests. Janelle is also co-PI with Métis anthropologist Zoe Todd on a project that is restor(y)ing land use governance and bull trout population health in a contested area of the Rocky Mountain foothills in Alberta, Canada. This work has grown into a Canadian Institute of Health Research funded project working with Stoney Nakoda Women to test traditional foods for high selenium content. Dr. Baker is a Co-Editor of Ethnobiology Letters, a diamond open-access online peer-reviewed journal and is the North Americas Representative on the International Society of Ethnobiology Board of Directors. She is the winner of the 2019 Canadian Association for Graduate Studies – ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award, Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences category.
Cynthia Fowler is a Professor of Anthropology at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina (USA). Fowler’s main areas of study occur where anthropology intersects with biosocial dynamics, freshwater and marine biology, and fire ecology. In 2022-23, Fowler received Fulbright U.S. Scholar support for community-based research about the ways Indonesian agropastoralists shape and respond to freshwater changes due to multidecadal natural and anthropogenic transformations in their home landscapes. Fowler has published her research results in journal articles and books, including Fire Otherwise: Ethnobiology of Burning for a Changing World (2018), Biosocial Synchrony on Sumba: Multispecies Interactions and Environmental Variations in Indonesia (2016), and Ignition Stories: Indigenous Fire Ecology in the Indo-Australian Monsoon Zone (2013). She co-edits the Contributions in Ethnobiology monograph series published by the Society of Ethnobiology.
Elizabeth Anne Olson is the Senior Manager of Design Research at Crown Equipment, overseeing a diverse team of researchers to advance human-centered digital and physical products. Formerly an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Southern Utah University, she remains active in the Society of Ethnobiology and is a co-editor of Plants and Health: New Perspectives on the Health-Environment-Plant Nexus, and the author of Indigenous Knowledge and Development: Livelihoods, Health Experiences, and Medicinal Plant Knowledge in a Mexican Biosphere Reserve. Her research interests include ethnobotany, community-based conservation, indigenous peoples of Mexico, and public health.
Between 2009 and 2013, the University of Arizona Press, the University of Minnesota Press, the University of North Carolina Press, and Oregon State University Press collaborated with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to publish nearly 50 books in the First Peoples initiative.
Critical Green Engagements: Investigating the Green Economy and Its Alternatives is a series that critically engages with the growing global advocacy of the “green economy” model for environmental stewardship and puts forth alternatives to discourses that dominate “green” practices. The series explores how different advocates, bystanders, and opponents engage with the changes envisaged by policy directives and environmental visions. It also examines which forms of social movements emerge from these ideologies and how social movement actors connect. The series showcases the rigorous, high-quality research and writing emerging in response to these transformations and channels the energies and skills of an international collection of leading environmental scholars.
The series editors seek single-authored texts and edited volumes that focus on the relationship between nature and our dominant cultural framework—the political economy of contemporary late capitalism—and highlight alternative, innovative, and constructive visions of human-nonhuman relationships and ways of being in the world. Series titles take such alternatives as points of departure from which ideologies of human/non-human relationships can be discussed. The series editors are also interested in works that speak to the practical challenges facing the people directly affected by conservation interventions. The intended audience includes scholars, students, policy makers, and activists.
Please contact the series editors for a full description and guidelines.
The University of Arizona Press’s Century Collection employs the latest in digital technology to make books from our notable backlist available once again. Enriching historical and cultural experiences for readers, this collection offers these volumes unaltered from their original publication and in affordable digital or paperback formats.
Since 2007 The Archaeology of Indigenous-Colonial Interactions in the Americas book series highlights scholarship focused on Indigenous-colonial processes and engagement throughout all regions of the Americas, including newly expanded consideration of colonialism in the Pacific world, with a focus on the Hawaiian Islands.
The series editors seek single-authored monographs and edited volumes that incorporate a range of methodological approaches and theoretical frameworks. We work closely with authors in the development and review of their book projects, and recognize the growth potential of disruptive approaches, especially archaeologies that matter to communities. Especially encouraged are works that explore the potentials of examination and critique of colonial legacies of our discipline and fundamental contexts of the scientific production and ownership of knowledge. We are particularly interested in works that center Native American and Indigenous knowledges and scholars, including community-based and co-produced projects and that integrate such topics as data sovereignty, environmental contexts and food security, and the unsettling of academia and the status quo in archaeological practices.
The series will continue to feature geographical areas that have received less scholarly attention but promise exceptional growth potential in the coming decade. The series editors also seek innovative publication models to improve the accessibility of this series to Latin American colleagues and Native and Indigenous scholars throughout the Americas.
Amerind Studies in Anthropology is a series that publishes the results of the Amerind Seminars, annual professional symposia hosted by the Amerind Foundation in Dragoon, Arizona, and cosponsored by the Society for American Archaeology (SAA). Series titles that emerge from these symposia focus on timely topics like the analysis of regional archaeological sites, current issues in methodology and theory, and sweeping discussions of world phenomena such as warfare and cultural settlement patterns.
The Amerind Seminar review committee seeks proposals of broad anthropological interest that synthesize large and complex projects, bring together specialists across disciplines to address topics of mutual concern, or integrate the work of applied and academic scholars. To apply, please review the annual call for submissions at www.saa.org (all SAA symposia are eligible). For additional guidelines, contact the series editor or visit www.amerind.org.
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