Fixing the Books
Subtitle: Secrecy, Literacy, and Perfectibility in Indigenous New Mexico
Publisher: School for Advanced Research Press/SAR Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781938645471
Subjects: Indians of north america, southwest, new; Indians of north america, languages; Literacy; Sociolinguistics; Anthropological linguistics
Description: "'San Ramón' is a pseudonym I created for the community that is the focus of this book. 'San Ramón is the Catholic patron saint of secrecy. Because many of the Rio Grande pueblos are named for their patron saints, this choice seemed to be in keeping with those naming practices. Linguists will notice that I also created a pseudonym for the language, a portmanteau of some Indigenous Pueblo languages in the region: Keres, Tiwa, Tewa, and Towa. Additionally, I use aliases for all community residents and have given them no surnames, and I have obscured facts that point too directly to the specific location of the Pueblo or the identities of the individuals who participated in this research"--Page 8.