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Author : Melissa S. Powell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Secrets of Casas Grandes written by Melissa S. Powell and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Represents a photographic Who's Who of contemporary Santa Fe women.
Author : Richard F. Townsend
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300111487
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Casas Grandes and the Ceramic Art of the Ancient Southwest written by Richard F. Townsend and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating exploration of the rich artistic heritage and beauty of Casas Grandes ceramics
Author : Paul E. Minnis
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 081650220X
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Ancient Paquimé and the Casas Grandes World written by Paul E. Minnis and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paquimé, the great multistoried pre-Hispanic settlement also known as Casas Grandes, was the center of an ancient region with hundreds of related neighbors. It also participated in massive networks that stretched their fingers through northwestern Mexico and the U.S. Southwest. Paquimé is widely considered one of the most important and influential communities in ancient northern Mexico and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Ancient Paquimé and the Casas Grandes World, edited by Paul E. Minnis and Michael E. Whalen, summarizes the four decades of research since the Amerind Foundation and Charles Di Peso published the results of the Joint Casas Grandes Expeditions in 1974. The Joint Casas Grandes Expedition revealed the extraordinary nature of this site: monumental architecture, massive ball courts, ritual mounds, over a ton of shell artifacts, hundreds of skeletons of multicolored macaws and their pens, copper from west Mexico, and rich political and religious life with Mesoamerican-related images and rituals. Paquimé was not one sole community but was surrounded by hundreds of outlying villages in the region, indicating a zone that sustained thousands of inhabitants and influenced groups much farther afield. In celebration of the Amerind Foundation’s seventieth anniversary, sixteen scholars with direct and substantial experience in Casas Grandes archaeology present nine chapters covering its economy, chronology, history, religion, regional organization, and importance. The two final chapters examine Paquimé in broader geographic perspectives. This volume sheds new light on Casas Grandes/Paquimé, a great town well-adapted to its physical and economic environment that disappeared just before Spanish contact.
Author : Kathleen Alcalá
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156005685
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Spirits of the Ordinary written by Kathleen Alcalá and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1998 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Isabel Allende and Laura Esquivel, Alcala presents a magical, multigenerational tale of family passions set along the Mexican-American border in the 1870s. "A strong and finely rendered book in which passions both ordinary and extraordinary are made vivid and convincing".--Larry McMurtry.
Author : Charles H. Harris
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826346545
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)
Download or read book The Secret War in El Paso written by Charles H. Harris and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2016-04-25 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2010 Spur Award for Best Contemporary Nonfiction from Western Writers of America The Mexican Revolution could not have succeeded without the use of American territory as a secret base of operations, a source of munitions, money, and volunteers, a refuge for personnel, an arena for propaganda, and a market for revolutionary loot. El Paso, the largest and most important American city on the Mexican border during this time, was the scene of many clandestine operations as American businesses and the U.S. federal government sought to maintain their influences in Mexico and protect national interest while keeping an eye on key Revolutionary figures. In addition, the city served as refuge to a cast of characters that included revolutionists, adventurers, smugglers, gunrunners, counterfeiters, propagandists, secret agents, double agents, criminals, and confidence men. Using 80,000 pages of previously classified FBI documents on the Mexican Revolution and hundreds of Mexican secret agent reports from El Paso and Ciudad Juarez in the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Relations archive, Charles Harris and Louis Sadler examine the mechanics of rebellion in a town where factional loyalty was fragile and treachery was elevated to an art form. As a case study, this slice of El Paso's, and America's, history adds new dimensions to what is known about the Mexican Revolution.
Author : Christopher W Schwartz
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816545367
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Birds of the Sun written by Christopher W Schwartz and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scarlet macaws are native to tropical forests ranging from the Gulf Coast and southern regions of Mexico to Bolivia, but they are present at numerous archaeological sites in the U.S. Southwest and Mexican Northwest. Although these birds have been noted and marveled at through the decades, new syntheses of early excavations, new analytical methods, and new approaches to understanding the past now allow us to explore the significance and distribution of scarlet macaws to a degree that was previously impossible. Birds of the Sun explores the many aspects of macaws, especially scarlet macaws, that have made them important to Native peoples living in this region for thousands of years. Leading experts discuss the significance of these birds, including perspectives from a Zuni author, a cultural anthropologist specializing in historic Pueblo societies, and archaeologists who have studied pre-Hispanic societies in Mesoamerica and the U.S. Southwest and Mexican Northwest. Chapters examine the highly variable distribution and frequency of macaws in the past, their presence on rock art and kiva murals, the human experience of living with and transporting macaws, macaw biology and life history, and what skeletal remains suggest about the health of macaws in the past. Experts provide an extensive, region-by-region analysis, from early to late periods, of what we know about the presence, health, and depositional contexts of macaws and parrots, with specific case studies from the Hohokam, Chaco, Mimbres, Mogollon Highlands, Northern Sinagua, and Casas Grandes regions, where these birds are most abundant. The expertise offered in this stunning new volume, which includes eight full color pages, will lay the groundwork for future research for years to come. Contributors Katelyn J. Bishop Patricia L. Crown Samantha Fladd Randee Fladeboe Patricia A. Gilman Thomas K. Harper Michelle Hegmon Douglas J. Kennett Patrick D. Lyons Charmion R. McKusick Ben A. Nelson Stephen Plog José Luis Punzo Díaz Polly Schaafsma Christopher W. Schwartz Octavius Seowtewa Christine R. Szuter Kelley L. M. Taylor Michael E. Whalen Peter M. Whiteley
Author : Michael Mathiowetz
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816542945
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Flower Worlds written by Michael Mathiowetz and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recognition of Flower Worlds is one of the most significant breakthroughs in the study of Indigenous spirituality in the Americas. These worlds are solar and floral spiritual domains that are widely shared among both pre-Hispanic and contemporary Native cultures in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest. Flower Worldsis the first volume to bring together a diverse range of scholars to create a truly multidisciplinary understanding of Flower Worlds. During the last thirty years, archaeologists, art historians, ethnologists, Indigenous scholars, and linguists have emphasized the antiquity and geographical extent of similar Flower World beliefs among ethnic and linguistic groups in the New World. Flower Worlds are not simply ethereal, otherworldly domains, but rather they are embodied in lived experience, activated, invoked, and materialized through ritual practices, expressed in verbal and visual metaphors, and embedded in the use of material objects and ritual spaces. This comprehensive book illuminates the origins of Flower Worlds as a key aspect of religions and histories among societies in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest. It also explores the role of Flower Worlds in shaping ritual economies, politics, and cross-cultural interaction among Indigenous peoples. Flower Worlds reaches into multisensory realms that extend back at least 2,500 years, offering many different disciplines, perspectives, and collaborations to understand these domains. Today, Flower Worlds are expressed in everyday work and lived experiences, embedded in sacred geographies, and ritually practiced both individually and in communities. This volume stresses the importance of contemporary perspectives and experiences by opening with living traditions before delving into the historical trajectories of Flower Worlds, creating a book that melds scientific and humanistic research and emphasizes Indigenous voices. Contributors: Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos, James M. Córdova, Davide Domenici, Ángel González López, Kelley Hays-Gilpin, Michael D. Mathiowetz, Cameron L. McNeil, Felipe S. Molina, Johannes Neurath, John M. D. Pohl, Alan R. Sandstrom, David Delgado Shorter, Karl A. Taube, Andrew D. Turner, Lorena Vázquez Vallín, Dorothy Washburn
Author : Matthew C. Pailes
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 0932839665
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (328 download)
Download or read book Hinterlands to Cities written by Matthew C. Pailes and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2022-03-14 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This approachable book in the SAA Press Current Perspectives Series is a comprehensive synthesis of Northwest Mexico from the US border to the Mesoamerican frontier. Filling a vital gap in the regional literature, it serves as an essential reference not only for those interested in the specific history of this area of Mexico but western North America writ large. A period-by-period review of approximately 14,000 years reveals the dynamic connections that knitted together societies inhabiting the Sea of Cortez coast, the Sonoran and Chihuahuan Deserts, and the Sierra Madre Occidental. Networks of interaction spanned these diverse ecological, topographical, and cultural terrains in the millennia following the demise of the megafauna. The authors provide a fresh perspective that refutes depictions of the Northwest as a simple filter or conduit of happenings to the north or south, and they highlight the role local motivations and dynamics played in facilitating continental-scale processes.
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Publisher : Book News Inc.
ISBN 13 : 160585087X
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (58 download)
Download or read book Art Book News Annual, volume 4: 2008Art Book News Annual, volume 4: 2008 written by and published by Book News Inc.. This book was released on with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Theresa Delgadillo
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822350467
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Spiritual Mestizaje written by Theresa Delgadillo and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-08 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates the centrality of Gloria Anzald&úas concept of spiritual mestizaje to the queer feminist Chicana theorists life and thought, and its utility as a framework for interpreting contemporary Chicana narratives.
Author : Walter P. Parks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781933855615
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (556 download)
Download or read book The Miracle of Mata Ortiz written by Walter P. Parks and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable ceramic arts tradition is taking root in a remote village, high on the plains of Northern Chihuahua, Mexico. This is the story of a phenomenon and of the potter, Juan Quezada, who began it inspired only by prehistoric shards. This book showcases Juan Quezada's entire career from the 1970s to the present, and includes never-before-seen-pots.
Author : Radoslaw Palonka
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793648743
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Art in the Pre-Hispanic Southwest written by Radoslaw Palonka and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-07-07 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Art in the Pre-Hispanic Southwest: An Archaeology of Native American Cultures, Radosław Palonka reconstructs the development of pre-Hispanic Native American cultures and tribes in the American Southwest and Mexican Northwest. Palonka also examines the wider context through the lenses of settlement studies and social transformation, while paying close attention to the material manifestations of pre-Hispanic beliefs, including intricately decorated ceramics and rock art iconography in paintings and petroglyphs.
Author : David Bowles
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 146711992X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Ghosts of the Rio Grande Valley written by David Bowles and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tradition meets tragedy in the chilling local lore of the Rio Grande Valley. Hidden in the dense brush and around oxbow lakes wait sinister secrets, unnerving vestiges of the past and wraiths of those claimed by the winding river. The spirit of a murdered student in Brownsville paces the locker room where she met her end. Tortured souls of patients lost in the Harlingen Insane Asylum refuse to be forgotten. Guests at the LaBorde Hotel in Rio Grande City report visions of the Red Lady, who was spurned by the soldier she loved and driven to suicide. Author David Bowles explores these and more of the most harrowing ghost stories from Fort Brown to Fort Ringgold and all the haunted hotels, chapels and ruins in between.
Author : Javier Ortega Urquidi
Publisher : Javier Ortega Urquidi
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Land of seven cultures; Chihuahua written by Javier Ortega Urquidi and published by Javier Ortega Urquidi. This book was released on with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the history of the northern sector of the state of Chihuahua, from the beginnings of its people until the present time.In plainness and beauty, Professor Javier O. Urquidi, tells details of the area’s origin; life in ancient Paquime; the travels of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca; the fascinating story of the Negro Estebanico; the life of the Apaches, the shrewdness of Ju; the valor of Vitorio and the intelligence of Geronimo.Through Daniel W. Jones we see the labors and happenings that mark the arrival of the Mormons in Mexico; their contributions, culture and manner of thought.With great feeling this work reveals the historical events of the Mexican Revolution; the attack upon Columbus and the persecutions by Pancho Villa.We witness the grandeur of the haciendas of Luis Terrazas, and the railroad; the explosion in the tunnel at cumbres; the origins of the Mormon colonies; of settlings of Galeana, Janos, LeBaron and Mata Ortiz; the ejidos like Guadalupe Victoria and Casas Grandes.The economic development of this area and its multicultural society in Nuevo Casas Grandes becomes as a delightful discovery to the reader.Written as a historical novel, in clear and precise words, the author captures his readers as he portrays the history of the Chinese, the Mennonites; and with realism, amazes them with the unforgettable story of the Apache doings in Chihuahua.
Author : Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Final Report of Investigations Among the Indians of the Southwestern United States, Carried on Mainly in the Years from 1880-1885 written by Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 628 pages
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Download or read book Papers of the Archaeological Institute of America written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
