Plural Society in the Southwest

Description

Editors: Spicer, Edward H. (1906-1983) and Thompson, Raymond H.  (1924-2020)

Publisher: Arkville Press

Pub Date: 1972

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Book: Fair to Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.   One small bump to rear bottom edge.  Very light corner wear.  Dust Jacket: Fair.  NOT price clipped.  Spine foot missing an approx. 1″ x 1/4″ piece.  Slight wear to spine head.  Lower rear cover edge has an approx. 1″ closed tear.  Some scratches, spotting to upper front cover corner.  Edge and corner wear.

Notes: Conference papers.  “All these features of the Greater Southwest–remoteness, isolation, great area, small population, general aridity, widely scattered sources of water, absence of major economic attractions–help to explain the characteristic of the region…its social plurality.  The Indians are still  there, probably not less numerous than they were 500 years ago.  The little Spanish-speaking community of northern New Mexico, with its roots in 17th century settlement, is still there.  Other, larger, groups have entered the region more recently: Anglo-Americans, obviously, including one subgroup, the Mormons, who have a recognizable geographical base and who maintain, in many ways, a self-conscious and effective separateness….The larger groups, however, have not, as yet, absorbed or overwhelmed the smaller.  In the Southwest, there has always been elbowroom;  there have always been corners where small, highly conservative societies could live their own lives, not indeed undisturbed, but not in constant danger of expulsion or annihilation.”  (Page 306)  UNM Press reprinted a paperback version of this title in 1985.