Journal of the Southwest articles from June 2005

Journal of the Southwest archives from June 2005

Mormon Forestdale.
June 22, 2005... In the late nineteenth century, more than a dozen Mormon families settled in a spring-fed valley several miles southwest of present-day Show Low, Arizona, and called the place Forest Dale (known today as Forestdale. They lived there for a few...

Arizona and Japanese American history: the World War II Colorado River Relocation Center.
June 22, 2005... While research on Asian Americans has typically been directed towards port cities like San Francisco and New York City, the Southwest too has long been important for Asian Americans. For instance, early Chinese American and Japanese American...

Voices from inside a black snake: religious monuments of Sonora's highways.
June 22, 2005... It was May 21, 1999, and I was photographing and recording roadside religious art along Mexico's Highway 15 between Santa Ana and Hermosillo in Sonora. It was a hot day in the middle of one of the region's periodic droughts, and after...

It was doubles: strategies of sense production in Rudolfo Anaya's "The Man Who Found a Pistol".
June 22, 2005... The theoretical premise of this study is grounded on one of the axioms in the hermeneutic perspective of structuralism and semiotics alike, namely, that the literary text functions as a self-sufficient mechanism of communication; hence, the...

Style, meaning, and the individual artist in Western Pueblo polychrome ceramics after Chaco.
June 22, 2005... Among the best known and most distinctive of all ancient decorated ceramics in the Pueblo Southwest are the types archaeologists categorize as White Mountain Red Wares, found all over the region during the final centuries before European...