CORREO:THE ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER OF THE CALIFORNIA MISSION STUDIES ASSOCIATION April 2006 Vol. 4, No. 3 Edited by Robert M. Senkewicz (Please submit any items for inclusion to rsenkewicz@scu.edu) |
CONTENTS: 1. MIKE MATHES RECEIVES ISABELA LA CATÓLICA AWARD 2. CALIFORNIA MISSIONS RESOURCE CENTER WEBSITE 3. SAN DIEGO CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS AVAILABLE 4. RECENT PUBLICATIONS 5. WEBSITE *********************************** 1. MIKE MATHES RECEIVES ISABEL LA CATÓLICA AWARD CMSA member Mike Mathes received the medal of Isabela la Católica from the Spanish Consul General, Julio Montesino, at the inaugural ceremony of the II International Colloquium of El Camino Real: Mexico Noroeste y Texas, at the downtown campus of University of Texas San Antonio on October 25, 2006 ******************************* 2. CALIFORNIA MISSIONS RESOURCE CENTER WEBSITE CMSA member David McLaughlin urges other members to visit the web site www.missionscalifornia.com <http://www.missionscalifornia.com> . David writes, "We have some unique features that I have not seen elsewhere ˆ the 19th century drawings in our Gallery section, the California Mission Time Line online etc. In addition our Visual Journeys of each mission (4-5 minutes in a sophisticated Flash format that gives a movie like effect) are more extensive and informative than most." ************************ 3. SAN DIEGO CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS AVAILABLE The Proceedings of the San Diego conference were recently mailed out to those conference attendees who requested them as part of their conference registration. They are now available to all others. This 178 page volume is the largest CMSA Proceedings ever, and it costs $20.00, tax and shipping included. Please send a check for that amount to CMSA Proceedings, c/o Department of History, Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA 95053. The Proceedings contents are: The Various Chinigchinich Manuscripts of Father Gerónimo Boscana John R. Johnson , Santa Bárbara Museum of Natural History Apolinaria Lorenzana: A Woman in Early San Diego Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz, Santa Clara University The Agricultural Challenges of Mission San Diego Emily Magnaghi, San Francisco State University Russell M. Magnaghi, Northern Michigan University From Columbus to Capistrano: Wine Comes to California Charles L. Heizman, Mission San Juan Capistrano Docent Society From Colonists to Californios: The Social World of Mission San Gabriel, 1771-1834 John Macias, Claremont Graduate University Weights and Measurements in California‚s Mission Period: Part IV Kenneth Pauley, Charter CMSA Member Three Ways to Tell a Story: Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of the Argüello-Rezanov Romance Eve Iversen, San Pablo, California The Archangels of Santa Bárbara Mission Susan Anderson Kerr, University of Texas, Austin Castillos, Fuertes y Baterías: A Brief Analysis of the Coastal Fortifications of Spanish Alta California Jack S. Williams, Center for Spanish Colonial Archaeology Interpreting California: Translating Mexican Era Documents Allison Brown, Fidencio Enríquez, Annabel García, Kate Trevelyan-Hall, Santa Clara University Jesuit Missionaries as Scientific Observers in Antigua California Iris H.W. Engstrand, University of San Diego The Convento at Mission San Diego John Clements, Chula Vista, California From Science to Humanism: Finding the Pots in the Sherds Russell K. Skowronek, Santa Clara University Ruben Reyes, Santa Clara-Smithsonian Project Sarah Ginn, University of California, Santa Cruz Kelly Greenwalt, Santa Clara University M. James Blackman, Smithsonian Institution Ronald L. Bishop, Smithsonian Institution Building an Alliance: Fr. Lasuén and the Kumeyaay in the 1770s and 1780s Marie Christine Duggan, Keene State College ****************************** 4. RECENT PUBLICATIONS Robert H. Jackson, "Crisis demografica nas Missoes, 1730-1740," in Carlos Page, ed., Educacion y evangelizacion. La experiencia de un mundo mejor (Cordoba, 2005), 129-136. Robert H. Jackson, Demographic Patterns on the Chiquitos Missions of Eastern Bolivia, 1691-1767," Bolivian Studies Journal 12 (2005), 220-248. Arno Alvarez Kern and Robert H. Jackson, "As missoes da California e do Rio da Prata: nas fronteiras do mundo colonial," Carlos Page, ed., Educacion y evangelizacion. La experiencia de un mundo mejor (Cordoba, 2005), 171-174. These two are from the proceedings of the conference on Jesuit missions held in Cordoba, Argentina in September 2004. Russell K. Skowronek and Charles R. Ewen, eds. X Marks the Spot: The Archaeology of Piracy. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 368 pages. Hardcover. ISBN: 0813028752. $55.00. ******************************** 5. WEBSITE—AN INVITATION Do you or your institution have an item suitable for listing on the website’s News and Events page? Or mention of an archaeological or conservation project which would be of interest to CMSA members? Just drop an email to Sasha Honig at shonig@earthlink.net. This message scanned for viruses and SPAM by GWGuardian at SCU (MGW1) |