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Download or read book Mayordomo written by Stanley Crawford and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1993-07 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir of the author's experience as a mayordomo, or ditch boss, is the first record of the life of an acequia by a community participant.
Book Synopsis Cultural Anthropology by : Stephen A. Grunlan
Download or read book Cultural Anthropology written by Stephen A. Grunlan and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1988 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important resource covers such topics as anthropology and missions; man, culture, and society; verbal and nonverbal communication; technology and economics; and anthropology and the Bible. It is designed for classroom use with diagrams, discussion questions, and suggested readings.
Download or read book Acequia Culture written by José A. Rivera and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2005-01-21 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conflicts between Hispanic farmers and developers made for compelling reading in The Milagro Beanfield War, the famous novel of life in a northern New Mexico village in which tradition triumphs over modernity. But as cities grow and industries expand, are acequias, or community irrigation ditches, a wise and efficient use of water in the arid Southwest? José Rivera presents the contemporary case for the value of acequias and the communities they nurture in the river valleys of southern Colorado and New Mexico. Recognizing that "water is the lifeblood of the community," Rivera delineates an acequia culture based on a reciprocal relationship between irrigation and community. The acequia experience grows out of a conservation ethic and a tradition of sharing that should be recognized and preserved in an age of increasing competition for scarce water resources. "A worthwhile contribution to the future management of water resources."--Professor Michael C. Meyer
Book Synopsis The Village Is Like a Wheel by : Roger Magazine
Download or read book The Village Is Like a Wheel written by Roger Magazine and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this modern-day anthropological manifesto, Roger Magazine proposes a radical but commonsense change to the study of people whose understanding of the world differs substantially from our own. Specifically, it argues for a major shift in the prevailing approach to the study of rural highland peoples in Mexico. Using ethnographic material, Roger Magazine builds a convincing case that many of the discipline’s usual topics and approaches distract anthropologists from what is truly important to the people whose lives they study. While Western anthropologists have usually focused on the production of things, such as community, social structure, cultural practices, identities, and material goods—since this is what they see as the appropriate objective of productive action in their own lives—residents of rural highland communities in Mexico (among others) are primarily concerned with what Magazine calls the production of active subjectivity in other persons. According to Magazine, where Western anthropologists often assume that persons are individuals capable of acting on their own to produce things, rural highland Mexicans see persons as inherently interdependent and in need of others even to act. He utilizes the term “active subjectivity” to denote the fact that what they produce in others is not simply action but also a subjective state or attitude of willingness to perform the action. The author’s goals are to improve understandings of rural highland Mexicans’ lives and to contribute to a broader disciplinary effort aimed at revealing the cultural specificity or ethnocentricity of our supposedly universally applicable concepts and theories.
Book Synopsis 1897, Compiled Laws of New Mexico by : New Mexico
Download or read book 1897, Compiled Laws of New Mexico written by New Mexico and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 1174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catechizing Culture by : Andrew Orta
Download or read book Catechizing Culture written by Andrew Orta and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking study of the contemporary encounter between Catholic missionaries and Aymara Indians in highland Bolivia, this book is the first ethnography to focus both on the evangelizers and the evangelized. Elucidating the workings of that original global institution, the Catholic Church, Andrew Orta explores the pastoral shift away from liberation theology that dominated Latin American missionization up until the mid-1980s to the recent "theology of inculturation."
Book Synopsis Contours of a Biblical Reception Theory by : Víctor Manuel Morales Vásquez
Download or read book Contours of a Biblical Reception Theory written by Víctor Manuel Morales Vásquez and published by V&R unipress GmbH. This book was released on 2012 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Chester/University of Liverpool, 2007.
Book Synopsis Leyes Especiales Y Locales de Nuevo Mejico by : New Mexico
Download or read book Leyes Especiales Y Locales de Nuevo Mejico written by New Mexico and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Native American Spirituality by : Lee Irwin
Download or read book Native American Spirituality written by Lee Irwin and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a stimulating, multidisciplinary set of essays by noted Native and non-Native scholars that explore the problems and prospects of understanding and writing about Native American spirituality in the twenty-first century. Considerable attention is given to the appropriateness and value of different interpretive paradigms for Native religion, including both traditional religion and Native Christianity. The book also investigates the ethics of religious representation, issues of authenticity, the commodification of spirituality, and pedagogical practices. Of special interest is the role of dialogue in expressing and understanding Native American religious beliefs and practices. A final set of essays explores the power of and reactions to Native spirituality from a long-term, historical perspective.
Book Synopsis Crafting Tradition by : Michael Chibnik
Download or read book Crafting Tradition written by Michael Chibnik and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the mid-1980s, whimsical, brightly colored wood carvings from the Mexican state of Oaxaca have found their way into gift shops and private homes across the United States and Europe, as Western consumers seek to connect with the authenticity and tradition represented by indigenous folk arts. Ironically, however, the Oaxacan wood carvings are not a traditional folk art. Invented in the mid-twentieth century by non-Indian Mexican artisans for the tourist market, their appeal flows as much from intercultural miscommunication as from their intrinsic artistic merit. In this beautifully illustrated book, Michael Chibnik offers the first in-depth look at the international trade in Oaxacan wood carvings, including their history, production, marketing, and cultural representations. Drawing on interviews he conducted in the carving communities and among wholesalers, retailers, and consumers, he follows the entire production and consumption cycle, from the harvesting of copal wood to the final purchase of the finished piece. Along the way, he describes how and why this "invented tradition" has been promoted as a "Zapotec Indian" craft and explores its similarities with other local crafts with longer histories. He also fully discusses the effects on local communities of participating in the global market, concluding that the trade in Oaxacan wood carvings is an almost paradigmatic case study of globalization.
Book Synopsis Reluctant Modernization by : Andreas Hess
Download or read book Reluctant Modernization written by Andreas Hess and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three institutions that are of particular importance to Basque history and culture are the main subject of this book: the basseria (the Basque farmstead), the cofradia (the fraternity of fishermen) and the txoko (gastronomic society).
Book Synopsis Fluid Geographies by : K. Maria D. Lane
Download or read book Fluid Geographies written by K. Maria D. Lane and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2024-07-02 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unprecedented analysis of the origin story of New Mexico’s modern water management system. Maria Lane’s Fluid Geographies traces New Mexico’s transition from a community-based to an expert-led system of water management during the pre-statehood era. To understand this major shift, Lane carefully examines the primary conflict of the time, which pitted Indigenous and Nuevomexicano communities, with their long-established systems of irrigation management, against Anglo-American settlers, who benefitted from centralized bureaucratic management of water. The newcomers’ system eventually became settled law, but water disputes have continued throughout the district courts of New Mexico’s Rio Grande watershed ever since. Using a fine-grained analysis of legislative texts and nearly two hundred district court cases, Lane analyzes evolving cultural patterns and attitudes toward water use and management in a pivotal time in New Mexico’s history. Illuminating complex themes for a general audience, Fluid Geographies helps readers understand how settler colonialism constructed a racialized understanding of scientific expertise and legitimized the dispossession of nonwhite communities in New Mexico.
Book Synopsis A Legacy of Promises by : Guillermo de la Peña
Download or read book A Legacy of Promises written by Guillermo de la Peña and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Indian Society in the Valley of Lima, Peru, 1532-1824 by : Paul Charney
Download or read book Indian Society in the Valley of Lima, Peru, 1532-1824 written by Paul Charney and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2001 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charney (whose credentials and affiliation are not stated) examines several aspects of the social history of Lima's Indians. Coverage includes the sustained indigenous presence throughout the colonial period; issues of Indian land tenure; the rise of the Indian leadership class made up of both commoners and nobility; the Indian cofradia as a crucial, ethnic-supporting mechanism; the survival of the Indian family, and its adaptation of certain Spanish practices (godparenthood, will-making, dowries). The author argues that despite their incorporation of aspects of Spanish culture, the Indians retained a clear sense of their distinct identity as a people. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Book Synopsis The Sugar Hacienda of the Marqueses Del Valle by : Ward J. Barrett
Download or read book The Sugar Hacienda of the Marqueses Del Valle written by Ward J. Barrett and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1970-01-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis When We Were Young in the West by : Richard Melzer
Download or read book When We Were Young in the West written by Richard Melzer and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents biographical sketches of New Mexican children from different cultures, races, and classes who represent the strength and diversity of this state's heritage.
Download or read book The Last Bread Mage written by M. Kirin and published by M. Kirin. This book was released on 2022-10-17 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We meet again, at the beginning of the end." Fel is the sole survivor of his people, the heir to the magical study of reality, and his death would mean the end of the Red Mage legacy. He cannot allow this to happen. That is why he is racing towards the center of the world—to the structure as ancient as time and powerful enough to survive the death of the universe. The Pinnacle. It is said that God resides in that mountain of hardened soil, but Fel isn't so sure. After all, why would God make a world designed to suffer such a horrible apocalypse? What purpose could all this suffering possibly serve? And, why does this journey seem strangely familiar? This isn't the first time the world has ended, but Fel doesn't know that. Not yet. * * * * * THE LAST BREAD MAGE is a 492-page novel about a world caught in a cycle of life and death, glory and ruin, perpetually spiraling into Absolute Chaos.
