Journal of the Southwest articles from September 2005

Journal of the Southwest archives from September 2005

Publishing the Southwest.
September 22, 2005... We are very pleased to publish in this issue Raymond H. Thompson's masterful institutional history--done as only Ray could do it--of the University of Arizona's Department of Anthropology. Its publication is appropriate now, as this academic...

Anthropology at the University of Arizona, 1893-2005.(Cover Story)(Essay)
September 22, 2005... The beginnings of anthropology at the University of Arizona go back more than a hundred years to the founding of the Territorial Museum in 1893 at the eight-year-old Territorial University in Tucson (Goff 1973: 17; Wilcox 2005). The members of...

Creating a firm foundation: the early years of the Arizona State Museum.
September 22, 2005... For the English in the seventeenth century, the direct observation of nature was a way to see and celebrate God's design, and a way to find practical insights (Greene 1959; Crowther 1960). Francis Bacon codified natural philosophy, and cabinets...

Re-observation and the recognition of change: the photographs of Matilda Coxe Stevenson (1879-1915).
September 22, 2005... As one of the first women to embark on a career in anthropology, Matilda Coxe Stevenson was, and still is, "famous and infamous" (Parezo 1993:46). Countless colorful portrayals of her have passed down to the present day, and her reputation as...

"Good Samaritans of the desert": the Pima-Maricopa villages as described in California emigrant journals, 1846-1852.(Essay)
September 22, 2005... The discovery of gold near Sutter's Mill, California, in 1848, spawned a torrent of migration across northern Sonora, Mexico (modern southern Arizona), with perhaps 40,000 emigrants traveling over one of the four southern trails that converged...

Ages of O'odham architecture.
September 22, 2005... The first inspiration for this paper was a Papago, or Tohono O'odham, man who, twenty or more years ago, told me how much he admires the Hohokam people who preceded his immediate ancestors in the southern Arizona desert. The Hohokam were rich...

Reflections on the summer of 1969.(Chemehuevi Revisited)
September 22, 2005... This paper is based on the fieldwork I did on the Chemehuevi language during the summer of 1969 on the Colorado River Indian Tribes Reservation near Parker, Arizona. To the best of my knowledge, prior to 1969, there had not been any published...