Journal of the Southwest articles from December 2005

Journal of the Southwest archives from December 2005

Sunstruck.(extract from Sunshot: Peril and Wonder in the Gran Desierto)(Reprint)
December 22, 2005... This is an extract from Sunshot: Peril and Wonder in the Gran Desierto, just-published in the Southwest Center Series by the University of Arizona Press. DEVIL'S DRIVEWAY A friend and I planned to walk El Camino del Diablo in August....

Reclaiming the Southwest: a traumatic space in the Japanese American internment narrative.
December 22, 2005... More than a spatial category or a topographical term, the U.S. Southwest identifies a region geographically vast, cartographically elusive, and culturally heterogeneous. Though a familiar term to the American mind, the Southwest is a place of...

Cosmogonic myths, ritual groups, and initiation: toward a new comparative ethnology of the Gran Nayar and the Southwest of the U.S.
December 22, 2005... THE GRAN NAYAR AND THE U.S. SOUTHWEST Cultural comparisons between the Gran Nayar of west Mexico and the Pueblos of the U.S. Southwest must discover systems of transformation. A satisfactory understanding of this macroregion is served...

Antonieta Rivas Mercado: Katherine Anne Porter's horror and inspiration.(Biography)
December 22, 2005... Maria Antonieta Rivas Mercado was born in a mansion in Mexico City on April 21, 1900, the second daughter of Matilde Cristina Castellanos de Rivas Mercado, an educated, loose-living beauty, and Antonio Rivas Mercado, a professor at the San...

Archaeological sociology in America's Southwest: a review essay.(Western Pueblo Identities: Regional Interaction, Migration, and Transformation)(Human Impact on Ancient Environments)(Deadly Landscapes: Case Studies in Prehitoric Southwestern Warfare)(Man Corn: Cannibalism and Violence in the Prehistoric American Southwest)(Seeking the Center Place: Archaeology and Ancient Communities in the Mesa Verde Region)(Book review)
December 22, 2005... Duff, Andrew I. 2002. Western Pueblo Identities. Regional Interaction, Migration, and Transformation. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. Redman, Charles L. 1999. Human Impact on Ancient Environments. Tucson: University of Arizona Press....