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Cultural Energy is almost 8 Years Old
On Sep 9, 2011 the FCC granted us a construction permit
for a 9 kW Educational FM Radio station, KCEI at 89.5 FM.

People, Culture and Place

Conversations
from the
Alfonso Ortiz Center
for Intercultural Studies

Interviews by
Sylvia Rodríguez PhD

Below are underlined links to our segments now online. If you want to save the mp3 file for later listening, on Windows, click on the link with the right mouse button, on the Mac, click on the link while holding the control key.

Photos by Robin Collier - Click on images for an enlarged view.

Chaco Canyon
Water and the Mysteries of the Place 27:53

Chip Wills, archaeologist and UNM professor of anthropology is currently engaged in research on this famous and enigmatic prehistoric site. In this interview he gives an overview of Chaco Canyon and details what they have found about water use, the roads or race courses and what they hope to find in the future.

Chaco Canyon
Pottery and Chocolate 27:54

Patty Crown, archaeologist and UNM professor of anthropology has extensively researched ceramics throughout the Southwest. She was the first to reveal the pupose of unusual cylindrical vessels found at Chaco Canyon by discovering that they contained chocolate. She explains the importance of pottery to archaelogists and the story it tells of the people who used it.

DNA, Race and Identity 27:47

Keith Hunley & Heather Edgar, both biological anthropologists in the UNM Department of Anthropology, speak to the current popular and scientific interest in DNA testing as well as their own research in this area. They explain how little "race" means from a biological standpoint.

Racial Formation in NM 31:09

Laura Gomez, professor of American Studies and Law at UNM, and author of Manifest Destinies, (NYU Press 2007) examines the legal construction of the Mexican “race” during the NM Territorial period.

Padre
Antonio José Martínez 29:55

Vicente Martínez, community scholar and descendent of Padre Martínez, who conducts research on this important and controversial historical figure in Taos and NM history.

Chicana Writers & Claravidentes 29:50

Tey Diana Rebolledo, professor of modern languages at UNM and well-known literary critic of Chicana and Latina literature.

Alfonso Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies, University of New Mexico

The mission of the Alfonso Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies is to create opportunities for diverse, collaborative, community-inspired cultural programs in the humanities and public anthropology, including research, teaching, museum collection and exhibition, and intellectual dialogue on critical issues of contemporary and historical importance in human culture and society. Named for the late Alfonso Ortiz, a University of New Mexico professor of anthropology for twenty-three years, the Center builds on his work to eliminate barriers between the institutional communities of the university and the communities of the world at large.

What is Public Anthropology?

It is anthropological work that seeks to address larger social concerns beyond the boundaries of the discipline and the academy. It necessarily involves community engagement and communication with non-academic as well as academic audiences, and the promotion of public conversation about broad social issues. It may involve community-based, collaborative, and participatory approaches in any or all phases of research, from problem definition and design to the dissemination of findings. It seeks to fuse theory with practice, and to achieve social value for specific communities of study and/or the wider public.

This radio series is a collaboration between Sylvia Rodríguez, Director of Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies at UNM and Cultural Energy in Taos. Robin Collier recorded & mixed the segments. Theme music from Ku'u Kika Kahiko (My Old Guitar) by Hawaiian Slack Guitar Master Ozzie Kotani.

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Picuris/Miranda Canyon Subdivision on the La Serna Grant includes Map
Sustain Taos: Bioneers' Shows | Lyla Johnston's Native Momentum™
Community Story Telling - Robert Wolf | ¡Que Vivan las Acequias!™ - Miguel Santistevan
Teen Media Camp Radio | Teen Media Camp Video | Writers on Radio™ SOMOS
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Jasmine Bennett interviews Presidential Candidates | Interview: Agnes Martin
Cuentos de mi Valle™: Theresa Silva
Bob Romero's Historia de Taos™ | John Paternoster's Rules of the Justice Game™
Mike Tilley's Taos Currents | Flowers Espinosa - Red Air™
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Miguel Santistevan
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SOMOS
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The Shift of Land
Nancy Ryan's
Womenspeak™
Los Alamos National Labs & NM Radiation
Cannon Airforce LATN Flyovers
David Barsamian
New Mexico Talks
Mike Tilley's
Taos Currents^TM
Amigos Bravos
Radio Rio™
Public Meetings and Political Forums
Earth Beat™
Rivers & Birds
de la Tierra™
Taos Land Trust
Sustain Taos:
Bioneers' Shows

Picuris/Miranda Canyon Subdivision on the La Serna Grant
includes Map

Lyla Johnston's
Native Momentum™
Community
Story Telling
Robert Wolf
Teen Media Camp Radio
Teen Media Camp Video
Geoff Bryce's
Acequia Reports
Lisa Fox's Farming Thru the Seasons™
Jasmine Bennett interviews Presidential Candidates
Interview: Agnes Martin
Cuentos de mi Valle™
Theresa Silva
Bob Romero's
Historia de Taos™
John Paternoster's
Rules of the Justice Game™
Flowers Espinosa
Red Air™