Journal of the Southwest articles from December 2000

Journal of the Southwest archives from December 2000

Publishing the Southwest.
December 22, 2000... We would like to correct our unfortunate omission of Dr. Thomas Vennum Jr.'s biographical statement from our "Seri Hands" issue (Autumn 2000) of JSW. Dr. Vennum is senior ethnomusicologist in the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage at the...

Survival of Early Christian Symbolism in Monastic Churches of New Spain and Visions of the Millennial Kingdom.
December 22, 2000... The architectural arrangement of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century monastic establishments founded in the New World for the conversion to Christianity of indigenous people was the ultimate development of traditions whose origins date to the...

Mail-Order "Katsinam" and the Issue of Authenticity.
December 22, 2000... Alongside such items as Nighty Nite Frog Pillows, sweaters in mallard, buttercream, or cobblestone, and Power Rangers Remote Control Megazords, imitation Hopi tithu (katsina [plural katsinam] dolls or figurines, singular tihu) have been sold...

Travel Writing, Sentimental Romance, and Indian Rights Advocacy: The Politics of Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona.
December 22, 2000... Dismissed as "sentimental slop" by Raymond Chandler during the 1950s, Helen Hunt Jackson's novel Ramona, published in 1884 to dramatize the plight of Indians displaced from their southern California homelands, has long been criticized as a...

Adelina "Nina" Otero-Warren: A Spanish-American Cultural Broker.
December 22, 2000... "What is in a name?" This is the oft-quoted question from Shakespeare's tragic clash of two family cultures, Romeo and Juliet. For Adelina "Nina" Otero-Warren the answer to that query might possibly be a transforming identity at the...

Some Aspects of the Aztec Religion in the Hopi Kachina Cult.
December 22, 2000... The origins of the kachina cult of the Southwest have been, and continue to be, a matter of some debate. Theories abound. Some perceive the cult growing in a cocoon of isolation among the aggregated prehistoric pueblos of the Little Colorado...

Pictorial Images of Spanish North America.
December 22, 2000... On October 31, 1988, the Museum of New Mexico acquired legal title to two surviving polychrome paintings on hide sent from Sonora by the Jesuit missionary Philipp Segesser von Brunegg to his family in Switzerland in 1761 (T. Chavez 1989, 1990)....

El Pasado Indigena.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Alfredo Lopez Austin and Leonardo Lopez Lujan. El Pasado Indigena. Mexico, D.F.: Colegio de Mexico and Fondo de Cultura Economica, 1996 [366 pp.; 32 b/w illustrations; no price given] In the 1960s and 1970s books summarizing Mesoamerican...