Download or read book Mayordomo written by Stanley Crawford and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1993-07 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir of the author's experience as a mayordomo, or ditch boss, is the first record of the life of an acequia by a community participant.

Download or read book Beasts of the Field written by Richard Steven Street and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by one of America's preeminent labor historians, this book is the definitive account of one of the most spectacular, captivating, complex and strangely neglected stories in Western history--the emergence of migratory farmworkers and the development of California agriculture. Street has systematically worked his way through a mountain of archival materials--more than 500 manuscript collections, scattered in 22 states, including Spain and Mexico--to follow the farmworker story from its beginnings on Spanish missions into the second decade of the twentieth century. The result is a comprehensive tour de force. Scene by scene, the epic narrative clarifies and breathes new life into a controversial and instructive saga long surrounded by myth, conjecture, and scholarly neglect. With its panoramic view spanning 144 years and moving from the US-Mexico border to Oregon, Beasts of the Field reveals diverse patterns of life and labor in the fields that varied among different crops, regions, time periods, and racial and ethic groups. Enormous in scope, packed with surprising twists and turns, and devastating in impact, this compelling, revelatory work of American social history will inform generations to come of the history of California and the nation.

Download or read book Native American Spirituality written by Lee Irwin and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a stimulating, multidisciplinary set of essays by noted Native and non-Native scholars that explore the problems and prospects of understanding and writing about Native American spirituality in the twenty-first century. Considerable attention is given to the appropriateness and value of different interpretive paradigms for Native religion, including both traditional religion and Native Christianity. The book also investigates the ethics of religious representation, issues of authenticity, the commodification of spirituality, and pedagogical practices. Of special interest is the role of dialogue in expressing and understanding Native American religious beliefs and practices. A final set of essays explores the power of and reactions to Native spirituality from a long-term, historical perspective.

Download or read book 1897 Compiled Laws of New Mexico written by New Mexico and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 1174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Dreamer for the People written by Antonio Buero Vallejo and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buero Vallejo is Spain's most important living playwright. His profound, innovative theatre has earned him success and respect since 1949. Each new play has been an exciting experiment with dramatic form as well as a powerful expression of a tragic view of human life and Spanish society. A Dreamer for the People was first performed in 1958.

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Download or read book The Village Is Like a Wheel written by Roger Magazine and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this modern-day anthropological manifesto, Roger Magazine proposes a radical but commonsense change to the study of people whose understanding of the world differs substantially from our own. Specifically, it argues for a major shift in the prevailing approach to the study of rural highland peoples in Mexico. Using ethnographic material, Roger Magazine builds a convincing case that many of the discipline’s usual topics and approaches distract anthropologists from what is truly important to the people whose lives they study. While Western anthropologists have usually focused on the production of things, such as community, social structure, cultural practices, identities, and material goods—since this is what they see as the appropriate objective of productive action in their own lives—residents of rural highland communities in Mexico (among others) are primarily concerned with what Magazine calls the production of active subjectivity in other persons. According to Magazine, where Western anthropologists often assume that persons are individuals capable of acting on their own to produce things, rural highland Mexicans see persons as inherently interdependent and in need of others even to act. He utilizes the term “active subjectivity” to denote the fact that what they produce in others is not simply action but also a subjective state or attitude of willingness to perform the action. The author’s goals are to improve understandings of rural highland Mexicans’ lives and to contribute to a broader disciplinary effort aimed at revealing the cultural specificity or ethnocentricity of our supposedly universally applicable concepts and theories.

Download or read book Handbook of South American Indians written by Julian Haynes Steward and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 1278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Compiled Laws of New Mexico written by New Mexico and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 1774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Indian Society in the Valley of Lima Peru 1532 1824 written by Paul Charney and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2001 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charney (whose credentials and affiliation are not stated) examines several aspects of the social history of Lima's Indians. Coverage includes the sustained indigenous presence throughout the colonial period; issues of Indian land tenure; the rise of the Indian leadership class made up of both commoners and nobility; the Indian cofradia as a crucial, ethnic-supporting mechanism; the survival of the Indian family, and its adaptation of certain Spanish practices (godparenthood, will-making, dowries). The author argues that despite their incorporation of aspects of Spanish culture, the Indians retained a clear sense of their distinct identity as a people. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Download or read book Lecciones Cristianas libro del maestro trimestre de otono 2015 written by Justo L. González and published by Cokesbury. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lecciones Cristianas tiene como propósito ayudar a las personas adultas hispanas a crecer en su comprensión de la Biblia y relación de ésta con la vida. Lecciones Cristianas sigue la serie de las Lecciones Bíblicas Internacionales. Está escrito especialmente para las iglesias de habla hispana. También hay un Libro del Maestro que provee sugerencias importantes para la enseñanza de cada lección, preguntas para discutir y actividades para la clase. Lecciones Cristianas helps Hispanic adults grow in their knowledge of the Bible and how it relates to their lives. Lecciones Cristianas follows the International Lesson Series. The content of this excellent study is biblical and it is written especially for Spanish-speaking churches. The teacher book provides valuable suggestions for teaching the class, discussion questions, and class activities.

Download or read book A Legacy of Promises written by Guillermo de la Peña and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Children of Coyote Missionaries of Saint Francis written by Steven W. Hackel and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-01-15 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recovering lost voices and exploring issues intimate and institutional, this sweeping examination of Spanish California illuminates Indian struggles against a confining colonial order and amidst harrowing depopulation. To capture the enormous challenges Indians confronted, Steven W. Hackel integrates textual and quantitative sources and weaves together analyses of disease and depopulation, marriage and sexuality, crime and punishment, and religious, economic, and political change. As colonization reduced their numbers and remade California, Indians congregated in missions, where they forged communities under Franciscan oversight. Yet missions proved disastrously unhealthful and coercive, as Franciscans sought control over Indians' beliefs and instituted unfamiliar systems of labor and punishment. Even so, remnants of Indian groups still survived when Mexican officials ended Franciscan rule in the 1830s. Many regained land and found strength in ancestral cultures that predated the Spaniards' arrival. At this study's heart are the dynamic interactions in and around Mission San Carlos Borromeo between Monterey region Indians (the Children of Coyote) and Spanish missionaries, soldiers, and settlers. Hackel places these local developments in the context of the California mission system and draws comparisons between California and other areas of the Spanish Borderlands and colonial America. Concentrating on the experiences of the Costanoan and Esselen peoples during the colonial period, Children of Coyote concludes with an epilogue that carries the story of their survival to the present day.

Download or read book Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan 1648 1812 written by Robert Patch and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1994-04-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the development of human society in Yucatan during the colonial period, this book poses a challenge to a variety of accepted views, including the notion that Yucatan was largely isolated from the main part of Spain's New World empire and thus from international markets and the world economy - an isolation often cited as the principal reason for the extended survival of indigenous culture in the region. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Yucatan society was composed of both Maya and Spanish commonwealths, each with its own economic, social, and political organization. This book represents several new departures, both for what is known about colonial Yucatan and for colonial Latin American history in general. It forces the reader to rethink much of the received knowledge about acculturation, the hacienda, and inter-regional relations.

Download or read book Laws of the Territory of New Mexico written by New Mexico and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tecpan Guatemala written by Edward F Fischer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the indigenous people of Tecpan Guatemala, a predominantly Kaqchikel Maya town in the Guatemalan highlands. It seeks to build on the traditional strengths of ethnography while rejecting overly romantic and isolationist tendencies in the genre.