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Journal of the Southwest
This journal publishes articles, essays and reviews regarding the Greater Southwest history, folklore, politics, borderland studies, anthropology, and more.
Articles from Vol. 42, No. 4, Winter
Adelina "Nina" Otero-Warren: A Spanish-American Cultural Broker
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"What is in a name?" This is the oft-quoted question from Shakespeare's tragic clash of two family cultures, Romeo and Juliet. For Adelina "Nina" Otero-Warren the answer to that query might possibly be a transforming identity at the intersection of...
Mail-Order "Katsinam" and the Issue of Authenticity
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Alongside such items as Nighty Nite Frog Pillows, sweaters in mallard, buttercream, or cobblestone, and Power Rangers Remote Control Megazords, imitation Hopi tithu (katsina [plural katsinam] dolls or figurines, singular tihu) have been sold through...
Pictorial Images of Spanish North America
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On October 31, 1988, the Museum of New Mexico acquired legal title to two surviving polychrome paintings on hide sent from Sonora by the Jesuit missionary Philipp Segesser von Brunegg to his family in Switzerland in 1761 (T. Chavez 1989, 1990). First...
Some Aspects of the Aztec Religion in the Hopi Kachina Cult
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The origins of the kachina cult of the Southwest have been, and continue to be, a matter of some debate. Theories abound. Some perceive the cult growing in a cocoon of isolation among the aggregated prehistoric pueblos of the Little Colorado and Rio...
Survival of Early Christian Symbolism in Monastic Churches of New Spain and Visions of the Millennial Kingdom
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The architectural arrangement of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century monastic establishments founded in the New World for the conversion to Christianity of indigenous people was the ultimate development of traditions whose origins date to the very beginning...
Travel Writing, Sentimental Romance, and Indian Rights Advocacy: The Politics of Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona
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Dismissed as "sentimental slop" by Raymond Chandler during the 1950s, Helen Hunt Jackson's novel Ramona, published in 1884 to dramatize the plight of Indians displaced from their southern California homelands, has long been criticized as a politically...
