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This beautiful book explores the origins, influences, development and appreciation of flamenco as a highly respected art form on the world stage. This folkloric tradition of music, song, and dance began in the caves of Andalusia and was shaped over centuries by a multitude of cultural and regional influences, including Roman, Jewish, Greek, Indian, and Moorish. Flamenco's introduction to the U.S. in the roaring twenties coincided with a "Spani...

Over eighteen sites have been designated as State Monuments in New Mexico, more than any other state in the country. This book provides a brief history and overview of each of the monuments including Coronado (1935), Jemez (1940), Fort Sumner (1968), Fort Selden (1973), and Lincoln (1976), as well as two 2005 designations: El Camino Real Heritage Center and El Bosque Redondo Memorial. Includes chronology, maps, and visitor information.

A Painter's Kitchen highlights Georgia O'Keeffe's creativity--not on canvas, but in the kitchen--where she took great pride in her healthy culinary style. The meals served in her household focused on homegrown and natural foods. This new edition features a new cover and a new foreword by celebrated cookbook author and local food advocate Deborah Madison.

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Called the "godfather of American herbalists, " Michael Moore first published his celebrated "Medicinal Plants of the Mountain West in 1979. A lot has changed in the field of botanical medicine in the intervening years. Drawing on research over his thirty-five-year career as a teacher, merchant, and alternative-medicine practitioner, Moore updates and revises his guide to further expose the botanical wealth of the mountain west region. Accessi...

Illustrated with 100+ political posters made between 1960 and 1990, this book documents the sociopolitical history of Latin America during a period of intense radicalism and upheaval. Essays by leading Latin American scholars discuss how these icons of popular struggle united the masses and influenced political and social reform.

Illustrated with 100+ political posters made between 1960 and 1990, this book documents the sociopolitical history of Latin America during a period of intense radicalism and upheaval. Essays by leading Latin American scholars discuss how these icons of popular struggle united the masses and influenced political and social reform.

Beginning in 1994, award-winning photographer and installation artist Kathy T Hettinga began a fourteen-year project to document an unknown body of funerary folk art displayed in the cemeteries of rural and largely Hispanic communities in the San Luis Valley in southern Colorado. Her photographs of unique grave markers made of wood, concrete, metal, sandstone, glass and other materials by individuals or families to commemorate the passing of l...

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, Sylvia Rodriguez, William deBuys, Robert J. Torrez, Malcolm Ebright, Herman Agoyo, and Paula Gun...

Available for the first time in paperback. Maria Martinez, one of the most famous American Indian artists of the 20th century, elevated a regional art form of magnificent burnished black ware pottery into one of international recognition and acclaim.

An important book for those who love the West and are concerned about the natural world and the sacredness of all life (not just human beings). Joseph Marshall III also addresses issues common to contemporary Native Americans, such as the definition of 'Indian art' and the stereotypical Indian portrayed in film.

Regarded as one of the great masters of Pueblo ceramics, Margaret Tafoya (1904-2001) is known for her trademark large black polished ceramics, decoraded with traditional imagery of rain clouds, water serpents, bear paws, and other symbols. An award-winning artist, she was recipient of the Lifetime Acheivement Award from the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts, and a National Heritage Fellowship.

The Galisteo Basin is an ancient seabed, site of volcanic upheaval. The fertile basin provided temporary hunting and farming grounds for wanderers, and then became the home of Pueblo peoples who survived drought, warfare, disease, and invasion for almost a thousand years before the arrival of the Spanish. Down Country is the history of five centuries of the Southern Tewa Pueblo Indian culture that rose, faltered, reasserted itself, and ultimat...

This travel narrative goes beyond the roadside neon, using architecture as a means to explore the Route 66 history in New Mexico in four lively driving tours. For any Route 66 buff or traveler that wants an interesting look at New Mexico, this book takes a fresh look at its well worn subject--America's Mother Road.

Navajo-made souvenir spoons once were all the rage sparked by the Victorian love of cutlery and endured through World War II with the nation's obsession with commemorative silver. These spoons are now ardently sought after by collectors and institutions alike as rare mementos of Navajo artistry. This book, the first to take an historical look at Navajo spoons, examines the Navajo smiths' incredible skill and invention that is evident in the fu...

This heartfelt novel for ages 9-12 describes the life of Miguel Rivera, who illegally enters the United States with his parents when he is five.

This book -- companion to a permanent exhibit at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (Museum of New Mexico) -- is an inspirational collection of native thoughts on place, history, tradition, and change. The voices represent Indian scholars, artists and writers from various southwestern tribes speaking to themes of origin, cycles, community and survival.

Plant biologist and former National Park Service ecologist William W. Dunmire and ethnobotanist Gail D. Tierney incorporate exhaustive research, including interviews with Indian elders, in two popular guidebooks that combine information on native and ancient traditional uses of wild plants with contemporary uses. Wild Plants of the Pueblo Province covers the pueblo villages of the Rio Grande valley, while their second book, Wild Plants of the ...

Navajo medicine man Charlie Willeto (1897-1964) was also an artist -- known for his rituatist figures of human and animal forms that carry the potency of the Navajo spirit while transcending to the realm of the mythic -- who took up carving late in his life and found himself at the forefront of Navajo folk artists. This book presents some one-hundred of Willeto's alluring visionary figures, and the accompanying essays discuss Willeto's remarka...

Navajo medicine man Charlie Willeto (1897-1964) was also an artist -- known for his rituatist figures of human and animal forms that carry the potency of the Navajo spirit while transcending to the realm of the mythic -- who took up carving late in his life and found himself at the forefront of Navajo folk artists. This book presents some one-hundred of Willeto's alluring visionary figures, and the accompanying essays discuss Willeto's remarka...