Telling stories, building altars

Oregon Historical Quarterly

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 536-552

  Ricciardi, Gabriella ^a  

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References (21)

1. See, for example, Luin Goldring, "The Mexican State and Transmigrant Organizations: Negotiating the Boundaries of Membership and Participation," Latin American Research Review 37:3 (2002): 55-99
2. See Alejandro Portes, "Immigration Theory for a New Century: Some Problems and Opportunities," International Migration Review 31:4 (1997): 799-825
3. Peter Kivisto, "Theorizing Transnational Immigration: A Critical Review of Current Efforts," Ethnic and Racial Studies 24:4 (2001): 549-77
4. Thomas Faist, "Transnationahzation in International Migrations: Imphcations for the Study of Citizenship and Culture," Ethnic and Racial Studies 23:2 (March 2000): 189-222
5. Michael Kearney, "Borders and Boundaries of the State and Self at the End of the Empire," Journal of Historical Sociology 4:1 (1991): 52-74
6. The Indian Valley includes Pakistan and Gujarat, that is, Western India
7. See, for example, Marija Gimbutas, The hving Goddesses, ed. Miriam R. Dexter (Berkeley: University of Cahfornia Press, 2001)
8. idem, The Language of the Goddess (London: Thames & Hudson, 2001)
9. Denise hnn, Altars: Bringing Sacred Shrines into your Everyday ;Life (New York: Ballantine, 1999)
10. Kay Turner, Beautiful Necessity: The Art and Meaning of Women's Altars (New York: Thames & Hudson, 1998)
11. Ramón A. Gutiérrez, "Conjuring the Holy," Home Altars of Mexico, ed. Ramón A. Gutiérrez et al. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1997)
12. American Heritage Dictionary, 2d college ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977)
13. Maria Angel, interview with the author, December 11, 2003, Folklife Program Archive, Oregon Historical Society, Portland [hereafter OHS Folklife Archive]. Unless otherwise indicated, all translations are by the author
14. Teresa Gonzales, interview with the author, August 5, 2004, OHS Folklife Archive
15. Turner, Beautiful Necessity, 13
16. Lupe Castro, interview with the author, August 5, 2004, OHS Folklife Archive
17. Adelante Mujeres, interview by the author, April 29, 2002, OHS Folklife Archive. Adelante Mujeres is an organization for Lati-nas in Forest Grove, Oregon. Lupe requested that her name remain anonymous
18. See Goldring, "Mexican State and Transmigrant Organizations."
19. Angel interview
20. Eva Castellanoz, interview with the author, August 21, 2005, OHS Folklife Archive
21. Kay Turner, "Mexican American Home Altars: The Art of Relationship" (Ph.D. diss., University of Texas, Austin, 1990), 166