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Down Country by Lucy Lippard
A remarkable tribute to the historic people of the Galisteo Basin
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and outreach in the Galisteo Watershed!
($22.50 is a tax-deductable donation to Earth Works Institute)
Renowned writer and Galisteo resident Lucy R. Lippard has synthesized a century of archaeological and historical research to create this landmark study ten years in the making. Acclaimed New Mexico photographer Edward Ranney contributes a portfolio of eighty documentary images of the Galisteo Basin’s ancient sites, shrines, rock art, and striking landscape.
Lippard, a supporter of Earth Works Institute, and the Museum of New Mexico Press have generously made the Down Country available to EWI as a fundraiser to support our work in the Galisteo Watershed. Your purchase of this book will fund our continuing efforts in wildways restoration, community outreach and youth training within in the Galisteo Watershed.
About the Book
The Galisteo Basin is an ancient seabed, and site of volcanic upheaval. The fertile basin provided temporary hunting and farming grounds for wanderers, and then became the home of Pueblo peoples who survived drought, warfare, disease, and invasion for almost a thousand years before the arrival of the Spanish. Down Country is the history of five centuries of the Southern Tewa Pueblo Indian culture that rose, faltered, reasserted itself, and ultimately, perished in the Galisteo.
The basin, twenty-two miles south of Santa Fe, is widely regarded as one of the richest archaeological regions of the country. It is unknown where the Galisteo Basin’s very first permanent settlers came from, nor the exact origins of the Tano, or Southern Tewa. The Indians of the northern Rio Grande referred to the basin as the “Down Country Place,” or “Place Near the Sun.” Into this place the Tano Indians entered about 1250 AD and for three centuries made the place a center for culture and trade. Their story is a powerful human history that is a microcosm of New Mexico’s dramatic, complex history of pre-European settlement and post-Spanish occupation.
Author’s Biography
Lucy Lippard is an art and culture critic. She is author of numerous books including Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America, The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society, and Partial Recall: Photographs of Native North Americans (all published by The New Press) and contributor to Nuevo Mexico Profundo: Rituals of Indo-Hispano Homeland (Museum of New Mexico Press).
Edward Ranney‘s photographs have been exhibited internationally and have appeared in numerous publications including Monuments of the Incas (Thames & Hudson), The New World’s Old World: Photographic Views of Ancient America (University of New Mexico Press), and Through the Lens: Creating Santa Fe (Museum of New Mexico Press).
*Price: $50 ($22.50 is a tax-deductable donation to Earth Works Institute)
Publisher: Museum of New Mexico Press (June 30, 2010)
Hardcover: 316 pages
Dimensions: 10.2 x 8.8 x 1.6 inches
