Recently added articles from Journal of the Southwest:
Publishing the Southwest: 50 years on.(Journal of the Southwest anniversary)(Brief article)
Dec 22, 2008; ... With this Winter 2008 issue of Journal of the Southwest, we celebrate fifty years of scholarly publishing at the University of Arizona. Since 1959 we have represented and developed the University's foundational interest in Southwest regional studies. Founded by John Alexander Carroll as ...
Sympathy for the devil: devil sickness and lore among the Tohono O'odham.
Dec 22, 2008; ... It is unlikely that Europeans would have succeeded in the conquest of the New World were it not for the introduction of Old World diseases (e.g., smallpox, influenza, malaria) that undermined the structure and functioning of native societies. In 1492 the vast majority of Amerindians relied ...
Towards a new interpretation of the colonial regime in Sonora, 1681-1821.(Essay)
Dec 22, 2008; ... One of the central postulates of contemporary historiography is the focus on the so-called Other, a concept that requires a deconstructive approach to history. Moving towards such a line of inquiry, in this essay we attempt to rethink some of the taken-for-granted historical discourses on ...
The Timbisha Shoshone and the National Park idea: building toward accommodation and acknowledgment at Death Valley National Park, 1933-2000.
Dec 22, 2008; ... In the early 1970s, tourists flocked to the lavish Furnace Creek Inn in the heart of Death Valley National Monument. With its swimming pools, palm-shaded gardens, and fine dining, the hotel seemed every bit the American version of an Arabian oasis. At the resort, visitors could enjoy the ...
The case of Tony Hillerman: an interview.(Interview)
Dec 22, 2008; ... This interview with Tony Hillerman took place in December 1990, in our old home in Albuquerque. It was the first rime we met. After that I often visited him in his beautiful new home in North Valley. We became friends. I taught his work at the University of Florence, supervised graduation ...
In memoriam: Kieran McCarty (1925-2008).(In memoriam)
Dec 22, 2008; ... [Eulogy delivered by Bernard L. Fontana at Mission San Xavier del Bac on Saturday, January 3, 2009, on the occasion of the funeral Mass for the Reverend Father Kieran McCarty, O.F.M.] "Then the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star fall from the sky to the earth" (Rev ...
Senses of place--y de placer--in Baja Arizona.(A Sense of Place)
Dec 22, 2008; ... I am out before dawn on a late August morn, chaotically wandering around like a senile naturalist lost in the midst of a city. But Tucson doesn't exactly seem like a metropolis to me; it feels more like a patchwork of neighborhoods, barrios and colonias packed tightly into the same desert ...
Memory, place, being.(A Sense of Place)(Essay)
Dec 22, 2008; ... I live in a city that is forgetting itself, forgetting itself even as it constantly remakes itself into new impermanent shapes. A city driven by change, but not renewal, which might suggest an idea, a civic principle seeking expression. A city ordered, if at all, only by its changing, by ...
Walls and fences: perspectives from universities and museums.
Sep 22, 2008; ... Walls and fences and other barriers are always and everywhere. They were then, and they are now. They are there, and they are here. And barriers come in almost infinite varieties, including age-old socio-psychological modes and newfound virtual ones. This special edition of ...
Fences and between fences: cultural, historical, and Smithsonian perspectives.(Essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Along with a few Shakespearean gems, the commentary on fences from Robert Frost's "Mending Wall" may be the best-known poetic icon in contemporary American culture. As Frost and his neighbor mend their common wall in a New England spring ritual, the neighbor twice trumpets: "good fences ...
Border conflict, border fences, and the "Tortilla Curtain" incident of 1978-1979.
Sep 22, 2008; ... The current debate in the United States over proposals to build an impenetrable barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border for security reasons and to stop undocumented immigration is the latest chapter in a long history of many initiatives to erect border fences. Some of these initiatives ...
La pared que habla: a photo essay about art and graffiti at the border fence in Nogales, Sonora.(Cover story)(Essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Despite being visible across a wide expanse of desert, for many newcomers to border country the steel fence that separates the United States from Mexico is an apparition--an unsightly phenomenon sprung up from the earth without warning. But truth be told, despite the otherworldly rhetoric ...
Constructing a virtual wall: race and citizenship in U.S.-Mexico border policing.
Sep 22, 2008; ... The U.S.-Mexico border wall is not just physical--it is also virtual. Virtual in this instance has two meanings, one narrower and one broader. More narrowly, the virtual wall involves applying advanced surveillance and computer technologies to border law enforcement. Ground-level radar can ...
The policy of border fencing between the United States and Mexico: permeability and shifting functions.
Sep 22, 2008; ... In the late 1990s those who knew of Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge (CPNWR) considered it a treasure: an area of pristine desert in southwestern Arizona. Over the following ten years the refuge has sustained some of the most extensive environmental degradation along the U.S.-Mexico ...
Ancient cultural interplay of the American Southwest in the Mexican Northwest.
Jun 22, 2008; ... A basic question in Southwestern archaeology concerns the cultural connectivity of its prehispanic populations with their neighbors in Mexico. Were Southwestern populations culturally "autochthonous" after the introduction of cultigens and pottery, as A. V. Kidder (1924) famously argued, ...
Hohokam political integration.(Ancient Cultural Interplay of the American Southwest in the Mexican Northwest)(Report)
Jun 22, 2008 ... HOHOKAM POLITICAL INTEGRATION To test these ideas, we can begin by looking at the Colonial-Sedentary period (750-1100 CE) settlement system 'along the lower Verde as pictured by Doyel and Crary (1996; figure 12). Given that comparative analyses (Drennan 1984; Hally 1991; Wilcox, ...
Acknowledgment.(Ancient Cultural Interplay of the American Southwest in the Mexican Northwest)
Jun 22, 2008 ... ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This paper results from a reworking and integration of essays prepared for three different venues: Wilcox's (1996b) paper "Organizational Parameters of Southwest/Mesoamerican Connectivity.," presented at the 1996 Southwest Symposium held in Tempe, Arizona; Wood ...
The mask and the dance.(Tarahumara's Semana Santa celebration)(Brief article)
Jun 22, 2008; ... In the spring of 1998 I traveled into Mexico's Copper Canyon region for the first time to experience the Tarahumara observance of Semana Santa or Holy Week. That was such a fundamentally moving experience for me that I returned many times to continue my sojurn into the Sierras. Each time I ...
In pursuit of the ceremonial: the laboratory of anthropology's "master collection" of Zuni pottery.(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; ... This is the story of a curious episode in the early history of Santa Fe's Laboratory of Anthropology (Lab) and its efforts to acquire a comprehensive collection of Zuni ceremonial pottery. (1) The incident well illustrates the pitfalls that can result from ethnological traffic in sacred ...
Publishing the southwest.(Editorial)
Dec 22, 2007; ... We are very pleased to publish a selection of essays by Italian scholars of the American Southwest. The essays here represented--by Emanuela Jossa, Francesco Marroni, Mario Materassi, and Manuela Plana--are a part of the proceedings from the sixth International Forum for the Study of ...