Ignacio Bernal
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"My overriding concern in this book has been, not to write a historical account of the theories and methods current at various times, and used by different researchers, but to pass in review the sequence of accretions to the store of knowledge, while at the same time giving some attention to those errors which often delay this process."--The introduction.
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"Papers ... first presented at a conference in April 1975 in San Antonio. "I. The culture of the border. The cultural roots of the border : and archaeologists view / Ignacio Bernal -- The borderlands : ideas on a leafless landscape / Joe B. Frantz -- The culture of the frontier : the Mexican side / Carlos Monsiváis -- The problem of identity in a changing culture : popular expressions of culture conflict along the lower Río Grande border / Américo...