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Author: Gilberto Benito Córdova
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780826340757
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The mythological saga of Flaco Salvador Cascabel Natividad, a native of Chimayo, New Mexico, and his encounters with alcohol, his community, and ultimately, himself.
Author: Judit Ágnes Kádár
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2022-04-04
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 1793607915
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ethnic Positioning in Southwestern Mixed Heritage Writing explores how Southwestern writers and visual artists provide an opportunity to turn a stigmatized identity into a self-conscious holder of valuable assets, cultural attitudes, and memories. The problem of mixed ethno-cultural heritage is a relevant feature of North American populations, faced by millions. Narratives on blended heritage show how mixed-race authors utilize their multiple ethnic experiences, knowledge archives, and sensibilities. They explore how individuals attempt to cope with the cognitive anxiety, stigmas, and perceptions that are intertwined in their blended ethnic heritage, family and social dynamics, and the renegotiation of their ethnic identity. The Southwest is a region riddled by Eurocentric and Colonial concepts of identity, yet at the same time highly treasured in the Frontier experiences of physical mobility and mental and spiritual journeys and transformations. Judit Ágnes Kádár argues that the process of ethnic positioning is a choice made by mixed heritage people that results in renegotiated identities, leading to more complex and engaging concepts of themselves.
Author: Michael L. Trujillo
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 2010-03-16
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0826347371
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →New Mexico's Española Valley is situated in the northern part of the state between the fabled Sangre de Cristo and Jemez Mountains. Many of the Valley’s communities have roots in the Spanish and Mexican periods of colonization, while the Native American Pueblos of Ohkay Owingeh and Santa Clara are far older. The Valley's residents include a large Native American population, an influential "Anglo" or "non-Hispanic white" minority, and a growing Mexican immigrant community. In spite of the varied populace, native New Mexican Latinos, or Nuevomexicanos, remain the majority and retain control of area politics. In this experimental ethnography, Michael Trujillo presents a vision of Española that addresses its denigration by neighbors--and some of its residents--because it represents the antithesis of the positive narrative of New Mexico. Contradicting the popular notion of New Mexico as the "Land of Enchantment," a fusion of race, landscape, architecture, and food into a romanticized commodity, Trujillo probes beneath the surface to reveal the causes of social dysfunction brought about by colonization and te transition from a pastoral to an urban economy.
Author: Aldous Massie
Publisher:
Published: 2022-02
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781034945123
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A 360-page hard-copy iteration of the second part of the See Pala story, including chapters 11-23. The island Pala exists between the underworld of the Narakas below and the promise of immortality above. The Asurans are a Palanese tribe that venture deep into the island's heart each night to taste the gifts of both worlds.
Author: Rosalie C. Otero
Publisher: Pasó Por Aquí the Nuevomexican
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780826348180
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This anthology honors Santa Fe's role as the foundation of New Mexican Hispanic culture.
Author: Willa Cather
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2023-02-28
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 1649741847
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Death Comes for the Archbishop is Willa Cather's best known novel. This epic, is a dream like, mythic story of a life lived simply in the southwestern desert. Father Jean Marie Latour is transferred to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. He finds a vast territory of hills, arroyos, and lonelness. Cather delivers a story of a simple life lived well and full in this her tour de force.
Author: Catherine Bell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009-12-29
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 0199739471
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From handshakes and toasts to chant and genuflection, ritual pervades our social interactions and religious practices. Still, few of us could identify all of our daily and festal ritual behaviors, much less explain them to an outsider. Similarly, because of the variety of activities that qualify as ritual and their many contradictory yet, in many ways, equally legitimate interpretations, ritual seems to elude any systematic historical and comparative scrutiny. In this book, Catherine Bell offers a practical introduction to ritual practice and its study; she surveys the most influential theories of religion and ritual, the major categories of ritual activity, and the key debates that have shaped our understanding of ritualism. Bell refuses to nail down ritual with any one definition or understanding. Instead, her purpose is to reveal how definitions emerge and evolve and to help us become more familiar with the interplay of tradition, exigency, and self-expression that goes into constructing this complex social medium.
Author: Cleofas M. Jaramillo
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780826322869
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This memoir of growing up in northern New Mexico offers a unique and engaging portrait of daily life and customs from the late nineteenth through the early twentieth century.
