Comments on: Desideña Yáñez and The Relief Society in the Mexican Mission/Desideña Yáñez y la Sociedad de Socorro en la Misión Mexicana

By: Jared T

Jared T — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:40:23 +0000

As I go through the Presbyterian mission correspondence, it’s interesting to see the struggle between sects that tries to be very civil, but exhibits some strain none theless as each group carves out a niche for itself. Man, that would be a great project in itself, but I will only end up (due to size) touching on Protestant efforts lightly.

By: Jared T

Jared T — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:39:01 +0000

Thanks Chris and Stapley!

By: Jared T

Jared T — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:38:31 +0000

True dat. Paul said 50 pages. I just read one from 2002 that was 48. I think I should, in the end, be able to come up with one and maybe two articles and a number of document edits. I’m not even going to be able to get into the reestablishment period 1901->. I want to do that period, but it will have to wait.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:26:13 +0000

Jared, this is awesome stuff. Thanks for sharing it. I look forward to reading the completed thesis. Good luck finishing up.

By: David G.

David G. — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:21:12 +0000

You guys get it so easy at the U, Jared. The thesis is just the length of a publishable article, right? Not the 90-120 pp that BYU made us do. But I agree with Paul’s reasoning. I certainly makes more sense to do it y’all’s way.

By: Jared T

Jared T — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:19:04 +0000

Better be this spring I want to have a draft done in a few weeks and I think March is when I need to turn it in with a defense coming in April sometime. Crunch time.

By: J. Stapley

J. Stapley — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:06:50 +0000

This really is wonderful stuff, Jared. Thanks for the hard work. When is your thesis slated to be finished?

By: Jared T

Jared T — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:58:51 +0000

Yea, Knight’s the best I can think of, with the caveat you mention. there are other studies that tie it in, but I’m unclear on something that focuses as cleanly on race in this period as Knight. Also, though I’ve done some cursory searches in Spanish, there may very easily be things I’m missing.

By: David G.

David G. — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:41:07 +0000

Fascinating, Jared. Do you know of any good books on Indigenismo during the Porfiato? That essay by Alan Knight in The Idea of Race in Latin America is fantastic, but he doesn’t deal to much with the pre-1910 era.

By: Jared T

Jared T — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:37:59 +0000

It’s mentioned in a few journals, but I don’t remember it being elaborated on. Moses Thatcher, however, does go on and on about Ignacio Altamirano and his indigenous heritage and being very accomplished. In his view, Indians like Altamirano were the only hope that Mexico had to rise up from it’s “degraded” nature. There are other examples too, but I’d need to look them up.