Journal of the Southwest articles from March 2000

Journal of the Southwest archives from March 2000

Introduction: Ritual and Historical Territoriality of the Cora (Nayari) and Huichol (Wixarika) Peoples.
March 22, 2000... This special issue of the Journal of the Southwest concerns the indigenous Wixarika (Huichol) and Nayari (Cora) peoples of Jalisco, Nayarit, Zacatecas, and Durango in western Mexico, a region known since the colonial period as El Gran Nayar...

Huichol Society before the Arrival of the Spanish.
March 22, 2000... The following commentary offers an archaeological and historical reconstruction of the antecedents of Huichol society before the arrival of the Spanish, culminating in a discussion of the political significance of the kawiterutsixi and the...

The Huichol Gourd Bowl As a Microcosm.
March 22, 2000... The Oglala believe the circle to be sacred because the Great Spirit caused everything in nature to be round except stone.... Everything that breathes is round like the body of a man. Everything that grows from the ground is round like the trunk...

Mitote and the Cora Universe.
March 22, 2000... The Nayari people (pl. Nayarite), called Coras by outsiders, live within a territory bounded on the north by the state of Durango, on the south by the Santiago River, on the east by the Jesus Maria River, and on the west by the San Pedro River....

Tukipa Ceremonial Centers in the Community of Tuapurie (Santa Catarina Cuexcomatitlan): Cargo Systems, Landscape, and Cosmovision.
March 22, 2000... Two types of civil-religious hierarchies (also known as cargo systems) exist in the Huichol communities of the Chapalagana River canyon area. The town centers (cabeceras) of these communities are seats of cargo systems very similar to those in...

Blood in Huichol Ritual.
March 22, 2000... Jean-Paul Roux (1990) argues that the blood of the Other--of the dead--has been a mainstay of social life throughout human history. He also recognizes the need to understand how different peoples have used blood to relate to their gods and how...

"To Join the Waters": Indexing Metonymies of Territoriality in Cora Ritual.
March 22, 2000... Priests, explorers, and anthropologists have long noted the importance of mitote ceremonies(1) as part of the distinctive culture of the Cora (Nayari) people of the Sierra del Nayar in Nayarit, Mexico. A number of observers have also published...

Gourdvines, Fires, and Wixarika Territoriality.
March 22, 2000... This article explores the social relationships and practices expressed in the Wixarika (Huichol) terms nanari (gourdvine) and nanayari (root or rootedness). Wixaritari (Huichols) in the community of San Andres Cohamiata say that the genealogies...

Territoriality and Historical Consciousness in Beatriz Rojas's Los huicholes en la historia.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Los huicholes en la historia. By Beatriz Rojas. Mexico City: Centro de Estudios Mexicanos y Centroamericanos, Colegio de Michoacan, Instituto Nacional Indigenista, 1993. 222 pp. One of the most prevalent kinds of romantic stereotypes about...

Por tierras occidentales entre sierras y barrancas.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Por tierras occidentales entre sierras y barrancas. By Leon Diguet. Edited by Jesus Jauregui and Jean Meyer. Mexico City: Centro de Estudios Mexicanos y Centroamericanos and Instituto Nacional Indigenista, 1992. 239 pp. In recent years the...

Fotografias del Nayar y de California 1893-1900.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Fotografias del Nayar y de California 1893-1900. By Leon Diguet. Edited by Jean Meyer. Mexico City: Centro de Estudios Mexicanos y Centroamericanos and Instituto Nacional Indigenista, 1991. 100 pp. In recent years the Centro Frances de...

Ensayos sobre el Gran Nayar.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Ensayos sobre el Gran Nayar: Entre coras, huicholes y tepehuanos. By Phil C. Weigand. Mexico City: Centro de Estudios Mexicanos y Centroamericanos, Instituto Nacional Indigenista, and El Colegio de Michoacan. 1992. 236 pages. Huichol...