Southwest Center Series

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.

Southwest Center Series

On a Trail of Southwest Discovery

The Expedition Diaries of Frederick W. Hodge and Margaret W. Magill, 1886–1888

Mexico’s Valleys of Cuicatlán and Tehuacán

From Deserts to Clouds

Picturing Sabino

A Photographic History of a Southwestern Canyon

Michael Chiago

O’odham Lifeways Through Art

Natural Landmarks of Arizona

The Nature of Desert Nature

A Desert Feast

Celebrating Tucson's Culinary Heritage

The Saguaro Cactus

A Natural History

Saints, Statues, and Stories

A Folklorist Looks at the Religious Art of Sonora

Ethnobiology for the Future

Linking Cultural and Ecological Diversity

Capturing the Landscape of New Spain

Baltasar Obregón and the 1564 Ibarra Expedition

Shells on a Desert Shore

Mollusks in the Seri World

Just Between Us

An Ethnography of Male Identity and Intimacy in Rural Communities of Northern Mexico

Baja California Missions

In the Footsteps of the Padres

Plant Life of a Desert Archipelago

Flora of the Sonoran Islands in the Gulf of California

Arizona

A History, Revised Edition

Last Water on the Devil's Highway

A Cultural and Natural History of Tinajas Altas

Field Man

Life as a Desert Archaeologist

The Ópatas

In Search of a Sonoran People

A Gift of Angels

The Art of Mission San Xavier del Bac

Pachucas and Pachucos in Tucson

Situated Border Lives

Álamos, Sonora

Architecture and Urbanism in the Dry Tropics

The Great Cacti

Ethnobotany and Biogeography

Sanctuaries of Earth, Stone, and Light

The Churches of Northern New Spain, 1530-1821

Sunshot

Peril and Wonder in the Gran Desierto

Amphibians, Reptiles, and Their Habitats at Sabino Canyon

Like a Brother

Grenville Goodwin’s Apache Years, 1928-1939

The Lost Itinerary of Frank Hamilton Cushing

Backcountry Pilot

Flying Adventures with Ike Russell

O'odham Creation and Related Events

As Told to Ruth Benedict in 1927

Early Southwest Ornithologists, 1528-1900

Flora of the Gran Desierto and Río Colorado Delta

Trails to Tiburón

The 1894 and 1895 Field Diaries of W J McGee

The Sierra Pinacate

Gentry's Rio Mayo Plants

The Tropical Deciduous Forest and Environs of Northwest Mexico

Contested Ground

Comparative Frontiers on the Northern and Southern Edges of the Spanish Empire

The Road to Mexico

The Southwest in the American Imagination

The Writings of Sylvester Baxter, 1881-1889

Answered Prayers

Miracles and Milagros along the Border

Counting Sheep

Twenty Ways of Seeing Desert Bighorn

The Missions of Northern Sonora

A 1935 Field Documentation

Sonora

A Description of the Province

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