Sylvia Rodriguez
Professor of Anthropology
At UNM since 1988
Anthropology Courses taught at UNM
Principles of Cultural Anthropology (330)
Seminar: Southwestern Ethnology, (Anth 537)
Education
A.B. Barnard College, Columbia University, 1969. Anthropology, cum laude.
M.A. Stanford University, 1970. Anthropology.
Ph.D. Stanford University,
1981. Graduate Special Studies (Interdepartmental, Anthropology and Psychology).
Dissertation: "Ecstasy: Map and Threshold, A Cross-Cultural
Study of Dissociation."
Fieldwork
Southwestern U.S.
Selected Publications
"Acequia: Water-Sharing, Sanctity and Place."School of American Research Press, 2006.
"Touism, Difference, and Poer in the Borderlands," in The Culture of Tourism, the Culture of Tourism, ed. by Hal Rothman, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003.
"Procession and Sacred Landscape in New Mexico," New Mexico Historical Review, 77(1), 2002.
"Tourism, Whiteness, and the Vanishing Anglo," in Seeing and Being Seen:Tourism in the American West, ed. by David M. Wrobel and Patrick T. Long, University of Kansas Press, 2001.
"Fiesta Time and Plaza Space: Resistance and Accommodation in a Tourist Town," Journal of American Folklore, 111 (493), 1998. Reprinted in Native Peoples of the Southwest, Negotiating Land, Water, and Ethnicities, ed. Laurie Weinstein, Bergin and Garvey, 2001.
"The Taos Fiesta: Invented Tradition and the Infrapolitics of Symbolic Reclamation," Journal of the Southwest, Spring 1997, 39 (1). Reprinted in Nuevomexicano Cultural Legacy, ed. by Francisco Lomeli, Victor Sorell, and Genaro Padilla, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002.
The Matachines Dance: Ritual Symbolism and Interethnic Relations in the Rio Grande Valley. University of New Mexico Press, 1996.
Water Planning, Ethnic Politics, and the State: The Case of Taos," Mass, Vo. X, 1994.
"The Tourist Gaze, Gentrification, and the Commodification of Subjectivity in Taos" in Essays on the Changing Images of the Southwest, ed. by Richard Francaviglia and David Narrett, Texas A & M University Press, 1994.
"Defended Boundaries, Precarious Elites: The Arroyo Seco Matachines Dance," Journal of American Folklore , 107 (424), 1994.
"Subaltern Historiography on the Rio Grande, A Review Essay on Guti‚rrez's When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away ," American Ethnologist, 21 (4), 1994.
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