Spiders & Spinsters
Marta Weigle has taught anthropology, English, and American studies at the University of New Mexico since 1972. Currently a University Regents Professor in the Anthropology Department, she has chaired that department and the Department of American Studies. A folklorist best known for her extensive work on New Mexico and Southwest studies, she also writes and teaches on mythology, gender and oral narrative traditions.Spiders & Spinsters: Women and Mythologywas followed byCreation and Procreation: Feminist Reflections on Mythologies of Cosmogony and Parturition. She is also the author ofBrothers of Light, Brothers of Blood: The Penitentes of the SouthwestandA Penitente Bibliography,and the co-author ofSanta Fe and Taos: The Writer's Era, 1916-1941, all from Sunstone Press.