People - Faculty

Marta Weigle
University Regents Professor of Anthropology (Ethnology)
Associate Chair, Department of Anthropology
At UNM since Fall 1972

mweigle@unm.edu

505.277.3531

Anthropology Courses Taught at UNM since 2002

  • Cultures of the World (130)
  • Oral Narrative Traditions (312/530)
  • New Mexico Lore and Lure (340/530)
  • Women and Oral Tradition (340/540)

Education

Harvard University, Social Relations, AB cum laude 1965
University of Pennsylvania, 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”


Research

Folklore, mythology, ritual, narrative, women studies, tourism; US Southwest


Selected Publications

(and Kyle Fiore) Santa Fe and Taos: The Writer’s Era, 1916-1941 (1982; Southwest Heritage Series rpt. with new foreword, Santa Fe: Sunstone Press, 2008)

Brothers of Light, Brothers of Blood: The Penitentes of the Southwest (1976; Southwest Heritage Series rpt. with new foreword, Santa Fe: Sunstone Press, 2007)

(comp.) A Penitente Bibliography (1976; Southwest Heritage Series rpt. with new foreword, Santa Fe: Sunstone Press, 2007)

Spiders & Spinsters: Women and Mythology (1982; rpt., Santa Fe: Sunstone Press, 2007)

(and Peter White) The Lore of New Mexico, Abridged Edition (UNM Press, 2003)

“Women’s Expressive Forms,” pp. 298-307 in John Miles Foley, ed., Teaching Oral Traditions (NY: Modern Language Association, 1998)


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