Workshop Readings

Two books have been selected for the NEH Fourteenth Colony workshop, and these include Colonial Rosary by Alison Lake, and The California Missions Source Book by David McLaughlin and Rubén Mendoza.  Whereas Lake provides a comprehensive overview of the Mission era, the McLaughlin and Mendoza publication provides many of those facts needed to more fully understand the Landmarks in question.  NEH Landmarks Program Coordinator Ms. Jennifer Lucido of the Sonoma State Cultural Resources Management program undertook the arduous task of coordinating the workshop teaching schedule, and designing the workshop programs pictured below.

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NEH Landmarks Fourteenth Colony workshop brochures for Weeks 1 & 2. Brochures prepared by Program Coordinator Jennifer A. Lucido, 2013.
 

Images from many of those California mission and presidio landmarks addressed by way of NEH Landmarks site visits may be found in a new publication by NEH Project Director Dr. Rubén G. Mendoza at http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/654874.

Required Readings

Lake, Alison. 2006. Colonial Rosary: The Spanish and Indian Missions of California. Athens: Ohio University Press.

McLaughlin, David J., and Ruben G. Mendoza. 2009. The California Missions Source Book: Key Information, Dramatic Images, and Fascinating Anecdotes Covering all 21 Missions. David J. McLaughlin with Rubén G. Mendoza, Contributing Editor. Scottsdale, AZ: Pentacle Press and the University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.

Recommended Readings

Day 1 – Mythic beginnings/Spanish colonial history

Rawls, James J. 1992. The California Mission as Symbol and Myth. California History, 71(3): 342-361.

Day 2 – How to read a Mission

Mendoza, Rubén G. 2005. Sacrament of the Sun: Eschatological Architecture and Solar Geometry in a California Mission. In Boletín: The Journal of the California Mission Studies Association, Volume 22, Number 1, pp. 87-110.

Mendoza, Rubén G. 2012.  The Liturgy of Light: Solar Geometry and Kinematic Liturgical Iconography in an Early 19th Century California Mission.  In Boletín: The Journal of the California Mission Studies Association, Volume 28, Number 1 & 2, pp. 7-21.

Schuetz-Miller, Mardith. 2000. Survival of Early Christian Symbolism in Monastic Churches of New Spain and Visions of the Millennial Kingdom. Journal of the Southwest, 42(4): 763-800.

Day 3 – Mission art and music

Gloria Fraser Giffords.  1990.  Spanish Colonial Polychrome Statuary: Replicating the Lions of San Xavier del Bac.  APT Bulletin, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 19-29.

Halpin, Joseph. 1971. Musical Activities and Ceremonies at Mission Santa Clara de Asís. California Historical Quarterly, 50(1):35-42.

Kenyon, Carol.  2003.  Conservation of Mission Art.  Boletín: Journal of the California Missions Studies Association, Volume 20, No. 1, Fall.

Hoover, Robert. 1992. Some Models for Spanish Colonial Archaeology in California. Historical Archaeology, 26(1): 37-44.

Hinojosa, Gilberto M. 1990. Friars and Indians: Towards a Perspective of Cultural Interaction in the San Antonio Mission. U.S. Catholic Historian, 9(1/2): 7-26.

Russell, Craig H. 2004.  Fray Juan Bautista Sancho: Tracing the Origins of California’s First Composer and the Early Mission Style (Part II).  Boletín: The Journal of the California Mission Studies Association, Volume 21, No. 2.

Wagstaff, Grayson. 2001. Franciscan Mission Music in California, c.1770-1830: Chant, Liturgical and Polyphonic Traditions. Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 126(1): 54-82.

Day 4 – Mythic constructs and historical memory

Foss, Kristina. 2006. Preserving the Native American Artistic Legacy in the California Missions. Boletín: Journal of the California Mission Studies Association, 23(2):77-93.

Day 5 – Indigenous acculturation, conversion, and authority

Hackel, Steven. 1997. The Staff of Leadership: Indian Authority in the Missions of Alta California. The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, 54(2):347-376.

Kemp, Alan.  2010.  Stormy Seas in the Era of Galvez, 1766-1774: The Naval Department of San Blas, Seasonal Weather Patterns and the Fate of the “Monterey Expedition.” Boletín: Journal of the California Missions Studies Association, Volume 27, No 1 & No. 2.

Skowronek, Russell K. ed, and Charles R. Ewen, ed. 2007. X Marks the Spot: The Archaeology of Piracy. Gainsville: University Press of Florida.

Williams, Jack. 2004. The Evolution of the Presidio in Northern New Spain. Historical Archaeology, 38(3): 6-23.

Williams, Jack. 2004. The Evolution of the Presidio in Northern New Spain. Historical Archaeology, 38(3): 6-23.

Williams, Jack. 1992. The Archaeology of Underdevelopment and the Military Frontier of Northern New Spain. Historical Archaeology, 26(1): 7-21.

Day 6 – Mission life ways and political economy

Monroy, Douglas. 1997. The Creation and Re-Creation of Californio Society. California History, 76 (2/3):173-195.

Skowronek, Russell. 1998. Sifting the Evidence: Perceptions of Life at the Ohlone (Costanoan) Missions of Alta California. Ethnohistory, 45(4):675-708.

Skowronek, Russell, and Margaret A. Graham.  2012.  Wine and Alcohol on the Alta California Frontier.  In Boletín: The Journal of the California Mission Studies Association, Volume 28, Number 1 & 2, pp. 23-33.

Wade, Maria. 2008. Chapter 10: Daily Schedules and Yearly Calendars, pp. 192-209. In Missions, Missionaries, and Native Americans: Long-Term Processes and Daily Practices. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.