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Published September, 2023
By Marcos McPeek Villatoro
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
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Explores how Marcos McPeek Villatoro channelled his Latino roots to come to terms with the childhood sexual abuse he suffered at the hands of a relative in his home in Appalachia, and he recounts his ensuing struggle with trauma and mental illness.

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Published November, 2022
By James B. Waldram
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
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Bringing an innovative methodological approach based on fifteen years of ethnographic research, James Waldram argues that Q'eqchi' medical practitioners access an extensive body of empirical knowledge and personal clinical experience to diagnose, treat, and cure patients according to a coherent ontology and set of therapeutic principles.

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Published May, 2019
By Donald Fithian Stevens
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
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This captivating study tells Mexico's best untold stories. The book takes the devastating 1833 cholera epidemic as its dramatic centre and expands beyond this episode to explore love, lust, lies, and midwives.

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Published May, 2019
By Donald Fithian Stevens
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
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This captivating study tells Mexico's best untold stories. The book takes the devastating 1833 cholera epidemic as its dramatic centre and expands beyond this episode to explore love, lust, lies, and midwives.

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Published April, 2019
By Jim Kristofic
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
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In this detailed history Jim Kristofic traces the story of Ganado Mission on the Navajo Indian Reservation. Kristofic's personal connection with the community creates a nuanced historical understanding that blends engaging narrative with careful scholarship to share the stories of the people and their commitment to this place.

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Published April, 2019
By Judith Sara Gelt
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
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At sixteen Judith Sara Gelt finally rebels after spending years watching her warm, Jewish home in Denver disintegrate. Throughout her memoir Gelt reflects upon how risk taking has shaped her relationships with and her attitudes toward men and sex, her daughter, Judaism, and her own eventual diagnosis of major depressive disorder.

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Published March, 2019
By Nancy J. Burke, Julie Armin and Laura Eichelberger
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
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Explores what it means to be structurally vulnerable; how structural vulnerabilities intersect with cancer risk, diagnosis, care seeking, caregiving, clinical-trial participation, and survivorship; and how differing local, national, and global political contexts and histories inform vulnerability.

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Published March, 2018
By Dean Falk and Eve Penelope Schofield
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
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In this unusual book an evolutionary anthropologist and her coauthor/granddaughter, who has Asperger syndrome, examine the emergence and spread of Asperger syndrome and other forms of high-functioning autism. Falk theorizes that many characteristics associated with Asperger syndrome are by-products of the evolution of advanced mental processing.

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Published April, 2017
By Eileen P. Anderson-Fye and Alexandra Brewis
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
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Considers at a global scale what fat stigma is and what it does to people. Making use of an array of social science perspectives applied in multiple settings, the authors examine the interplay of weight, wealth, history, culture, and meaning to fat and its social rejection. They also explore the notion of symbolic body capita - the power of non-fat bodies to do what people need or want.

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Published November, 2016
By Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology Wenda R Trevathan and Karen R Rosenberg
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
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The contributors to this volume propose that the helpless infant has played a role in human evolution equal in importance to those of man the hunter and woman the gatherer. "

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