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Los Tucsonenses
The Mexican Community in Tucson, 1854–1941
The Portable Radio in American Life
As an artifact of culture, the portable radio is an unusual but perfect subject for investigation by archaeologist Schiffer. Seeing the history of everyday objects as the history of the life of a people, he shows how the portable radio has reflected changes in American society as surely as clay pots have for ancient cultures.
Blazing the Trail
Waymarks in the Exploration of Symbols
Chilies to Chocolate
Food the Americas Gave the World
Soldiers of the Virgin
In the early summer of 1712, a young Maya woman from the village of Cancuc in southern Mexico encountered an apparition of the Virgin Mary while walking in the forest. The miracle soon attracted Indian pilgrims from pueblos throughout the highlands of Chiapas. When alarmed Spanish authorities stepped in to put a stop to the ...
Songs My Mother Sang to Me
An Oral History of Mexican American Women
The Dawn of Belief
Religion in the Upper Paleolithic of Southwestern Europe
