Saints of the Pueblos

Saints of the Pueblos

Author: Charles M. Carrillo

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13:

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Explores the patron saints and the pottery traditions of each of the Pueblos of New Mexico.


A Companion to American Indian History

A Companion to American Indian History

Author: Philip J. Deloria

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13: 1405143789

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A Companion to American Indian History captures the thematic breadth of Native American history over the last forty years. Twenty-five original essays by leading scholars in the field, both American Indian and non-American Indian, bring an exciting modern perspective to Native American histories that were at one time related exclusively by Euro-American settlers. Contains 25 original essays by leading experts in Native American history. Covers the breadth of American Indian history, including contacts with settlers, religion, family, economy, law, education, gender issues, and culture. Surveys and evaluates the best scholarship on every important era and topic. Summarizes current debates and anticipates future concerns.


A Native American Encyclopedia

A Native American Encyclopedia

Author: Barry Pritzker

Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 630

ISBN-13: 9780195138771

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Dispelling myths, answering questions, and stimulating thoughtful avenues for further inquiry, this highly absorbing reference provides a wealth of specific information about over 200 North American Indian groups in Canada and the United States. Readers will easily access important historical and contemporary facts about everything from notable leaders and relations with non-natives to customs, dress, dwellings, weapons, government, and religion. This book is at once exhaustive and captivating, covering myriad aspects of a people spread across a continent. Divided into ten geographic areas for easy reference, this work illustrates each Native American group in careful detail. Listed alphabetically, starting with the tribal name, translation, origin, and definition, each entry includes significant facts about the group's location and population, as well as impressive accounts of the group's history and culture. Bringing entries up-to-date, Barry Pritzker also presents current information on each group's government, economy, legal status, and land holdings. Whether interpreting the term "tribe" (many traditional Native American groups were not tribes at all but more like extended families) or describing how a Shoshone woman served as a guide on the Lewis and Clark expedition, Pritzker always presents the material in a clear and lively manner. In light of past and ongoing injustices and the momentum of Indian and Inuit self-determination movements, an understanding of Native American cultures as well as their contributions to contemporary society becomes increasingly important. A magnificent resource, this book liberally provides the essential information necessary to better grasp the history and cultures of North American Indians.


The Art of Being In-between

The Art of Being In-between

Author: Yanna Yannakakis

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2008-06-25

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 0822388987

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In The Art of Being In-between Yanna Yannakakis rethinks processes of cultural change and indigenous resistance and accommodation to colonial rule through a focus on the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca, a rugged, mountainous, ethnically diverse, and overwhelmingly indigenous region of colonial Mexico. Her rich social and cultural history tells the story of the making of colonialism at the edge of empire through the eyes of native intermediary figures: indigenous governors clothed in Spanish silks, priests’ assistants, interpreters, economic middlemen, legal agents, landed nobility, and “Indian conquistadors.” Through political negotiation, cultural brokerage, and the exercise of violence, these fascinating intercultural figures redefined native leadership, sparked indigenous rebellions, and helped forge an ambivalent political culture that distinguished the hinterlands from the centers of Spanish empire. Through interpretation of a wide array of historical sources—including descriptions of public rituals, accounts of indigenous rebellions, idolatry trials, legal petitions, court cases, land disputes, and indigenous pictorial histories—Yannakakis weaves together an elegant narrative that illuminates political and cultural struggles over the terms of local rule. As cultural brokers, native intermediaries at times reconciled conflicting interests, and at other times positioned themselves in opposing camps over the outcome of municipal elections, the provision of goods and labor, landholding, community ritual, the meaning of indigenous “custom” in relation to Spanish law, and representations of the past. In the process, they shaped an emergent “Indian” identity in tension with other forms of indigenous identity and a political order characterized by a persistent conflict between local autonomy and colonial control. This innovative study provides fresh insight into colonialism’s disparate cultures and the making of race, ethnicity, and the colonial state and legal system in Spanish America.


Encyclopedia of New Mexico

Encyclopedia of New Mexico

Author: Nancy Capace

Publisher: Somerset Publishers, Inc.

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 0403096073

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The Encyclopedia of New Mexico contains detailed information on States: Symbols and Designations, Geography, Archaeology, State History, Local History on individual cities, towns and counties, Chronology of Historic Events in the State, Profiles of Governors, Political Directory, State Constitution, Bibliography of books about the state and an Index.


Archaeologies of the Pueblo Revolt

Archaeologies of the Pueblo Revolt

Author: Robert W. Preucel

Publisher: UNM Press

Published: 2007-03-16

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780826342461

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Archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, and Native American scholars offer new views of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 that emphasize the transformative roles of material culture in mediating Pueblo Indian strategies of resistance and Colonial Spanish structures of domination.


Insiders' Guide® to Albuquerque

Insiders' Guide® to Albuquerque

Author: Tania Casselle

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2010-04-13

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0762762780

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Insiders' Guide to Albuquerque is the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information to one of New Mexico's most colorful cities. Written by a local (and true insider), this guide offers a personal and practical perspective of Albuquerque and its surrounding environs.


Encyclopedia of New York Indians

Encyclopedia of New York Indians

Author:

Publisher: North American Book Dist LLC

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 0403093260

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This encyclopedia includes a brief history of Native peoples in New York State, followed by short entries about important figures, specific tribes and place names. Volume 2 of the set includes the text of treaties between Native tribes and nations and State and Federal governments of the United States.


Culinary Art and Anthropology

Culinary Art and Anthropology

Author: Joy Adapon

Publisher: Berg

Published: 2008-08-01

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 184788606X

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Culinary Art and Anthropology is an anthropological study of food. It focuses on taste and flavour using an original interpretation of Alfred Gell's theory of the 'art nexus'. Grounded in ethnography, it explores the notion of cooking as an embodied skill and artistic practice. The integral role and concept of 'flavour' in everyday life is examined among cottage industry barbacoa makers in Milpa Alta, an outer district of Mexico City. Women's work and local festive occasions are examined against a background of material on professional chefs who reproduce 'traditional' Mexican cooking in restaurant settings. Including recipes to allow readers to practise the art of Mexican cooking, Culinary Art and Anthropology offers a sensual, theoretically sophisticated model for understanding food anthropologically. It will appeal to social scientists, food lovers, and those interested in the growing fields of food studies and the anthropology of the senses.