Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=3295&N=3+6196+6614 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=727706 A collection of bilingual oral stories (Spanish/English) of witchcraft and the supernatural (including tales of sorcerers; witches; La Llorona, the vanishing hitchhiker; and apparitions) from old-timers and young people whose ages range from ninety-eight to seventeen and who live in Latin America and the American Southwest--From the publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=672538 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=614726 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=661872 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=630532 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=621666 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=739742 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=602727 The history of footbinding is full of contradictions and unexpected turns. The practice originated in the dance culture of Chinas medieval court and spread to gentry families, brothels, maids quarters, and peasant households. Conventional views of footbinding as patriarchal oppression often neglect its complex history and the motivations of the women involved. This revisionist history, elegantly written and meticulously researched, presents a new picture of the practice from its beginnings in the tenth century to its demise in the twentieth century. Neither condemning nor defending footbinding, Dorothy Ko debunks many myths and misconceptions about its origins, development, and eventual end, exploring in the process the entanglement of male power and female desire during the practices thousand-year history. Throughout her narrative, Ko combines methods of social history, literary criticism, material culture studies, and the history of the body and fashion to illustrate how a practice that began as embodied lyricism - as a way to live as the poets imagined - ended up being an exercise in excess and folly.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=624935 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=603993 Obsidian was long valued by ancient peoples as a raw material for producing stone tools, and archaeologists have increasingly come to view obsidian studies as a crucial aid in understanding the past. Steven Shackley now shows how the geochemical and contextual analyses of archaeological obsidian can be applied to the interpretation of social and economic organization in the ancient Southwest. This book, the capstone of decades of investigation, integrates a wealth of obsidian research in one volume. It covers advances in analytical chemistry and field petrology that have enhanced our understanding of obsidian source heterogeneity, presents the most recent data on and interpretations of archaeological obsidian sources in the Southwest, and explores the ethnohistorical and contemporary background for obsidian use in indigeneous societies.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=614534 As the unsettled social and political weather of summer 1969 played itself out amid the heat of antiwar marches and the battle for civil rights, three regions of the rural South were devastated by the horrifying force of Category 5 Hurricane Camille. Camilles nearly 200 mile per hour winds and 28-foot storm surge swept away thousands of homes and businesses along the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Mississippi. Twenty-four oceangoing ships sank or were beached; six offshore drilling platforms collapsed; 198 people drowned. Two days later, Camille dropped 108 billion tons of moisture drawn from the Gulf onto the rural communities of Nelson County, Virginia - nearly three feet of rain in 24 hours. Mountainsides were washed away; quiet brooks became raging torrents; homes and whole communities were simply washed off the face of the earth. In this account, Ernest Zebrowski and Judith Howard tell the heroic story of Americas forgotten rural underclass coping with immense adversity and inconceivable tragedy. Category 5 shows, through the riveting stories of Camilles victims and survivors, the disproportionate impact of natural disasters on the nations poorest communities. It is, ultimately, a story of the lessons learned - and, in some cases, tragically unlearned - from that storm: hard lessons that were driven home once again in the awful wake of Hurricane Katrina.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1645021 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=550498 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=537009 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=355770 If the Southwest is known for its distinctive regional culture, it is not only the indigenous influences that make it so. As Anglo Americans moved into the territories of the greater Southwest, they brought with them a desire to reestablish the highest culture of their former homes: opera, painting, sculpture, architecture, and literature. But their inherited culture was altered, challenged, and reshaped by Native American and Hispanic peoples, and a new, vibrant cultural life resulted. From Houston to Los Angeles, from Tulsa to Tucson, Keith L. Bryant traces the development of high culture in the Southwest.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=389857 The Smithsonian Institution has been Americas museum since 1846. What do its vast collections - from the ruby slippers to a piece of Plymouth Rock, first ladies gowns to patchwork quilts, a Model T Ford to a customized Ford LTD low rider - tell Americans about themselves? In this illustrated guide to the Smithsonians National Museum of American History, Steven Lubar and Kathleen M. Kendrick tell the stories behind more than 250 of the museums treasures, many of them never before photographed for publication. These stories not only reveal what America as a nation has decided to save and why but also speak to changing visions of national identity.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=369001 This accessible guide is intended for the undergraduate classroom. Students are introduced to the history of Mexican-Americans and given profiles of the Mexican-Americans who were interviewed. The subsequent chapters address various issues of special concern to Mexican-Americans as medical patients, including language, cultural mores, AIDS, drug use, and notions of health. De la Torre is an agricultural economist active in public health; Estrada teaches public health and Mexican American studies at the U. of Arizona. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=366420 Developed from research for his dissertation, Clark, senior project director of Desert Archaeology in Tucson, reports findings from about 150 sites, including seven platform mounds, that were investigated before the water rose behind Theodore Roosevelt Dam. The area encompasses the corners that meet of the US states Arizona and New Mexico and the Mexican states Sonora and Chihuahua. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=350832 In Ruins and Rivals, James Snead helps us understand the historical development of archaeology in the Southwest from the 1890s to the 1920s and its relationship with the popular conception of the region. He examines two major research traditions: expeditions dispatched from the major eastern museums and those supported by archaeological societies based in the Southwest itself. By comparing the projects of New Yorks American Museum of Natural History with those of the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles and the Santa Fe-based School of American Archaeology, he illustrates how competition for status and prestige shaped the way that archaeological remains were explored and interpreted. The decades-long competition between institutions and their advocates ultimately created an agenda for Southwest archaeology that has survived into modern times.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=375794 You see them as faceless shapes on the median or in city parks. You recognize them by their cardboard signs, their bags of aluminum cans, or their weathered skin. But you do not know them. In Nomads of a Desert City Barbara Seyda meets the gazes of our homeless neighbors and, with an open heart and the eye of an accomplished photographer, uncovers their compelling stories of life on the edge. Byrdy is a teenager from Alaska who left a violent husband and misses the young daughter her mother now cares for. Her eyes reveal a wisdom that belies her youth. Samuel is 95 and collects cans for cash. His face shows a lifetime of living outside, while his eyes hint at the countless stories he could tell. Lamanda worked as an accountant before an act of desperation landed her in prison. Now she struggles to raise the seven children of a woman she met there. Dorothy - whose earliest memories are of physical and sexual abuse - lives in a shelter, paycheck to paycheck, reciting affirmations so she may continue to grace the world with my presence.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=367706 In 1888, Charles Colcock Jones Jr. published the first collection of folk narratives from the Gullah-speaking people of the South Atlantic coast, tales he heard black servants exchange on his familys rice and cotton plantation. It has been out of print and largely unavailable until now. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=314283 Whitley, an archaeologist specializing in the study of prehistoric art and religion, interprets the symbolism of Californias ancient rock art that ranges from complex polychrome cave paintings and deeply incised designs on basalt canyon walls to large earthen figures along the terraces of the Colorado River. Tapping rich ethnographic information, he demonstrates that these pictographs were not created simply for artistic expression, but were deliberately intended to represent a relatively few number of specific messages. Color photographs depict such things as vision questing, sexuality, the mythic past, life crises, altered states of consciousness, and more. Lacks an index. Oversize: 10.75x12.5. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=311596 At the height of their power in the late eleventh century, the Chaco Anasazi dominated a territory in the American Southwest larger than any European principality of the time. A vast alliance of hamlets and towns integrated the region through economic and religious ties, and the whole system was interconnected with hundreds of miles of roads. It took these Anasazi farmers more than seven centuries to create classic Chacoan civilization, which lasted some 200 years - only to collapse spectacularly in a mere 40. Why did such a great society collapse? Who survived? Why? In this lively book anthropologist/archaeologist David Stuart presents answers to these questions that offer useful lessons to modern societies. His account of the rise and fall of the Chaco Anasazi brings to life the people who are know to us today as the architects of Chaco Canyon, now a spectacular national park in northwestern New Mexico.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=317343 Navajoland is the heart and soul of the American Southwest. Today the Navajo Reservation incorporates portions of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah, but it is only about half the size of the traditional homeland of the Dine, the People. Nearly all of it is sacred. Before Spaniards and Americans affixed their own names to the land, every topographic feature had at least one Navajo name, many of which made their way onto maps or are still in use among Navajo speakers. Navajo Places is an ambitious effort to preserve this rich legacy. It is a place-name guide that goes beyond reservation boundaries to include the entirety of the traditional Navajo homeland. Based on years of research and consultation with Navajo authorities, Navajo Places contains over 1,200 entries plus a pronunciation guide and sections on history and the relation of ritual and sacred legend to landscape, making it a must-have for anyone living or traveling in the Four Corners. Book jacket.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=338220 The advent of Chicano Studies in the 1960s spawned a tremendous interest in the history of Mexicans in the United States. Committed to a multidisciplinary approach from the very outset, Chicano and Chicana scholars used a variety of perspectives to explain the Mexican-American past, but much of this work has not been readily available to students. En Aquel Entonces is intended as a partial solution to the problem, an anthology that brings together 31 of the most innovative journal articles published during the past four decades. These articles, representing several disciplines, provide students of history with a panoramic portrait of Mexicanos in the United States while at the same time introducing them to Chicana/o historiography. Each of the essays has been carefully edited in consultation with its author to present a text that is more accessible to students and general readers http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=314630 The essays are grouped into community, institutional, and general studies, with an introduction by editor Montejano. Geographically, they point to the importance of Hispanic politics in the Southwest, as well as in Chicago wards and in the U.S. Congress, with ramifications in Mexico and Central America. Thematically, they discuss nontraditional politics stemming from gender identity, environmental issues, theatre production, labor organizing, university policymaking, along with the more traditional politics revolving around state and city government, the Congressional Hispanic various advocacy organizations. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=266347 During the mid twelfth century, villages that had been occupied by the Mimbres people in what is now southwestern New Mexico were depopulated and new settlements were formed. While most scholars view abandonment in terms of failed settlements, Margaret Nelson shows that, for the Mimbres, abandonment of individual communities did not necessarily imply abandonment of regions. By examining the economic and social reasons for change among the Mimbres, Nelson reconstructs a process of shifting residence as people spent more time in field camps and gradually transformed them into small hamlets while continuing to farm their old fields. Challenging current interpretations of abandonment of the Mimbres area through archaeological excavation and survey, she suggests that agricultural practices evolved toward the farming of multiple fields among which families moved, with small social groups traveling frequently between small pueblos rather than being aggregated in large villages.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=273834 Mexicanos tells the rich and vibrant story of Mexicans in the United States. Emerging from the ruins of Aztec civilization and from centuries of Spanish contact with indigenous people, Mexican culture followed the Spanish colonial frontier northward and put its distinctive mark on what became the southwestern United States. Shaped by their Indian and Spanish ancestors, deeply influenced by Catholicism, and tempered by an often difficult existence, Mexicans continue to play an important role in U.S. society, even as the dominant Anglo culture strives to assimilate them. Throughout this history, Gonzales attempts to do justice to the variety of experience in what is, after all, a heterogeneous community. He tells of vendidos (sellouts) and heroes, the legendary and the little-known, the failures and the triumphant. Thorough and balanced, Mexicanos makes a valuable contribution to the understanding of the Mexican population of the United States, a growing minority who will be a vital presence in twenty-first-century America.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=287113 All the Worlds Reward presents ninety-eight tales from Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Swedish-speaking Finland, and Iceland. Each area is represented by the complete recorded repertoire of a single storyteller. Such a focus helps place the stories in the context of the communities in which they were performed and also reveals how individual folk artists used the medium of oral literature to make statements about their lives and their world. Some preferred jocular stories and others wonder tales; some performed mostly for adults, others for children; some used storytelling to criticize society, and others spun wish fulfillment tales to find relief from a harsh reality.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=65737 David Leeming and Jake Page have provided an introduction and commentary on seventy-two myths drawn from a variety of cultures and language groups. They honor the Native pantheons, cosmologies, heroes, and heroines first as cultural expressions, then as variations on other mythic narratives to which they may be related, and ultimately as expressions of the larger human experience of myth making. In the process Leeming and Page reveal much of the relationship between rituals, religious traditions (especially shamanism), and the myths they have chosen to retell.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=71638 To Show Heart is a detailed and unbiased account of one of the least understood periods in Indian affairs. It tells how termination became a political embarrassment during the civil rights movement, how Lyndon Johnsons War on Poverty prompted politicians to rethink Indian policy, and how championing self-determination presented an opportunity for Presidents Nixon and Ford to show heart toward Native Americans. Along the way, Castile assesses the impact of the Indian activism of the 1960s and 1970s and offers an objective view of the American Indian Movement and the standoff at Wounded Knee. He also discusses the recent history of individual tribes, which gives greater meaning to decisions made at the national level. To Show Heart is an important book not only for anthropologists and historians but also for Native Americans themselves, who will benefit from this inside look at how bureaucrats have sought to determine their destinies.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=136386 In Digging the Days of the Dead, Juanita Garciagodoy depicts various aspects of the celebration - including Prehispanic and Spanish Catholic traces on its development as well as folk and popular culture versions - and describes its changing place in contemporary Mexico. Garciagodoy examines in detail differences in attitudes toward death in Mexico and the United States. In part because the living do not exclude the dead from their family circle, celebrants of Dias de muertos treat death as an intimate life companion and fear it less than their northern counterparts, who tend to view death as inimical.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=137324 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=153228 From vividly recollected experience, Out of the Frying Pan is a fresh, personal account of one the greatest injustices in 20th-century U.S. History. Bill Hosokawa, this countrys leading journalist of Japanese descent, tells how he, his wife, and their infant child were herded into a U.S. World War II relocation camp in Wyoming. After graduating from the University of Washington, young Bill Hosokawa gained prominence as a reporter for the Singapore Herald, the Shanghai Times, and the Far Eastern Review. However, his interment during World War II abruptly put his budding journalism career on indefinite hold. To his good fortune, he found work at the Denver Post after the war, where he rose through the ranks from copy desk chief to associate editor and editor of the editorial page. And despite his temporary imprisonment, Hosokawa managed to begin publishing his popular From the Frying Pan column (many selections are reproduced in this volume) in the Pacific Citizen in the early days of World War II, a column he wrote without interruption for over fifty years. In Out of the Frying Pan, Hosokawa offers his insights on the gradual reassimilation of the Japanese American community into the mainstream of American life after the bitterness of interment. Bringing his narrative into the present, he examines with humor and insight the current place occupied by Japanese Americans in the larger culture of our nation.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=136527 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=28417 Carved from cliffs and canyons, buried in desert rock and sand are pieces of the ancient past that beckon thousands of visitors every year to the American Southwest. Whether Montezuma Castle or a chunk of pottery, these traces of prehistory also bring archaeologists from all over the world, and their work gives us fresh insight and information on an almost day-to-day basis. Descriptions of long-ago people are balanced with tales about the archaeologists who have devoted their lives to learning more about those who came before. Trekking through the desert with the famed Emil Haury, readers will stumble upon Ventana Cave, his, answer to a prayer. With amateur archaeologist Richard Wetherill, they will sense the peril of crossing the flooded San Juan River on the way to Chaco Canyon. Others profiled in the book are A. V. Kidder, Andrew Ellicott Douglass, Julian Hayden, Harold S. Gladwin, and many more names synonymous with the continuing saga of southwestern archaeology. This book is an open invitation to general readers to join in solving the great archaeological puzzles of this part of the world. Moreover, it is the only up-to-date summary of a field advancing so rapidly that much of the material is new even to professional archaeologists.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=257513 Beyond Loyalty is the powerful and inspiring story of a young man whose life and education were rudely disrupted by the U.S. governments imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II. A high school student when interned in 1942, Minoru Kiyota was so infuriated by his treatment during an FBI interrogation and by the denial of his request to leave the camp to pursue his education that he refused to affirm his loyalty as required of all internees. For this he was sent to Tule Lake Segregation Center in northern California - a holding pen for dangerous and disloyal individuals. While imprisoned there under deplorable conditions, Kiyota learned of a new law offering Japanese Americans the opportunity to renounce their U.S. citizenship. Although barely old enough to do so, Kiyota took this drastic step. Throughout his four long years of incarceration, he refused to resign himself to the injustices he witnessed and experienced. His story shares the fury and frustration aroused by gross violations of his rights as a U.S. citizen and shows how the painful years of internment determined the course of his life.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=201400 Based on the successful lecture/performance that Anne Butler and Ona Siporin have been presenting throughout the Intermountain West for several years, this work brings their art, scholarship and wisdom to the printed page. Uncommon Common Women will broaden and enrich the general readers understanding of womens lives during the western emigration era. The authors cast a wide net; they are not interested in promoting the stereotypes of the West - the schoolmarm and the dance hall girl - but rather in bringing to notice the forgotten roles and gritty realities of womens lived experience during what was often a brutally difficult time.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=124821 In 1492 when Christopher Columbus encountered native inhabitants of the Americas, he thought he was in the Far East - and so he mistakenly called them Indians. The misnomer has persisted and with it a host of medieval and Renaissance beliefs and misconceptions about Indians. Eastern or Western. Those anomalous Indian stereotypes generated by the Columbian encounter, both positive and negative, still determine many details of the present-day image of Native Americans. The authors reclaim the historical origins of still-evolving attitudes about the Indian myth in precolonial pictorial and literary sources. Essential for the initial European invention of the American Indian were both the scriptural precedent of the Edenic Earthly Paradise, itself often placed in India on medieval maps, and the equally ancient idea of the Noble Savage. The authors document the establishment of psychological boundaries between Europeans and their subject New Peoples, and how the Europeans New World was interpreted in light of Christian prophecy. They also reveal that long before Columbuss discovery, Europeans had attached the same conventional imagery to a host of non-European Primitive Others. The authors examine the explorers chronicles to show just how they wrote about, and sometimes pictured, a strange new world unfolding its wonders after 1492. This original, provocative, and sometimes unsettling book will be important to scholars of history, anthropology, literature, medieval and Renaissance European culture, cartography, and the pictorial imagery of early colonial America.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=182416 This groundbreaking volume is the first to examine the range of Latino media arts, from independent feature production to documentary to experimental video. The essays explore the work of Chicano, Puerto Rican, Cuban American, and Latino film and video artists and address avant-garde practices, queer media, and performance art, as well as more conventional film and video representations.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=180037 From the mid-twelfth to the mid-fourteenth century, the world of the ancestral Pueblo people (Anasazi) was in transition, undergoing changes in settlement patterns and community organization that resulted in what scholars now call the Pueblo III period. This book synthesizes the archaeology of the ancestral Pueblo world during the Pueblo III period, examining twelve regions of the Anasazi world that embrace nearly the entire range of major topographic features, ecological zones, and prehistoric Puebloan settlement patterns found in the northern Southwest. Drawn from the 1990 Crow Canyon Archaeological Center conference Pueblo Cultures in Transition, the book serves as both a data resource and a summary of ideas about prehistoric changes in Puebloan settlement and in regional interaction across nearly 150,000 square miles of the Southwest. The volume provides a compilation of settlement data for over 800 large sites occupied between A.D. 1100 and 1400 in the Southwest. These data provide new perspectives on the geographic scale of culture change in the Southwest during this period. Twelve chapters analyze the archaeological record for specific districts and provide a detailed picture of settlement size and distribution, community architecture, and population trends during the period. Additional chapters cover warfare and carrying capacity and provide overviews of change in the region. Throughout the chapters, the contributors address the unifying issues of the role of large sites in relation to smaller ones, changes in settlement patterns from the Pueblo II to Pueblo III periods, changes in community organization, and population dynamics.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=241083 Originally published in 1941, An Apache Life-Way remains one of the most important and innovative studies of southwestern Native Americans, drawing upon a rich and invaluable body of data gathered by the ethnographer Morris Edward Opler during the 1930s. Blending the analysis of individual Apache lives with the analysis of their culture, this landmark study tells of the ceremonies, religious beliefs, social life, and economy of the Chiricahua Apache. Opler traces, in fascinating detail, how a person becomes an Apache, beginning with conception, moving through puberty rites, marriage, and the various religious, domestic, and military duties and experiences of adulthood, and concluding with the rites and beliefs surrounding death.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=160417 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1551 Medicine of God, Peyote: for some people, to use it is to hear colors and see sounds. For many Native Americans, it brings an ability to reach out of their physical lives, to communicate with the spirits, and to become complete. What is it in peyote that causes such unusual effects? Can modern medical science learn anything from Native Americans use of peyote in curing a wide variety of ailments? What is the Native American Church, and how do its members use peyote? Does anyone have the legal right to use drugs or controlled substances in religious ceremonies? Within this volume are answers to these and dozens of other questions surrounding the controversial and remarkable cactus. Greatly expanded and brought up-to-date from the 1980 edition, these pages describe peyote ceremonies and the users experiences, and also cover the many scientific and legal aspects of using the plant.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=159048 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=155968 Southwestern ceramics have always been admired for their variety and aesthetic beauty. Although ceramics are most often used for placing the peoples who produced them in time, they can also provide important clues to past economic organization. This volume covers nearly one thousand years of southwestern prehistory and history, focusing on ceramic production in a number of environmental and economic contexts. It brings together the best of current research to illustrate the variation in the organization of production evident in this single geographic area.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=134853 When David and Courtney Jones moved into two rooms reached by ladder in a northern Arizona Indian ruin, they had been married only two weeks. Except for the ruins cement floors, which were originally hardened mud, and skylights instead of smoke-holes, the rooms were exactly as they had been 800 years before. The year was 1938, and the newlyweds had come to Wupatki National Monument as full-time National Park Service caretakers for the ruin. Vivid and engaging, Courtneys letters home spill over with a sense of adventure: her friendships with local Navajo families, their sings and celebrations, and her good luck in being a part of it all. Letters from Wupatki captures a more innocent era in southwestern archaeology and the history of the National Park Service before the postwar years brought paved roads, expanded park facilities, and ever-increasing crowds of visitors. Courtneys letters to her family and friends reflect all the charm of the earlier time as they convey the sense of rapid transition that came after the war, and subsequent changes in the development of Wupatki National Monument and the National Park Service. The letters also reveal changes in the Joneses themselves and offer readers captivating glimpses of a partnership between two people who only grew stronger for the struggles they shared.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=228748 After long weeks of boring, perhaps spoiled sea rations, one of the first things Spaniards sought in the New World undoubtedly was fresh food. Probably they found the local cuisine strange at first, but soon they were sending American plants and animals around the world, eventually enriching the cuisine of many cultures. Drawing on original accounts by Europeans and native Americans, this pioneering work offers the first detailed description of the cuisines of the Aztecs, the Maya, and the Inca. Sophie Coe begins with the basic foodstuffs, including maize, potatoes, beans, peanuts, squash, avocados, tomatoes, chocolate, and chiles, and explores their early history and domestication. She then describes how these foods were prepared, served, and preserved, giving many insights into the cultural and ritual practices that surrounded eating in these cultures. Coe also points out the similarities and differences among the three cuisines and compares them to Spanish cooking of the period, which, as she usefully reminds us, would seem as foreign to our tastes as the American foods seemed to theirs. This first culinary history of pre-Columbian Latin America joins a growing discipline that combines the insights and information of many fields, including archaeology, anthropology, botany, zoology, medicine, history, sociology, and economics. Written in easily digested prose, it will appeal to food enthusiasts as well as scholars.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=124307 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=91587 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=173781 Moving from Mesa Verde to Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Canyon to the Mimbres region -- all hallmarks of Native American achievement in pre-Columbian North America -- this book spans two millennia to show the links with Pueblo peoples of today. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=75073 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=243464 During the last half of the nineteenth century, thousands of men went west in search of gold, land, or adventure - leaving their wives to handle family, farm, and business affairs on their own. The experiences of these westering men have long been a part of the lore of the American frontier, but the stories of their wives have rarely been told. Ten years of research into public and private documents - including letters of couples separated during the westward movement - has enabled Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith to tell the forgotten stories of women in waiting. Though these wives were left more or less in limbo by the departure of their adventuring husbands, they were hardly women in waiting in any other sense. Children had to be fed, clothed, housed, and educated; farms and businesses had to be managed; creditors had to be paid or pacified - and, in some cases, hard-earned butter-and-egg money had to be sent west in response to letters from broke and disillusioned husbands. This raises some unsettling questions: How does the idea of an allowance from home square with our long-standing image of the frontiersman as rugged individualist? To what extent was the westward movement supported by the paid and unpaid labor of women back east? And how do we measure the heroics of husbands out west against the heroics of wives back home? Based on the experiences of more than fifty women - from Abiah Hiller, whose business sense equaled or excelled her husbands, to Emma Christie, who knew virtually nothing about the matters she was called upon to manage - Women in Waiting in the Westward Movement offers a rare glimpse into life on the home frontier and provides new insights into fairly common, though poorly documented, aspect of the history of the settling of the American West.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=257498 Americo Paredes, in a distinguished career spanning the last forty years, has often set the pace and the standard in the two fields with which he is most strongly identified: folklore and Chicano studies. In folklore, he has been instrumental in establishing a new theoretical and methodological framework; in Chicano studies, he has exerted a seminal influence, inspiring an entire generation of scholars. For this book, the noted folklorist Richard Bauman has selected eleven of Americo Paredess most significant scholarly articles. The selected articles, first published during the years 1958-1987, faithfully reflect the depth and breadth of Paredess scholarship, as well as the rigor and eloquence of his writing. They represent scholarly discourse at its best: at once erudite and clear, demanding yet accessible, rich in both substance and style. Throughout his career, Paredes has centered his work on the folklore and culture of the Lower Rio Grande Border of South Texas and northeastern Mexico. His studies have always been contextualized, though, by a deep knowledge of Greater Mexico, and by the comparative scope of the folklorist. The essays collected here illustrate the transdisciplinary richness of Paredess perspective - a synthesis of folkloric, anthropological, literary, and historical theory and method. They also demonstrate the revisionist power of his analysis, which challenges traditionalist conceptions and constructions of Texas-Mexican culture, the social base of folklore, and folklore genres. Paredes is best known for his studies of the corrido, and several articles on this ballad form are included in the collection. Other essays focus variously on decimas, jokes, legends, and the neighborly names of ethnic slurs. More general subjects are also addressed, including the nature of the ethnographic encounter, machismo in the United States and Mexico, and the clash of cultures along the Lower Rio Grande Border. What emerges is perhaps the most well wrought and subtle portrait to date of the life and culture of the Mexican American people. An introduction by Richard Bauman discusses the principal themes and focuses of Paredess work, and his substantive, theoretical, and methodological contributions to scholarship. In addition, the volume includes a complete bibliography of Paredess scholarly writings, compiled by Linda Adams.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=85387 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=210854 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=79829 Apache Mothers and Daughters, an illustrated family history of four generations of Chiricahua Apache women from 1848 to the present, is an eloquent testimonial to the strength and stamina of Apache women. Over the course of thirty-five years, anthropologist Ruth McDonald Boyer collected the remembrances of Narcissus Duffy Gayton, great-great-granddaughter of the Apache chief Victorio, and amplified this oral history with scholarly insight based on extensive fieldwork. This intimate record of Apache life, told from an Apache perspective, highlights the key roles women play in tribal life. The story begins with Dilth-cleyhen, Victorios daughter, whose life encompassed much of the traditional culture of the Tchi-hene band of the Chiricahua Apaches. Her daughter, Beshad-e, was just sixteen in 1886 when the twenty-seven-year incarceration of the Chiricahua began. Beshad-e and her family were forced to move to Florida, Alabama, Oklahoma, and then New Mexico, where the Mescalero Apaches remain today. Beshad-es daughter Christine, who was more comfortable with white ways and a believer in Anglo education, died of tuberculosis in her twenties, leaving her daughter Narcissus in Beshad-es care. Narcissuss life incorporates both her mothers faith in education and modernity and her grandmothers commitment to traditional Apache ways. After struggling to obtain a complete education, Narcissus returned to serve her tribe as a registered nurse and an advocate for health care. Woven into this account are factual details about the Apaches, many presented for the first time. Documented are rituals such as the puberty rite and the cradle-making ceremony (with explicit differentiation between Mescalero and Chiricahua methods); the importance of religion (traditional as well as Anglo, including the Silas John Cult) as a stabilizing force and aspects of family life, such as child rearing and the intense bond between mothers and daughters. This volume reflects the significant contribution by Apache women to the enduring vitality of their people.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=175445 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=153609 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=123965 Ive seen many changes during the years, says Irene Bishop, from horse and buggy to automobiles and planes, from palm leaf fans to refrigeration. . .They talk about the good old days but I do not want to go back. Id like to go back about twenty years, but not beyond that. Life was too hard. Drawing on interviews with twenty-nine individuals, Doing What the Day Brought examines the everyday lives of women from the late nineteenth century to the present day and demonstrates the role they have played in shaping the modern Arizona community. Focusing on ordinary women, the book crosses race, ethnic, religious, economic, and marital lines to include Arizona women from diverse backgrounds. 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