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  • - A Photographic Journey down the Old Rio Grande
     
    313,95 kr.

    Weaving together landscape and memory, this book presents historical photographs of the Rio Grande of the American Southwest. Photography arrived in the region at the beginning of the river's great transformation by trade, industry, and cultivation. In Rio Savage has collected images that document the sweeping history of that transformation.

  • - Ethnogenesis, Place, and Identity in New Mexico
     
    797,95 kr.

    Examines the history, cultural evolution, and survival of the Genizaro people. Contributors cover topics including ethnogenesis, slavery, settlements, poetics, religion, gender, family history, and mestizo genetics.

  • af Michael R. Candelaria
    797,95 kr.

    This exploration of Iberian, Latin American, and US-Hispanic representations of Christ focuses on outliers in art, literature, and theology: Spanish painter Salvador Dali, Mexican muralist Jose Clemente Orozco, Argentine writer Jorge Borges, Spanish existentialist Miguel de Unamuno, Brazilian theologian Leonardo Boff, and Mexican philosopher Jose Vasconcelos.

  • - Essays on the Chicano Homeland
     
    413,95 kr.

    During the Chicano Movement in the 1960s and 1970s, the idea of Aztlan, homeland of the ancient Aztecs, served as a unifying force in an emerging cultural renaissance. Does the term remain useful? This expanded new edition of the classic 1989 collection of essays about Aztlan weighs its value. To encompass new developments in the discourse the editors have added six new essays.

  • - Sor Maria de Agreda Comes to New Mexico/Sor Maria de Agreda viene a Nuevo Mexico
    af Anna M. Nogar
    208,95 kr.

    Tlls the story of two young women - one Spanish, one Puebloan - meeting across space and time. Sor Maria de Jesus de Agreda, New Mexico's famous Lady in Blue, is said to have traveled to New Mexico in the seventeenth century. Here Anna M. Nogar and Enrique R. Lamadrid bring her to life, imagining an encounter between a Pueblo woman and Sor Maria during the nun's mystical spiritual journeys.

  • - Reflections on the New Mexico Homeland
     
    433,95 kr.

    A collection of both deeply personal reflections and carefully researched studies that explore the New Mexico homeland through the experiences and perspectives of Chicanx and indigenous/Genizaro writers and scholars from across the state.

  • - A Memoir of New and Old Mexico
    af Anita Rodriguez
    263,95 kr.

    This book of stories and recipes introduces two eccentric families that would never have eaten together, let alone exchanged recipes, but for the improbable marriage of the author's parents. Recalling the good and the terrible cooks in her family, Anita Rodriguez also shares the complications of navigating a safe path among contradictory cultural perspectives.

  • - The Albuquerque Rephotography Project
    af Mark C. Childs & Anthony Anella
    363,95 kr.

    Juxtaposes historic and contemporary photographs of Albuquerque to show diverse moments in the city's history and development. The authors, ardent defenders of the vitality of Albuquerque's past, contend that the city is still small enough to be in touch with its history and argue that what makes Albuquerque a great place is the continued presence of its strong traditions.

  • - Ethnogenesis, Place, and Identity in New Mexico
     
    409,95 kr.

    Examines the history, cultural evolution, and survival of the Genizaro people. The contributors to this volume cover topics including ethnogenesis, slavery, settlements, poetics, religion, gender, family history, and mestizo genetics.

  • af Don J. Usner
    354,95 kr.

    The poetic proverbs known to nuevomexicanos as dichos are particular to their places of origin. In these reflections on the dichos of the Chimayo Valley in northern New Mexico native son Don J. Usner has written a memoir that is also a valuable source of information on the rich language and culture of the region.

  • - Reies Lopez Tijerina and the Religious Origins of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement
    af Ramon A. Gutierrez
    768,95 kr.

    Dives deeply into Reies Lopez Tijerina's religious formation during the 1940s and 1950s, illustrating how his Pentecostal foundation remained an integral part of his psyche even as he migrated toward social-movement politics.

  • - Wisdom of the Land, Knowledge of the Water
    af Juan Estevan Arellano
    263,95 kr.

    Touching on the Middle East, Europe, Mexico, and South America before circling back to New Mexico, Arellano makes a case for preserving the acequia irrigation system and calls for a future that respects the ecological limitations of the land.

  • af Joseph P. Sanchez
    370,95 - 878,95 kr.

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