La Purisíma Concepción

La Purisíma Concepción
Author: Michael R. Hardwick
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2015-05-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1625855230

In two centuries, La Purísima Concepción went from a fledgling frontier mission to a renowned California State Historic Park. Once home to many Spanish soldiers, settlers and hundreds of Chumash Indians, La Purísima held the seat of the California Mission government under Father Mariano Payeras. It withstood catastrophic events, including widespread disease in early years and a great Southern California earthquake in 1812. Emerging from ruins for the last time in 1934, after restoration by the Civilian Conservation Corps, structures appear today as they did in the early nineteenth century. The uniquely restored California Mission complex operates as a state park in a pastoral setting. Author and archivist Michael R. Hardwick chronicles the story of La Purísima and the resilient people and culture that made a lasting influence.

The California Missions

The California Missions
Author: Edna E. Kimbro
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2009
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780892369836

"Illustrated in color throughout, The California Missions: History, Art, and Preservation combines engaging text with historical paintings, archival photographs, and recent photography to create a vivid chronicle of these iconic institutions. The narrative recounts their founding and early history, surveys mission art and architecture, and examines their role in shaping the history and culture of California. A final chapter discusses recent advances in preserving the mission heritage for future generations. The second part of the book provides concise historical profiles for each of the twenty-one missions." --Book Jacket.

Archaeologies of Sexuality

Archaeologies of Sexuality
Author: Robert A. Schmidt
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2005-06-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134593856

A timely and pioneering work that demonstrates the challenges and rewards of integrating the study of sex and sexuality within archaeology, It draws on locations as varied as the ancient Maya Kingdoms, convict-era Australia and prehistoric Europe.

Saints and Citizens

Saints and Citizens
Author: Lisbeth Haas
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2013-11-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520276469

Saints and Citizens is a bold new excavation of the history of Indigenous people in California in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, showing how the missions became sites of their authority, memory, and identity. Shining a forensic eye on colonial encounters in Chumash, Luise–o, and Yokuts territories, Lisbeth Haas depicts how native painters incorporated their cultural iconography in mission painting and how leaders harnessed new knowledge for control in other ways. Through her portrayal of highly varied societies, she explores the politics of Indigenous citizenship in the independent Mexican nation through events such as the Chumash War of 1824, native emancipation after 1826, and the political pursuit of Indigenous rights and land through 1848.