Journal of the Southwest articles from December 1999

Journal of the Southwest archives from December 1999

"El Corrido de Tomochic:" Honor, Grace, Gender, and Power in the First Ballad of the Mexican Revolution.
December 22, 1999... Y en Cabora esta la gracia y en Tomochic esta el poder, ?? que gobierno tan ingrato que no sabe comprender! --Refugio "Dona Cuca" Rodriguez, viuda de Villarreal November 3, 1996, Tomochic, Chihuahua In his studies of peasant...

Her "Ambiguous Satisfaction": Simone de Beauvoir in the Southwest.
December 22, 1999... It is almost too convenient for people studying travel writing on the Southwest that Simone de Beauvoir wanted above all else to see the Grand Canyon. On a March morning in 1947, having completed an East Coast college lecture tour, Beauvoir...

Mythical and Modern: Representations of Los Alamos.
December 22, 1999... Los Alamos has paradoxically represented both one of the most modern of cities, the Atomic City built by the Manhattan Project, and one of the most ancient with its startling landscape and Native American traditions. The tension between...

Sacred and Secular Landscape Symbolism at Mount Taylor, New Mexico.
December 22, 1999... Mountains are spiritually and culturally significant landscapes that evoke emotions ranging from awe and fear to reverence and wonder. Towering crags, violent storms, rare flora and fauna, snow-capped peaks, and serrated ridges all contribute...