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...

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...

Vol. 45, Number 1/2, Spring/Summer 2003 pp. 441-461

Prior to the Spanish colonization of the Americas, beginning at the end of the fifteenth century, Spain was completing the final chapters of the Reconquest...

Vol. 46, Number 3, Autumn 2004, pp. 441-461

How Latin America is written about in the U.S. media can make for frustrating, infuriating, and at times disheartening reading, especially for any geographer...

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...

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...

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...

Translated and edited by Jeffrey M. Banister

Vol. 56, Number 3, Autumn 2014, pp. 365-553

I have been connected with the Guarijíos since the summer of 1978, when I was commissioned by the Instituto Nacional Indigenista (the National Indigenist Institute, or INI) to introduce federal government programs into the region.1 At that time the Guarijíos had nothing, and delivering the services that they were requesting was not an easy task because they did not even have access to land where we could set up our installations. It might seem an exaggeration to say that they lacked everything, but there are times when reality outstrips imagination...

Vol. 58, Number 4, Winter 2016, pp. 707-732