Geophysical surveys of the lower San Francisco Wilderness study area and contiguous roadless area, Greenlee County, Arizona and Catron and Grant counties, New Mexico

1982 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Geophysical Surveys

Historic Churches of New Mexico Today

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Graziano
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
San Jose ◽  
Pueblo Indians ◽  
New Mexican ◽  
Cultural Legacy ◽  
Attachment To Place ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Church ◽  
Previous Scholarship

Historic Churches of New Mexico Today is an interpretive ethnography based on fieldwork among hispanic villagers, Pueblo Indians, and Mescalero Apaches. The fieldwork was reinforced by extensive research in archives and in previous scholarship. The book presents scholarly interpretations in prose that is accessible, often narrative, at times lyrical, and crafted to convey the experience of researching in New Mexican villages. Descriptive guide information and directions to remote historic churches are provided. Themes treated in the book include the interactions of past and present, the decline of traditions, a sense of place and attachment to place, the church as a cultural legacy, the church in relation to native traditions, resistance to Catholicism, tensions between priests and congregations, maintenance and restoration of historic buildings, and, in general, how the church as a place and devotion as a practice are important (or not) to the identities and everyday lives of individuals and communities. Among many others, the historic churches discussed in the study include the Santuario de Chimayó, San José de Gracia in Las Trampas, San Francisco de Asís in Ranchos de Taos, the village churches of Mora County, St. Joseph Apache Mission in Mescalero, and the mission churches at Laguna, Acoma, and Picurís Pueblos.

The Church of San Francisco in Mexico City

1950 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-30
Author(s):  
Fidel de J. Chauvet
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
The Church

Without Doubt one of the buildings of greatest historical merit in the capital of Mexico is the ancient Church of San Francisco. There, shortly after arriving at the Aztec metropolis, the “Twelve Apostles of Mexico,” Fray Martín de Valencia and his companions established their home. These saintly men through their superhuman missionary activity converted that church into a fervent center of religion and culture. Adjoining the large church, they built the famous college of arts and trades destined especially for the Indian youths, which was directed by that great missionary, Fray Pedro de Gante. From that church and its convent the missionaries set forth to extend their activities southward to Peru, and northward to New Mexico, Colorado and Kansas. With reason, therefore, this ancient sanctuary of San Francisco may be considered the cradle of Christian Mexico, as well as the mother church of the Franciscans in the Americas.

Evaluating the Gridded Agricultural Field Model in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, Using Geophysical Remote Sensing

2020 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 367-382
Author(s):  
Jennie O. Sturm ◽  
W. H. Wills
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
New Mexico ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Field Model ◽  
Ground Level ◽  
Chaco Canyon ◽  
Agricultural Field ◽  
Grid Pattern ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Geophysical Surveys

Recent geophysical remote sensing, including ground-penetrating radar and magnetometry, has been used to investigate three areas within Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, predicted to contain prehispanic agricultural fields. These localities include a well-known but enigmatic area of large grid patterns near the Chetro Ketl great house, which are visible from the air but not at ground level. The gridded area has been interpreted by many researchers as an agricultural field system, and this perspective has in turn been utilized to model agricultural land use throughout the canyon, particularly intensification associated with emergent social complexity. The geophysical surveys revealed evidence of buried features at all three study areas, but the patterns expressed by these features do not clearly conform to the pattern predicted in the gridded agricultural field model. We argue that the surficial grid pattern seen at the Chetro Ketl field is an unusual example of land modification in the canyon and thus unlikely to represent typical Chacoan agricultural field systems. Instead, canyon residents employed a diverse range of agricultural techniques suited to the variable and patchy nature of canyon hydrology and soils.

Sources of Archaeological Obsidian in the Southwest: An Archaeological, Petrological, and Geochemical Study

1988 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 752-772 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Steven Shackley
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Volcanic Field ◽  
Technical Problems ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Northern Arizona ◽  
Geochemical Study ◽  
Chemical Variability ◽  
Geochemical Studies ◽  
Silicic Glass

Comprehensive geochemical studies of archaeological obsidian sources in the Southwest typically have lagged behind other regions of North American and Mesoamerica. Current archaeological and petrological research indicates four previously unreported sources in Arizona, Sonora, and western New Mexico. This initial semiquantitative X-ray fluorescence (XRF) examination of archaeological silicic-glass sources in this region focuses on current technical problems in southwestern obsidian studies. The chemical variability within some regional obsidian sources appears to be relatively extensive and new data from the San Francisco volcanic field in northern Arizona modifies the results of earlier researchers.

La Conquistadora: A Conquering Virgin Meets Her Match

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 245-268
Author(s):  
Ann Marie Leimer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Mexico ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
The United States ◽  
Native Peoples ◽  
Marian Devotion ◽  
New Mexican ◽  
Page Book

‭The Mexican Museum in San Francisco commissioned Delilah Montoya to produce a contemporary codex for the 1992 exhibition “The Chicano Codices: Encountering Art of the Americas,” which sought to critique Quincentennial observances erasing indigenous presence. The artist created a seven-page book, Codex Delilah, Six-Deer: Journey from Mexicatl to Chicana, that depicted the consequences of the initial American-European encounter, and she used the heroine Six-Deer to visually record women’s contributions to this 500-year history. In the codex’s fourth panel, Six-Deer comes across Adora-la-Conquistadora, the artist’s revisioning of the New Mexican Catholic icon of Our Lady of the Rosary, La Conquistadora, the oldest figure of Marian devotion in the United States. Six-Deer contests the designs of the Virgin, who intends to forcefully convert the native peoples of New Mexico. Rather than capitulate, Six-Deer refuses to participate in New Mexico’s Reconquista of 1692. Although Montoya appropriated La Conquistadora’s traditional sartorial splendor, she proposed an alternate reading of this Conquering Virgin. This article reads Montoya’s depiction within the dimensions of La Conquistadora’s historical, religious, cultural, and iconographic contexts.‬

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