Marta Weigle
University Regents Professor of Anthropology
At UNM since Fall 1972
Anthropology Courses taught at UNM
Cultures of the World (130)
Oral Narrative Traditions (312/530)
New Mexico Lore and Lure (340, now 337/530)
Women and Oral Tradition (340/530)
Education
Harvard University, AB cum laude 1965
University of Pennsylvania, Department of Folklore and Folklife, MA 1968, PhD 1971
Dissertation: "‘Los Hermanos Penitentes’: Historical and Ritual
Aspects of Folk Religion in Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado"
Fieldwork
New Mexico, Southwest U.S.
Selected Publications
(and Peter White) The Lore of New Mexico, Abridged Edition (Albuquerque:
UNM Press, 2003)
" Women’s Expressive Forms," pp. 298-307 in John Miles Foley, ed., Teaching Oral Traditions (NY: Modern Language Association, 1998)
" Canyon, Caverns, and Coordinates: From Nature Tourism to Nuclear Tourism in the Southwest," Journal of the Southwest 39 (1997): 165-82
(ed. with Barbara A. Babcock) The Great Southwest of the Fred Harvey Company and the Santa Fe Railway (Phoenix, AZ: The Heard Museum, 1996)
(ed. with Donna Pierce) Spanish New Mexico: The Spanish Colonial Arts Society Collection, 2 vols. (Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1996)
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