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Examines the ways members of Mexico's urban and rural poor used religious community to mediate between themselves and the state through the practice of religious primitivism, the belief that they were restoring Christianity-and the practice of Mexican citizenship-to a more pure and essential state.

Provides a collection of 48 stories of the Havasupai people. The stories, published here for the first time in book form with the permission of the Havasupai Tribal Council, are a cultural library and a cultural treasure that reflect an ancient Yuman-language mythological tradition.

Novelist, autobiographer, poet, dramatist, essayist, and cultural critic of rare and radical boldness, Gerald Vizenor has long stood at the very forefront of Native writing. This essay collection offers an overview of Vizenor scholarship through close reading of his texts and exploration of the intellectual contexts in which they are situated.

An overview of the archaeology of northern New Mexico's Pajarito Plateau which argues that Bandelier National Monument and the Pajarito Plateau became the Southwest's most densely populated and important upland ecological preserve when the great regional society centered on Chaco Canyon collapsed in the twelfth century. Some of Chaco's survivors moved southeast to the then thinly populated Pajarito Plateau, where they were able to survive by fundamentally refashioning their society.

Deals with the struggle of Mexicans to secure quality health care. Taking a political economic approach, this study examines the conditions under which community-based health groups are emerging and explores the ways different constituencies address health dilemmas.

This collection of ninety elegantly composed black-and-white images by one of New Mexico's most accomplished photographers, celebrates the state's captivating physical variety and enduring allure.

Although highly regarded as a writer of fiction, non-fiction, and drama, N. Scott Momaday considers himself primarily a poet. This first book of his poems to be published in over a decade comprises a varied selection of new work along with the best from his four earlier collections of poems.

Focuses on the highland parishes of the Lima archdiocese to explore the vital, often conflictive role indigenous agents played in the creation of Andean Christian society. Utilizing a vast body of literary activity, Allies at Odds provides perspective on the Spanish cultural values that shaped the literary activity of native Andeans and that native Andeans had a part in shaping.

Since its founding on the sand hills above downtown Albuquerque in 1889, the University of New Mexico has graduated thousands of students who have been the mainstays of New Mexico's economic, political, and cultural life. This photographic portrait of the University of New Mexico shares the lure and magic of the campus and its unique architecture.

A collection of evocative and versatile works by the National Medal of Arts recipient.

Of the nearly 300,000 people who identified themselves as Navajo in the 2000 US Census, 178,014 identified themselves as speakers of Navajo. Poetry written and performed in both Navajo and English, continues to emerge as an important voice for Navajos. This study investigates the devices found in Navajo written and oral poetic traditions.

The Santa Ana Pueblo, called Tamaya by its people, is located in central New Mexico, northwest of Albuquerque, between the Jemez Mountains and the Rio Grande. This book presents Tamaya's history, beliefs, ways of life, oral traditions, and legal systems through the end of the twentieth century.

A collection of poems, many of which explore what C G Jung referred to as the 'shadow,' that dark, usually hidden part of each of us individually, and perhaps the troubled vortex of most group identities as well.

A bilingual children's story that explores the family bond created through traditions passed on by grandparents.

Provides a chronicle of what the author has witnessed in the midst of one of the oldest civil wars in any Latin American nation. This book breaks through the facade of dogma and rhetoric of various groups, including the Marxist guerillas, right-wing paramilitary forces, and government troops, to examine the human aspects of Colombia's hostilities.

Suggests that anthropological interpretation of the religious practices of Mayan people and of Maya cosmology has never escaped the epistemological influence of Christianity. Using ethnographic, archaeological, and glyphic evidence, this study traces modern Mayan attitudes toward sacrality and sacred objects back to Classic Maya beliefs.

Addresses one of the most important guiding principles for life in the arid West and one that scientists have long recognized: climate variability. This book combines classic climatology with oceanography, meteorology, geology, archaeology and even astronomy and offers a chance to unravel how we have come to learn more about the natural world.

Using a question-and-answer format supplemented by hands-on activities, this book fosters an understanding of the complex processes at work in global warming while also enabling youngsters to think critically about their future. It offers them productive ways to think about - and act on - changes in the environment contributing to climate change.

Originally published: Boulder: Colorado Associated University Press, c1979. With new foreword and updated bibliography.

The Umbanda religion summons the spirits of old slaves and Brazilian Indians to speak through the mouths of mediums in trance. This book describes its many aspects and explores its place within the lives of a variety of practitioners. It places Umbanda spiritual beliefs and practices within the broader context of Brazilian history and culture.

'The power of the bones!' Ji-Stu the Rabbit sings along as he dances around the fire with a flock of shiny ravens. The ravens watch in silence as he leaves the dance grounds with the oddly shaped beads still tied around his neck. But before the long night is over, a frightened Ji-Stu will know the true meaning of 'the power of the bones.'

Despite their presence in migration streams since the mid-nineteenth century, research on Mexican women's migration has a shorter history than that which focuses on Mexican men. This study couples an analytical migratory network analysis with ethnography and oral history to explore the dynamics of migration networks for Mexican women.

A collection of essays that addresses issues including contested historiography, social and economic contributions of Afro-Mexicans, social construction of race and ethnic identity, forms of agency and resistance, and contemporary inquiry into ethnographic work on Afro-Mexican communities.

Presents the author's reflections on the Maya culture that emphasize survival and adaptation, while images of ancient sites, the churches of the Franciscan mission period, and the ruined haciendas of the henequen period serve as physical reminders of the enduring ways in which the Maya have shaped the landscape of Yucatan over millennia.

A compilation of a unique history of the invention of laser guide stars and other contributions to adaptive optics made by the Department of Defense.

Modern fly-fishing is only the latest chapter in a two-millennia saga of technological creativity and passionate observation of the natural world. This book explores the earlier chapters in that saga and unearths a host of provocative theories, techniques, and insights that helped shape the modern fly-fisher.