Download or read book Culture and Environment in the American Southwest written by David A. Phillips (Jr.) and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays on ancient Indian culture in the Southwest includes tributes to pre-Columbian studies scholar Dr. Robert C. Euler.
Download or read book Plant Geography and Culture History in the American Southwest written by George Francis Carter and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Culture in the American Southwest written by Keith L. Bryant and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If the Southwest is known for its distinctive regional culture, it is not only the indigenous influences that make it so. As Anglo Americans moved into the territories of the greater Southwest, they brought with them a desire to reestablish the highest culture of their former homes: opera, painting, sculpture, architecture, and literature. But their inherited culture was altered, challenged, and reshaped by Native American and Hispanic peoples, and a new, vibrant cultural life resulted. From Houston to Los Angeles, from Tulsa to Tucson, Keith L. Bryant traces the development of "high culture" in the Southwest. Humans create culture, but in the Southwest, Bryant argues, the land itself has also influenced that creation. "Incredible light, natural grandeur, . . . and a geography at once beautiful and yet brutal molded societies that sprang from unique cultural sources." The peoples of the American Southwest share a regional consciousness—an experience of place—that has helped to create a unified, but not homogenized, Southwestern culture. Bryant also examines a paradox of Southwestern cultural life. Southwesterners take pride in their cultural distinctiveness, yet they struggled to win recognition for their achievements in "high culture." A dynamic tension between those seeking to re-create a Western European culture and those desiring one based on regional themes and resources continues to stimulate creativity. Decade by decade and city by city, Bryant charts the growth of cultural institutions and patronage as he describes the contributions of artists and performers and of the elites who support them. Bryant focuses on the significant role women played as leaders in the formation of cultural institutions and as writers, artists, and musicians. The text is enhanced by more than fifty photographs depicting the interplay between the people and the land and the culture that has resulted.
Download or read book The American Southwest written by Lynn Irwin Perrigo and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Southwest written by Lynn Irwin Perrigo and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Discovering Past Behavior written by Paul Grebinger and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1978 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1978. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST ITS PEOPLE AND CULTURES written by Lynn I. Perrigo and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Great Aridness written by William deBuys and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its soaring azure sky and stark landscapes, the American Southwest is one of the most hauntingly beautiful regions on earth. Yet staggering population growth, combined with the intensifying effects of climate change, is driving the oasis-based society close to the brink of a Dust-Bowl-scale catastrophe. In A Great Aridness, William deBuys paints a compelling picture of what the Southwest might look like when the heat turns up and the water runs out. This semi-arid land, vulnerable to water shortages, rising temperatures, wildfires, and a host of other environmental challenges, is poised to bear the heaviest consequences of global environmental change in the United States. Examining interrelated factors such as vanishing wildlife, forest die backs, and the over-allocation of the already stressed Colorado River--upon which nearly 30 million people depend--the author narrates the landscape's history--and future. He tells the inspiring stories of the climatologists and others who are helping untangle the complex, interlocking causes and effects of global warming. And while the fate of this region may seem at first blush to be of merely local interest, what happens in the Southwest, deBuys suggests, will provide a glimpse of what other mid-latitude arid lands worldwide--the Mediterranean Basin, southern Africa, and the Middle East--will experience in the coming years. Written with an elegance that recalls the prose of John McPhee and Wallace Stegner, A Great Aridness offers an unflinching look at the dramatic effects of climate change occurring right now in our own backyard.
Download or read book Evolving Complexity And Environmental Risk In The Prehistoric Southwest written by Joseph A. Tainter and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how and why prehistoric Southwestern societies changed in complexity, and offers important new perspectives on evolution of culture. It discusses the factors that made prehistoric Southwesterners vulnerable to an arid environment, and their strategies to lessen risk and stress.
Download or read book The Southwest in American Literature and Art written by David Warfield Teague and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1997-10 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By analyzing ways in which indigenous cultures described the American Southwest, David Teague persuasively argues against the destructive approach that Americans currently take to the region. Included are Native American legends and Spanish and Hispanic literature. As he traces ideas about the desert, Teague shows how literature and art represent the Southwest as a place to be sustained rather than transformed. 14 illustrations.
Download or read book The American Southwest Resource Book The people and the culture written by Jane Kurtz and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information and suggests resources and activities for understanding all aspects of Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas, and for seeing these states as a distinct region.
Download or read book The Culture of Tourism the Tourism of Culture written by William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Southwest has long been an American dreamscape, and inherently this has had its affect on the land and its people. Among other topics discussed in the package of essays is how the area is transformed by tourism and how native people gain autonomy by presenting their experiences and cultures to tourists.
Download or read book The People written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to the Native peoples of the American Southwest.
Download or read book A Conference on the Culture of the American Southwest and Northern Mexico presented in Cooperation with the Rockefeller Foundation and the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation Occidental College Los Angeles April 3 4 5 1952 written by Occidental College and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a typed report on a conference on the culture of the American Southwest and Northern Mexico that took place at Occidental College in Los Angeles from April 3-5, 1952, presented in cooperation with the Rockefeller Foundation and the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation. The report does not name an author, but provides the following table of contents: Keynote address on Southwesten Culture; Round Table on Southwestern Literature; Address: "Social Research in Southwestern Culture"; Panel on Art of the Southwest; Panel on Social Psychology of the Southwest; Address: "The Effect of the Geographical Environment on Southwestern Culture"; Panel on Economic Problems of the Southwest; Panel on Music of the Southwest; Address: "The Cultural Relationship Between Mexico and the American Southwest"; Panel on Films as Interpreters of the American Southwest; Panel on Social Problems of the Southwest; Plenary Session
Download or read book Consuming the American Southwest written by Molly H. Mullin and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Climate and Man in the Southwest written by American Association for the Advancement of Science. Southwestern and Rocky Mountain Division and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plant geography and culture history in the American Southwest written by George F. Carter and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
