Will Shuster

Will Shuster
Author: Joseph Dispenza
Publisher:
Total Pages: 188
Release: 1989
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780890131992

This illustrated biography celebrates the life and art of one of New Mexico's most famous, vibrant and beloved artists. Will Shuster was a founding member of the legendary artists' circle Los Cinco Pintores. He was a lifelong friend of painter John Sloan and contributed his artistic energy to establishing the Santa Fe art colony in the 1920s. This community of artists included, among others, poet Alice Corbin and painters William Penhallow Henderson, Gustave Baumann and Randall Davey.

Buried Treasures

Buried Treasures
Author: Richard Melzer
Publisher: Sunstone Press
Total Pages: 477
Release: 2007
Genre: Cemeteries
ISBN: 0865345317

Melzer offers an impressive new book about famous New Mexico gravesites, usually the only monuments left to honor the human treasures who helped shape state, national, and often international history.

The Craft of Ritual Studies

The Craft of Ritual Studies
Author: Ronald L. Grimes
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2013-10-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0199373558

In religious studies, theory and method research has long been embroiled in a polarized debate over scientific versus theological perspectives. Ronald L. Grimes shows that this debate has stagnated, due in part to a manner of theorizing too far removed from the study of actual religious practices. A worthwhile theory, according to Grimes, must be practice-oriented, and practices are most effectively studied by field research methods. The Craft of Ritual Studies melds together a systematic theory and method capable of underwriting the cross-cultural, interdisciplinary study of ritual. Grimes exposes the limitations that disable many theories of ritual--for example, defining ritual as essentially religious, assuming that ritual's only function is to generate group solidarity, or treating ritual as a mirror of the status quo. He provides a guide for fieldwork on complex ritual events, particularly those characterized by social conflict or cultural creativity. The volume includes a case study, focusing on a single complex event: the Santa Fe Fiesta, a New Mexico celebration marked by protracted ethnic conflict and ongoing dramatic creativity. Grimes develops such themes as the relation of ritual to media, theater, and film, the dynamics of ritual creativity, the negotiation of ritual criticism, and the impact of ritual on cultural and physical environments. This important book, the capstone work of Grimes's three decades of leadership in the field of ritual studies, is accompanied by a set of online videos, as well as appendices illustrating key aspects of ritual studies.

Remembering

Remembering
Author:
Publisher: Sunstone Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2006
Genre: Cemeteries
ISBN: 0865344868

Within this volume's pages, readers will find descriptions and directions to some of New Mexico's unique, sometimes controversial, cemeteries, monuments, and memorials as well as a beginner's guide to geneology. (Environmental Studies)

Bulletin - Archaeological Institute of America

Bulletin - Archaeological Institute of America
Author: Archaeological Institute of America
Publisher:
Total Pages: 446
Release: 1927
Genre: Archaeology
ISBN:

Beginning with v. 5, 1914, contains the annual reports of the Institute and the schools, the minutes of the Council, the directory, and announcements of an official nature; the non technical matter formerly appearing in the quarterly Bulletin has been included in Art and archaeology since 1914. Cf. Bulletin, v. 5, Editorial note.

Bulletin

Bulletin
Author: Archaeological Institute of America
Publisher:
Total Pages: 800
Release: 1927
Genre: Archaeology
ISBN:

Beginning with v. 5, 1914, contains the annual reports of the Institute and the schools, the minutes of the Council, the directory, and announcements of an official nature; the non-technical matter formerly appearing in the quarterly Bulletin has been included in Art and archaeology since 1914. Cf. Bulletin, v. 5, Editorial note.

Trans Medicine

Trans Medicine
Author: stef m. shuster
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2021-06-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1479842818

**Finalist, PROSE Award in Clinical Medicine** A rich examination of the history of trans medicine and current day practice Surfacing in the mid-twentieth century, yet shrouded in social stigma, transgender medicine is now a rapidly growing medical field. In Trans Medicine, stef shuster makes an important intervention in how we understand the development of this field and how it is being used to “treat” gender identity today. Drawing on interviews with medical providers as well as ethnographic and archival research, shuster examines how health professionals approach patients who seek gender-affirming care. From genital reconstructions to hormone injections, the practice of trans medicine charts new medical ground, compelling medical professionals to plan treatments without widescale clinical trials to back them up. Relying on cultural norms and gut instincts to inform their treatment plans, shuster shows how medical providers’ lack of clinical experience and scientific research undermines their ability to interact with patients, craft treatment plans, and make medical decisions. This situation defies how providers are trained to work with patients and creates uncertainty. As providers navigate the developing knowledge surrounding the medical care of trans folk, Trans Medicine offers a rare opportunity to understand how providers make decisions while facing challenges to their expertise and, in the process, have acquired authority not only over clinical outcomes, but over gender itself.