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Book The Zanjeras of Ilocos

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  • Author : José A. Rivera
  • Publisher : Ateneo de Manila University Press
  • Release : 2020
  • ISBN : 9789715509497
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Zanjeras of Ilocos written by José A. Rivera and published by Ateneo de Manila University Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zanjeras are resource management institutions that have endured for centuries in the Ilocos region of northern Luzon. By most accounts, these cooperative irrigation societies emerged during the Spanish regime when Augustinians were deployed to congregate indigenous populations into pueblos, convert them to Christianity, and raise tributes for the Crown. The book explores these challenges and proposes actions that governmental bodies can undertake to strengthen the adaptive capacity of zanjeras and other irrigation communities around the world.

Book Querencia

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  • Author : Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez
  • Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
  • Release : 2020-06-15
  • ISBN : 0826361617
  • Pages : 377 pages

Download or read book Querencia written by Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Mexico cultural envoy Juan Estevan Arellano, to whom this work is dedicated, writes that querencia “is that which gives us a sense of place, that which anchors us to the land, that which makes us a unique people, for it implies a deeply rooted knowledge of place, and for that reason we respect it as our home.” This sentiment is echoed in the foreword by Rudolfo Anaya, in which he writes that “querencia is love of home, love of place.” This collection of both deeply personal reflections and carefully researched studies explores the New Mexico homeland through the experiences and perspectives of Chicanx and indigenous/Genízaro writers and scholars from across the state. The importance of querencia for each contributor is apparent in their work and their ongoing studies, which have roots in the culture, history, literature, and popular media of New Mexico. Be inspired and enlightened by these essays and discover the history and belonging that is querencia.

Book A History of New Mexico

Download or read book A History of New Mexico written by Susan A. Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A textbook tracing the history of New Mexico's land and people from the Ice Age to the present.

Book New Mexico

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  • Author : Marc Simmons
  • Publisher : UNM Press
  • Release : 2004-11-16
  • ISBN : 9780826335098
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book New Mexico written by Marc Simmons and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2004-11-16 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A textbook discussing the state's history, government, economy, geography, and culture.

Book Understories

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  • Author : Jake Kosek
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2006-12-08
  • ISBN : 9780822338475
  • Pages : 414 pages

Download or read book Understories written by Jake Kosek and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-12-08 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Place Names of New Mexico

Download or read book The Place Names of New Mexico written by Robert Julyan and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The indispensable traveler's guide to the history of places throughout the Land of Enchantment.

Book An Illustrated History of New Mexico

Download or read book An Illustrated History of New Mexico written by Thomas E. Chavez and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combines more than two hundred photographs and a concise history to create an engaging, panoramic view of New Mexico's fascinating past.

Book New Mexico

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  • Author : Lucian Niemeyer
  • Publisher : UNM Press
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780826332578
  • Pages : 176 pages

Download or read book New Mexico written by Lucian Niemeyer and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internationally renowned photographer Lucian Niemeyer and National Park Service historian Art G?mez have combined talents in a new presentation on New Mexico. Niemeyer's more than 150 color photographs encompass the entire state throughout the seasons presenting New Mexico's people, cultures, and magnificent scenery at the millennium. G?mez's sweeping history views the state in terms of corridors, geographic as well as cultural. New Mexico's mountains, deserts, and rivers form natural corridors that migrating birds and animals have traditionally used for survival. Navigating these same corridors across the state, human cultures of Paleo, Plains and Pueblo Indians, Hispanos, and Anglos forged viable communities on the astringent New Mexican landscape. Pueblo ancestors migrated from austere environments throughout the Southwest to more inviting surroundings on the Rio Grande. Plains Indians from the north and Hispano tradesmen from the south converged via the Camino Real. American settlers migrated west along the Santa Fe Trail, the southernmost corridor around the formidable Rocky Mountains. Improved transportation such as the railroad and later Route 66, precursors to the interstate highway system, annually lured new inhabitants to this compelling land called New Mexico.

Book America  New Mexico

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  • Author : Robert Leonard Reid
  • Publisher : University of Arizona Press
  • Release : 1998-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780816518760
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book America New Mexico written by Robert Leonard Reid and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Public Education in New Mexico

Download or read book Public Education in New Mexico written by John B. Mondragón and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The structure, politics, and financing of education in New Mexico today.

Book Amphibians and Reptiles of New Mexico

Download or read book Amphibians and Reptiles of New Mexico written by William G. Degenhardt and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive reference source covering the 123 species of amphibians and reptiles found in New Mexico, including over 130 color plates and 100 maps.

Book The University of New Mexico

Download or read book The University of New Mexico written by Vincent Barrett Price and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Reck beautifully captures the unique campus and architecture of the University of New Mexico.

Book New Mexico Mathematics Contest Problem Book

Download or read book New Mexico Mathematics Contest Problem Book written by Liong-shin Hahn and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Mexico Mathematics Contest for high-school students has been held annually since 1966. Each November, thousands of middle- and high-school students from all over New Mexico converge to battle with elementary but tricky math problems. The 200 highest-scoring students meet for the second round the following February at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque where they listen to a prominent mathematician give a keynote lecture, have lunch, and then get down to round two, an even more challenging set of mathematical mind-twisters. Liong-shin Hahn was charged with the task of creating a new set of problems each year for the New Mexico Mathematics Contest, 1990-1999. In this volume, Hahn has collected the 138 best problems to appear in these contests over the last decades. They range from the simple to the highly challenging--none are trivial. The solutions contain many clever analyses and often display uncommon ingenuity. His questions are always interesting and relevant to teenage contestants. Young people training for competitions will not only learn a great deal of useful mathematics from this book but, and this is much more important, they will take a step toward learning to love mathematics.

Book The Spell of New Mexico

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  • Author : Tony Hillerman
  • Publisher : UNM Press
  • Release : 1984-05
  • ISBN : 9780826307767
  • Pages : 118 pages

Download or read book The Spell of New Mexico written by Tony Hillerman and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1984-05 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famous writers tell of the fascination of New Mexico.

Book EDUCATION and the AMERICAN INDIAN

Download or read book EDUCATION and the AMERICAN INDIAN written by Margaret Szasz and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Our New Mexico

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  • Author : Calvin A. Roberts
  • Publisher : UNM Press
  • Release : 2006-01-16
  • ISBN : 9780826340085
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book Our New Mexico written by Calvin A. Roberts and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2006-01-16 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twentieth century New Mexico history for high school courses.

Book Inside the New Mexico Senate

Download or read book Inside the New Mexico Senate written by Dede Feldman and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Completely honest and highly informative. To look at a legislative body is to observe democracy in the raw—with all its diverse characters and influences and its many conflicts, compromises, and achievements. Dede Feldman, a first-rate observer and chronicler, shows us the insides of the New Mexico State Senate.”—Fred Harris, former U.S. Senator and professor emeritus of political science, University of New Mexico Elected to New Mexico’s state senate in 1996, Dede Feldman faced the challenges that confront state legislators around the country along with some that are uniquely New Mexican. In this forthright account of the workings of New Mexico’s legislature, she reveals how the work of governing is actually accomplished. In New Mexico’s part-time citizen legislature, Spanish may be spoken in the halls of the capitol as often as English, and Native American issues are often pivotal. But each year the Land of Enchantment’s legislators, like those in other states, must balance revenues and expenditures, tangle with lobbyists, and struggle with redistricting and campaign finance reform. State legislatures’ approaches to air pollution, drunk driving, and chronic disease, Feldman’s book reveals, find their way into national law after they’ve been road tested on the highways of various states.