History

This special issue of the Journal of the Southwest concerns the indigenous Wixarika (Huichol) and Nayari (Cora) peoples of Jalisco, Nayarit, Zacatecas, and Durango in western Mexico, a region known since the colonial period as El Gran Nayar. It brings a new generation of researchers together with a senior master of the field. These authors share extensive fieldwork among the Wixaritari (Huichols) and Nayarite (Coras), as well as common interests in cosmology, ceremonialism, language, history, and sociopolitical structures.

Draft of Juan Negrín's essay titled "The Wixarika: Preserving A Way of Life", September 1992.

Article written as a tribute to Carla Lumholtz for the Mexican anthropology magazine, México Desconocido, or Unknown Mexico, a name taken precisely from the two volume study by the Norwegian scientist on Western and Northern Mexico.

Read the full Spanish-language article illustrated with photographs from Carl Lumholtz here.