Journal of the Southwest articles from December 2008

Journal of the Southwest archives from December 2008

Publishing the Southwest: 50 years on.(Journal of the Southwest anniversary)(Brief article)
December 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...

Sympathy for the devil: devil sickness and lore among the Tohono O'odham.
December 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....

Towards a new interpretation of the colonial regime in Sonora, 1681-1821.(Essay)
December 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 Timbisha Shoshone and the National Park idea: building toward accommodation and acknowledgment at Death Valley National Park, 1933-2000.
December 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...

The case of Tony Hillerman: an interview.(Interview)
December 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...

In memoriam: Kieran McCarty (1925-2008).(In memoriam)
December 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...

Senses of place--y de placer--in Baja Arizona.(A Sense of Place)
December 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...

Memory, place, being.(A Sense of Place)(Essay)
December 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...