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This interpretive guide combines history and ethnography to represent living traditions at the adobe and stone churches of New Mexico. Each chapter treats a particular church or group of churches and includes photographs, practical information for visitors, and context pertinent to current understanding. Frank Graziano provides unprecedented coverage of the churches by combining his extensive fieldwork with research in archives and previous scholarship. The book is written in an engaging narrative prose that brings the reader inside of congregations in Indian and Hispanic villages. The focus is less on church buildings than on people in relation to churches -- parishioners, caretakers, priests, restorers -- and on the author's experiences researching among them.

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Frank Graziano's moving prose elegy laments the seemingly inexorable decline of so many of New Mexico's historic churches. Rather than suggesting rosy alternatives, this penetrating study interrogates potential optimistic and pessimistic outcomes for these sacred spaces. This is also a deeply personal and revealing examination of practicing Catholics and clergy in the Hispanic and Native communities where these churches are located. -- Rick Hendricks, State Historian of New Mexico In Historic Churches of New Mexico, the distinguished Latin Americanist Frank Graziano takes a deep dive into the history, design aesthetics, and cultural significance of New Mexico's adobe churches. Written with verve and deep sympathy for the heritage of the state's Native American and Hispanic peoples, this engaging book serves as a splendid introduction to the nation's most emotive vernacular architecture and the spiritual commitments that have shaped it. -- Michael F. Brown, President of the School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico

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Frank Graziano is the recipient of grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Fulbright and Fulbright-Hays programs, Duke University, and the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center, among many others. He lives in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of northern New Mexico.

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