Manzanares, José Leonor / López, José Inez

Authors

1 of 3

Document Type

Audio

Publication Date

5-31-1973

Comments

American, Spanish, Mexicano, Indians, and Mestizo identity; life in Truchas; differences between New Mexican Spanish and Spanish from Mexico. Spanish language variety similar to the dialect spoken in Durango, Co. Family members join the conversation: discussion about ranch life, los molinos de piedra y agua para moler el trigo, derecho a la merced 'open range', cattle trade, regulations and fees for grazing cattle, politics of land ownership, restrictive access to money and the politics of getting bank loans in the past [womens' role in obtaining a bank loan]. Men worked in the mines out of state and women stayed behind to work in the ranch. 'La Borrega' and the job of shepherding the herds: el pastor y el campero. Histories of working as sheep shepherds: el patrón, el perro que cazaba víboras.

Recommended Citation

Interview of José Leonor Manzanares and José Inés López, 1973, Alejandro López Papers (MSS 943), Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections, University Libraries, University of New Mexico