This extensive volume presents New Mexico history from its prehistoric beginnings to the present in essays and articles by fifty prominent historians and scholars representing various disciplines including history, anthropology, Native American and Chicano studies. Contributors include Rick Hendricks, John L Kessell, Peter Iverson, Rina Swentzell, ...
"Spiders & Spinsters" weaves a tapestry of voices and images--folk, popular, tribal, ancient and contemporary, by women and men, scholars and critics, psychologists and artists--to show how women have fared in classical Greco-Roman, Judeo-Christian, and indigenous American mythologies.
History and description of Brotherhood organization, rites and religious folk arts in Hispanic N.M. and southern Colorado. Dr. Weigle, who teaches at the University of New Mexico, is a noted authority on the Penitente Brotherhood. Etchings by Eli Levin. "... recommended to all who are interested in the culture, religion and arts of Spanish New ...
Both Santa Fe and Taos are well known as important 20th-century American art colonies. This volume focuses on the contributions of the writers, playwrights and poets--D.H. Lawrence, Willa Cather, Robert Frost, Thornton Wilder, Carl Sandburg, John Galsworthy, Sinclair Lewis, and Edna St. Vincent Millay.
First published in 1988, this award-winning compendium of New Mexico's Indian, Hispanic and Anglo traditions is the state's first complete folklore volume. Using a broad range of sources from familiar texts to previously unpublished archival materials, the authors offer examples of story, song, ritual and artefact and also provide historic, ...
Founded in 1925 in Santa Fe, the Spanish Colonial Arts Society has become central to the collection and promotion of traditional Hispanic arts in New Mexico. Its extraordinary collection of some twenty-five hundred objects, both secular and religious, comprises the finest of its kind. Serving as the Society's 'museum on paper' this exceptional two ...
A companion supplement to Weigle's revised 1971 dissertation, "Brothers of Light, Brothers of Blood: The Penitentes of the Southwest," this volume contains 1,233 annotated entries assembled over five years through August 1975. (Christian)
A thoroughly documented history of the Penitente Brotherhood in N.M. and Colo. through the mid-20th cent. Theories about their origins, relationship to historical and ecclesiastical developments, political and social roles. Details of Brotherhood organization and religious rituals as crucial to Hispanic community survival. Weigle is Professor of ...
A Spanish Colonial Arts Society Book published by Ancient City Press and the University of New Mexico Press. E. Boyd was a pre-eminent authority on Spanish colonial arts. Twenty-three distinguished contributors discuss her work; traditional Hispanic arts and their preservation.
Guadalupe (Tia Lupe) Martinez of Cordova and Guadalupe (Lupita) Baca de Gallegos of Las Vegas were interviewed and their folktales collected in the late 1930s by WPA Writers' Project workers Lorin W. Brown and Bright Lynn. Includes biography of Tia Lupe, 5 of her legends; biography of Lupita, 17 magic tales, her granddaughter, Elba C. de Baca's ...
An intriguing collection of archival photographs from the late 1930s and 1940s, depicting women's lives in rural New Mexico. Noted photographers Dorthea Lange, Russell Lee, John Collier, Arthur Rothstein and others produced these compelling images for the Farm Security Administration as part of the WPA project. The images, many showing women ...
Both Santa Fe and Taos are well known as important twentieth-century American art colonies. Until the publication of "Santa Fe and Taos, their fame rested more upon the reputations of resident and visiting artists than on the contributions of the writers, playwrights and poets who lived side-by-side with the artists. Notable among writers who paid ...
Using newly available sources and contemporary materials from the late 1960s and early 1970s, Marta Weigle shows the Brotherhood's substantial contributions to community survival and welfare in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado through the mid-20th century. (Christian)
An intriguing collection of archival photographs from the late 1930s and 1940s, depicting women's lives in rural New Mexico. Noted photographers Dorthea Lange, Russell Lee, John Collier, Arthur Rothstein and others produced these compelling images for the Farm Security Administration as part of the WPA project. The images, many showing women ...
Edition: Facilimie Repriint
Binding: Unbound
Publisher: Ancient City Press
Date Published: 1982
Description: As New. Oversized Newspaper. 17 x 23. In as new condition. Facsimile reprint of "Prominet Artists and Writers of New Mexico, " a 38 page special edition of the Santa fe New Mexican from June 26, 1940. Biographies, autobiographis, photos and works by 150 artists and writers living and working in the Taos and Santa Fe Art Colonies--include Native American Artists. read more
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