Journal of the Southwest articles from June 1998

Journal of the Southwest archives from June 1998

Professor Bronislaw Malinowski's Visit to Tucson.
June 22, 1998... In the late winter and spring of 1939, Dr. Bronislaw Malinowski, even then considered one of the world's greatest cultural anthropologists, visited Tucson and the University of Arizona. The reasons for his coming, the impact of his presence on...

Shaping a New Way: White Women and the Movement to Promote Pueblo Indian Arts and Crafts, 1900-1935.
June 22, 1998... In the first decades of the twentieth century, many white Americans became involved in an effort to promote Indian arts and crafts, particularly in the Southwest and among the Pueblo Indians. Some scholars have placed this effort within the...

Cultural Collecting Fever in New Mexico: Figurines and Governor L. Bradford Prince.
June 22, 1998... Imagine my surprise during a recent investigation of pottery figurines when I came across an article suggesting that a significant number of stone idols were reproduced in the late 1800s, sold as excavated artifacts from Pueblo ruins, and...

Defining the Southwest: The Use of Geographic Information Systems for Regional Description.
June 22, 1998... The idea of dividing the world into areal units or regions can be traced as far back as the Greeks, yet precise definitions and methodology for determining regional boundaries continue to elude modern geographic science (Larkin and Peters 1983:...