An excellent overview of the diversity of Mexican music and its powerful role in society to awaken, narrate, and interpret political consciousness. The essays in Migration, Dislocation, and Place Making in Mexican Popular Music explore a convoluted musical landscape through personal testimonial, cultural history, and musical ethnography. The ......
A new and characteristically innovative work from the School for Advanced Research's Seminar Series. This groundbreaking volume explores how dynamic interactions between human actors, material objects, and metaphysical beliefs shaped and sustained empires. From Han Chinese water management to Xiongnu drinking vessels, from Hittite royal imagery ......
A previously unpublished play by an important 20th-century American writer, with critical essays and annotations. Jean Toomer (1894-1967) was a modernist writer, a member of the Harlem Renaissance, and briefly part of the literary and artistic community that grew up around Mabel Dodge Luhan in Taos, New Mexico. This book, a critical edition of ......
Golems and dybbuks and Nazis, oh my! Jacques Fux, Brazil's answer to Philip Roth, offers a remarkably original and entertaining work of autofiction that is essential reading for those interested in the Jewish experience in Latin America. Winner of Brazil's prestigious Sao Paulo Prize, Jacques Fux's brilliant literary debut novel unveils an ......
A unique history of New Mexico told through the fascinating stories of one hundred representative artifacts from around the state-from the ancient fossilized footprints recently discovered at White Sands to J. Robert Oppenheimer's revolutionary "gadget" that ushered the world into the Atomic Age. Historians continually probe archives, museums, ......
The first book to celebrate Santa Fe's world-famous Plaza Cafe with stories, mouthwatering photographs, and over ninety recipes from the oldest restaurant in continuous service in one of the oldest cities in America. Since 1905 the Plaza Cafe has been serving inspired favorites to Santa Fe locals as well as to destination travelers who seek ......
This fast-paced mystery expands the ChupaCabra folklore into a metaphor that deals with the new powers inherent in science. In this second ChupaCabra mystery, Professor Rosa Medina has just arrived in Santa Fe where she meets Nadine, a mysterious sixteen-year-old who insists that the two of them travel to Roswell, New Mexico. Nadine is ......
The Rise and Decline of Spanish Identity in New Mexico
A genuinely original exploration of Spanish identity among Nuevomexicanos and Nuevomexicanas, a classic cultural theme in Southwest studies. Spanish identity has always been a striking hallmark of New Mexico culture, yet many questions remain about how this unique and provocative construction originated and what it has meant to the state's ......
The Rise and Decline of Spanish Identity in New Mexico
A genuinely original exploration of Spanish identity among Nuevomexicanos and Nuevomexicanas, a classic cultural theme in Southwest studies. Spanish identity has always been a striking hallmark of New Mexico culture, yet many questions remain about how this unique and provocative construction originated and what it has meant to the state's ......