1995 – 2000

1995

Caminos of San Bernardo

Vol. 35, Number 2, Summer 1995, pp. 131-141

The caminos of Mexico have no beginning and are without end. For, having set out upon a road, one can take up a foot-trail common to pack-beasts and men...

Geography of the Rio Mayo

By Howard Scott Gentry

Vol. 37, Number 2, Summer 1995, pp. 280-293

The Rio Mayo is one of the principal rivers in the state of Sonora, Mexico, originating in the Sierra Madre of western Chihuahua and discharging into the Gulf of California 40 miles north of the boundary between Sonora and Sinaloa. The area of its drainage basin is approximately 6,800 square miles. The boundary of the basin is a ragged line following the mountain divides which separate it from the Rio Yaqui watershed on the north and from the Rio Fuerte watershed on the South...

2008

Constructing a Virtual Wall

By Josiah McC. Heyman

Vol. 50, Number 3, Autumn 2008, pp. 305-334

The U.S.–Mexico border wall is not just physical—it is also virtual. Virtual in this instance has two meanings, one narrower and one broader...

2012

New Perspectives on Mata Ortiz Pottery Making

By Jim Hills

Vol. 54, Number 1, Spring 2012, pp. 81-158

This paper is an exploration into memory and history, and into how certain stories have evolved while a larger chorus of voices—those that permeated the kitchens, streets, and fields of Mata Ortiz...

2014

Sonoran Adventure: A 1981 Journey

By Bernard L. Fontana

Vol. 56, Number 1, Spring 2014, pp. 183-204

Reading one’s field diary that is more than thirty years old is inevitably a great source of embarrassment. This journal of a three-day trip, one that was neither my first nor last adventure in the same area...