Understories

Understories

Author: Jake Kosek

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2006-12-08

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 9780822338475

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A lively, engaging ethnography that demonstrates how a volatile politics of race, class, and nation animates the infamously violent struggles over forests in the U.S. Southwest.


Mexican Lives

Mexican Lives

Author: Judith Adler Hellman

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9781565841789

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A portrait of the Mexican experience illuminates such topics as NAFTA, political assassinations, the Chiapas rebellion, and national election fraud, and considers the impact of these events on the bordering United States. Reprint.


The Good Life, New Mexico Traditions and Food

The Good Life, New Mexico Traditions and Food

Author: Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Gilbert

Publisher:

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13:

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This classic work on traditional New Mexico life & cooking by Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Gilbert is the culmination of the author's thirty years of experience as a home economist with Spanish-speaking residents in northern New Mexico. The Good Life is in two parts. The first part is a series of stories that evoke the customs & traditions of an Hispanic family in New Mexico. The second part is a cookbook that includes the complete repertoire of native New Mexian food. Over 100 recipes are included -- dishes that have been adapted & tested for the contemporary cook.


The Complete History of New Mexico

The Complete History of New Mexico

Author: Kevin McIlvoy

Publisher: Graywolf Press

Published: 2012-10-02

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1555970478

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"Compelling and complex . . . Strange and wonderful." —The New York Times Book Review, in praise of McIlvoy's previous fiction I am going to write about the state of New Mexico and put in some maps and stuff from the encyclopedia. My theme is the Don Juan Onate trail and the Jornada Del Muerto. But I might write some other important things which as it turns out my stepmother got angry about and said she wouldn't type this until my Dad said "Dammit now it is history" and told her maybe there weren't commas in those days. "The Complete History of New Mexico" is no ordinary research paper, and this is no ordinary collection of short stories. Eleven-year-old Chum's "history" unfolds over three distinctive and increasingly disturbing sections. He writes that "Coronado explored around and found Santa Fe in 1610"; that "William Becknell was tracking wagons over everyplace in 1821"; and that every day his best friend, Daniel, is afraid to go home. Kevin McIlvoy intersperses the title novella with equally distinctive stories set in New Mexico. Laura, a plain, overweight nurse, encounters a terrified young man on his way to the Vietnam War and takes matters into her own hands. Zach spends time with his "white-trash" relatives and finds love's terrible and true face. The Complete History of New Mexico is a stunningly original collection that will further McIlvoy's growing reputation.


Death and Dying in New Mexico

Death and Dying in New Mexico

Author: Martina Will de Chaparro

Publisher: UNM Press

Published: 2007-06-30

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9780826341631

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This thoroughly researched study uses death to explore the intersection of religious culture and politics in colonial New Mexico.


Enchantment and Exploitation

Enchantment and Exploitation

Author: William DeBuys

Publisher: UNM Press

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9780826308207

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This unusual book is a complete account of the closely linked natural and human history of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of northern New Mexico, a region unique in its rich combination of ecological and cultural diversity.


Mexican New York

Mexican New York

Author: Robert Smith

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 0520244125

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'Mexican New York' offers an intimate view of globalization as it is lived by Mexican immigrants & their children in New York & in Mexico.


America, New Mexico

America, New Mexico

Author: Robert Leonard Reid

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780816518760

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New Mexico is a land with two faces. It is a land of enchantment, legendary for its natural beauty and rich cultural heritage. But it is also a land of paradox. In America, New Mexico, Robert Leonard Reid explores deep inside New Mexico's landscape to find the real New Mexico—with all of its gifts and challenges—within. Having traveled and hiked countless miles throughout the state, Reid knows New Mexico's breathtaking landscape intimately. But he knows the human landscape as well: its artists and poets, medicine men and businessmen, preachers and politicians, Hispanics and Anglos. He knows that amid the glittering mansions of Santa Fe there are homeless shelters, that the Indians of myth and legend combat alcoholism and poverty, and that toxic waste lurks beneath a land of almost surreal beauty. America, New Mexico is a book about land, sky, and hope by a writer whose passion and inspiring prose invite us to see the promise and possibilities of reconnecting with the natural world. It is unflinching in its depiction of the adversities facing New Mexicans and indeed all Americans. But above all, it searches behind and beyond these troubling issues to find, standing staunchly against them, a quiet and unshakable confidence rooted in New Mexico's natural world. For anyone who has ever been moved by the incomparable beauty of New Mexico, for anyone concerned with the landscape in which all Americans live, America, New Mexico is an unforgettable book.


New Mexican Lives

New Mexican Lives

Author: Richard W. Etulain

Publisher: UNM Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 9780826324337

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This book will appeal to anyone interested in knowing more about how a fascinating mix of people of various cultures have molded New Mexico's history.


No Life for a Lady

No Life for a Lady

Author: Agnes Morley Cleaveland

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1977-01-01

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780803258686

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When Agnes Morley Cleaveland was born on a New Mexico cattle ranch in 1874, the term "Wild West" was a reality, not a cliché. In those days cowboys didn't know they were picturesque, horse rustlers were to be handled as seemed best on the occasion, and young ladies thought nothing of punching cows and hunting grizzlies in between school terms.