Perhaps Ramon Gutierrez was attempting something cute and postmodern when he titled and arranged the contents of his book, When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846. Despite the promise of the title, perhaps only a third gets devoted to marriage and issues of power (allegedly...
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Ramón Gutierrez’s book When Jesus Came, The Corn Mothers Went Away is a perfect example of why academics have turned away from structural analysis a la Claude Levi-Strauss. There is a copy of Levi-Strauss sitting on my bookshelf. I purchased it in undergrad for a course in symbolic anthropology, and I enjoyed the mental...
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Ramón Gutiérrez’s When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846 is a compilation of ideas that while having good intentions went horribly wrong somewhere along the line. As I was leading discussion for this week’s book I got the chance to read more information namely...
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Ramón Gutiérrez’s When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846 is a compilation of ideas that while having good intentions went horribly wrong somewhere along the line. As I was leading discussion for this week’s book I got the chance to read more information namely the...
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This is a very odd book. Ramon Gutierrez wants to deliver to his readers a fair and balanced account of the colonization of the Pueblo world. He begins somewhat admirably. The first part of his book presents an ethno-historical account of the Pueblo world on the eve of the Spanish conquest. His use of...
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In neglecting this blog for, really, a couple months, I let pass mention that Devon-Technologies officially released DEVONthink 2.0 at the end of February. I’m still in love with DT, which I’ve written about on a number of occasions in the past. I should probably write a long piece detailing how the new DTPO...
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For the first one hundred pages, the only problem I had with Ramon Gutierrez’s book was its cumbersome and slightly obnoxious title, When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away. I appreciated the author’s thoughtful introduction, which placed indigenous New Mexico in the longue duree and describes how the climate changes of the last...
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When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away, by Ramon Gutierrez, studies the effects of the conquest on the Pueblos of the greater New Mexico area. He uses marriage to provide a window into intimate relations and how they changed through the course of three and a half centuries. A complex web of interacting...
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I’ve been to New Mexico, but it never occurred to me that it might have an interesting past. When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away suggests that it does. Gutierrez tells a colonial narrative unlike any other I’ve encountered. The establishment of a Franciscan theocracy, a successful native revolt, a reconquista, and the...
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If you were to construct from scratch a certificate program in digital history, what would you insist should be included? Of late, I’ve been putting in some time proselytizing my departmental colleagues on the desirability of developing some sort of program for our graduate students that will give them skills to practice history in...
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