Publications
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Mexican Americans in a Dallas Barrio
(1978)
This book vividly describes day-to-day barrio life in Dallas. Achor’s portrayal of the residents challenges stereotypes of traditional Mexican American culture and southwestern barrio life.
The Presidio and Militia on the Northern Frontier of New Spain: A Documentary History, Volume Two, Part One
(1997)
Acclaimed by readers and reviewers alike, the first volume of The Presidio and Militia on the Northern Frontier of New Spain was a landmark in the documentary study of seventeenth-century Spanish Colonial Mexico. Here, ...
Crosscurrents Along the Colorado
(1981)
When in 1893 the Quechan Indians of Fort Yuma, California, gave up tracts of fertile farmland in the Colorado River basin in return for Federal aid, they hardly could have anticipated the ensuing deterioration of their ...
Massacre on the Gila
(1986)
"The careful reconstruction of the September 1, 1857 battle at Maricopa Wells, combined with the thorough and well-written summary of available information on patterns of regional conflict, makes this book a valuable ...
Grenville Goodwin Among the Western Apache
(1973)
Grenville Goodwin was one of the leading field anthropologists during a crucial period in American Indian research—the 1930s. His letters from the field provide original source material on Western Apache beliefs and customs. ...
The Social Organization of the Western Apache
(1969)
Presents an in-depth historical reconstruction and a detailed ethnographic account of the Western Apache culture based on firsthand observations made over a span of nearly ten years in the field The Social Organization of ...
Pachuco
(1969)
George Carpenter Barker's first major research project was field work in Tucson, Arizona on the function of language in a situation of culture contact. The results of his doctoral dissertation, "Social Functions of Language ...
Pascua
(2019)
The Yaqui of Mexico were early converts to Christianity in New Spain. Yet they came to be regarded with hostility by the newly emerging Mexican government. Many Yaquis fled Mexico in the early twentieth century and established ...
With Good Heart
(1986)
Muriel Painter's account of Yaqui beliefs and ceremonies is based on her firsthand observations over the course of four decades. By the time Painter died in 1974, she was as familiar with Yaqui culture as on outsider could ...
Born a Chief
(1993)
"Extraordinary memoir. . . . His story will break your heart."—El Palacio "This story was fascinating. . . . One worth the telling and one which will stay with the reader."—American Desert Magazine "Recommended."—Choice