Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-2026
Abstract
José Rivera narrates his life history from adolescence into college years, university teaching, research career, publications, and ends with post-retirement service as a giving back to community. For most of his term as an academic, his research focus was on community-based organizations that he terms “peoples’ institutions”: acequia associations and mutual help societies. For data, he conducted field work in New Mexico and the American Southwest as well as internationally, primarily in Mexico, Peru, Spain and the Philippines. While at these locations, he interviewed people, collected maps, researched archives, and took photographs as ethnographic evidence of people and places. His papers, research publications, and photographs are archived at the UNM Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections.
Recommended Citation
Rivera, José A. Ph.D. "Research Journal 2026: People and Places." (2026). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/arch_fsp/21
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