Communities In New Mexico Research Articles

Response to Robert H. Jackson

We are pleased to have been given an opportunity to respond to the comments of Robert H. Jackson on our analysis of the sacramental records from Pecos Pueblo. Comments of substance will be useful in continuing study of the Pecos materials and the records from other New Mexico missions. We published the raw data to allow other researchers the opportunity to prepare their own interpretations of the sacramental data. We believe, however, that Dr. Jackson's admittedly cursory review of our work has led him to some incorrect conclusions of his own. We recognize the need for more in-depth comparison of the Pecos Pueblo data with other Pueblo and Hispanic communities in New Mexico, and we agree with Dr. Jackson that the mission experiences of the California and Texas indigenous groups are an important comparison as well. Pecos, in particular, was a different mission community from those we are familiar with in Texas and California. Pecos was not a congregacion such as described by Jackson (I994a, I994b) in Texas and California. The Pecos were not resettled into a mission enclave by the priests; rather, the priests entered an established population center and achieved their converts at Pecos through a long process of negotiation and accommodation (Kessell I979; Ivey i996). This may be significant in distinguishing the experiences among the New Mexico missions and the missions in California and Texas. Dr. Jackson raises some points in his review that we think clarify our analyses. We note that the description of an ailment as toz y dolor de costado was likely a respiratory ailment and certainly do not dispute Dr. Jackson's suggestion that it was likely pneumonia, which may indicate a pattern of seasonal mortality related to weather. Other episodic patterns of weather and famine-related deaths may also have occurred at Pecos. Dr. Jackson

Freirian praxis in health education: research results from an adolescent prevention program.

This article illustrates how Paulo Freire's social change theory can be integrated with a cognitive and behavior change theory to develop a comprehensive health education program directed at both individual- and community-level change. Through discussion of ASAP, an alcohol and substance abuse prevention program for youth from high-risk communities in New Mexico, this article presents an interweaving of Freirian theory and protection-motivation cognitive change theory. Qualitative research data are provided on the processes of change, the interplay of personal and societal factors, and the potential outcomes as a result of using this integrated approach. Programmatic and evaluation implications for health education programs are discussed.

The Ramah Navajo Child-to-Child Program

The international CHILD-to-child program, conceptualized by Dr. David Morley of the University of London, is based on the concept that children in developing nations act as caregivers, teachers, and health workers in their families and communities. The critical component in the program is the ability and willingness of children to become actively involved as care givers. CHILD-to-child is an action-oriented approach that draws upon a vast reservoir of similar programs that have been successful in over forty developing countries of the Third World. Similarities between the Ramah Navajo Community in New Mexico and many Third World nations served as a stimulus in the initiation and development of this project. The Ramah Navajo CHILD-to-child Health Education Project involved the development of a school health education curriculum that supported Native American children in a community-based effort to improve the quality of health care and the standard of living for their families. With funding from the U.S. Department of Education as a national demonstration project, a needs assessment was conducted and a seven-unit curriculum was developed.

The Communal Experience: Anarchist and Mystical Communities in Twentieth-Century America.

original impulse for groups to separate from society and establish communities of their own was religious. Though the religious side of this drive toward separation remains strong, the last two centuries have seen the appearance of secular communities with a socialist or anarchist orientation. In The Communal Experience, nominated for a National Book Award in 1973, Laurence Veysey explores the close resemblances between the secular and religious forms of cultural radicalism through intensive observation of four little-known communities. Veysey compares the history of secular communities such as the early Ferrer Colony and Modern School, of Shelton, New Jersey, with contemporary anarchist communities in New York, Vermont, and New Mexico. Religious communes-Communities of Discipline-such as the Vedanta monasteries of the early twentieth century are compared with contemporary mystical communities in New Mexico. Distinctions between the anarchist and the mystical groups are most obvious from their approach to communal life. As Veysey shows, anarchist communities are loose, unstructured, voluntaristic; the mystics establish more rigid life-styles, focus on spiritual leaders, and hold community a secondary goal to self-realization. In a new preface written for this Phoenix Edition, he describes his return to a New Mexican mystical community and the changes that have occurred in the six years since his last visit.

El Cerrito, A Camera Report on a Typical Spanish-American Community in New Mexico

El Cerrito, A Camera Report on a Typical Spanish-American Community in New Mexico

Food in War and Peace

Book reviewed in this article:Food in War and Peace History of the United States Food Administration, 1917–1919. By WILLIAM CLINTON MULLENDOREShortage of Victory. By Gabriel Javsicas.A Camera Report on El Cerrito: A Typical Spanish American Community in New Mexico. By Irving Rusinow.Conflict: The American Civil War. By George Fort Milton.Pea for an Age Movement. By Ralph Barton Perry.Municipal Progress Since 1909. The American CitySamuel Butler's Rise to Fame. By Lee Elbert HoltIntellectual and Social Progress in the Ancient Near East. By E. A. Speiser.From the Dreyfvs Affair to France Today. By Hannah ArendtOtoe Landmarks in the History of the Department of Agriculture. By T. Swann Harding