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Itinerary Related |
links to
Borders, Barriers, & Barrios
NCHC Faculty Institute
15-22 March 2008
Books:
Braid, Bernice and Long,
Place as Text:
Approaches to Active Learning. National
Collegiate Honors Council, Monographs in Higher Education. (mailed
to you from
- a primer on the honors
experiential learning model
McCarthy, Cormac. 1994.
The Crossing. Vintage Books,
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quick and riveting read wherein the border of the wild west plays a starring
role
Zepeda, Ofelia. 1995.
Ocean Power: Poems
from the Desert.
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powerful introduction to the role of place in O’odham
life
Assigned Reading Links (please – only to be
accessed by institute participants):
[If you are strapped for time, read the *starred*
ones first]
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The People: |
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“Corridos y Tragedias de la Frontera”, Mexican-American Border Music Vol. 6 & 7 (1928-1937) |
Various
Artists, e.g., Gregorio
Cortez (Parts 1 & 2) - Pedro Rocha/Lupe Martinez (take
a quick listen if you can – these sounds still resonate on the border today) |
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*Mabrey 2004, Why
is |
Diabetes in a Native American
community |
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*Sheridan
2000, Human Ecology of the Sonoran Desert (pp. 105-118 in A Natural History of the Southwest 2000, Arizona-Sonora Desert
Museum) |
A brief history of people in the
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The Place: |
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Byrne 2003, When Bad Art is Good (Utne 2003) |
Taco-stand implications |
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Hornaday - Campfires on Desert and Lava, excerpts |
Coming Soon Interesting book about
exploration/hunting trip to Pinacate from |
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Ives
1989, Maps (pp. 49,55 in |
Excellent geographical
orientation |
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*Nabhan 1985, Organpipe Cactus:
Bringing in the Rainfeast (pp. 77-90) in Gathering the Desert |
The important role of Organpipe cactus in human settlement of the |
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Scarborough
2000, The Geologic Origin of the |
The long, rocky view of the |
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Desert research laboratory
founded in |
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Things Change: |
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*Bowden 2002, Teachings of Don Fernando: a life and
death in the narcotics trade (Harper’s 2002) |
A glimpse into the border drug
world |
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Leopold 1949, The Green Lagoons (pp. 150-158 in A Sand |
Early canoe trip to the |
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Minard
2006, The Changing of the Guard
National Parks magazine article: |
How do our protected lands fare with
increasing border-related threats? |
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Turner, Ray, Repeat Photography
of the |
Coming Soon |
Optional/Expanded
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Abbey, Edward - Polemic from Desert Solitaire
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Abbey - working for NPS and
offering several suggested changes and improvements |
Bernays, Liz
- see #6 at the bottom of link: http://www.eclectica.org/v10n4/bernays.html |
Bernays, Liz
- Art meets Science on the U of A campus: http://www.elizabethbernays.com/ |
Invasive
Species in the
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Nabhan
1985, Introduction (pp. 2-8 in
Gathering the Desert) |
Desert plant foods in the lives
of desert inhabitants |
Nabhan
1985 Sandfood (pp. 51-59 in Gathering the Desert) |
Unusual foods in a desert
environment |
From National Geographic website |
Violence in |
Marc Reisner,
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Coming Soon |
Steinbeck, Log of the |
Coming Soon |
1500s – 1998 (PBS link) |
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Tumamoc
Hill
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Turk-Boyer 2007, CEDO Story (pp. 548-559 in Dry Borders: Great Natural Reserves of the |
Conservation in the Puerto Peñasco community |
Urrea, Devil’s Highway, excerpt
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Coming Soon |
Zepeda, Ofelia – http://uanews.org/node/18050 |
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short blurb about her from UANews |
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Relevant Bibliography:
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Childs,
Craig. |
Secret Knowledge of Water,
2001 |
Nabhan,
Gary Paul
http://www.garynabhan.com/index.html |
Ecologist, Ethnobotanist,
Conservationist. Works include: The Desert Smells Like Rain,
1982; Singing the Turtles to Sea, 2003; Efrain of the Sonoran Desert: A Lizard's
Life Among the Seri Indians (with Amalia
Astorga and Janet Miller), 2001; Tequila!: A Natural and Cultural History (with Ana-Guadalupe
Valenzuela-Zapata), 2004; Why Some Like It Hot: Food, Genes and Cultural Diversity, 2004;
La
Vida Norteña (with David Burckhalter
and Thomas Sheridan), 1999; Gathering the Desert, 1985 |
Silko,
Leslie Marmon |
After a Summer Rain in the Upper
Sonoran |
Gomez Peña, Guillermo |
Performance Artist – US-Mexico
border theme |
Gill, Jerry
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Borderland Theology |
Momaday, N Scott - http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/mom0bio-1
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/momaday/momaday.htm
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Famous local Native-American
author. Works include: House
Made of Dawn; Man Made of words |
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Original Brochure
about the Borders Institute
Our Institute
Location
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Map from Nabhan’s
Gathering the Desert)
Some Border Photos
to Think About: