Journal of the Southwest articles from December 2007

Journal of the Southwest archives from December 2007

Publishing the southwest.(Editorial)
December 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...

A world revealed by language: a new Seri dictionary and unapologetic speculations on Seri Indian deep history.(Comcaac quih Yaza quih Hant Ihiip hac: Diccionario Seri-Espanol-Ingles)(Critical essay)
December 22, 2007... Comcaac quih Yaza quih Hant Ihiip hac: Diccionario Seri-Espanol-Ingles, compiled by Mary Beck Moser and Stephen A. Marlett. Illustrated by Cathy Moser Marlett. Published by Plaza y Valdes Editores, Mexico City. 947 pages. ISBN: 970-722-453-3....

River of change: an environmental history of climate and water management in the Upper Little Colorado watershed.(Report)
December 22, 2007... Perhaps nowhere in the United States has climate and water resource interaction been more closely observed than in the U.S. Southwest (see, e.g., Austin 1988; Worster 1985; Reisner 1993; Sheridan 2001), and with good reason. Overall, semiarid...

William Eastlake's trilogy: the southwestern landscape as truth and revelation.(Critical essay)
December 22, 2007... William Eastlake's first three novels, Go in Beauty (1956), The Bronc People (1958), and Portrait of an Artist with Twenty-Six Horses (1963), are generally regarded as constituting a trilogy not only because they have a common setting--the...

The desert and the seed: three stories by Rudolfo Anaya.
December 22, 2007... Conceivably, Rudolfo Anaya's accomplishment as a master craftsman has been somewhat overshadowed by his steadfast example as an author deeply imbued with his native Chicano culture, and by an oeuvre rich in absorbing mythopoeic value. While I...

The colors of the earth: nature and landscape in the poetry of Joy Harjo and Humberto Ak' Abal.(Critical essay)
December 22, 2007... Native poetry, in both North and Central America, is characterized by the use of a trope that issues from a generally shared worldview--namely, the earth's colors as a metaphor for the relationship between humans and nature. To illustrate this...

The Mexican revolution and the U.S. border: research perspectives.(Essay)
December 22, 2007... The Mexican Revolution of 1910-1920 marked the end of the status quo that had characterized U.S.-Mexican diplomatic relations during Porfirio Diaz's thirty-year regime and initiated a phase of difficult bilateral relations. Starting in 1911,...