People - Faculty

Sylvia Rodriguez
Professor of Anthropology (Ethnology)
Director, Alfonso Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies
At UNM since Fall 1988

sylrodri@unm.edu
505.277.3404

Anthropology Courses Taught at UNM since 2002

  • Principles of Cultural Anthropology (330)
  • The Anthropology of Water (340/530)
  • Comparative Ethnic Relations (344)
  • Spanish Speaking Peoples of the Southwest (345)
  • Honors Seminar (498)
  • The Anthropology of Tourism (530)
  • Southwestern Ethnology (537)

Education

Barnard College, Columbia University, Anthropology, BA cum laude 1969
Stanford University, Anthropology, MA 1970
Stanford University, Graduate Special Studies (Interdepartmental, Anthropology and Psychology), PhD 1981
Dissertation: “Ecstasy: Map and Threshold, A Cross-Cultural Study of Dissociation”


Research

Ethnicity and ethnic relations, tourism, ritual drama, land and water issues; US Southwest, Mesoamerica


Selected Publications

“Honor, Aridity, and Place,” pp. 25-41 in Philip B. Gonzáles, ed., Expressing New Mexico (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2007)

Acequia: Water Sharing, Sanctity, and Place (Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research Press, 2006)

“Tourism, Difference, and Power in the Borderlands,” pp. 185-205 in Hal Rothman, ed., The Culture of Tourism, the Tourism of Culture (UNM Press, 2003)

“Procession and Sacred Landscape in New Mexico,” New Mexico Historical Review 77 (2002): 1-26

“The Taos Fiesta: Invented Tradition and the Infrapolitics of Symbolic Reclamation,” pp. 185-202 in Francisco Lomeli, Victor Sorell and Genaro Padilla, eds., Nuevomexicano Cultural Legacy (UNM Press 2002)

“Tourism, Whiteness, and the Vanishing Anglo,” pp. 194-210 in David M. Wrobel and Patrick T. Long, eds., Seeing and Being Seen: Tourism in the American West (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2001)

“Fiesta Time and Plaza Space: Resistance and Accommodation in a Tourist Town,” Journal of American Folklore 111 (1998): 39-56


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