Journal of the Southwest articles from March 2002

Journal of the Southwest archives from March 2002

Preface.
March 22, 2002... The original versions of these papers were presented at the symposium "Representing Common Destinies: History and the Social Construction of Community in the Southwest," held at the Center for Southwest Research, University of New Mexico, on...

The political economy of common destinies in the American Indian Southwest.
March 22, 2002... The term Schicksalsgemeinschaft was coined by the Austrian sociologist Otto Bauer (1924). In German it carries the polysemous meaning of a community of fate and of destiny. It is exactly this ambivalence that makes the concept interesting for...

Lessons of the ages: archaeology and the construction of cultural identity in the American Southwest.
March 22, 2002... We can tame continents, make deserts bloom, rear monumental cities... but we cannot make antiquity --Charles Lummis, "Santa Fe--The Capital of Our Romance" The Anglo American immigrants who traveled by wagon and rail to the American...

The legacy of Fort Apache: interpretive challenges at a community historic site.
March 22, 2002... Fort Apache has variously served the White Mountain Apaches as a traditional homeland; the site of hope for a prosperous future; a source of oppressive federal control, and a promise of sovereignty, economic development, and the long-awaited...

New Mexico's cuarto centenario and Spanish American nationalism: collapsing past conquests and present dispossession.
March 22, 2002... At a 1998 groundbreaking ceremony for a new Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, local Hispano politicians met with the vice president of Spain to commemorate New Mexico's cuarto centenario (four hundredth anniversary) and a shared history....

Bilingual education and identity debates in New Mexico: constructing and contesting nationalism and ethnicity.
March 22, 2002... On August 27, 1998, in a lecture hall located at the University of New Mexico, Linda Chavez, president of the Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO), a politically conservative organization supportive of the English-only movement, and...

Social memory and cultural narrative: the Hopi construction of a moral community.
March 22, 2002... Narrative is a primary cognitive instrument... an instrument rivaled, in fact, only by theory and metaphor as irreducible ways of making the flux of experience comprehensible. --Louis O. Mink, Historical Understanding World historian...

Our Lady of Resistance: the Virgin of Guadalupe and contested constructions of community in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
March 22, 2002... In 1692, Spanish conquistadors entered Santa Fe in the reconquest of the current state of New Mexico. With them they brought an image whose potency had spread throughout colonial Mexico, the Virgin of Guadalupe. The first documented apparition...

Mapping identity: Tibetans in New Mexico and their incorporation into the tri-ethnic myth.
March 22, 2002... On September 20, 1997, I attended a celebration of the thirteenth birthday of Karmapa Ugyen Trinley Dorje at the Kagyu Shepen Kunchab (KSK) Bodhi Stupa in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I was invited to the celebration by a young Tibetan woman I had...